Good morning one and all to another wondrous day!
New memos show how corruption probe into Clinton Foundation was killed: ‘We were told NO by FBI HQ’
Joe Biden Is Getting a Brutal Lesson on How Irrelevant He Is
More than 9,500 commercial truckers taken off U.S. roads nationwide
Bessent expects taxpayers will see ‘very large’ tax refunds early next year
New Law Lets Texans Sue Out-Of-State Dealers For Trafficking Abortion Drugs
Arkansas to become first state to cut ties with PBS: ‘Not feasible’
Conservative José Kast Defeats Communist in Chilean Presidential Election
Syrian Fruit Shop Owner Wrestled Gun from Sydney’s Bondi Beach Shooter
US Seized Tanker Near Venezuela Just as Warrant Was Set to Expire, Court Document Shows
Disney Sends Cease and Desist Letter to Google Claiming Copyright Infringement on ‘Massive Scale’
Roomba maker iRobot files for bankruptcy, pursues manufacturer buyout
Rob Reiner and wife found stabbed to death in home
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
I’m going to doubt it. I never get my money back.
If you are getting a large refund, you did something wrong.
What’s a free loan to a government between friends?
You do a excellent job of planning then.
Not really. I filed a W4 back in 2008, and not had anything change on it since.
… 😢
Wise man once say, “Talk is cheap.”
Bessent is not a wise man – he seems to not understand this.
He’s the Baghdad Bob of treasury secretaries.
Personally, I expect to see a one time refund due to (expiring in 2025) tax credits but otherwise not much difference. My wife is certain that our taxes will be lower because the propagandists say so.
Oh, forgot about the idiotic SALT deduction increase. Back to subsidizing high tax jurisdictions, instead of getting those assholes to fix their mess they don’t want to pay for.
New Law Lets Texans Sue Out-Of-State Dealers For Trafficking Abortion Drugs
Sorry, but this is one time where the putative plaintiffs really won’t have standing.
Murdering future tax slaves will impact my Social Security benefits …
Similarly, a majority of abortions, nearly 70 percent, are believed to be unwanted, coerced, or inconsistent with the mother’s values and desires.
Sounds like bullshit to me.
“I’m a good Catholic and I’d love to keep this fetus, but…”
Conservative José Kast Defeats Communist in Chilean Presidential Election
AHEM
Chile elects far-right José Antonio Kast as next president
the BBC has the real headline
Chile is one of the safest and more stable countries in South America, but a rise in immigration and organised crime in recent years has concerned many voters. Kast regularly drew links between the two.
His critics, though, say the problem is being exaggerated.
He exaggerates and likes Trump !!!
“Correlation is not causation except when we say it is.”
The fact that a communist was able to run tells me Pinochet did not go far enough.
I am going to write to the Hugo awards to not consider your books for prizes for saying that.
I’m already excluded from winning for being a straight white male.
Commies are like mildew. No matter how thoroughly you clean them out, they always come back.
“The fact that a communist was able to run tells me Pinochet did not go far enough.”
Not even close to far enough. That asshats are still enamored with the evils of marxism is daunting.
New memos show how corruption probe into Clinton Foundation was killed: ‘We were told NO by FBI HQ’
“What difference, at this point, does it make?”
It is time to wipe the slate clean with a cloth or something.
We came, we saw, it died. [obscene cackling]
The Clintons cemented the change of the democrat party from a bunch of socialist low brow criminals to a cabal of effective and efficient crime syndicates with enormous power through the government bureaucracy and the media. Obama then used that power to expand the reach so far that the cancer has metastasized. Yes, the Bush family was also part of the global cabal, but they squandered their reach on doing foreign goals like keeping all players on the schedule.
One of the funnier South Park episodes was the Oceans 11 satire of the presidential election of Obama
I don’t remember that one.
I pretty much skip all the “presidential politics” episodes because they tend to suck ass. Which reminds me, I wonder why Biden got a pass for four years…?
Joe Biden Is Getting a Brutal Lesson on How Irrelevant He Is
replace presidential libraries with grok.
Where are they going to hang the Hunter paintings which haven’t sold?
Donate them to the Clinton Foundation?
I find the whole notion of Monument to Great Leader obnoxious.
The Trump library will be the biggest, most beautiful library you have ever seen. Nobody has bigger libraries than Trump. Millions of people will say it’s the greatest library. We won’t even need new libraries at all after this one.
All the Democrat vanity money is going into that monstrous monument to The One rising above Chicago.
The Sith Tower?
“Joe Biden Is Getting a Brutal Lesson on How Irrelevant He Is”
Since it was an Obama 3.0 admin, this is actually not something that should be a surprise to anyone…
Maybe they’ll just give him a few rooms in the Obama monstrosity.
whaddup doh’
Heya Banjos- how YOU doin’
Syrian Fruit Shop Owner Wrestled Gun from Sydney’s Bondi Beach Shooter
That gun should never have existed in civilian hands. It is time for Australia to implement real gun control. Also strengthen hate crime legislation and fight racism. ( no I am not sarcastic this is what the left press is saying)
Yep. Some political hack said yesterday that “Australians are looking for leadership on gun control.”
Well, you see, they’ve lost a lot of institutional and cultural knowledge under the oppressive system, so they will need instruction in firearm handling and safety as the authoritarian framework is torn down.
/dreaming.
Miranda Devine (Australian) had some choice words about their feckless Labor leader and the climate there in general this morning.
TL;DR – inevitable
The left press actively promotes and encourages mass killings, for the views/ad revenue. Change my mind.
No calamity caused by evil people on disarmed sheep will ever go unused by the globalist criminals.
@ Rhywun.
Yeah the Labour leader was one of the world leaders on Palestinian statehood and has regularly criticized Israel’s actions in Gaza (which, I’m on the record here as being somewhat sympathetic to that kind of criticism) and refused to really criticize Islamic extremists. A few weeks back there was a “neo-Nazi” demonstration in Sydney where “anti-Semitic” slogans were shouted. I’m putting all those in quotation marks because the news reports I heard never really explained what the slogans were apart from a sign which read “End the Jewish Lobby,” which, whether you agree with the sentiment or not is hardly anti-semitic and neo-Nazi.
Basically, Albanese has all the buzz words but doesn’t want to explain anything in detail. So, he’s able to talk out of both sides of his mouth.
That said, the people responsible are the people pulling the triggers, not any politician (although, apparently, Netanyahu is blaming Albanese).
I kept wondering what would have happened if Australian law made it even easier for one or two people in a large group to carry weapons to protect people. Because, as we saw during covid, for many Australian cops, the enemy is the Australian people.
Rant off.
Short version: I hate almost everyone involved here.
“Islamic extremists”
Those are the peaceful Muslims.
I saw the video of that. Jumped him from behind, took the gun, held it on him, and . . . Let him go. Maybe didn’t know how to run the gun, maybe just couldn’t pull the trigger on a human being.
I also read that’s when the shooter switched to a shotgun.
Of course, the cops cowered for (reportedly) 20 minutes, and nobody even called the SWAT team.
Here’s your globalized intifada, lefties. I wonder if anyone is going to ask, Omar, Mamdani and misc. others who have mouthed that slogan whether they are pleased with the result, or disappointed the body count wasn’t higher.
I have found that my support for the free exercise of religion stops when the faith in question has as a core tenet the murder, enslavement, and subjugation of others.
How to square that circle with the law as it stands in the west without opening the floodgate for persecution of peaceful religions is where my mind gets stuck.
Islam needs to go.
I saw the video of that. Jumped him from behind, took the gun, held it on him, and . . . Let him go. Maybe didn’t know how to run the gun, maybe just couldn’t pull the trigger on a human being.
There are a lot of goofy takes about this. Guy is a fruit shop owner (I guess that’s a thing, but I’m assuming it’s not a very dangerous gig) in Australia, who while unarmed, disarmed a shooter. Because he didn’t immediately blow the guy away and also know about the second shooter, what he did is somehow diminished?
The gun might also have been empty or otherwise non-functional.
I don’t intend to come across as some kind of mach badass, but I gotta say – if I’m ever lucky enough to tackle an active shooter from behind, he’s going to be dead before I get up.
I think it was crystal clear by that time there was a second shooter, on account of the gunfire for the last several minutes.
I’m not diminishing what he did. That took some stones, no question. A lot more than the fucking cops had, that’s for sure. And I’ll just say it – at least two of the cops on the scene were women, and women are much more likely to be mentally and physically unsuited for the more kinetic side of policing. Of course, we have seen plenty of male cops cowering while people are getting shot and bleed out, too.
Isn’t Australia the shining example of how well gun control works? How many times have I heard “We need to do what they did in Australia?”
“Public television in Arkansas is not going away,” PBS Arkansas Executive Director and CEO Carlton Wing, also a former Republican state representative, said in a statement.
So it doesn’t go far enough.
RC, from the dedthread:
I have a question (well, really, two questions):
Who were the victims in the Brown University shooting?
Why aren’t there any media reports about them?
NY Post IDs the first victim
Vice President of the Republican Club, you say?
Could be a coincidence. Odd that the shooter is still at large/hasn’t even been identified yet.
There was one guy arrested, but he was released last night. Not the guy.
The odd thing about that guy was the police just happened upon a dude with two firearms in his motel room?
That could be any one of us. Sometimes I travel with two.
That campus has so many cameras on it that it is more like a prison than otherwise. While ineptitude shouldn’t be dismissed – this place is steeped in marxist idiocy – one is left wondering why they are not finding this shooter. And I am gonna bet that as soon as this turns out to be another tranny shooting, the story will go away in a flash.
Cleaning staff saw them and dropped a dime?
Certainly makes sense. One of the reasons why, when I’m traveling to a shooting match, the ‘Do Not Disturb’ tag goes on the hotel room door and stays there until I leave. If I’m leaving my room, the guns either go with me, or go in a hard case that’s chained and padlocked to something sturdy.
Someone on Faux News was claiming there are hardly any cameras on that campus.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I’d be worried about someone walking off with them. Lots of people have keys to hotel rooms, and the “Do Not Disturb” doesn’t do much more than “Gun Free Zone” does to deter criminality.
It’s difficult to secure anything in a hotel room that twenty minimum-wage cleaning and maintenance staff have unlimited and unsupervised access to. Given the choice, I prefer to take my guns with me if I’m not in the room, but that’s not always a solution (I’m not going to carry a cased AR around with me while I’m out having dinner, and leaving my guns in a rental car is a no-go if I want to keep them.)
Locking the guns in a hard case and chaining it to the bed frame is the best solution I’ve been able to come up with. The idea of some kind of in-room motion detector is interesting…
You’re probably up to good enough with that. Most pilferers are thieves of opportunity who’ll make off with something they can just snatch, and not put too much effort into. If you get that one dude that goes into “I gotta have it” mode, you’re not going to prevent it, but it will be easy to catch him.
At matches the guns go with me. I figure they’re less likely to be stolen locked in the trunk of my car at the venue.
There’s a bit of a deterrant factor regarding breaking into vehicles at shooting events…
Not to say nobody’s that stupid, but…
The parking lots are high traffic areas and break-ins likely to be noticed?
Aren’t they also usually covered by security cameras?
According to the story, Brown has “thousands of administrators”. Seriously? A tiny school like that?
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a security camera covering the parking area of a major shooting match.
But, when I’m at the match, my guns are generally on my person.
My larger concern is having my car broken into while I’m out at dinner after the match.
Disney Sends Cease and Desist Letter to Google Claiming Copyright Infringement on ‘Massive Scale’
On the one hand fuck Disney. On the other hand fuck AI slop.
That is the real reason
I know we’ll never see it, but my “Public Domain Improvement Act” reduces copyright to the same duration as a patent – 20 years. There’s no need for a century of protection, you should be able to create your next work within two decades.
Eeee.
https://nypost.com/2025/12/15/us-news/rob-reiner-wife-michelle-had-throats-slit-by-family-member-during-heated-argument-report/
Their son wanted the goo!
Except, literally nobody witnessed anything and the “heated argument” part is apparently fabricated not by the “source” but by the NYP journalismist.
Yeah, 48 hour rule. I mean, it’s just as likely that Rob was going to release the Epstein files and the Clinton rec
Per the daughter, maybe.
Have they considered the six fingered man?
I didn’t care for Reiner’s political views, but he made some excellent flicks. RIP.
Agreed. May he rest in peace.
I just saw his “appearance” on South Park (the “Butt Out!” episode).
Hilarious.
Also, RIP.
He was on the latest season of The Bear and he was great. Politically retarded, but definitely a talented actor and writer.
He was notorious for being unhinged against Trump on X, but I’ll bet the people on the right won’t say he deserved it. (He didn’t).
Some did, sadly.
Praetorian Guard problems require Constantine solutions.
You want more Keanu?
‘Cause that is just asking for more Keanu!
Now I want to see Keanu play Emperor Constantine and watch him break the Praetorians at Milvian Bridge.
I do.
Milfian Bridge? Kinky.
No way…
St. Paul enacted rent controls, and housing construction plummeted. Next-door Minneapolis generated a downtown boom without regulating rent.
https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/minnesota-rent-control-regulation-prices-34221bd4?st=cvf1tJ&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
It’s almost as if punishing supply reduces new supply.
And demand goes elsewhere.
I hear NYC is going to go full on proving this same result there as well…
They already passed a law a few years ago where rents can’t be raised “extra” when someone moves out nor in order to do repairs or upgrades. Now The Zohran swoops in and he and the crazy lunatics in the City Council are to make it much worse.
The seventies will look like a golden era. It won’t be just the Bronx that’s on fire.
Do better, Minneapolis.
I’m sure the lesson learned will be to control harder, it’s just what they do.
The one thing about Trump is his humility.
“I’ve created the greatest economy in history. But it may take people a while to figure all these things out,” Trump said.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/trump-isnt-certain-his-economic-policies-will-translate-to-midterm-wins-455e0d46?st=LptmqF&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
He’s like the Mozart of Presidents.
…you could make a case for that.
It’s going to take the midterms to bring him back to reality. What an idiot.
Even that won’t work.
More Chinese immigration shenanigans!
The Chinese Billionaires Having Dozens of U.S.-Born Babies Via Surrogate
Videogame executive Xu Bo, said to have more than 100 children, and other elites are building mega-families—testing citizenship laws and drawing on nannies, IVF and legal firms set up to help them.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/chinese-billionaires-surrogacy-pregnancy-7fdfc0c3?st=KFF2k8&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
TL;DR but WTF
To what end?
And we need to stop this nonsense where the children of foreigners can claim citizenship. That’s not what the 14th says at all.
But we’ve been doing it for years – historical norms!
Someone mention something about China and babies???
Sounds ridiculous but honestly I wouldn’t put anything past that evil regime.
It’s a long game, but if they inherit his businesses think of the tax revenue!
Re: Chile — “Far-Right Whackadoodle Ultra-Fascist defeats Center-Left candidate”
sin,
TMITE
The company, which raised concerns about staying in business in March, filed for Chapter 11 protection in Delaware bankruptcy court as it grapples with increased competition from lower-priced rivals and new U.S. tariffs.
Tough to sweep that under the rug.
It’s difficult to know where to start here. First, the inane title of the article. Second, property damage is now “assault”.
Streamer Sued for Assaulting Gay Robot
https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/streamer-sued-for-assaulting-gay-robot
Attentions whores whore for attention. Apparently this is newsworthy.
Well it is hilarious.
He should claim it was dropping the N word. Apparently that can get certain people out of anything.
Hopefully charged as a hate crime for the lols.
The accused is in a more protected class from my skim of the article.
““Everything’s brand new except my Nike kicks and cowboy hat,” the robot added. “Now I’m back online, and I feel like I’ve mastered the rizz game, and next I’ll be working on complex movements with my legs, like twerking — hopefully you’ll see my gyrating hips on some new TV appearances shortly — stay tuned, fam.””
Sounds like the robot had it coming.
Enforcement is modeled after Texas’ successful 2021 heartbeat bill, which virtually eliminated abortion in the state by granting anyone outside of the government to bring a civil action against anyone
The state can’t grant injury status to someone that hasn’t suffered an injury except. Being offended by the existence of this stuff is not an injury.
All those injured have been murdered.
They’re not the ones suing.
Nice. Our military exploits in the Caribbean have our AF Tankers running dark. What could go wrong? Oh…
U.S. Military Plane and JetBlue Flight Nearly Collided Over Caribbean, Radio Traffic Shows
The Air Force refueling tanker was flying without its location transponder activated and could not be detected by air traffic control.
Paywall
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/world/americas/jetblue-venezuela-midair-collision-us-air-force.html
Need more info. Not that a JB pilot would lie.
Agreed.
Even looking at that area, there are tons of coverage lapses, gps jamming, etc…
I’m a little skeptical about the “almost collided” part
https://www.miamiherald.https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article313715851.htmlcom/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article313715851.html
Looks like JB pinged it and after that got a visual.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article313715851.html
Also I didnt see some huge leveling off event. Looked like they maintained a positive rate of climb all the way up to their assigned FL
But could the air tanker detect the Jet Blue flight?
One would think that if a military plane is going dark then the idiot flight crew would be on the lookout for such things…
“Roomba maker iRobot files for bankruptcy, pursues manufacturer buyout”
I saw an ad for a gas grill “roomba”.
Whatcha you talking about Willis?
https://grillbots.com/
Bathtub scrub-bot in drag?
Lessons on when you are illegal and win the lottery..
Lottery tickets are bearer instruments. At least on this side of the border.
Ouch.
Womp, womp.
Target, oh my….
Target absolutely did think that through.
Like an NEA convention, only cuter and smarter
Nearly 2,400 golden retrievers and their owners gathered this week in Buenos Aires in what organizers and local media described as the largest meeting of the breed ever recorded.
Organizers should take a bow (wow).
I think Chris Collinsworth makes me drink more.
I find them both insufferable at this point.
I’m assuming the fruit shop owner had a stand serving fruit to beachgoers. Which means he probably had a decently sized knife on hand, which would mean he really did not want to kill the shooter.
Do you think you could take a man’s life Not Adahn? If you were there and had your pistol, would you shoot?
Then again you would save many other lives. And the bastard has it coming. Who can tell.
Insert anyway I started blastin meme
I try not to speculate about that sort of thing in public.
Until and unless I am in that situation, I don’t think I can tell how I’d react to having to make the decision about ending a human, even a hostile one.
At the moment, I can say it’d be the right thing to do – but in the moment… who knows?
What would Kord do?
Which one?
does it matter?
Yes.
While both are fictional characters, one will merely cut off the attacker’s head, while the other has been known to try to string someone up by their own intestines.
By total coincidence, I read this yesterday:
https://monsterhunternation.com/2025/12/10/freeze-choke-or-fail
I thought this was insightful:
Sounds like someone who’s never looked into how humans react in stressful situations.
lol Someone’s never been an innocent at a party where drugs were circulating.
I think it’s a fair point, though – it’s not like you suddenly decide “I am the type of fellow who will do some drugs if they’re offered to me at this party”. You’re already there, or you’re not.
“Can I pull the trigger on someone?” must surely be something any concealed-carrier has thought about long before it would ever be necessary.
I know Larry a bit (in fact, he still has a case of Magtech 9mm ammo in his garage that belongs to me.) I also know most of the training community people he would have asked about this subject.
He’s not talking shit. If the people in his circle could only come up with a single example of a CCW holder freezing up in the moment, then you can take it as gospel that it doesn’t happen much.
I’m with UnCiv. I don’t think anybody knows if they would kill a human being before the moment. You can train, you can mentally review scenarios, you can tell yourself “Damn right I would”, but until the moment of decision, you don’t really know.
“Can I pull the trigger on someone?” must surely be something any concealed-carrier has thought about
Thought about? Absolutely. Know for sure – short of maybe being a combat veteran or cop or whatever who has already made that decision in real life and ‘knows’ what their reaction will be? I don’t think so. And I believe that’s all anyone is claiming. Do I fully intend to pull the trigger in that situation? Of course, otherwise, why carry. Will I? I don’t know until I’m in that situation and hopefully I’ll never discover the true answer.
Different context, of course, but some pretty high percentage of infantry supposedly don’t even aim in a firefight, which means they aren’t really trying to kill the enemy. And a CCW holder who does “freeze up” isn’t going to talk about it, and may even stop carrying/training, which means the trainers aren’t going hear about it much at all.
I’ve probably been at several parties with drugs.
I’m generally pretty oblivious.
I did catch a couple drug deals at study hall in HS at least.
This trope was mainly based on internal Army ‘research’ from the 70’s that has been discredited for years.
I saw a weird behavior downrange mostly in indirect fire but twice under direct fire.
There are those who cower, those who want to run out and check on other people, the criers, the guys that get mad, the weirdly calm, and those that try to figure out where it’s coming from and get a bead on the bad guy. I’m sure there are other behaviors but that’s what I saw in my limited experience.
Never pulled the trigger so I don’t know if I could. Was planning on it once but couldn’t get line of sight.
At certain degree of familiarity, a gun is just another object and the usage doesn’t require a lot of active cognition.
So the question is, have you ever lashed out at something else to hurt and/or destroy it? If so then the question is what’s different in the scenario envisioned? If you’ve never done that then you probably do need to agonize a bit before killing someone in the moment.
@Sheldon – Not arguing, just interested in seeing the data. Got anything that talks about what was wrong with the original report and shows more recent data?
the left can’t meme
https://x.com/tnega74/status/1999888240174850291
What are the odds that the person who made that was from an affluent family and hasn’t held down a real job or talked to a poor person in their life?
99.999999999999999999999999999%
Or what are the odds that the poor person is in a country that has anything close to “capitalism” going on.
Capitalism – “Obey your boss or starve herp derp.”
Socialism – “Obey the Supreme Soviet, probably starve anyway.”
Socialism is just feudalism, but with the fools being ruled thinking they have it better.
You’ll only starve if you aren’t taken to the ditch first.
Water is a human right?
everything is why not water.
A string of trendy flags in the bio is an instant “ignore”.
Let alone the hammer and sickle.
1999: John O’Sullivan discusses the potential for multiculturalism to “systematically undermine the institutions of liberal democracy”.
He said that “multiculturalism cannot ultimately succeed, but it can cause a lot of damage in the course of failing”.
https://x.com/tempestvista/status/1999479727111999589
There are two fundamental problems with capitalism that cannot be solved with more or different versions of capitalism.
First, let’s define what capitalism is and isn’t. Capitalism is a social system which relies on the ownership of productive means by private interests. It is not free markets, trade, personal property, controlling your own labour or any other fluff that pro-capitalists try to lump it in with, all of which have existed outside of capitalism for millennia.
The first unsolvable problem is that capitalism relies on inequality to survive. The tiny owner class relies on a much larger class of workers to exploit for their profits. This is inalienable from capitalism, and, worse, the worker class will be perpetually driven close to poverty to allow for the capitalist class to enforce the maximum profit rule capitalism relies on.
That’s the second unsolvable problem: capitalism innately decays because market competition — its greatest strength in a sense — doubles as its greatest weakness. The capitalists must compete to survive, which means the most ruthless, immoral and unscrupulous rise to the top, monopolising industries and eroding the society it operates in. This is why ‘metastatic’ capitalism is a poignant label.
These problems cannot be solved under capitalism, ever. Regulations can slow them, but the problems persist, with each generation of capitalists innovating new mechanisms to subvert the governing boundaries.
The argument for what comes post-capitalism should be rich and diverse and open-ended, but the solution cannot be ‘Capitalism 2.0’ for these reasons.
https://x.com/tiberiusfiles/status/2000185108834169241
deep. really makes you think.
Under capitalism, those that acquire wealth will have great power, and some unfortunately might abuse it. Under socialism only the powerful will ever have any wealth, and that is because they ALWAYS will abuse their power.
Nobody who ever worked for a boss ever made money or improved their life in any way.
Meh. Most people use “capitalism” as a shorthand for “free market” and all that other stuff and lefties hate all of that too.
” RFK Jr.’s lunatic war on vaccines puts kids at risk
By Post Editorial Board”
https://nypost.com/2025/12/14/opinion/rfk-jr-s-dangerous-war-on-vaccines-puts-kids-at-risk/
The NYPost Editorial Board works for big pharma.
“We want more vaccines for everything, and Big Pharma needs to give them away for free!!!”
How the left gets taken seriously, I will never understand…
There are a lot of idiots that hear “free shit’ and immediately get wet down there…
“More than 9,500 commercial truckers taken off U.S. roads nationwide”
We spent some time this weekend with a friend who’s a truck driver. This is a big deal. He says states like California have outlawed drivers who are contractors, so all that’s left is the big companies and they are all-in on illegal drivers.
“Bessent expects taxpayers will see ‘very large’ tax refunds early next year”
I’d like to see out national debt go down, but right now I do need money for a new car, so…
A little more (predictable) news on the Bondi Beach shooting. Father & son were the shooters; father was investigated by domestic security forces in 2019 for a number of things including his “ties to ISIS.” Despite that, he was given a license to own guns and specifically a total of six.
So, of course, the Prime Minister is going to convene an enquiry into changing Australia’s gun laws.
“We need to throw all this garbage legislation in the trash and rearm the citizenry”
/I know it’s not true.
Dementia Joe attended the Eagles game yesterday. The sports commentators showed him bundled up in the cold. Why wasn’t he in the owner’s warm box (Jeff Lurie, a prominent Prog)? Didn’t hear any quotes from Joe. Probably said something like “Wow, I love to attend these Army-Navy games.”
I remember when the coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers saw me throwing a, what’s the thing, ball, yeah a ball in the yard with my boy and wanted me to come try out. I said to the coach, “Son, it’s just love.”
The Government is considering requiring that everyone hire an architect in order to submit a planning application or a building control application.
This would be a mistake. If the state wants buildings to meet certain standards, it should simply require that they do so. We have a system for this – two systems, in fact, namely building regulations and planning.
There is no good reason to require hiring people with architecture degrees to sign off designs. This is a classic case of valuing process over outcomes. Developers could and would simply employ tame architects to rubber-stamp whatever they were doing anyway. ‘Protection of function’ is a completely toothless instrument for improving design standards.
https://x.com/SCP_Hughes/status/2000548649479123429
architects need to eat too.
“Erika Kirk and conspiracy-peddling podcaster Candace Owens announced that they will be meeting for a “productive discussion” mere days after their passive-aggressive online feud reached new heights on primetime television.
The pair will meet in person on Monday for the first time since Erik’s husband and Turning Point USA’s founder Charlie Kirk was gunned down in early September.
They both placed respective embargoes on any “public discussions, livestreams, and tweets” until after their meeting concludes, Erika Kirk wrote on X.”
https://nypost.com/2025/12/15/media/erika-kirk-and-conspiracy-peddling-candace-owens-announce-private-meeting-amid-online-feud/
No word on a lesbian sex tape.
That would be wrong, Tater.
Scorchingly, scorchingly wrong.
I don’t like mixing politics with my pornography.
✂️
Ebony, and Ivory, scissoring together..
in perfect, harmony”
Just in time for the holidays
TL:DR – Spirit Airlines may go tits-up soon
Watching YouTube videos of the poors getting hauled away in handcuffs after a ticket counter chimpout is a perverse pleasure of mine. Spirit probably provides 75% of that material.
I’m sure a company that nice still has a ghost of a chance.
Cumia fan? Plenty of good cruise ship vids too.
They bought out Frontier a while back, didn’t they? Would that leave Southwest as the cheap airline now?
No, they’ve tried to merge a few times but never did it. JetBlue tried to buy Spirit but was blocked.
Spirit provides a service in keeping those crazy people off other airlines.
“Donald Trump appeared to blame Rob Reiner and his wife Michele’s murders on the director’s ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ in a new post on Truth Social.
The president said that Reiner, a ‘once very talented movie director and comedy star,’ had passed away ‘reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease’ known as TDS – or Trump Derangement Syndrome.
‘He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15385555/donald-trump-rob-reiner-tds-cause-death.html
WTF, Donald?
Donald needs the equivalent of a “get-back coach” like some NFL teams have.
Here’s the thing: Trump’s an asshole.
No kidding.
JFC.
How can that be a revelation to anyone at this point?
Welp, I take back my earlier comment. A golden opportunity to take the high road and draw a sharp distinction from the left, and he just can’t help being an asshole about it.
See his dropping shit video.
Replacement called in, so my 630-9 outdoor swing turned to – 10:10. So this is kinda good, tho I was getting mighty cold, nowhere near as bad as yesterday.
‘Lunch’ now (In the car) at White Castle. Good hash browns. Shift is good cuz now when I go back in, well. Im mostly done. 2:50 left when I return, and I have chill duties.
Weekend, then only two more days here before Xmas and a week holiday.
Onward, glibbies. Such strange forces at work, these days. (Kinda like always, but still. Hrm.)
Thanks for helping to keep the nation functioning.
God bless the internet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3jHv0GZB9U
Bravo.
The singer is good but holy shit he looks like Gollum.
Based on the completely pointless and stupid stuff I’ve seen online lately, I’ve been saying people have run out of good ideas. It’s nice to see someone put in the effort.
Rob Reiner’s son has been arrested.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-14/2-found-dead-at-home-of-rob-reiner
“Berlin prosecutors say they have charged a member of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party with making a Nazi salute in parliament.
The suspect allegedly “greeted a party colleague … at the east entrance to the Reichstag building with a heel click and a Hitler salute” in June 2023, the prosecutors said in a statement issued on Monday.
Making such a salute is illegal in Germany and is punishable by up to three years in prison.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/15/member-far-right-afd-party-charged-nazi-salute-reichstag-germany
OFFS!
What are the odds the guy just waved?
Considering that most of the prog left genuinely believes that Elon Musk made a Nazi salute at Trump’s election party – I’d say that the odds are looking favorable.
Or it was a joke?
But who cares. Germany has no free speech – film at 11.
“Washing chicken – still bizarrely popular on TikTok – is an absolute no-no, as it’s likely to spread bacteria all over your kitchen and utensils, rather than reducing your chance of infection.”
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/dec/15/why-food-poisoning-how-to-avoid-oysters-raw-meat
Bullshit.
I never wash chicken tbh.
You’re also undead.
I don’t cook much chicken, but if I do I don’t wash it either.
*shrug*
Me neither, mostly out of laziness.
Since the butcher already breaks it down to whatever final cooking size pieces I want, I don’t have to think about processing the carcass, so it comes out of the packaging and I just start the cooking.
That reminds me, I need to buy some chicken.
I only do that with whole frozen chickens, because I want it to that faster.
What part is bullshit?
Yeah, I remember learning not to rinse off chicken close to 40 years ago.
What are you people doing when you wash these birds?
Washing chicken isn’t going spread bacteria all over your kitchen and utensils.
Hear me out, Tater – if you take the high pressure spray nozzle and go at it from every direction…
So chasing a live chicken with a sprayer hose?
No, I’ve got one built into my kitchen sink. It’s useful for getting water all over the place, or filling tall pots.
Ya’ll are some kinky cooks
No, JI, you just have a dirty mind.
Have you thought about brainwashing?
Today’s kitchen tip: after replacing my kitchen faucet I find it has a fixed flow-reducer, which is super annoying. However, the sprayer does not – fills pots about twice as fast.
Rob Reiner’s son has been arrested.
Son, or “son”?
Looks like drug problems rather than a gender trender.
Must have been something horrible like fentanyl to want to cut up your family.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/textbased/news/text-15385191/Troubled-past-Rob-Reiner-son-Nick.html
Fentanyl doesn’t make you want to cut people up. But the mental problems that you self-medicate with fentanyl might.
I think his sons are actually males. Weird, eh?
The one that was arrested is 32. So I think they were too old for the trend to get them.
“Aussie PM Invokes ‘Right-Wing Extremism’ After Islamic Terrorist Attack, Vows Crackdown On Guns”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/aussie-pm-invokes-right-wing-extremism-after-islamic-terrorist-attack-vows-crackdown-guns
Whoever guessed it gets the prize, not that you’d have to be Miss Cleo to see this coming.
Aussies saw during the attack that police cower. Time to stand up. Police will clearly do jack shit if you go tar and feather that jackass.
So standard boilerplate responses. I am sure it will prevent the next terror attack.
The song remains the same
“When we started floating away,” says Andrew, who’s 74 years old, “water started to come into the house … through the door. And we tried to stop it by putting towels [down], but that didn’t stop it.” The water got ankle deep. Andrew estimates the house floated 2 miles with him inside, fortunately inland and not out to sea.
Now this lifelong Kwigillingok resident and Russian Orthodox priest says he’s ready to leave. “I don’t want to come back here again. I don’t want to go through what we went through again.”
Human-caused climate change, from burning fossil fuels, has people around the U.S. considering whether to resettle in safer places. For some Alaska Native villages, the issue is urgent. The remnants of Typhoon Halong devastated the villages of Kipnuk and Kwigillingok in October. Authorities say 678 people remain evacuated from these communities, where the Yup’ik language Yugtun is many residents’ first language.
Kwigillingok has navigated the effects of climate change for decades as permafrost beneath the village thawed and erosion and flooding became more severe. In recent years, the village has sought to relocate to higher ground and further inland, hoping to keep the community together. But there’s no plan to make that happen and no committed funding.
This looks like a job for the Army Corps of Engineers. Or a witch doctor.
Moving to escape the consequences of a warming climate is an issue for many around the globe. In the U.S., a few cases have involved relocating entire Indigenous communities.
Adapt or die. It has been that way forever, and most people have gotten pretty good at adapting.