The Falcons beat the Rams after a questionable call. A handful of bowl games happen today and the playoffs are back tomorrow (and we’ll be in Dallas). And across the pond, the EPL is back in action today with a host of games. I can’t find anything else in the sports world to talk about, so I’m moving on.
That’s still too much money. But it’s a hell of a lot better than what we’ve been pissing away there.
That’s still too much money (part 2). But it’s a step in the right direction.
This is a shitty situation. No other way to look at it.
Looks like a violation to me. Now, just end all federal funding of colleges and universities and this is no longer a violation.
This is sad. Also, the government shouldn’t be involved at all. If she wants to do it, that’s her business, sad as it may be. But this is certainly not something the government should be involved in. So I’m sure Canada’s will help kill her.
It’s like they’re going out of their way to be assholes to regular people. So I shouldn’t be the least bit surprised. This part of the story jumped out at me: “By all accounts, he’s been a productive, contributing member of our community with no new criminal history in decades.” Uh, he was in prison for murder the overwhelming majority of that time, you stupid asshole.
I still don’t get how someone could fall for this. Maybe that’s because I’m naturally suspicious of crypto.
This is pretty impressive. No, not the crime or the way the items were returned. But the ability of the shop owner to pick up on a Montenegrin accent. Also, sorry for using two links from the same place.
I’ll believe it when I see it. Also, this shit is the tip of the iceberg. And if even a small percentage of it is real, there should be a ton of people going to prison…many of them government officials from several states.
I’d like to say “they’re not sending their best.” But it’s Harris County, so they probably are.
I hope Banjos doesn’t check my music today. For some reason she really dislikes this guy. And I disagree with her in part. Enjoy a couple of his good ones.
And enjoy this lovely Tuesday as we prepare to close out another year, dear friends.
“The Falcons beat the Rams after a questionable call. ”
Which one?
I don’t know. I’m just repeating what I saw. I was watching Andy Griffith reruns when the game ended.
There was the not flagged PI, and whether Nacua made a catch (ruled incomplete).
I keep saying its manipulated.
“the playoffs are back tomorrow”
I hope they won’t be on streaming I don’t get.
*lifts cofefe*
“I can’t find anything else in the sports world to talk about”
https://pagesix.com/2025/12/29/celebrity-news/cardi-b-hits-back-at-mean-fans-dragging-her-relationship-with-stefon-diggs-i-cant-go-back-in-time/
How about is Diggs outfit gay?
a pimps love is different than…
https://pagesix.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2025/12/cardi-b-stefon-diggs-coordinate-117987428_aad316.jpg?resize=768,1024&quality=75&strip=all
Classy.
*clicks through*
Ay caramba. The mayor of Gayville would probably think twice about wearing that in public.
“I like it.”
-Joe Burrow
I thought you straight guys liked a nice muff.
Not when there’s some other dude double-fisting it!
Ask 50 cent.
I thought P Diddy would like the outfit.
“The United States on Monday announced a $2 billion pledge for U.N. humanitarian aid”
STEVE SMITH PLEDGES AID, AND BY PLEDGE AID…
Steve will fit right in with UN humanitarian aid workers, although he’ll have to up his game to keep up.
Oregon would appoint Willie Sutton to a banking commission.
I love when the radical left eats its own.
Except, “womxn” is much more recent than the original “womyn.” The reporting on this is simply wrong. “Womyn” was the 2nd waver/RadFem/TERF term, “womxn” was specifically there to include AMAB womxn in the class (not to light the JI signal).
I propose wombtard as the new term. Not for woman, just for the subset that is in any way involved in this linguistic enterprise.
Yeah, I remember running into womyn in books from the 60s/70s. I don’t think I recall seeing womxn until well after Latinx.
Good point.
I’m not sure what AMAB means… “men”?
But FFS I’m weary of the whole thing. I feel a little bad for gals who might want a females-only “space” but now have to put up with men pretending to be women. Those narcissists should form their own club.
I immediately assumed it meant “All Men Are Bastards.”
Yup. “Assigned mail @ berf.”
There was a time when the AGPs were actively excluded. Michfest started in ’76, but didn’t have a need to exclude the “suck my lesbian dick” contingent until 1991. Then they lost the fight.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Womyn%27s_Music_Festival
The most ludicrous example of “male entitlement” among transwomen is the entire concept of the “Cotton Ceiling.”
Moi? Porquoi?
Class-consciousness/conflict theory variants tend to bring out the pedant in you, to the point ISTR you rejected the idea that “class” had any meaning outside of economics.
He rejects it because most of you here have no class. I’m the rare exception. 🙂
Seriously, I thought JI even wrote a piece here on the topic.
Ah, not fond of the Hegel-Marx cum Frankfurt horseshit, that is true. This molehill doesn’t amount to much.
Ted;s:
How dare you! I got cat class and I got cat style!
Sorry Neph, but you only got cat butt. :-p
My curiosity is piqued. Was she targeting a romantic rival? She had the munchies and someone let their fries in plain view?
“The Equal Protection Project charged that the university-sponsored student organizations “Graduate Womxn in Physics” and “Graduate Womxn in Biology” flout Title IX, which bars sex-based discrimination in educational opportunities at institutions that receive federal funding.”
I thought the stupid spelling was “womyn”
“Womxn” refers to the second-wave feminist spelling that removes the Matryoshka term “man” to symbolize how women are liberating themselves from the “oppression” of the opposite sex.
The term is controversial in certain woke circles because of its supposed “trans-exclusionary” origins.
However, a sect that includes the two MIT student organizations has co-opted “womxn” as an “umbrella term” to refer to transgender and nonbinary individuals in addition to biological women.”
I thought you had to be a super genius to get into MIT.
Does Cardi B know about these programs? She doesn’t seem liberated, maybe she didn’t get the biology message.
See my response to Rhywun.
They’re all just folx.
*grinds teeth*
So, you are sayin’ that they are all Wolk?
Ja! Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer!
whaddup doh’
I just learned this shit has been under some form of investigation for almost ten years & it only drew nationwide attention recently.
The state of Minnesota is obviously not going to do anything other than continue to encourage the fraud. Maybe the feds will do the needful but I am also skeptical.
The needful involves occupied crosses lining highways.
Crosses are for Christians, Muslims get impaled, Commies get dropped.
The widespread fraud is what fills my black pill container. Until we see the bureaucrats and politicians in prison for their part in the fraud, I’ll keep distrusting everything they say.
The fraud itself isn’t enough to black pill me. Human nature will always seek unearned wealth. It’s the immediate jump to killing the messenger by the left, and impotent grandstanding by the right that gets to me. We have a massive government apparatus that is completely incapable of the one thing that justifies its existence, protection of basic rights to property and life.
Agreed. Might as well end the Somali fraud story with
“…And nothing happened.”
How do we even react to these stories anymore? I feel practically nothing when I hear about the fraud in Minnesota. It’s not surprising at all.
Not incapable. Unwilling.
If the unwillingness is systemic is that really distinct from incapability? I guess it makes the failure more culpable so sure, I’ll accept the correction.
CPA‘s conditioning is complete!
The feds have already racked up several dozen convictions. Of course, the needed number of convictions runs into the thousands. And revocation of immigration status is definitely possible for any who aren’t birthright citizens (the vast majority of the fraudsters, I believe), although I’m not aware of any deportations. Most of the convictions are from plea deals, and maybe that was part of the deal.
https://x.com/i/status/2005995513729171892
It do be like that.
“Claire Brosseau, 48, was diagnosed with manic depression when she was 14 years old after she went on a drug, alcohol, and sex-filled spree.
Brosseau would later be identified as having anxiety, chronic suicidal ideation, an eating disorder, a personality disorder, substance abuse disorder, PTSD, and a slew of other mental health conditions.
She attempted suicide countless times and has been treated by psychiatrists, psychologists, and counselors across North America, she revealed in an open letter published to her Substack earlier this year.
She has tried dozens of medications, therapies, and guided psychedelics in an attempt to improve her mental health, but to no avail, the New York Times reported.”
Yikes!
It’s a bad situation. And the state will most likely help a woman who is not physically ill kill herself.
And they’ll pat themselves on the back and applaud how humanitarian they are.
Assisted suicide as treatment for depression is a natural follow on to castration as a treatment for dysphoria. Coming
next I expect us to start providing paranoids with enemy lists and weapons.
Thanks, but I already have plenty of both.
*the FBI has entered the chat*
Really now, has the FBI ever left the chat?
Hey, Kash, get your ass back to work!
She has tried dozens of medications, therapies, and guided psychedelics in an attempt to improve her mental health, but to no avail, the New York Times reported.”
It’s a good healthcare system though.
But it’s free!
Some people are simply broken. Blame god if you like.
As someone who has to help a SO with this i feel incredibly sad. I know others like her feel that suicide is the only way out. They are in a great deal of pain.
… and this article will trigger others.
It sucks.
In other news…
“A Florida woman allegedly suffocated her ailing mother to death — and confessed that the pair had been brainstorming alternatives to medically assisted suicide after a doctor denied their request.
Patricia Blake, a 97-year-old woman suffering from Parkinson’s disease and a thyroid disorder, was found dead at her family home in Palm Beach, Fla…..
Martha Jo was booked on a first-degree premeditated murder charge for her mother’s death, which in Florida carries the possibility for the death penalty or life in prison.”
https://nypost.com/2025/12/29/us-news/daughter-allegedly-kills-mom-with-parkinsons-disease-after-she-was-denied-medically-assisted-suicide-cops/
TBFTGOGGI, but if I ever had to assist a terminally ill loved one with snuffing it…’mechanical suffocation’ would be about the last method on the list, right above ‘immersion in an acid bath.’
BFTGOGGI, but if I ever had to assist a terminally ill loved one with snuffing it…’mechanical suffocation’ would be about the last method on the list, right above ‘immersion in an acid bath.’
An awful lot of our ‘thinking’ about humane killing is just squeamishness. We tend to rank methods of killing as humane if they leave a nice clean intact corpse, and inhumane if they splatter blood or leave the body in pieces. In terms of the intensity and duration of suffering felt by the deceased this ends up more than a little bit backwards. Smashed brainstems don’t feel.
No mention of ECT? Or is that not a thing up there?
No one in the US has suggested it either.
“Cardi’s message to fans come after Diggs — who fathered multiple newborns within months of each other — …”
So he be concubinin’ ?
How’d he get them all to synch up like that?
Just luck. Like playing lottery.
OK, I gave the linksters a chance to post this.
https://defector.com/what-did-we-get-stuck-in-our-rectums-last-year-6
“I was with a girl last night and don’t remember anything,” is the new, “I slipped in the shower and landed ass-first on my cellphone.”
Like the ER doc said, “…remember that we won’t judge you for shoving stuff up your asshole, but we will judge you for not getting the right-shaped sex toy.”
Long and winding road
https://genius.com/The-beatles-the-long-and-winding-road-lyrics
Early on, there were pioneers…
“beer bottle, “was on a cruise on her honeymoon””
They didn’t have a bottle opener?
Flashback to a Sam Kinnison routine — “Did he fuck you with the bottle?”
Sloop- Skyline for lunch yesterday. It was cold, windy, and 3 coneys w/everything filled the hole.
You’re a lucky man although I’d have thrown in a large 5-way to complete the meal.
I’m a purist. No pasta with my chili.
But I did taste the chicken chili they’ve been advertising non-stop. Meh.
I have no desire whatsoever to try that abomination. They tried to push it on me when we were in Ohio a couple months ago.
Perhaps they’re targeting the hindu crowd.
There was a famous (relatively speaking) chili-mac topped with fried eggs dish when I was in college. Addons included tamales. It was so freaking delicious, because they used actual chili.
Speaking of pissing away vast sums of money.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/pentagon-announces-8-6-billion-boeing-contract-for-israeli-f-15s/
We’re paying for them, not Israel.
That is what ‘foreign aid’ has always been. The Government takes taxpayer money, gives it to whatever foreign nation is convenient, but on the condition that they spend the money on Crony Company™ products. Boeing gets to keep making money without having to make any improvements to their murderously inept production and testing regimes. The market rejoices and politicians preen about defending our allies, and we go another few billion in debt! Win Win!
You forgot AIPAC recycling their cut back to congress to stimulate more ‘aid’.
Trump’s boss was in town yesterday. They moved some goalposts to get ready for another war. Now we have to attack Iran over their missile program.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-backs-future-israeli-strikes-if-iran-rebuilds-missiles-nuclear-program-11281309
9 states are cutting individual income taxes in 2026. See if yours is one of them.
I don’t need to look to know the answer is no. Next year it will probably be on the list of states raising them.
KY is. 1/2 percent isnt much to sneeze at but I know their goal is end income tax. Their methodology is always in favor of not cutting taxes but I will take it
Mine is also not on the list. And I’m fine with that, although I’d like them to cut property taxes by about 100%.
No property tax, no property protection.
My real property tax rate is 0.7343% so not bad compared to places like New Jersey. The rate has been decreasing recently as property values have increased.
I’d be a lot happier if the movement to get rid of property taxes in Ohio was getting more traction.
Personally, I’ve been entertained by the infighting between the groups. I am not liking the idea of going to the Ohio Lottery running video poker/slot machines to eliminate the property tax though.
Why not, Neph? It has worked so well in Oregon!
/sarc
I remember video lottery machines at bars when I lived in Buffalo decades ago.
I completely forgot about it and I never saw them in NYC. I wonder what happened.
I doubt taxes went anywhere but up in the intervening years.
rhywun:
There’s quite a few unlicensed machines I’ve seen in some of the divier of bars, and there’s been several busts of little video poker/slot gaming centers in strip malls. Same as the old VFWs and Eagles clubs had the old pull tab cards.
Same.
Nice to see a possible move state on the list.
South Carolina legislatures keeps talking about income tax cuts because NC and GA are both lower now. But they can’t seem to get it done.
Not one of the cuts was even 1 percentage point.
I’m sure we will hear about these draconian cuts causing starving children soon.
Meanwhile, the standard deduction here in New York hasn’t kept pace with inflation.
Food insecurity is the new starving. When you parade fat poor kids out, starving isn’t very effective, where as they overeat because they don’t know when/where they might get their next meal is effective.
Inflating people into higher tax brackets is a feature, not a bug.
Interesting:
Protests erupt in Iran over currency’s plunge to record low.
“Ex-Nickelodeon star Tylor Chase is back on the streets, smoked meth during psych evaluation after hospitalization”
https://nypost.com/2025/12/29/entertainment/ex-nickelodeon-star-tylor-chase-back-on-the-streets-smoked-meth-during-psych-evaluation/
During the evaluation?
Bring back the asylums.
Yes. Some need help and some just need to be kept well away from society.
The California rehab version of the marshmallow test
That guy is an unfortunate mess.
Multiply by many thousands and you get what a lot of streets downtown look like these days.
I noticed this shit on reason dot com and wtf is this supposed to mean? its a dumb review stupidly short and over all retarded.
https://reason.com/2025/12/26/muscle-man/
Do you watch “Living Ironically in Europe” videos?
Nah, that’s daily life for Pie.
The “Gypsy Hill” one was just… holy fuck every single stereotype is true!
i do some times
they are not inaccurate
I am pretty sure I linked several round here maybe that is how you got to watch them
Hallowed be thy Gains.
TW:TOS
“In August of 2022, an armed fugitive threw Carlos Pena out of his North Hollywood printing shop and barricaded himself inside it. Over the course of 13 hours, a SWAT team with the LAPD launched more than 30 rounds of tear gas canisters through the walls, door, roof, and windows. After the standoff, police discovered the suspect had managed to escape. But Pena was left with a husk of what his store once was, the inside ravaged and equipment ruined, saddling him with over $60,000 in damages, according to his lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles.”
https://reason.com/2025/12/29/innocent-man-sues-for-over-60000-after-police-blew-up-his-business-a-court-says-hes-entitled-to-nothing/
CWABOA
Were the officers safe?
That’s all that matters.
I watched the Joker Follies last night.
It is… unique. In a good way. I like it when movies go outside the lines a bit.
Netflix is recommending “The Abandons” to me. Anyone seen it? The Sons of Anarchy showrunner doing a western seems like it’s potentially good. Not sure about the framework of two feuding Grrl Powah factions led by past-their-prime hotties though. (Katie Segal was somehow NOT past her prime in SoA).
Fuck Tire Discounters.
That is all.
Discount Tires in Nevada were great. Best tire shop though was this place in SoCal. Employed all the meth and speedheads and got you in and out in no time.
I made my appointment last night for this morning. Upgrading the Tracker Testarossa tires to BF Goodrich Trail Terrain T/A. A bit larger than stock to butch it up.
Walked in early for my 10 am appointment. “Oh we need to order those. Be in later today.”
I told them “the website said you had them in stock.” Dude says, “well, we do have them….only not at this store. But I can get them this afternoon.”
So what was the point of making the appointment?
Got my son new tires for his truck a couple months ago for his birthday. Went across the street for breakfast and they were done before I returned.
From our learned colleagues at The Conversation
The Aetna is an anonymous text that explains how volcanoes work. Its unknown author warns readers about two potential sources of misinformation: other authors and other people.
Whether these groups intend to mislead their audiences or are simply misinformed, the book urges us to scrutinise their claims carefully and think about whether they are consistent with the evidence of our own senses and ratio (the Latin term for the powers of reasoning).
Ancient scientists encourage us to think critically about information we read or hear, because even well-meaning sources are not always accurate. Writers like the Aetna author want us to think before accepting other people’s claims.
Ancient scientists had to deal with ignorance and disinfo, too. They never would have been hoodwinked by plague deniers.
Urkelbomber confessed.
https://thepostmillennial.com/rnc-dnc-pipe-bomber-suspect-confesses-court-docs
“A group linked to Democrat billionaire megadonor George Soros is holding trainings in Washington, DC on how to use jury duty to “protect our people especially those with marginalized identities.”
Free DC, along with the black activist group Harriet’s Wildest Dreams, have been hosting “Juror Information Project” meetings in DC, with an upcoming date of the “teach-in” being described as a discussion on “what it really means to serve on a jury and how we can use that role to protect our people especially those with marginalized identities who are disproportionately targeted by the criminal legal system.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/soros-linked-dc-activist-group-teaches-how-to-be-skeptical-jurors-to-combat-trump-admin-policies
Commies for crime and racism.
If jury nullification is good for the goose, it’s certainly good for the gander…
Oh, is jury nullification cool again?
Just like they did during Jim Crow.
No do advocacy for jury nullification.
Petulant children
“Jazz was born from struggle and from a relentless insistence on freedom: freedom of thought, of expression, and of the full human voice,” the band wrote. “Some of us have been making this music for many decades, and that history still shapes us.”
“We are not turning away from our audience, and do want to make sure that when we do return to the bandstand, the room is able to celebrate the full presence of the music and everyone in it,” the group continued. “Our hope is that this moment will leave space for reflection, not resentment.”
The Cookers’ statement, however, does not say if the recent name change affected the decision to cancel. Billy Hart, the drummer, told The New York Times that the Kennedy Center’s new name “evidently” played a role in the decision to cancel and had the group worried about facing potential pushback.
Last week, country singer Kristy Lee announced she will not perform Jan. 14. She wrote on Instagram that while “canceling shows hurts” as they “keep the lights on,” Lee said “losing my integrity would cost me more than any paycheck.”
That will show the cartoon villain.
I thought jazz was born from apoplexy and heroin.
Trying to find actual (not scam) child care in Minnesota.
https://x.com/i/status/2005800678749618449
I’d be interested to know how much of the MN fraud money ended up in campaign coffers (other than Omar’s). According to the one of the guys on the expose video, a lot of it went back to Somalia.
10% to the big guy is all they want, right?
“A new report from the National Center for Energy Analytics (NCEA) finds that 90% of subsidies for the energy sector in 2025 went to renewable energy. The analysis also shows that oil, gas and coal industries’ subsidies come mainly in the form of tax expenditures as opposed to direct subsidies.”
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/energy/subsidies-renewables-account-almost-all-energy-sector-federal-support-new
Get rid of all of them.
“Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul set the stage for a litigious 2026 by signing a bill into law (S4505/A5346) that treats social media like tobacco and alcohol, requiring unavoidable warning labels on “predatory features such as algorithmic feeds, endless scroll, autoplay, notifications, and ‘likes'” that must be shown prominently whenever users visit platforms….
Hochul deemed herself instrumental to the final language of the bill, saying she “negotiated a chapter amendment” that lays out how the system works. It gives sweeping power to the attorney general to decide what counts as an “addictive” platform or feature, and to the commissioner of mental health to prescribe the specific warning text.
“Users will not be able to bypass or click through the warnings,” Hochul’s office emphasized.”
https://justthenews.com/nation/free-speech/new-york-adds-speed-bumps-social-media-tobacco-style-warning-labels-inviting
WCPGW?
White Colored People Go West ?
Must be. I need an acronym decoder ring.
I can’t find it now, but there was an article at Forbes the other day about “health care”. One of the guy’s points, which I have been thinking about a lot lately, is that the business models is based on turning patients into ongoing revenue streams as opposed to curing their illnesses or fixing their problems.
See also: Therapy.
Duh. Just ask 86 year-old Tres Sr. with his laundry list of doctors and specialists.
“These assholes are keeping me alive so they can buy a new boat for summer.”
“In a bizarre attempt to avoid arrest, a 38-year-old Ghanaian illegal migrant fugitive was busted in southern Italy after attempting to blend into a life-size Christmas Nativity scene by posing as one of the Three Wise Men.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/12/not-onion-illegal-migrant-fugitive-busted-trying-evade/
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
I think they figured out he wasn’t part of the display when the drugs fell out of his ass.
“Movies are bullshit man” actual quote while being hauled away
“Chicago’s far-left Mayor Brandon Johnson has endorsed “Abolish ICE” as a name for one of the city’s snow plows in its annual naming contest…
“Not just terror, but a great deal of harm against people,” Johnson said of the agents. “And so over the course of several years in this city, we have stood firm on our values. And it just happened to coincide with the time in which we name all of our fleet utilities. And of course, you know, we have to take a stronger look at how this administration has used ICE and how it has caused tremendous harm. So that’s why that particular name of this truck being named ‘Abolish ICE,’ has my full and complete endorsement.””
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/12/watch-far-left-chicago-mayor-endorses-naming-city/
CWAA
That’s actually fairly clever by Progressive standards.