Sunday Morning Links

by | Dec 7, 2025 | Daily Links | 193 comments

The old man is somewhere. I don’t want to talk about where, but I can assure you the law is not involved. Still, I am here early before I go to the gym, I’m not blaming anyone for being up this early…

What the hell is going on in Latvia?

Eventually communists come for the undesirables once they outlive their usefulness.

The Federalist needs to get a grip. Freaks.

For once an article about Pete that isn’t “GWOT Vets in the midst.”

Channeling her depression into drinking and overeating is an unusual circumstance?

Enjoy your Sunday, don’t get too wasted watching football.

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193 Comments

  1. Pat

    I’m not blaming anyone for being up this early…

    It’s my boss. Blanca.

  2. juris imprudent

    For a meaningless game, Indiana-OSU was pretty hard fought and entertaining. But Duke takes the grand prize in driving the final nail into the conference championship coffin.

  3. Pat

    What the hell is going on in Latvia?

    “No matter how beautiful she is, somewhere out there is a man who’s tired of her bullshit.”

    • Ownbestenemy

      So sayeth Al Bundy, circa 1988, founding president of NO MA’AM

    • Fourscore

      Fourscores left a generation too early. Damn it!

  4. juris imprudent

    Meanwhile, over the age of 65, there are twice as many women as men, per the World Atlas.

    Why that sounds even better than The Villages!

    • Chafed

      I have a new retirement plan.

  5. I. B. McGinty

    “women can enlist “Men With Golden Hands” to do plumbing, carpentry, repairs and even mounting a TV”

    Well it was nice knowing y’all. I’m moving to Latvia.

    • Drake

      Please send scouting reports.

  6. juris imprudent

    “If you bring drugs to this country in a boat, we will find you and we will sink you,” he said.

    Mexicans laugh and dig more tunnels.

    • Pat

      Catapults are highly underutilized. I feel like I could really help revamp cartel logistics if given half a chance…

      • Gender Traitor

        You’ve reminded me what’s been missing from Thanksgiving the last few years. I really miss Punkin Chunkin’. 😞 Perhaps it could be revived with a new twist… 🤔

      • Pat

        Punkin Chunkin’

        Wasn’t familiar with that term until just now. I’d go to one.

      • juris imprudent

        Cocaine stuffed punkins!?!

      • Gender Traitor

        For several years, the big competition was shown on The Science Channel on Thanksgiving evening. For me, it held much of the same appeal as BattleBots – pushing the boundaries of engineering ingenuity in pursuit of an entertaining but, in practical terms, useless endeavor.

  7. Ownbestenemy

    In fact, I’d be willing to bet virtually everyone reading this has at some point in recent years complained about being held up in a parking lot by someone backing into a space with all the speed and agility reserved for docking the U.S.S. Nimitz.

    To be fair, this could be said of persons parking forward into spots too…

    • juris imprudent

      Yes, but the people that park slowly forward will reverse out of those spots at near warp speed.

    • Ted S.

      I try to park far enough away to get a pull-through, although that of course isn’t always possible.

      • Fourscore

        Try a different shopping experience, tED’s

        Though I laughed, back in or backing out? Either upsets the traffic flow by the same amount of time/space

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Disagree.

        Backing in takes much longer than backing out. There is no practical purpose to backing in. It’s not faster or more convenient for anyone.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Precisely. Everyone was giving the Kingdom of Saud grief but they probably had a damn good reason for not letting women drive.

      …what?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Hampered peripheral vision?

    • R C Dean

      For me, it depends. I prefer facing out unless I will need to load something in the back, because backing into traffic is a more likely to get you tagged than pulling into traffic I’ll definitely pull through a double row so I am facing out when I park, unless I need to load something in the back. I’ll pull into a space and then back across the lane so I’m facing out. What I don’t do is pull past and try to cut my wheels to back in. That’s just stupid.

    • Threedoor

      The demise of angled parking spots make this a dumb argument.

      90 degree spots take more time to get into than an angled spot. And they are harder to get out of as well, often necessitating a three point turn.

      Return to angled parking and it fixes this as well as setting up faster flow through the entire lot.

  8. Pat

    If you’re still backing into parking spaces, just cut it out and pull straight into them the way basic geometry demands.

    I generally pull in head first, but it’s mostly because the crappy tint on my back windows is bubbling and it makes it difficult to see while reversing.

    • Threedoor

      If you have ever driven a forklift you know that backing into a 90 degree spot can be easier than doing a three point turn to get into one nose first.

  9. Pat

    The Defense secretary, speaking at the Reagan Defense Forum, outlined defense priorities that focus on the Western Hemisphere and reevaluate the U.S. relationship with Europe.

    Scandalous! Boomer cold war foreign policy was supposed to be the end of history.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Great minds…that is up for us too! And about 5 other soups/stews/etc for meals in the future

      • juris imprudent

        The wife was just saying we needed to make soup out of a two-pack of roasting chickens from Costco. Going to make some Mississippi pot roast soon too.

    • Pat

      Well, thanks, now I have to go buy ingredients…

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Wife was starting a batch of Chili con Frijoles, so we are in the loop.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Chile verde is more a weekday dish in my house, I’m probably going to make a Tri -Tip. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

      • Ownbestenemy

        Tri-tip cuts here in Kentucky are nearly nonexistent. It makes me sad

  10. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Backing into parking spaces vs pulling straight in: I wish I could get so worked up over something that’s so meaningless. Life would never be boring at least.

    • (((Jarflax

      Stinky, the key is to get outraged when someone does something you wouldn’t do in their place. Once you master that you can fill your hours with outrage that no one will respect your authoriteh!

  11. UnCivilServant

    If you’re not drifting into three parking spaces in a dramatic skid, you’re doing it wrong.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Goddamn, he’s right.

      • Threedoor

        Ive done that accidentally.
        Glad I didn’t hit any of the other parallel parked cars.

    • (((Jarflax

      That gets kind of expensive in tires.

      • DrOtto

        I was expecting the Bluesmobile…

  12. DEG

    Upon arrival, these glorified handymen will do everything, including painting walls, fixing curtains and other outstanding chores amid the Latvian male drought.

    These euphemisms.

  13. DEG

    The lucrative business, dubbed “Rent My Handy Husband,” sees James go over and do everything, including general DIY, painting, decorating, tiling and carpet laying.

    James, 42, is currently booked up for the month of November on jobs, for which he charges $44 per hour and about $280 for a day rate. Their business has become so popular, they said, that they even had to turn down jobs.

    Cuckqueaning at new levels.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Their Me Too movement will be epic

  14. DEG

    The fact that nosing into spaces and backing out was the norm in parking for basically a century tells you all you need to know.

    I remember my parents backing up a station wagon into parking spots, usually only when it was on the same side of the aisle as we were driving. I remember them also pulling to a spot, then backing out when we left. And I remember them finding pull-through spots.

    It’s almost like… people have always parked the way that made most sense at the time.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      Dad would occasionally pull through, but never once did he back in.

      It’s not faster. In fact, it’s slower. People pull past the spot only to then want to back in. Get the fuck out of the way, asshole. I don’t get angry about it, but I do need to make sure my eyes don’t roll too far back in my head.

  15. ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

    Imagine that, for once the Federalist is completely correct about something.

    • creech

      What is J.D. Vance’s wrong view on parking?

  16. Ownbestenemy

    Heh, well played Bee

    “My client has smuggled 40,000 pounds of fentanyl into the United States and personally murdered dozens of people,” said Juarez’s attorney, David Lovell. “So we are very confident we can secure a presidential pardon.”

    • Chafed

      Right on the nose.

  17. Derpetologist

    I got fired from Walmart for working too slowly. Oh well. It was just a placeholder job while I looked for something better. Ukraine made it easier to sign up for their International Legion.

    https://ildu.mil.gov.ua/

    I’m torn between that and getting my CDL.

    • Pat

      I’m torn between that and getting my CDL.

      Go to Ukraine first, then return as a refugee. It’ll make getting the CDL much easier.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Or Mumbai. Speaking of…almost had a tragic accident occur in front of us as a big rig sitting in a Y-divider of a highway offramp/transition just decided to merge into fast moving traffic with no blinker, hazards or anything.

        Upon rearview mirror glance, the windshield looked like a Bollywood movie set.

      • The Last American Hero

        And detour through Latvia on the way back.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      It looks like there might be openings in Latvia…

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Derp, you deserve some good luck for a change.

    • Threedoor

      Ohhh.
      Drone catcher job.

  18. Drake

    I get to work early and back into a spot aimed right at the parking lot exit. Tough shit if you don’t like it.

    • Ownbestenemy

      For a tongue-in-cheek article, peope are really passionate about it

  19. Common Tater

    The left can’t meme #2,567,908

    “California Gov. Gavin Newsom was roasted online for his bizarre AI-created reaction to being called out by The Post for sitting in a testicle-crushing pose during an interview.

    Newsom’s press office took to X Friday to try and deflect from the many masculinity-mocking pol-watchers with a doctored image of the governor in an even more compromising yoga-style pose on stage at The New York Times Dealbook Summit.

    “Democracy requires flexibility,” the tone-deaf Governor Newsom Press Office wrote in a caption to the post.”

    https://nypost.com/2025/12/06/us-news/gavin-newsom-roasted-for-bizarre-reaction-post-to-viral-testicle-crushing-sitting-pose/

    Adam Carolla has been going on about the deep leg cross for some time.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Some may call that a yoga pose…others…well…

  20. Common Tater

    “A bombshell lawsuit is claiming the club was a hive of bullying and degradation — so depraved that a seven-year-old girl was forced to “kiss and touch” the genitals of older girls.

    The girl, referred to in the lawsuit as “E.K.”, was allegedly bullied by older girls for months at the Sierra Canyon school prior to the sexual assaults….

    After two girls were caught kissing in the bathroom towards the end of the 2023-2024 school year, teachers discovered the “kissing club” and found that some of the students had taped their behavior on cell phones, the suit claimed.

    One teacher allegedly sent herself videos of inappropriate behavior from a student’s phone and shared it with her colleagues.”

    https://nypost.com/2025/12/06/us-news/private-la-school-kissing-club-was-hive-of-bullying-and-sexual-assault-lawsuit-claims/

    Toxic masculinity

  21. Ted S.

    For the gun Glibs

    A Florida college student allegedly ordered 1,500 rounds of ammunition to his dorm room, where cops later found a semi-automatic rifle stashed under his bed, according to police and reports.

    • Ownbestenemy

      after buying and registering it in New Jersey

      Curious place to purchase your firearm given he was in Florida.

    • Pat

      Although Florida allows open carry, the liberal arts college, where Demetriades is a senior, bans all weapons on campus, the school’s website states.

      Similar to how if he purchased a printing press, but the school banned all printing presses on campus, that would be totally fine under the First Amendment.

      • juris imprudent

        Universities don’t hold much tolerance for allowing free thought, so why should any other freedom have some respect?

      • Tonio

        “Although Florida allows open carry…”

        Well, theoretically, anyway. Right, Derpy?

      • R.J.

        Jeez at least rent a small storage space and keep it there off campus.

      • The Last American Hero

        My school, like most, had a no firearms policy. However, you could check your arms at the campus police station since many students were hunters or just wanted to own firearms and go to an off campus range. Seemed to work.

        Well, until a crazy guy wandered in from off campus a couple years ago and kept shooting unarmed students until he ran out of bullets.

        The remedies included everything but allowing students to carry.

  22. rhywun

    a far lower life expectancy due to ill health and lifestyle choices … Men are about three times more likely to smoke … Men are also slightly more likely to be obese or overweight

    These sound like bullshit reasons & not much different from, say, the US at any time in recent history. I wonder what’s really going on there.

    • Common Tater

      I think part of it is that their population is unusually old.

      • rhywun

        Yeah that plus the population is very small, so prone to unusual “extremes” like this maybe. Statistics-people can insert the valid word I’m looking for.

      • Common Tater

        “the population is very small, so prone to unusual “extremes”

        Austria has so few murders, more women are murdered than men. Although they refuse to say by who.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      We’re also more likely to back into parking spaces.

  23. juris imprudent

    Preaching to the choir

    Now comes New York Times opinion columnist Bret Stephens, who writes that the recent Ukrainian corruption scandal is yet another reason for the United States to defend Ukraine. Liberals used to call upon our leaders to abandon important security allies that were corrupt—Chiang Kai-shek in China, Diem in South Vietnam, the Shah of Iran, Somoza in Nicaragua, Marcos in the Philippines, to name just a few. Stephens wants us to support a corrupt regime that is not an important security ally.

    Pissing on Putin is just that important! And how DARE Russia have national interests of their own versus what we think is in their own best interests!!!

    • rhywun

      I still have neighbors who haven’t swapped their Ukraine flags for Hamas flags yet.

      Russia, Russia, Russia! lives on.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        No Pali flags in my blue neighborhood, but I do see an occasional Ukraine flag.

        Haven’t seen any “in this house…” signs lately, though.

      • creech

        Mitt Romney supporters?

      • rhywun

        Haven’t seen any “in this house…” signs lately, though.

        Have seen a few of those.

        Dozens of “Black Lives Matter” signs, including a giant graffito version down the street along an underpass. Someone added “Free Gaza” a couple weeks ago.

        Yesterday I spotting the latest tranny flag hanging outside the Baptist church. This place is nothing if not predictable.

      • R C Dean

        You know, “Black Lives Matter” graffiti is easily improved by adding an “O” at the beginning of “Lives”.

      • The Last American Hero

        I’m more a fan of adding a cock to that fist logo.

    • Pat

      Liberals used to call upon our leaders to abandon important security allies that were corrupt—Chiang Kai-shek in China, Diem in South Vietnam, the Shah of Iran, Somoza in Nicaragua, Marcos in the Philippines…

      Hmmm. The author is almost there. Can we spot any common thread here among the allies “liberals” used to called upon us to abandon? Perhaps that they were all anti-communist during the cold war when the collective left was working overtime to support communism? I wonder if similar motivations play any part in this stunning reversal.

  24. PieInTheSky

    There is a phenomenon in Europe that when it rains people forget how to drive. I wonder if such ever happens in the Americas.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Holy shit, yes. I’ve lived in 5 states, and traveled through over 30. Many where it rains quite often and all have the same same brain dump.

      • Common Tater

        People from Los Angeles can’t drive in the rain.

      • juris imprudent

        I used to joke that I could spit out my window on my commute (in LA) and cause traffic to slow down.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Growing up in LA it was 65-70 mph highway speeds when dry, 75-80 when raining.

      • Threedoor

        The first two weeks of snow in Spokane WA is bumper cars.

        You would expect all the Russians there to know how to drive in the snow but you would be wrong.

    • Tonio

      You should visit the US South after a winter storm.

      When the first snowflake falls, the following things happen: grocery stores sell out their entire stocks of milk, bread, and toilet paper. Government schools and offices close, often on the mere prediction of snow; everything else stays open. People suddenly decide that they are experts at driving in the snow, and find excuses to go places, often to the grocery store or to haul the kids to the local sledding hill.

      To make matters worse, much of time the snow is preceded by freezing rain, or rain which subsequently freezes, creating truly awful driving conditions.

      • Ownbestenemy

        From my extensive experience of the past two years…can confirm.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Reminds me, I need to call my brother, see how he is handling his first Tenn. winter, after 35 years in Reno.

      • Pat

        Our post office and court house closed last winter over a less than 1/2 inch dusting of snow. I was like… AYFKM? I’m kind of glad I learned to drive up north.

      • Threedoor

        Toino I saw school and army base closures based on the prediction of rain in TN/KY. They are not a sturdy people.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        I’ve been in KY for over 20 years at this point. I can you assure that it was not always that way. We didn’t always cancel school because it might snow. It’s a completely school board driven decision, and there are no consequences for giving a free day off to teachers while making kids sit and do NTI bullshit. Parents are fucking tired of that shit too.

    • Threedoor

      In the U.S. south they all forget how to drive when the forecast for the next day is frost.

      But they tend not to drive there well anyway.

    • PieInTheSky

      Goddn stupid shit winter cold drizzle and they have just one stout on the list and they ran out. Its like they dont want to make money

    • DEG

      Another Night in Hell.

      • PieInTheSky

        I would not buy that for the stupid punny name of the brewery but i see it is not visible in the pic. Is is sibeeria

      • R.J.

        Hahaha yes. Looks like an excellent night of beer flights.

      • DEG

        i see it is not visible in the pic.

        Left hand side. Second from bottom.

      • PieInTheSky

        The punny name of the brewery is not visible.

      • DEG

        The punny name of the brewery is not visible.

        Oh.

        I’m going to get another cup of coffee.

      • R.J.

        “Shpip’s Brewhouse”

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      If I was there, in Romania? I would start screaming “English, Bitch! Do you speak it?”

      And then order a “so far, so bad”

    • Threedoor

      Don’t feed the cat or plutonium by accident.

  25. mexican sharpshooter

    Time to stretch before deadlift. Later folks.

    • PieInTheSky

      Streching before lifting is bullshit.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Just fir that, I’m going to back into a parking space at the gym.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        New name: Mexican Broshooter confirmed.

      • Threedoor

        Assert dominance Sharpshooter!

  26. PieInTheSky

    In local news we are electing a new mayor of Bucharest after thr old one became president. There is little enthusiasm it seem less than 30% of eligible voters will vote.

    • Pat

      less than 30% of eligible voters will vote.

      That’s a banner year in US national elections.

      • Chafed

        It’s hard to imagine doing worse.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      It’s hard to get excited about voting when TPTB are just going to void the election and install who they wanted anyways.

  27. Common Tater

    “The 28-year-old actress uploaded a carousel featuring an image of her covering her bare breasts with her French manicured hands.

    She flashed a megawatt smile in the glitzy photo, in which she wore a nude-colored corset while a glam squad doted on her.

    The Euphoria sensation wore diamond hoop earrings and her face was fully made up as her blonde hair tumbled down her back in subtle curls.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15360245/sydney-sweeney-hands-photo-corset.html

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15359359/Sydney-Sweeney-FINALLY-addresses-jeans-scandal.html

    glam squad!

      • Threedoor

        Vegetables contain secondary compounds that some people like but are poison to keep them from being eaten.

        Seed oils when heated to cooking temperature produce a bevy of aldehydes.

        Plenty of garbage in food that we intentionally eat.

    • Tonio

      Hippies and Luddites really love the idea of historical H-G societies and make up all kinds of aggrandizing bullshit about them, and claim that civilization ruined everything. Except we really know very little about ancient H-G societies since they left no written records and few artifacts. A classic case of lack of evidence equalling evidence of lack.

      • juris imprudent

        But it is so perfect for PROJECTION!!!

      • Threedoor

        A prof I had who was a Tres kind of woman was all about them. 100% wacky lefty who claimed they only worked 22-26 hours a week.

        That’s all I got out of her class. It was that dumb.

    • The Last American Hero

      The notion that the big, strong dude that could bring home the bison wasn’t having his pick of women and huts is silly.

      The only “egalitarian” part of such a society is that there do seem to be some boundaries of how much bullshit you can get away with in a small society before the rest of the tribe smashes in your skull.

      • Threedoor

        We need more of the latter in modern cultures.

  28. Common Tater

    https://nypost.com/2025/12/07/us-news/how-las-macarthur-park-became-a-drug-ridden-fentanyl-users-playground/

    https://nypost.com/2025/12/07/us-news/at-least-46-people-rushed-to-hospital-from-nycs-2-overdose-prevention-centers-who-says-it-doesnt-know-what-happened-to-them/

    Illegal drugs with NGO/government support doesn’t work. Neither does decriminalization. Legalization would end most of fentanyl problems, blowing up suspected drug boats, mass incarceration, etc. If it isn’t legal, then don’t support junkies with free shit, injection sites, and letting them live on parks and sidewalks.

    • rhywun

      In my town – a magnet for the region – they legalized a “camp” behind the Walmart. Out of sight, out of mind, I guess. The ones they deemed “salvageable” were put into a brand new apartment building across the street from me which they are slowly destroying with arson and filth. There are so many OD’s the turnover must be nuts.

      • Threedoor

        Rey they did that in the neighboring town.

        City authorized them to live on a piece of land behind Walmart they said belonged to the city.

        The city lied.
        It was private property.

        Then the city built new apartment blocks and pushed my town to let the Union gospel mission build a 170 bed facility.

        In a town that historically only had three to four bums.

        Spokane county busses them in.
        Clarkston WA won’t run them off.
        So they flock here now.

    • Pat

      I see the problem right away. You’re concerned with actually addressing homelessness and drug abuse, and not enriching the admins of politically connected NGOs.

    • Tonio

      Good luck with that. SoCons are still fighting to keep MJ illegal, or not legally available. There is no way they are going to bend on making everything legal and OTC. This is also a horseshoe issue where the SoCons and drug traffickers find common ground, and as always aided and abetted by do-gooders.

      • Common Tater

        Baptists and bootleggers aside, if socons are going to socon, then at least get back to the conservative value of not letting people live in tents on the sidewalk.

    • Threedoor

      And stop bring them back from the dead with Narcan.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    I would happily fix that nice Latvian girl’s cable.

    • Grummun

      Strangely all the livestock in Latvia is brown. Brown chickens, brown cows.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      As long as she wears that cute traditional costume.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    “Satire” or not, that Federalist thing is too stupid to read.

    My theory: people who back into parking spaces are overwhelmingly driving giant pickup trucks. They back in because. like a forklift, it gives them a slightly tighter turning radius. Also, backup cameras.

    • R.J.

      Yep. Nose in is for short cars. 70’s station wagons had the same problem. It’s an article looking for an issue to bitch about.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Eh, it is easier to back out than it; there is a larger space to maneuver towards.

      Backing in is asshoe.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Speed and safety when leaving.

        Depends on the lot: Kroger or an industrial workplace?

    • Threedoor

      Yep.
      And since the proliferation of 90 degree parking spots instead of the traditional angles spots my blazer and our mom mobile which is no larger than a traditional station wagon has trouble getting into spots.

      The majority of vehicles in the U.S. are light trucks.

      Short bed four door pickups. They are not overly large. Park one next to a 1971 Buick station wagon and they are only a little longer.

      Parking spots have gotten smaller and straight instead of angled.

    • DEG

      Just say no to breast implants.

    • Pat

      Even if you like enhanced chesticles, those ’90s saline beach ball implants were heinous. Smaller, realistic looking implants > flotation devices.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    Hunter-gatherer groups are much less egalitarian than they seem

    What sort of maroon thinks hunter gatherer tribes would be egalitarian?

    • (((Jarflax

      Rousseauvian maroons.

    • Threedoor

      College professors.

    • Threedoor

      He’s gonna have to sleep that off.

  32. The Late P Brooks

    You’re concerned with actually addressing homelessness and drug abuse, and not enriching the admins of politically connected NGOs.

    It would be fun to see the breakdown of “administrative” costs vs actual street level(!) expenditures.

  33. The Late P Brooks

    I’m not going to sugarcoat it. The Buckeyes sucked last night.

    • creech

      Yeah, they had to face a very good team not coached by James Franklin.

  34. Common Tater

    “Understandably enough, it’s the unhinged and unconcealed racist panic shoveled out in the Trump NSS that has generated international headlines. Europe, the document warns, is losing its historic cultural identity and faces the “stark prospect of civilizational erasure.” Exactly what is meant here by “identity” and “civilization” is only barely left unsaid, and the Great Replacement rhetoric is not so much borrowed as copied and pasted: It is “more than plausible,” we are told, that in coming decades “certain NATO members will become majority non-European,” and may no longer “view their place in the world, or their alliance with the United States, in the same way” they used to.”

    https://www.salon.com/2025/12/07/trumps-foreign-policy-vision-make-europe-white-again/

    Sure, Europe looks the same as it did 20 years ago.

      • Common Tater

        That’s just a right wing conspiracy theory!

      • The Last American Hero

        Heck, in 2019 I was sitting at a corporate training where the CEO was talking about how the organization was going to adapt to “the browning of America”.

      • Threedoor

        Hell. I remember PBS talking about how good it was.

    • rhywun

      may no longer “view their place in the world, or their alliance with the United States, in the same way” they used to.”

      Because they are more loyal to the shitholes they fled than to the countries they’re trying to turn into shitholes?

      lol It’s already happening, no “we are told” it might happen.

  35. The Late P Brooks

    The end of civilization as we know it

    “It’s the logical endpoint to unitary executive theory,” said Don Moynihan, a professor of public policy at the University of Michigan. “Their desired end goal would be to arrive at a completely ‘at-will’ workforce. … I think the administration is going to push the unitary executive idea as far as it can, and all of the signals it has been getting from the Supreme Court is to push further and push faster.”

    While it’s unclear whether the Trump administration will ask the current court to dismantle the federal civil service system, some experts say the justices’ deference to Trump in firing-related cases is egging the administration on.

    Trump is doing away with the career civil service! The nation is doomed.

    • Pat

      Lol, yeah, the executive having the ability to fire employees of the executive branch is totalitarian unitary executive type shit. Not things like, say, executive amnesty from immigration enforcement that cannot be subsequently changed by another executive per the courts.

    • The Last American Hero

      I love the “we’re just around the corner from Trump flipping the switch and declaring himself a king” – we’ve had 5 years of Trump Presidency with nothing of the sort, but it’s always a day a way.

      Seriously. Trump couldn’t end a record long government shut down over a continuing resolution. The notion that the praetorian guard is about to arrest Team Blue next week is fucking hilarious.

  36. The Late P Brooks

    “This is the real-world implication of the path that the Supreme Court is on. It’s not an academic exercise,” said Max Stier of the Partnership for Public Service. “One hopes that they recognize that, whatever interest they’ve had in theory, in practice they’re unleashing an autocracy. And the further down that road they go, the worse it will be. It’s bad already.”

    The fleas should be running the circus. you can’t let a bunch of elected politicians go around thinking they control the levers of power.

  37. Tres Cool

    Just back from breakfast with Tres Ver 2.0 at Waffle House.
    Backed in to the parking spot.

    • Threedoor

      Fist bump.
      You may need to flee the Awful Waffle rapidly.

  38. DrOtto

    I generally pull through when possible, even if it means a walk (I don’t like door dings, so tend to park further out). Otherwise, I back in but am relatively expedient doing it as I cut my teeth as a yute having to learn to parallel park a full size GM B body wagon into our alley driveway. If it is a really busy lot, I will pull in to save time frustration at me, but yes, it does take longer to back in no matter how good you are. The issue is liability, you are more likely to get hit backing out than backing in as you control the space while backing in and can’t be reasonably passed. While backing out, the through traffic controls the space and in most states, if you are backing up, no matter how stupid the other guy is driving, you are likely going to be found at fault. Meanwhile, the woman I saw conduct a 7-10 point back-in at the local mall yesterday likely shouldn’t be driving a full size pick-up. It took her about a minute and a half to get docked.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Saw a video of that on Reddit; can’t find it now.

  39. The Late P Brooks

    no matter how stupid the other guy is driving

    35mph in a busy parking lot is perfectly reasonable. Those people have things to do and places to go.

  40. The Late P Brooks

    Eye-opening

    But a New York Times examination of Mr. Biden’s record found that he and his closest advisers repeatedly rebuffed recommendations that could have addressed the border crisis faster, and eased what became a potent issue for Mr. Trump as he sought to return to the White House and justify the aggressive tactics roiling American cities today.

    Former Biden administration officials told The Times that Mr. Biden and his circle of close confidants — including Ron Klain, who was chief of staff during the president’s first two years, Mike Donilon, Jennifer O’Malley Dillon and Anita Dunn — made two crucial errors.

    First, they underestimated the scale of migration that was coming. Second, they failed to appreciate the political reaction to that migration — believing that stronger enforcement would alienate Latino and progressive voters, and also that a border surge would not be an important issue to most voters. Those calculations would later prove to be mistaken, with many voters, including Latinos, citing immigration as a reason for supporting Mr. Trump in 2024.

    I guess they’re just prepping the ground for Newsom to not completely reverse everything Trump has done.

    • rhywun

      Let the gaslighting begin.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      This is the problem with these assholes….

      Nowhere in that calculation is “What does the law say?” It’s all political calculations and speculation about what will mollify voters just enough to win.

  41. Common Tater

    “Tim Pool has said that on Friday evening, someone in a vehicle approached his property and opened fire. Nobody was hurt in the incident but Pool has been relaying details to law enforcement.

    Pool posted on X on Saturday, “Last night a vehicle approached our property and opened fire. No one was hurt. Our security team is reviewing the incident and will be relaying the report to appropriate law enforcement. This is the price we pay for speaking out against evil.””

    https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-gunman-opens-fire-on-tim-pools-property-overnight

    How many times has this happened?

    • Common Tater

      “The incident took place after Pool had Milo Yiannopoulos, who has been a controversial figure in the conservative movement, appeared on Pool’s show. ”

      I haven’t seen it, but his recent appearance on Tucker is worth watching.

      • Threedoor

        I’ve been meaning to watch that as well.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        I can’t stand Tucker.

        He often has smart things to say, but his laugh makes me want to choke a baby in the street.

  42. The Late P Brooks

    “Everybody was reacting to the excesses of the Trump administration,” said Cecilia Muñoz, who helped shape immigration policy in the Obama administration and oversaw domestic and economic policy for the Biden transition team.

    Sure they were. The obvious course of action was to completely abdicate responsibility for immigration law.

    • R C Dean

      “Everybody was reacting to the excesses of the Biden administration,” said Adolf McFascist, who helped shape immigration policy in the Trump administration”

      Rinse and repeat.

  43. Common Tater

    “Loyola University Maryland’s Department of English recently announced its commitment to “anti-racism,” claiming literature promotes “white supremacy.”

    “Literature and the literary canons have been used to validate white supremacy,” the department’s website states.

    As a result, the department will “reflect on what it means to be called an ‘English Department’ given the discipline’s roots in imperialism and Eurocentrism,” and “will consider renaming,” according to the website.”

    https://www.thecollegefix.com/loyola-maryland-english-dept-says-literature-built-on-white-supremacy-may-rename-program/

    OFFS!!!

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      “But I don’t understand why they want to get rid of the Dept. of Education?”

      /progs.

    • Threedoor

      If your culture never had a historical written language no modern works will be accepted or taught from that culture as the language the authors are using are culturally appropriation.

    • Fourscore

      It’s a good thing Hope didn’t go to OCS 60 years ago. Retarded would have been viewed as a compliment.

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