Santa has started his annual bender, and baby 2026 is ready to ride that pony. I hope you all had a great holiday.
Links?
From Russia with love. Vlad is just a misunderstood peacenik.
He was still alive when the cops got there?
Fortunately for NYC, the Chief has nothing to do with the actual job.
Yet somehow, Team Blue is still totes okay.
Gee, the grifting husband of a grifting politician is trying to cover his tracks?
A good reminder heading into the new year.
Okay, that’s it for me. Time to nap and listen to football in the background. Peace out, Glibbies.
Yes, I went there.
And voters are tired.
They are not asking for vision. They aren’t even asking for inspiration. They are asking for calm. After years of absolute mayhem, many Americans would settle for someone who appears mentally competent, speaks clearly, and doesn’t turn every week into a national blood-pressure test. The bar has sunk to the floor. Basic decency now passes for leadership. Newsom clears it without breaking stride.
More “Nobody I know” school of journalism.
MAGA is so exhausting. Why can’t we just bring Obama back? Why can’t people just allow themselves to be told what to do?
Yes, of course. Voters desperately want all the mainstream status quo shit they just rejected a year ago, and there’s nobody more poised to give it to them than a smarmy, radical fringe leftist greaseball who can’t meme, from a state that’s a punchline even in shitholes like New York and Massachusetts, who made himself nationally famous for partying at thousand dollar a plate 3 Michelin star restaurants while his state was economically cratering from his totalitarian lockdowns. Run with that.
Yeah, outside the sapphire archipelago, California is a sad joke, Newsome is a nuisance, and all they are offering is a retread vision of the seventies.
“doesn’t turn every week into a national blood-pressure test.”
That’s a choice each person makes. No one’s forcing them to raise their blood pressure.
The left hates hates hates stoicism.
*peals of laughter*
If snorting coke off the ass of your friend’s wife isn’t basic decency, I don’t know what is.
But the real question is, “Can I shift my car briefly into reverse to ensure the terrorist can’t get up to pursue me?”
Works in China.
As of September, the Los Angeles Times reported that $14 billion has been the price tag to this point, but aside from employing a few thousand workers, that money accomplished nothing. There is no railway and no train.
Just like Flounder’s brother’s Lincoln.
“In the morning, IT WAS GONE.”
Newsom looks inevitable.
I can’t squint that hard.
Shit, last I saw he was poling 9 points less than the woman who just lost.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15405971/Gavin-Newsom-black-voters-White-House-Kamala-Harris.html
The spouse was listening to some Candace Owens stuff this afternoon. I was vaguely aware of Owens as being Trump-affiliated, a little on the conspiracy side who has gotten a little more kooky lately. Well, “little more kooky” doesn’t even come close. Admittedly, I was zoning in and out of listening to it but, if I’ve got things correct, she seems to be arguing that global Zionists employed French Foreign Legion special forces (who, apparently, have a base in Baltimore) to take out Charlie Kirk.
I haven’t been following along closely, but I think she’s implied (“just asking questions”) that Erika Kirk and TPUSA leadership was involved in the conspiracy, too.
She’s been a grifter her whole career.
She’s become batshit crazy.
I think she always was, just took tome to notice.
Time. Arg!
Yeah, success brought it more to the surface.
She’s pushing some hoax anti-Jewish book on her podcast according to this author.
I haven’t listened to all of her Charlie Kirk stuff, and this point I won’t.
I will say, that she got one thing right. She was talking about Charlie Kirk butting heads with Jewish donors over his relationship with Tucker Carlson. TPUSA released a bunch of text messages confirming what was going on between Kirk and the donors.
Other than that, I’ll believe whatever she is saying when I see it. And I don’t expect to see it.
Better video of the song
Why I don’t give a shit about F1 in a paragraph.
Bonus. Compression changes with temperature. Like no shit Prof Boyle.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/12/f1s-new-engines-are-causing-consternation-over-compression-ratios/
Selecting a connecting rod material that has a greater thermal expansion coefficient than the block to increase the compression ration at operating temperature seems like a pretty novel “cheat” to me. Sounds like some old school racing.
Well, there is that; but I suspect being a radical leftist is going to turn out to be her main qualification, with the DEI stuff a bonus.
Radical leftism is the #1 qualification to join the kakistocracy he’s setting up.
I think this is correct. I can’t imagine a conservative black lesbian getting picked for anything by Mandami.
Agreed this is a DEI pick – but I find it interesting that Mandami is calling-out the FDNY grift (at-least tangentially) as most calls are EMS and yet FDNY responds. I see this everywhere I have lived as both a resident and business owner – overkill from a FD response perspective when basic EMS was needed (and in many cases NO response).
No idea how that works but the one time I called 911 for a health issue it was EMS who responded.
The idea of a FD responding to a medical issue was never a thought in my head until I started watching Emergency! reruns a few years ago.
They do that crap where I live to pad the number of calls for funding of the FD.
If the public knew they only went on 20 some calls for fire a year in a town of 32,000 they may start to question why we have so many of them.
wut
I suspect the true figure blown so far is much, much higher.
“He was still alive when the cops got there?”
No kidding. Who rolls out to get their disappeared daughter without packing? I’d take the shotgun. As in, when I got out the car, I’d have a shotgun in my hand.
Probably also a handgun. In that circumstance, I think the high-capacity .45.
Gavin Newsom has Hollywood-grade instincts. He was made to perform. And in modern presidential politics, performance beats conviction nine times out of ten. Newsom looks presidential in the way actors look heroic — before they’ve done anything heroic at all.
This is delusional.
I can see Newsom running. I can even see him getting the Democrat nomination. He won’t win. The states the Democrats need to win won’t vote for a California liberal. They’ll need someone from some other part of the country, preferably the Midwest or Mid-Atlantic.
And on a brighter note: RC, if you’re out there, I saw your post about Santa Fe Brewing on the dedthread. I was in Santa Fe a few years back on one of my FreedomFest road trips. Due to being sick and needing to work while I was on the road, I did not stop in Santa Fe Brewing. Which is sad, because what you describe looks good. I did stop in this place, which I thought was pretty good.
It is true he has been groomed for this his whole life.
I am not so certain of that. We see a fake, a charlatan who has no principles whatsoever. Dems probably see a route to #winning and it is abundantly obvious that the vast majority of them don’t give a shit about principles.
That brings an interesting question on enthusiasm and turnout. Labour in the UK got less votes in the election they won (a “landslide”) than in the preceding one they lost. Without Trump to spur both friend and foe, might we see a precipitous drop, across the board, in ’28?
Historically, low turn out benefitted the republicans.
I am not so certain of that.
Look at the states Joe Biden won.
Look at the states Kamala Harris won.
There must be some justice in this godless universe full of pain…because Obama’s monument to himself looks like a concrete lawn dart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYURxfaTdpY
Relevant
Lawn darts were fun.
I’ve been pondering.
I think Candace Owens and Nick Fuentes should get married and make babies. They could all have podcasts. It would be a hoot.
DON’T GIVE THEM IDEAS!
especially not those ideas.
It’d be the opposite of the PC Babies
I hope they all convert to Judaism.
Nick thinks having sex with women is gay, so there’s a bit of a speed bump there.
I bet if he tried fornication, he’d like it. At the very least he might build character.
For context:
Nick seems a bit confused.
I’m not entirely sure that both aren’t some sort of performance art.
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In a nice AirBnB just outside Dunlap, TN. Bro planned well, with this spot up in the forest. Nice view of the ‘city’ lights below. Tomorrow’s gonna be the Incline Railway, which should be a lot of fun, especially for the 5yo train enthusiast.
Methinks I’ll be happily asleep for a long time. My entire battery’d care for a good charge. Dad’s got The Three Stooges on in the living room, so not much has changed.
Hope the holiday week is still treating you well.
For about the last six months or so I’ve wondered why the audio mix on Prime shows was shit. Turns out there is an option, in my case enabled by default, called ‘Dialogue Boost’. It was hidden away under the Options cog. Why the ever living fuck? Dropping out all the sound design by default just makes it sound like shit, and it doesn’t even boost the dialogue, it just turns everything else in the mix down. Sound designers are paid to do this shit, don’t fuck with it.
The Curse of the Boomers would be my guess. Hearing aids and all that.
I think it’s the Zoomers, loud noises make them uncomfortable.
Well, there’s also that a lot of what passes for acting these days seems to involve mumbling your lines, and a lot of sound mixing seems to involve burying the dialogue. Although given the crap quality of the scripts, I can see why actors might mumble and engineers might bury it.
Well, there’s also that a lot of what passes for acting these days seems to involve mumbling your lines,
Marlon Brando heartily approves.
Brigitte Bardot, 1934-2025
Happy national pledge of allegiance day!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn9E5i7l-Eg
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https://www.njtransit.com/schedules-and-fares/reduced-fare-program/
Photo ID for transit, but not voting. Sounds legit.
A good glib morning to all!