Good morning one and all to another spectacular day!
Road to finding J6 pipe bomb suspect paved with fresh FBI eyes and thorough police work
Supreme Court Permits Texas GOP to Keep Redistricted Congressional Map for 2026
Govt Watchdog Uncovers $94m in Obamacare Subsidies Fraudulently Paid for Dead People.
Over 1.1M layoffs planned for this year — the highest level since 2020 pandemic
Noem Says US Travel Ban to Expand to Over 30 Countries
Trump administration orders enhanced vetting for applicants of H-1B visa
Trump Admin Dramatically Scales Back Work Permits For Asylum Seekers
Afghan watchdog concludes billions in weapons U.S. left behind form ‘core’ of Taliban military
Foreign Leaders Caught Orchestrating Campaign To Censor American Right-Wing Media Companies
Ford CEO hails Trump fuel standards reset as a ‘victory’ for affordability and common sense
Derek Chauvin Requests New Trial for Murder of George Floyd
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“Govt Watchdog Uncovers $94m in Obamacare Subsidies Fraudulently Paid for Dead People.”
Peanuts.
That’s $94m that we know about.
It’s not the fraud that is the problem with Obamacare. It’s the perfectly legal, completely intended upward price pressure subsidies invariably create.
More regulation and subsidies will fix that …
We must build a house of cards, on a foundation of sand.
Now do Minnesota.
Some see it as a missed opportunity
Derek Chauvin Requests New Trial for Murder of George Floyd
Well he was unfairly railroaded the first time to satiate the mob, but I doubt any judge would be willing to correct that, lest the mob turn on them.
A lynch mob by any other name…
…is Democratic Justice?
I see a pardon on the horizon..
I dunno. I don’t see Walz pardoning Chauvin.
I dunno. I don’t see Walz pardoning Chauvin.
Was he convicted in Minnesota? Aritcle says he’s in a Federal pen.
Second degree murder conviction in the state, apparently being served concurrently with his federal sentence.
No, he wasn’t.
Govt Watchdog Uncovers $94m in Obamacare Subsidies Fraudulently Paid for Dead People.
Can I have one million dollars? Or at least a bottle of George T Stagg? At least a Midwinter Nights Dram? Why American government so mean to old Pie?
[ Pie buys Banjos a K Car, a nice reliant automobile ]
““Reducing the maximum validity period for employment authorization will ensure that those seeking to work in the United States do not threaten public safety or promote harmful anti-American ideologies,” USCIS Director Joe Edlow said in a public statement.”
The call is coming from inside the house.
Foreign Leaders Caught Orchestrating Campaign To Censor American Right-Wing Media Companies
In civilized Europe we just have a better definition of freeze peach, is all…
“Hate speech is not free speech” sounds so beautiful in French.
Marine Le Pen is mightier than the sword.
“the penis, mightier than the sword” – Sean Connery
You understand that you have to cut out the pit before you freeze it!
a corporate, pro-Israel faction inside the Labour Party
Does not compute.
Jews man they’re everywhere. Infiltrating.
Why George Galloway was hurled into the void.
The fact that “George Galloway is an irredeemable asshole” was an insufficient reason to cast him out should make Labour voters question their affiliation.
I thought that was a prerequisite for leading a political party?
If you can’t hide your true nature, you lack the political skillz to lead a major party.
hide your true nature
[Satan nods head approvingly]
whaddup doh’
Heya Banjos- how YOU doin’
Ford CEO hails Trump fuel standards reset as a ‘victory’ for affordability and common sense
Millions of watermelons cried out in terror.
Until and unless I see it at the dealership, I don’t believe it.
Ford factories are building cars for the 2026 model year right now. That model year is locked in.
The 2027 model year might change except that the factory switchover will occur right around the midterms. Ford management will have to consider the political risk of Democrats taking the House when they plan the 2027 model year.
Given car product development cycles are years, I doubt we’ll see any new models or major changes any time soon.
Like I said – until I see it at the dealership…
” Ford management will have to consider the political risk of Democrats taking the House when they plan the 2027 model year.”
What a ridiculous state of affairs.
In reply to DEG:
Somebody on the Dodge assembly line will just decide to omit certain restrictive devices and voila!
Ah, the Volkswagen Method.
Wake me when CAFE no longer exists.
Along with DPF and DEF.
Over 1.1M layoffs planned for this year — the highest level since 2020 pandemic
Those better all be GovSec workers.
Or noncitizens not legally here.
It’s time I start looking for another guy.
I bet I won’t receive any calls.
Again.
New standards should be “All applications are hereby denied”. No foreign workers, no new arrivals. We have to clean out the mess we’ve got, not keep making the mess worse.
Someone doesn’t care much for Christopher Nolan’s cinematic vision.
Longhaired canine?
Aww…
You mean the MIC has a new customer?
I do not believe they have signed any maintenance contracts, no.
I’d rather talk about dogs than politics. Have any puppy videos?
We do have a new GSP we adopted out of rescue, but she’s not a puppy.
Oh well.
“”What you should know is that this is a victory for affordability and common sense. As the president said, we will be able to offer more affordability on our popular models, and we’ll be able to launch new vehicles built in America that are more affordable because of this rule change,” Ford CEO Jim Farley said on “Fox & Friends” Thursday.”
But will they be affordable?
“Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE standards, first enacted in 1975, are government regulations for the average fuel efficiency of a vehicle fleet that aim to lower emissions.”
Get rid of them completely.
1975 – so it was because of the oil embargo.
Not “the climate”.
And the “oil crisis” alone was enough incentive to make cars more fuel efficient. No need for government to get involved.
Tater with the win.
I see no constitutional authority for CAFE.
No, because of the safety regs.
MAKE AUTOMOBILES DANGEROUS AGAIN
Don’t see them being constitutional either.
The market will advertise and provide.
Any odds on Brian Cole, Jr having an untimely death in custody?
Brian Cole, Jr didn’t kill himself!
The DOJ says they had no new information, no tips, that led to Brian Cole, just the same information the Biden DOJ had all along and never acted on.
Which obviously raises some questions.
I seem to remember him from the movie “Friday” where Debow beat his ass up and stole his necklace as well as his bike. He was a bitchy guy. Not surprised he moved out of the projects of LA and started making pipe bombs cause he hates honkeys.
No car to chill in, and the chairs normally in Lawn n Garden aren’t there… So I’ve made a throne out of the stacked, 40lb bags of salt and water softener tablets. Warmer in here than outside-outside, and a periphery view of the sunrise.
Game on. (Hopefully the car is a triviality and I can grab it after work. ‘Prognosis? Pending’
^^ Good in-Seinfeld movie name.
Carry on, Garths.
Party on, Wayne.
Yeah, winter is announcing its arrival around here too. Looking forward to getting down to Florida in February – already.
Your stories are reminding me of the show Super Store.
I see you are picking up the baton dropped by UCS.
This seems to be a good idea on its face, but I fear someone will Hannibalize the entire continent:
Portugal’s Alentejo region is set to become home to a groundbreaking project – Europe’s first sanctuary for elephants that have lived in captivity.
Set across 402 hectares between Vila Viçosa and Alandroal, the vast refuge will welcome its first residents – elephants from zoos and circuses across Europe – in early 2026.
My nephew asked me how one weighs an elephant. I told him it was just like weighing a person, but on a much larger scale.
“We’re not here to rescue elephants, but to work with people who already have elephants and are looking for an alternative for these animals,” such as “elephants that are in countries where circuses have been banned from using wild animals” or zoos that “no longer want to keep elephants but do not have a place to send them,”
For a Halloween costume party this year, I made an elaborate elephant costume complete with an inflatable headpiece. My intention was to drive to the party with the costume on and emerge from my car that way. Unfortunately, the headpiece wouldn’t fit in the Porsche and allow me to see and drive at the same time.
So I had to pop the trunk.
🙄
designing an elephant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO7PmwZc6qE
Do you feel even a little guilty when you write these?
If he’s like me, he’s chuckling to himself and hoping nobody else in the house hears him.
They could send them back to Africa. With their other invasive species.
Since when did “Penises” become a top-level topic?
I blame the male gays!
I wonder exactly which articles are currently being drafted.
It wasn’t me.
When I was younger, it used to come up often.
Hi-yo!
I don’t know what version of the site you’re getting, because I’m not seeing anything of the sort (thankfully)
Oh, in the editor.
I blame the gays.
I don’t remember seeing it until this week, but I usually immediately scroll down to IFLA so it’s possible it’s been there for a while.
I wrote a hooch article.
I hope the editor at least got a nice dinner and flowers!
@NA – I’ve been doing serialized stuff of late, so I just used the search box to get the three I put them in. I havne’t scrolled through in a while.
That’s the premium side.
Another good thing about night shift at Walmart: a very lenient dress code. All kinds of piercings, tattoos, and colored hair can be seen. There are even a few hippie dudes who look like me.
suggested music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1sHO_cF0ck
After People of Walmart went viral, I don’t know how Walmart could have much of a dress code.
The People of WalMart are customers. The Employees should be at least… suitable to be out in public.
I run into a gal who works your shifts a few times a week, and today. She has several face tats in several places. Kinda a lot of em, tho small. Not terribly done, actually, but no no. Why?
I don’t get it, other than kids trying to be different cuz the participation trophies killed that from happing organically.
Oh, I do get it.
Our local Walmart has a flamboyant pierced, crazy colored hair, guy in his late 50s who wears plenty of rainbow flair.
He’s always on the front end on day shift.
So far the kids have not asked about him but my wife has changed her shopping habits to avoid the kids seeing him.
https://x.com/NoContextBrits/status/1996757414280859796
That’s what I will donate for when I die..
Nick Cruse 🥋
@SocialistMMA
Cancel all working class debt
Seize the banks
Get rid of landlords
Nationalize the Healthcare Industry
Reject the culture war and embrace class war. Socialism is the only way to truly challenge the power of the elites
https://x.com/SocialistMMA/status/1996600981065204112
It would be fun if this came to pass and the blue haired gender studies majors found out their student debt is no canceled causer they are not working class
Make the state the sole landlord ≠ Get rid of landlords.
I have seen this movie before…
It ends with a pile of bodies, including the idiots that demanded this shit lined up at the wall, crying, and saying “But I believe in the revolution!”, right before they get shot.
go suck on a shotgun barrel, commie ratfuck.
UCS you are starting to go soft in your old age.
Cancel landlords.
Turn the government into a medical landlord.
That sounds like it will be awesome for about a month.
“NJ-bound plane that suddenly plunged thousands of feet likely hit by ‘cosmic rays’ from a whole other galaxy”
https://nypost.com/2025/12/04/us-news/nj-bound-plane-that-plunged-and-injured-15-was-likely-hit-by-cosmic-rays-from-exploding-star/
STIJLTH
Sudden Transport Incapacitation Jew-Laser Tricknology Horror?
Serious Trannys Insist Jews Leave Their Homeland. It’s a new protest slogan.
The plane just didn’t want to go to New Jersey. I can empathize.
Does anyone or anything want to go to Jersey?
TBF, I had an ex who was from Princeton and it was lovely.
Princeton or the nongendered ex?
“CNN anchor Jake Tapper was ripped by critics Thursday after he wrongly referred to accused DC pipe-bomber Brian Cole Jr. as “a white man.”
Tapper made the cringeworthy gaffe while discussing the arrest of Cole, who is black, during his opening segment on “The Lead.”
His “white man” comment came at 5:01 p.m., around the time CNN was the first outlet to publish a photo of Cole’s face that originated from the suspect’s mother’s Instagram account.”
https://nypost.com/2025/12/04/us-news/cnns-jake-tapper-skewered-for-calling-black-dc-pipe-bomb-suspect-brian-cole-jr-a-white-man-on-air/
CWAA
“”Joe Biden’s FBI was guilty of “sheer incompetence or complete intentional negligence” in allowing the DC pipe bomb case to languish for nearly five years before the arrest of a suspect Thursday morning, FBI Director Kash Patel has charged.”
https://nypost.com/2025/12/05/us-news/biden-admin-sat-on-evidence-in-dc-pipe-bomb-probe-before-trump-admin-arrested-brian-cole-jr/
The idea that a corporation or agency can be guilty of incompetence or negligence is, let us say, misguided. Only people can be guilty of that. Out in the real world, you have to show that a person was incompetent or negligent, and than the doctrine of vicarious liability lets you get into the corporation’s pocket.
So, Kash, who were the people at the FBI who were incompetent or negligent? Name some fucking names, already.
“The Trump administration blamed Biden for failing to catch the Jan 6 pipe bomb suspect – with Dan Bongino even alluding to a ‘massive cover up.’
The FBI deputy director told Fox News Thursday that the Biden administration somehow let the suspect walk free while launching partisan witch hunts.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15354987/Trump-pipe-bomb-Biden.html
If no new evidence was gathered but simply reviewing old evidence led to the arrest, as several people involved have pointed out, then yeah, one should question both the competence and the effort to find this guy before. I a going to go with they didn’t want to find him, cause this would have interfered with the bullshit J6 lies and agenda. Mind you, I bet the lame stream media will defend team blue and sell this as incompetence, and unfortunately they will get away with that. All because people forgive the false clam of incompetence, while missing the actual purpose and evil.
Nothing but BS talking points. Who did you fire Bongino? If you aren’t firing anyone, you aren’t holding anyone accountable.
Funny JI.. Who are they going to be allowed to fire without some lame ass judge from east bumfuck coming out and issuing a stay? I would be far more pissed if they went through the performative act of fired someone, when they damned know this will just result in litigation. What we need is gallows.
Faaaaahk Yoouuuuuuu!
https://www.narniaweb.com/2025/12/imax-ceo-greta-gerwigs-narnia-is-not-your-grandmothers-narnia-will-feature-rock-inspired-music/
Ok, leaving aside for the moment any discussion of my suspicions about what else will be broken about this, anyone who thinks the Doors and Pink Floyd are contemporary music has an amazingly inclusive view of the present.
Especially while saying this ‘isnt your mothers or grandmother’s…”
Hahaha. Yes.
And to Jarflax’ other undiscussed point, this is a Netflix production.
Which can only make me think…make the Aslan a chick and make them gay and maybe Muslim
In even better news, Netflix just bought all of Warner Brothers. Boy does that make me… not happy.
That movie “The Wall” could have been alright if it wasn’t for the soundtrack. What were the producers thinking?
And then give interviews mocking the bigoted Christians for objecting, while pretending to be shocked that it bombs.
This was Cadillac thinking when they used Led Zepplin to try and sell the Cadillac Catera to a younger crowd in the early 2000s.
I had one of these for a couple years.
It was a great car until the head gasket blew.
Another beloved book series about to be shat upon by Hollywood writers who are have so much more talent that C. S. Lewis.
Hey, not just anyone can demolish a classic piece of literature.
There was a lot of racism in the past, therefore everything created in the past should be banned or at least heavily updated to reflect our more modern and correct sensibilities.
[Dr. Bowdler nods approvingly]
“A 29-year-old former Brazilian ballerina unseated Taylor Swift and AI tech entrepreneur Lucy Guo to become the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire.
Luana Lopes Lara, co-founder of prediction market firm Kalshi, snatched the crown from 31-year-old Scale AI co-founder Guo after the platform hit an $11 billion evaluation and her net worth skyrocketed to $1.3 billion, Forbes announced Tuesday.”
https://nypost.com/2025/12/05/business/kalshi-co-founder-luana-lopes-lara-29-becomes-youngest-self-made-female-billionaire-passing-taylor-swift-and-ai-founder-lucy-guo/
TIL* that Taylor Swift was in the movie Cats:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ-uzCC3hjQ&t=14s
*Critical Drinker had a piece up on what a train wreck of a movie Cats was.
She’s often catty.
Huh. I did not know there was a movie with TayTay’s butthole in it.
Get after that, single Glibs.
So my ex-wife’s fiancée had an allergic reaction to some medication went to the hospital, went into cardiac arrest and died. I really feel bad for her. Hope everyone is having a much better holiday season.
oof.
Wow…life is fragile
Man, that sucks.
I always wanted my ex-wife to find somebody better for her than I turned out to be. That didn’t happen and I feel bad about it to this day.
Same here. She was planning this life and I was wishing them both the best and then this happened.
I always wanted my ex-wife to meet a bus while in a crosswalk.
I mean, OK, I guess, but why would you want your ex to get pregnant?
I always wanted my ex-wife to find somebody better for her than I turned out to be.
That shouldn’t have been very difficult.
Ba-dum tish. I’ll be here all week. Tip the veal, and don’t forget to try the waitress!
Last time, she sued, and now I have a restraining order. At least the damages got thrown out.
RC stop living my life!
Same tune, different lyrics
Ouch.
yikes!
Damn that stinks.
Those crazy pharma ads always say “don’t take this brand new drug if you’re allergic to it”. Begs the question of how the hell would anyone know – probably just to cover their asses legally for poisoning people.
Yeah, a couple of years ago I had to get an MRI with contrast, and they asked me if I was allergic to the contrast. I said I had no idea since I had never had it before. Then they asked if I was allergic to anything else, like penicillin, any other drugs, and I said no, so they said, “it should be fine then”.
That’s scary, sorry to hear that.
Good lord. That’s terrible.
I ran into my ex-wife at my son’s wedding. I now am worried she is gonna keel over sooner than later cause she is now over 350 lbs. I am frankly way happier without her in my life and honestly able to say I feel sad for her and wish her well. Hope your ex finds someone else and lets you stay happy as well.
Wow that sucks.
Day 3 of the Coldening,
My covfefe froze before I could drink it and the salt air is making my hair crispy
/46 degrees
Silicon Valley did it. /snarky voice.
Keep warm Yusef, we all know what happens if it gets cold in Cali
In Michigan this was tee shirt weather, now my old bones dont like the cold mornings so much.
We started the day in Santa Fe at a brisk 22 degrees Americanheit. I have outdoor chores I need to do to get my vehicle out of the way of the workmen coming soon, but haven’t left the house yet.
I didn’t know it got so cold there. How long have you been there now?
High desert gets bone cold.
While I have experienced much colder temperatures, I don’t think I’ve experienced as unpleasant of a cold experience as I have here with the humidity combo.
High desert gets bone cold.
But it’s a dry cold!
We actually move next week. We’ve been back and forth hauling stuff the movers won’t take (guns, ammo, booze, etc.) and while we’re at it, misc. other stuff (fragiles). We’ve also had workmen in and out that need access and guidance.
We’re at about 6500 feet of elevation here. We got snow, which is sticking around for a few days, earlier this week.
We had -10 yesterday. We are up to a balmy 20 degrees today.
Of course, Fourscore can trump those numbers.
Ill take San Diego,
Ive been through enough
It was 0 here this morning. As in, no degrees in the air.
If you’re a dude that doesn’t like trains…
I’m immediately suspicious of you.
Dudes like trains.
https://x.com/YIMBYLAND/status/1996636358228713758
You know who else liked trains.
Gavin Newsom?
all trains, or only those on time?
Pat Monahan?
Stormy Daniels?
“Stormy Daniels?”
Yeah, I am sure the latest incarnation is not getting any of that…
Merle Haggard?
Epstein?
The dire predictions were off, so it’s 11 and not actually 9 out.
For once, the “real feel” is the other direction – “feels like 20” (nice and sunny, little wind).
Still glad I took the hose downstairs and turned off the outside water last night.
*le sigh*
Misthread.
But, on topic – Lana from Risky Business?
I dunno. Standing in line for some action with a bunch of other dudes never really appealed to me.
There is a caboose joke hanging off of that.
I’m suspicious of this account.
Dudes who don’t like trains probably don’t want cake.
“Back in 2021, Suvari released her memoir titled The Great Peace – where she revealed she had been raped at the age of 12 by her older brother’s friend, People reported at the time.
She had written, ‘Between the ages of twelve and twenty, I was the victim of repeated sexual abuse.’
After moving to Hollywood as a teen at age 15, she wrote that she had been taken advantage of by a manager in his mid-30s.
When she was 16, she met a man named Tyler whom she claimed had also abused her both sexually and emotionally during their three-year relationship. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15354609/American-Pie-star-Mena-Suvari-parenting-trauma-sexual-abuse.html
doubt
I regret fucking my way to stardom?
And I find it a little unfair that they throw these accusations out many years later where the accused can’t even defend themselves.
There needs to be a shorter statute of limitations.
It’s always “rape” with these bitches after they come to regret being sluts (strong women that do what they want! TM) and want to change that perception. Lame.
Everyone knows the entertainment industry is about whoring their way to success as JI already mentioned.
Mena Suvari made one timeless classic (American Pie) and one forgettable Oscar-bait movie (American Beauty — in which she displayed the second-nicest set of tits in the film).
Now that The Wall has come for her and she’s another ho-hum former showbiz hottie, she writes a tell-all complaining how she had to suck dick to get cast.
Cry somewhere else, kid. Sorry no one’s paying attention to you anymore.
It’s great that his holster saved his gun from a massive truck immolation. Absolutely. But WTF is with his exploding Ford pickup?!?
https://www.guns.com/news/2025/12/03/falco-holster-gun-survive-car-fire
It’ll buff right out.
Possibly a translation issue?
https://x.com/LibsofUK/status/1996652765783945635
Sentencing remarks in Rotherham grooming gangs case read like war time atrocities
https://x.com/DrewPavlou/status/1996167405819867599
It should be “You shall immediately be taken from here to the place of execution where you shall hang from the neck until dead.”
Then drawn and quartered and sent to the corners of the realm as a warning while your heads are mounted on spikes in London.
https://www.history.co.uk/articles/that-takes-guts-7-gory-execution-methods-from-tudor-england
“With each day they made the woods shrink farther up-mountain, yielding room for farms below, for pastures, ponds and streams, grain-land, lush vineyards, their holdings on hill and plain, for olive-groves to run their blue-gray bands like boundary lines flowing across the hummocks, dales, and fields, as now you see lands everywhere picked out with beauty, lined and adorned with apple trees; and fruitful orchards wall them about.” —Lucretius, On the Nature of Things, 5.1361-78.
https://x.com/lefineder/status/1996645211246924058
“Two men who survived a US airstrike on a suspected drug smuggling boat in the Caribbean clung to the wreckage for an hour before they were killed in a second attack, according to a video of the episode shown to senators in Washington.
The men were shirtless, unarmed and carried no visible radio or other communications equipment. They also appeared to have no idea what had just hit them, or that the US military was weighing whether to finish them off, two sources familiar with the recording told Reuters.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/05/us-airstrike-survivors-clung-to-boat-wreckage-for-an-hour-before-second-deadly-attack-video-shows
Who knows?
Wasn’t the J6 shaman shirtless? I guess he shouldn’t have been arrested either.
He could’ve gored someone with his headgear!!!
I question our goals and means here but didnt see any of these senators appalled with videos from 2003-2019 of us raining down 105s and 20mm on running ‘suspected’ terrorist after initial strikes failed to eliminate the ‘threat’.
Spare me the theater, do your job, pass a bill that handcuffs presidents into actually declaring war. I know they wont…but this sudden we care is all designed to bolster their ‘illegal order’ bullshit
It’s designed to win the midterms for the Dems.
Everything they say and do until further notice is directly solely at that goal.
Rhywun gets it. It’s always theater aimed at winning the next election. Politicians are actors (that is, they portray what the script calls for), we know it, but we keep buying tickets to the show.
He said, he said
Sure sounds like a war(?) crime based on how I was trained. But what do I know?
I know I don’t trust the Guardian to accurately report the facts.
So I can’t make an assessment based upon their assertions.
War crimes only exist for the losers.
“Over 1.1M layoffs planned for this year — the highest level since 2020 pandemic”
I expect the bulk of these to be from companies claiming AI has made the job obsolete. However what they will doing is laying off the low performers or trouble makers. After that , unless the H-1B shit remains unresolved and they can go to more of that, they will hire new people that they hope will work out (sorry young people, the lazy and stupid ones in your generation have screwed all of you over), or offshore the jobs.
So I had a leftard lose his mind yesterday when I pointed out that if the government gave people a pile of money – for whatever reason, but this one was a reparation’s tool – that the people that got it immediately would run out to buy shit, making the rich people that own the big companies, even richer. Those billionaires that she hated – the Musks, Bezos, Gates, and so on – would be the one getting the biggest boost from that cash. And the vast majority of the people that got the pile of money would be flat broke and demanding more money and pain for billionaires, a month later. Because the real world problem isn’t any of the bullshit these people have been indoctrinated to believe so they have can avoid changing their ways, but people that make stupid choices leading to poverty. She then just told me she wants it all burned down to ashes in anger. Cause fairness or something.
She is miserable and wants lots of company.
Seeing up close my oldest kid, and that cousin that used to live with us, has enlightened me. There’s a group of people who are dead set against being responsible adults, and want to put in as little effort as they can get away with. They are either looking to get rich quick, or look to suck the teat of the welfare state. The problem is, if you cut those people off completely, the news will be filled with stories of kids dying because their parent’s couldn’t afford food and people dying of cancer because they don’t have insurance. Then whatever party voted for it would never win another election.
The collapse of society and the resulting famine will reset that problem
People with that mindset are the core of the DNC.
Nothing kills my sense of compassion faster than someone reaching for my wallet.
Netflix announced the blockbuster deal with Warner Bros. Discovery on Friday morning. It has agreed to buy the legendary TV and movie studio and assets like the HBO Max streaming service for $72 billion, plus debt.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/05/media/netflix-deal-warner-bros
the fuck did netflix get 72 B from?
The Democratic Party.
ROI from their payment to Obama?
Heh. Same thing.
“A better tuna melt, with a kick
Elevate the humble diner classic with a pop of Calabrian chili, caramelized shallots and gooey Fontina ”
https://www.salon.com/2025/12/04/a-better-tuna-melt-with-a-kick/
No.
Thay actually is good
Gooey Fontina was my least favorite Bond girl.
Friday Funbags will really stimulate your pipe bomb.
https://archive.is/qO1aN
“As the wordsmiths explained in their Dec. 1 press release, rage bait is “online content deliberately designed to elicit anger or outrage by being frustrating, provocative, or offensive, typically posted in order to increase traffic to or engagement with a particular web page or social media content.” While they never use the term “MAGA,” there can be no doubt that they’re talking about the decentralized, mostly online propaganda that has created the movement and given so much power to Donald Trump.”
https://www.salon.com/2025/12/05/rage-bait-as-word-of-the-year-its-a-reason-for-hope/
There can be no doubt.
Says the rag that is nothing but rage bait.
“Rage-baitin'”
Also wanted to point out that I spent time talking to a guy that left his girlfriend because her toys are called Buzz Lightyear and Woody, and he felt he didn’t rise up to the occasion cause she kept calling him Ken doll…
Bravo sir.
Frankly, [the Corporate Average Fuel Economy] was totally out of touch with the market reality.
You forgot physics.
“Trump wrote in a Truth Social post, “I have just approved TINY CARS to be built in America. Manufacturers have long wanted to do this, just like they are so successfully built in other countries. They can be propelled by gasoline, electric, or hybrid. These cars of the very near future are inexpensive, safe, fuel efficient and, quite simply, AMAZING!!! START BUILDING THEM NOW! Thank you to the DOJ and the Departments of Transportation and Environment. ENJOY!!! President DONALD J. TRUMP.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-trump-approves-tiny-car-manufacturing-in-america
How does he approve it?
Has to be major revisions to safety and engineering mandates. Which I support. Remove them all!
Everyone knows this.
https://nypost.com/2025/12/04/health/yes-womens-farts-smell-worse-than-mens-heres-why/
I will attest t that claim.. The most toxic farts I have experienced came from women.
“Federal prosecutors have charged a Somali national with raping a 15-year-old girl and an adult woman in Minnesota. According to the Department of Justice, Abdimahat Bille Mohamed, 28, was charged by complaint with Kidnapping a Minor and Kidnapping after allegedly kidnapping and raping a 15-year-old girl in 2017, an adult woman in 2025 and raping at least three other women in the time between. There is a large Somalian population in the state.
“This Somali national in Minnesota is charged with raping a minor and multiple adult women before being detained, only to be quickly released by a local court, after which he committed yet another rape. This horrific case illustrates how left-wing soft-on-crime policies and vetting failures put innocent people at dire risk. If Minnesota will not protect its own people, the Department of Justice will do it for them,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/somali-national-charged-with-kidnap-rape-of-4-women-including-15-year-old-girl-in-minnesota
Where are the feminists?
Lining up for the Somali Train Gang?
Further down the progressive stack.
Where are the feminists – busy with the Great TERF War presumably.
Also rape is only rape when whitey does it.
We don’t talk about it because it might make those other communities look bad.
“You put down rape twice.”
“I like rape”
The best part is you are patriarchal rape apologist if you say one thing and a racist if you say another!
“The affidavit stated that following the January 5, 2021 placement of the pipe bombs, “Cole continued to make purchases of components used in bomb making,” including a kitchen timer and nine-volt batteries on January 21, 2021, and two galvanized pipes, steel wool, and nine-volt battery clips the following day, and alligator clips on January 23, 2021.
The affidavit stated that the FBI obtained cell site records associated with the cell towers in the vicinity of the RNC and DNC for January 5, 2021, which show transactions such as voice calls, text messages, and other data.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/heres-what-we-know-about-brian-cole-the-suspect-charged-with-planting-pipe-bombs-outside-dnc-rnc
Sounds like the Urkelbomber is an idiot. So he didn’t buy the bomb-making materials anonymously, continued to buy more after he placed the bombs, and had his cell phone on him?
It’s almost like he didn’t expect to get caught, like he was working for somebody who would cover for him…
Urkelbomber is an excellent moniker, you should copyright that quickly and rake in the cash for a few months.
*calls patent office*
Criminals are generally stupid
The bureau has said that the components of the Jan. 5 pipe bomb devices included 1-by-8-inch threaded, galvanized pipes, a kitchen timer, and homemade black powder.
D’Antuono was asked about the kitchen timer on the pipe bombs and whether it was possible for a timer with a one-hour duration to detonate successfully the next day instead.
“No, I don’t,” the FBI official testified. “And I saw the same kitchen timer as you. I agree. I don’t know when they were supposed to go off. Maybe they weren’t supposed to go off. We can’t — we don’t know. We honestly don’t know, and that’s some of the pain.”
Funny how that detail has disappeared. Also – homemade black powder?
“homemade black powder?”
It’s not difficult.
Getting quality boom-powder out of it is.
Maybe that explains a lot – timer went off but powder didn’t ignite?
JI’s conjecture would also explain why he kept making bombs afterwards — he was still trying to get it right.
Well, he is an idiot.
The Muscle Building Myth Everyone Fell For (NEW Study)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJHeGGSp1tQ
basically one of the several recent things that counter the whole deep stretch / lengthened partials thing in lifting.
Our economic problems are bigger than we think
The failings of Rachel Reeves are only a small aspect of our economic dysfunction
https://thecritic.co.uk/our-economic-problems-are-bigger-than-we-think/
Who is this we? I believe the UKs economic problems are bigger than *this guy* thinks.
Outdoor duty begins. Two hours dispensing to folk.
BUT! Only three hours left, and a chill-ish last hour. So that’s good. Bright side of life. Think I lost my headphones here today. Shall ascertain. Onward.
*Puts on cute mittens, fingerless, matching stoic face, fearless*
Godspeed and good luck with any humans you encounter.
Trump’s bizarre dystopian fantasy
Donald Trump’s administration has said Europe faces “civilisational erasure” within the next two decades as a result of migration and EU integration, arguing in a policy document that the US must “cultivate resistance” within the continent to “Europe’s current trajectory”.
Billed as “a roadmap to ensure America remains the greatest and most successful nation in human history and the home of freedom on earth”, the US National Security Strategy makes explicit Washington’s support for Europe’s nationalist far-right parties.
The document, with a signed introduction by Trump, says Europe is in economic decline but its “real problems are even deeper”, including “activities of the EU that undermine political liberty and sovereignty, migration policies that are transforming the continent, censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition … and loss of national identities”.
Preposterous hogwash. Things have never been better in Eurotopia.
Hey, the Europeans can’t complain.
Well they can but they get arres–OOOOOH, I GET IT!
Adm. Bradley is telling Congress that the boat’s survivors were attempting to continue their drug run and thus still considered combatants. Rep. Jim Himes, ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, told reporters he was troubled by the briefing he received. But he also said “the admiral confirmed that there had not been a kill them all order and that there was not an order to grant no quarter.”
Reconcile that WP and the their Hegseth vendetta. Still doesn’t get the Adm out of the woods, however.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/pete-hegseth-frank-bradley-drug-boat-strike-pentagon-trump-administration-5b6e49fd?st=QS6g9a&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Can’t we just follow the boats and arrest them when they enter our waterspace…?
FFS stop giving the Dems more ammunition.
It’s actually difficult. They move so quickly that only drones and aircraft can follow them. However, they aren’t so fast that they get to US territorial waters in hours. It takes days of quite an unpleasant trip.
If they know are being surveilled by US assets they aren’t exactly going to dock up in Miami.
And these high speed boats with three outboards are fairly common playthings for wealthy people here at the NJ shore. You don’t exactly want to drone the wrong one off the coast of FL…
The policy document, released by the White House late on Thursday, underscores the Trump administration’s clear alignment with Europe’s far-right nationalist parties, whose policies centre on attacking supposed EU overreach and excessive non-EU migration.
In language that will appear extraordinary to close allies, it says the US should “stand up for genuine democracy, freedom of expression and unapologetic celebrations of European nations’ individual character and history”, adding that Washington “encourages its political allies in Europe to promote this revival of spirit”.
With far-right parties either in government, supporting rightwing coalitions or leading in the polls in several EU member states, the document says the “growing influence of patriotic European parties … gives cause for great optimism”.
He’s bringing back Radio Free Europe to promote the “far right populist” parties.
Radio Free Europe was the 1st REM song I heard as a teen.
LOL
my manager grew some Carolina ripper at his place in the country and brought me some. Fucking hell. Goddamn. ahhhh
Ripper or Reaper?
Yes, the Carolina Reaper is a particularly potent pepper.
Carolina Ripper goes with the flatulence article above.
what fucking ever. I washed my hands with soap twice to not get it on the eyes. I touched the eyelid not the actual eye. And I still felt it.
Hot gases are dangerous.
Need dish soap to get the oils off, Pie.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/henj8LGHQFhzC3FR9
Spicy.
Apperently not fully ripe
Pepper oil permeates your skin quickly, always wear some gloves. That is a horrible lesson to learn.
Vinegar (basic housecleaning/canning vinegar) will cut off the pain, but nothing really pulls it out of your skin except time. It’s a plant oil, like poison ivy.
Overall it was not that bad for me. I only ate like less than 10% of the pepper. And now my eye is fine.
Don’t touch your junk.
Apparently peppers can be perennials. There’s a video of a guy making one into a bonsai.
I find this absolutely hilarious.
Buffoonery
The resistance from the top has prompted warnings from a growing number of Republican moderates that their thin majority will be lost in next year’s midterms unless GOP leaders hold their noses and extend the enhanced payments to prevent a spiral in out-of-pocket costs for more than 20 million Americans.
“It’s just bad to go into a very tight midterm election … and be hurting, you know, 20 some million people in the country,” Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-N.J.) said.
“To do this is buffoonery,” Van Drew added, referring to Republican inaction. “I want to be in the majority next year, and this makes that much harder because of the districts that are so close.”
Kick the can, Charlie Brown.
20 million Americans
Half of whom probably don’t even vote?
Podunkville makes the big time
NIMBY
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/12/04/northern-minnesotas-lake-country-faces-debate-over-manganese-mine-for-battery-production
I read that as “Margarine Mine”
I knew Margarine was unnatural, but…
Ooooh… Manganese.
Some plans would extend the subsidies for two years, some for one year. Almost all have new restrictions, though they differ on the specifics. And none addresses abortion, which is a significant stumbling block to any compromise.
Aha. Now we’re getting somewhere.
World Ends – Women and Children Hardest Hit!
RFK Jr.’s vaccine panel weakens recommendation on hepatitis B shot for babies, scrapping universal guidance
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/05/hepatitis-b-vaccine-babies-rfk-jr-cdc.html
I want to know which clinical trial exposed a group to HepB after vaccination – to prove efficacy.
Bacon, who is retiring after next year, said he’s co-sponsored separate bills that are all slightly different in an effort to find common ground.
A temporary extension “is not solving the problem — it’s throwing more money at it. But we need to do something temporary, just so we can find something better.”
The desperate yearning of do-something-ism.
Solving the problem could cost us the “dependent on free shit” vote, so…..
“On December 4, 2025, a federal grand jury in Virginia declined to indict Letitia James a second time in her mortgage-fraud case.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/12/two-tier-justice-full-display-virginia-grand-jury/
OFFS!
Grand jury that would indict a ham sandwich.
Honestly, fuck all about this being a federal case. And least of all should libertarians be screaming about it because what we don’t like the FYTW clause.
“It now appears that the six lawmakers have been found to have been heavily involved in money laundering. Investigative Reporter/Citizen Journalist, Bob Cushman, has just released an FEC data analysis that strongly suggests that Mark Kelly, Elissa Slotkin, Jason Crow, Chris Deluzio, Chrissy Houlahan, and Maggie Goodlander have been recipients of illegally laundered campaign funds.
In the initial investigation, Cushman cites 22 Smurf examples that have “allegedly” contributed almost three million dollars in more than 95,000 separate donations to Democratic coffers.
All six members of the Seditious Six have received funds from one or more of these “smurfs”.
It needs to be stated that current thinking about the massive money laundering involving ActBlue is that the identities of the smurfs have been hijacked and that the actual persons have no awareness of the illegal use of their identities.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/12/seditious-six-face-new-legal-challenges-massive-money/
Curious.
Solving the problem could cost us the “dependent on free shit” vote, so…..
Throwing more money at problems is what we do. It has worked ’til now.
My proggie-leaning XX, who has no idea why she leans proggie and thinks I’m all that’s wrong with the world but still can’t process that I don’t like Trump, got a rude intro to health costs.
So, I didn’t announce this, but my husband got laid off in September. He has a nice severance package coming, but in the meantime, we are now without health insurance. That means our kids are also without. Sorry ’bout that (iN mY dAy I gOt cUt OfF wHeN i WaS 18).
FedEx pays her entire premium. Unfortunately, they have United Healthcare, which her shrink doesn’t take. Because reasons. Anyway, so her medication came up to $90 and she was PISSED. Also, she “has” to find a new shrink. His office visit is $150, but only every 3 months. His job is to ask how she is, not listen, write scripts. To me, that’s worth $150 if you depend on that med. She does. I do. XY does. Anyway.
She comes in pissed about this last night. I’m like, the fuck is your problem? You don’t get premiums taken out of your check. BUT THEY TOLD ME IT WAS FREE. Oh, my sweet summer child. Then she was mad because I was mad at her attitude. YOU DON’T HAVE PREMIUMS TAKEN OUT OF YOUR CHECK. You’re going to pay for it one way or another, but it ain’t free. Consider your $140/month problem your premium. THAT’S NOT FAIR.
Yeah, okay. Go say that to the Goblin King.
And also, stay with your shrink and pay the office visit so you can keep getting what you need without interruption. BUT IT COSTS MONEY.
No fucking shit.
Anyway, I gave her a primer on:
Why health insurance is.
Why health insurance is tied up in employment.
Why Obamacare happened.
Why Obamacare fucked everything up EVEN MORE for everybody indefinitely.
Why car prices are so high.
Why we don’t actually have a free market.
Why people on either end of the age and income bell curve suck up all the air in the room.
And other things she never liked hearing because she thought I was pulling shit out of my conspiracy-theory ass.
I finally realized these kids are proggies because they don’t like hearing uncomfortable and difficult things. Like, WTF did I go wrong? I told you difficult things all the time. You didn’t believe me because you didn’t want to because it sucks.
This was not a pleasant conversation for her, but finally I was able to spit facts succinctly in a way she could understand (which I’ve never been able to do) (because I don’t speak in soundbites and she’s not willing to listen to backstory and she’s comfortable with all her wrong assumptions).
I don’t know what kind of reality hangover she’s gonna have today, but I am just done with this child’s baseless progginess.
Too late, but…
I finally realized these kids are proggies because they don’t like hearing uncomfortable and difficult things. Like, WTF did I go wrong? I told you difficult things all the time. You didn’t believe me because you didn’t want to because it sucks.
There were plenty of other people telling them life is supposed to be fair, and nobody should ever want (or pay) for anything.
Reality is a bitch