With our friend SugarFree still missing at sea, I’ll handle the linkages this afternoon as well. I want to take a second to wish everyone well this holiday season. Our biggest problem has been — what do you get for 10 & 12 year olds who don’t play team sports and have one of everything else? Well you know what they don’t have? Socks. I don’t know whether they’re eating them or throwing them away after using them for self-pleasure, but they are always out of fucking socks. I’m going to get them a crate of socks. A fucking… gross of socks. So many goddamn socks, I don’t have to worry about them washing them and still have socks this time next year. Imagine what an epic story that will be. “Remember that year when mom and dad got us socks for Christmas? I’m wrapping up this raccoon I found on the side of the road and sending it to them.”
So anyways, enough about my kids’ future therapy sessions here’s … the links!
My boy Quinn Ewers is going to get his start in the NFL this weekend. I bet he wishes he was making Sanders money to get his ass kicked in. Thank God its the Bengals.
This is too good to be real. Prosecuting the J6 prosecutors? I’m getting a chubby.
I wonder if he got the COVID vax.
“I’m just gonna go to the Dollar Tree and chill out.” That’s weird. Although, she was a physician, so maybe she figured it was an easy way to commit a rather painless suicide. An hour or so of being cold and then nothing.
Might have posted early. I’m just going to first vigorously and then leave.
I imagine you doing a studly firsting dance to impress the ladies.
Not enough hip movement. We all know that Firsting is all in the hips.
First – thrust – First – thrust – First – thrust. This is the way.
It’s like this:
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/IMG_3525.gif
Only I have a martini in one hand, and a cigar in the other. And I spill nothing.
” I’m wrapping up this raccoon I found on the side of the road and sending it to them.”
It was a Florida Christmas Miracle! A Hallmark/CMT Crossover Event.
A longtime conservative activist, Martin helped organize the “Stop the Steal” movement, a failed effort to pressure courts and Republican lawmakers to overturn Trump’s 2020 defeat to Democrat Joe Biden. He and his allies have long pushed unsubstantiated claims portraying the rioters as victims of politically motivated prosecutions. (Emphasis mine)
First is was “unsubstantiated claims” that the election might not have been completely on the up-and-up. Now it’s that the nationwide dragnet and kangaroo courts for anyone within a mile of Capitol Hill on that day was politically motivated.
Which
begsraises the question: when did the phrase “unsubstantiated claims” become a synonym for “common knowledge?”deny, deflect, delay, deride, …
Deceive Inveigle Obfuscate
Tricky linkers posting the links early.
Stupid fats hobbits.
Gollum?
Is that you?
I don’t think anybody with an objective sense of reality can look at the Justice Department right now and honestly say it’s acting as a neutral arbiter.
Fuck you, Pal.
I don’t think anybody with an objective sense of reality can look at the Justice Department under the Biden Administration and honestly say it’s acted as a neutral arbiter.
Merrick Garland was a buttoned up by the book straight shooter. Why, I read that in Vanity Fair just last night.
Straight shooter. Square G.
Everybody Wang Kun tonight?
What you do with your wang is your business.
That thing that died at 30?
Not human, not even close
Apparently ‘living a monk’s life’ involves using copious amounts of steroids and HGH. Who knew?
New lamps for their miner’s helmets? Their first monocle polishing kit?
Wrap something they already have. As a bonus, do it to their favorite toy.
Just imagine how surprised they’ll be when Santa brings them a replacement.
One year when I was a kid my dad decided to be a wise ass and re-wrapped a gift he gave me the previous year that I still hadn’t opened or used.
Individually wrapped pennies. They’re collectibles now.
Pat:
I have either gotten both of my nephews the same book, or one of them the same book twice.
In my defense, it’s a good book.
10 is late to get them started on polishing monocles.
Something like this requires a little finer motor skills than most 10 YO’s have.
SF’d the link. Nice to see tradition honored on a Wednesday.
Try this?
Gracias
Rifles.
Better to start kids with pistols, I think. I recommend a .22LR semi-auto that they can do Steel Challenge with.
Reloading equipment. Or wait ’til after Xmas and check the pawn shops, for the man and boys that have nearly every thing.
Sox sux for Xmas.
Still torn on the confusing 10yo, but Mom got the musically-inclined 12yo an electric guitar, and I’m pitching in with the amp (that *I* didn’t purchase.
I got the 5yo a play cash register, which should be tremendous fun. I’m gonna pick up something small and handsy for him at work.
Lego.
Dude was clearly all natty, I doubt he’d do anything like inject exotic drugs into his body…
He just took an extra scoop of pre-workout and creatine daily.
You know the economy is bad when physicians are going to Dollar Tree.
And need a GoFundMe…
“Prosecuting the J6 prosecutors?”
I have seen claims that the committee willfully destroyed video evidence. I hope they go after that.
Yep. Destruction of evidence is a crime when the little people do it.
I can’t get past the blatant Reuters propaganda to whatever the meat of that story might be.
Go to costco or someplace ang get the bags of a dozen identical pairs of socks, so you don’t have to sort and match them.
The January 6 prosecutors describe mounting threats, harassment and fear of lasting damage to the U.S. justice system.
The damage has already been done.
And you can’t really undo it, because as soon as the left gets power they’re going to go right back at it, even worse, no matter how they are treated.
The January 6 prosecutors describe mounting threats, harassment and fear of lasting damage to the U.S. justice system.
Why, you mean the things the J6 participants were subjected to? What, you mean the fear that the lasting damage you did to the justice system will be called to account?
On the Dolphins front, I saw that Tua is listed as QB3, so he’s not even going to be a backup Sunday. And Sanders is only making $0.3 million more on his rookie contract than Ewers, although he still has his endorsements and NIL money.
I’m not sure this is an improvement
Billboard said Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” has been replaced on the Global 200 chart by an ’80s classic.
“Last Christmas” by Wham! reached the No. 1 spot on the chart, Billboard said.
This marks the first time another holiday song besides Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” has topped the chart since its launch in September 2020.
Everyone I know hates Last Christmas. WHAT IS HAPPENING?
The rise of Whamageddon looms large.
It’s terrible but not as terrible as literally anything by Mariah Carey.
What about This Christmas?
I won’t lie, I timed my retirement from the lucrative and exciting world of retail merchandising for November 30th in part because I didn’t want to listen to 50 hours of All I Want For Christmas, Last Christmas, and Wonderful Christmastime again this year.
Wait, are they rioters or insurrectionists?
What is the narrative Kenneth?
What is the narrative Kenneth?
Am I to find Dan Rather and punch him in the head?
Yes, and you don’t need Xmas to do it!
They’re slipping. They should say that now that the insurrectionists have illegally taken control of the government, they’re going after their enemies as expected.
The left went full douche. You never go full douche.
Nice, calm, but loud adult on the train with what I assume is Downs’s. It is going to be a long ride tonight…
Can you slip some Benadryl in his thermos?
In young children that can be a stimulant…
Whisper loudly that there are grilled cheese sandwiches in the club car. He wont come back for hours.
He is with an older mom and dad. He doesn’t look at all like them so I assume adopted.
However, they all seem quite close and it’s touching. Makes putting up with noise OK.
Good on you.
Is it Tim Walz?
He seemed more competent.
Pretty sure I don’t give a damn that prosecutors are worried that someone might go after them.
I work every shift knowing that someone can go after me, even if what I did was the best I could given the information I had and the conditions on the ground, and it could result in a lawsuit that would destroy my professional career. Oh and the DEA can throw me in jail if they think I’m prescribing too manu controlled substances. And my license to work can be taken away for wrongthink. Prosecutors, meanwhile, can grossly abuse their authority, hide evidence, vastly overcharge misdemeanors, and everything else with no fear of any recourse. Screw em.
Many. Damn phone.
I don’t deal with lives, but people’s money.
Roughly the same, but in my current role I don’t have to make split second decisions.
In prior roles I did. I truly empathize.
Since taking office in January, Trump and his administration have targeted at least 470 people, institutions and other entities with criminal prosecution and other forms of punishment, Reuters reported last month – an average of more than one a day.
Who did what to the who now?
Could they be any more vague? They are trying to imply that the administration has targeted all these people in retribution, but notice that they don’t say that it was retribution or if these people, institutions and other entities were actually even enemies of Trump’s. There’s a pretty big difference between say a fine issued by the EPA and Trump having Comey prosecuted. What are they even saying here?
I’m still waiting for any of these high profile assholes to have anything bad happen to them. Did I miss something?
And I’m pretty sure 470 is less than the number of J6 people who were thrown in jail, right?
470 is nowhere near enough.
And does not include any of the worst offenders.
Whew, 470? That’s a huge number! It’s not like the FBI had 5,000 employees working on J6 misdemeanor parading charges.
What percent of those charged had violent offenses? What percent had violent charges that were actual felonies?
1. Congressional investigations didn’t find shit. The DOJ/FBI spoonfed them information and they choreographed it’s release to propagandize the American public as to what actually happened that day. And it still didn’t work.
2. From here, we have to ask ourselves if they were armed and had stockpiled weapons nearby, where were the charges related to those things?
3. If this was an insurrection as you assholes so frequently claimed, why didn’t a single J6 “rioter” actually make use of those firearms and weapons?
I’m convinced that somebody COULD ONCE MORE do something! Well, no shit. The people released could once more do something to end up in jail. It’s notable that you and Reuters don’t feel confident to specify how likely that obvious statement actually is while creating the impression to your dopey readers that it would happen.
The best argument against this being an “insurrection” is that these are the most armed people in the country, yet they tried to overthrow the government without bringing any weapons with them.
Why, was ICE involved? 🙂
Am I to find Dan Rather and punch him in the head?
Don’t do that. You’ll hurt your hand.
Use this sock full of nickels.
Why do you carry your change in a sock?
In case I meet Dan Rather.
Inside the Justice Department, a “Weaponization Working Group,” led by Ed Martin, a former defense lawyer for January 6 rioters, is drafting a previously undisclosed report that is re-examining the Capitol attack, according to four January 6 prosecutors and a review of government documents. When presented with Reuters’ findings, a department spokesperson confirmed the report is being drafted.Inside the Justice Department, a “Weaponization Working Group,” led by Ed Martin, a former defense lawyer for January 6 rioters, is drafting a previously undisclosed report that is re-examining the Capitol attack, according to four January 6 prosecutors and a review of government documents. When presented with Reuters’ findings, a department spokesperson confirmed the report is being drafted.Inside the Justice Department, a “Weaponization Working Group,” led by Ed Martin, a former defense lawyer for January 6 rioters, is drafting a previously undisclosed report that is re-examining the Capitol attack, according to four January 6 prosecutors and a review of government documents. When presented with Reuters’ findings, a department spokesperson confirmed the report is being drafted.Inside the Justice Department, a “Weaponization Working Group,” led by Ed Martin, a former defense lawyer for January 6 rioters, is drafting a previously undisclosed report that is re-examining the Capitol attack, according to four January 6 prosecutors and a review of government documents. When presented with Reuters’ findings, a department spokesperson confirmed the report is being drafted.Inside the Justice Department, a “Weaponization Working Group,” led by Ed Martin, a former defense lawyer for January 6 rioters, is drafting a previously undisclosed report that is re-examining the Capitol attack, according to four January 6 prosecutors and a review of government documents. When presented with Reuters’ findings, a department spokesperson confirmed the report is being drafted.Inside the Justice Department, a “Weaponization Working Group,” led by Ed Martin, a former defense lawyer for January 6 rioters, is drafting a previously undisclosed report that is re-examining the Capitol attack, according to four January 6 prosecutors and a review of government documents. When presented with Reuters’ findings, a department spokesperson confirmed the report is being drafted.
Am I supposed to be scandalized or outraged by this? This sort of analysis should be standard procedure. It’s like watching game films. Especially if they actually consider what other uses those resources might have been put to.
I’m wrapping up this raccoon I found on the side of the road and sending it to them
Gotta get the raccoon drunk first.
There’s sober raccoons?
In theory.
I just cracked open a cider. Gotta work late tonight.
You know what they say.
WYPOGNKYAADR
😉
Sometimes you just like the headlines?
What a perfect tempest in a teapot.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/finlands-prime-minister-apologises-asian-nations-over-racism-scandal-2025-12-17/
Well that was interesting.
Tucker, I hope you are full of shit.
Not war. Kinetic military action.
*sigh*
In before France and Britain drag into (further) into war with Russia?
How many of the people prosecuted were legitimately identified and caught by investigators and how many were ratted out by “friends” co-workers or family?
Speaking of Venezuela-
Are those “oil tankers” bringing it in or taking it out?
That’s an interesting question. I’ve been hearing talk that Russia has been laundering their sanctioned oil through Venezuela, although for what end I couldn’t guess…
*Inserts STEVE SMITH quip.
Good news! About 2 years ago we were looking into debt consolidation, and now I get no less than 10 spam calls a day offering me loans of different terms (I send them to voicemail, they are all from spoofed numbers so I can’t block them). Today’s offer was $75,000 with a monthly payment of only $425! I can’t even get a car loan that good! Time to call back the “loan department”.
20 years is a long time…
I get calls and texts for so many things I didn’t look into.
Landline or cell?
I have a landline that we use because of older family and I have device that blocks anything but whitelisted numbers.
Cell. My phone transcribes voice mai so at least I know what they are without having to listen to them.
From working in the industry, I can tell you that the current best at blocking spam calls is T-Mobile + Pixel. T-Mobile is the wireless carrier that is the most draconian with blocking questionable calls, which causes customers no shortage of grief.
They really don’t like it when I point out that the carrier is doing what their customers prefer. The internal joke is usually, “Have you asked them to stop making spammy calls?”
Pixel + Verizon is pretty good. Maybe 3 to 5 a month and all correctly routed to spam.
Election season more however. Interestingly a “fuck you” response to the political ones noticeably decreased them.
Sensei:
My responses are either “Tits or GTFO” or “Commies get the rope”. If there is a response, it’s usually “I’ll remove you from our list”.
Sensei, I have started asking “what are you wearing?”
Works pretty good.
Sounds good, but fall behind in your payments and you’ll find out they’ve hired STEVE SMITH COLLECTION AGENCY to deal with your ar-rears.
Dan Bongino announced he’s leaving the FBI in January. I wonder what that’s about.
Deputy Director subservient to Kash Patel who SUCKS, maybe?
By far the biggest news of my day: In a long-overdue cleanup, I found an external drive.. in which I presciently backed up all my shit. So I *do* have vids of my band playing live in Korea and warm-up recordings we made in the studio. I also have my pictures of my decade abroad, which I thought I’d forever lost. That was a gut punch. Deep and personal.
@Ron (and all): Sincerely, though also with ‘playful’ self-depreciation, when I thought I’d lost ’em all, I out-loud decided I was going to accept it as a stoic lesson. Fretting and bitching wouldn’t bring them back and would only add to my dreadful thoughts of that loss. I’ve lost a lot of memory on the way, and those pics I took were *mine* of *my* time. That was a profoundly unpleasant feeling of loss, but I’m glad I put it to good use. I decided to get everything I could on FB so I had *some* of ’em preserved. I go day by day collecting old posts and have made it an interesting project, so I did actively put the ‘loss’ to use.
These weeks are lots of fun in history, documenting me signing my first contract in Korea in October, 2009, only five months after graduating IU.
Me on Dec 17, 2009: “Hot damn! I have an itinerary and I leave Dec. 22. This is a positive development.”
This was after a bit of visa dealing in Chicago, but IIRC my actual flight was Dec 26 or 27? (I’ll find out soon!)
Wow. This gives the day a different vibe. (Whodda thought cleaning your room was so helpful?! (Shh. Don’t tell Mom.)
Deception and deceit
A California administrative law judge has ruled that Tesla’s marketing around its “Autopilot” and “Full Self-Driving” systems was deceptive, and that the company should face a 30-day suspension of each of its licenses to sell and manufacture cars in the state, according the California Department of Motor Vehicles.
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If the marketing issues aren’t resolved within a 60-day window, the DMV will move ahead with a 30-day suspension of Tesla’s license to sell cars in the state, the agency said in a statement. However, Gordon said, the DMV will stay the judge’s order for a suspension of Tesla’s manufacturing license, so there will be no interruption to the company’s factory operations in the state.
Who actually believes that stuff?
Who said something about political persecutions and weaponization?
The problem is that, once you open the FUCKING box, it isn’t closing again. Thanks, you power hungry ass-hats, for destroying your, and unfortunately our, inheritance.
But they weaponized for a good cause.
No one should need a license to manufacture or sell.
The end.
“A reasonable consumer likely would believe that a vehicle with Full Self-Driving Capability can travel safely without a human driver’s constant, undivided attention,” the judge wrote in the proposed order. “This belief is wrong — both as a technological matter and as a legal matter — which makes the name Full Self-Driving Capability misleading,” a violation of both civil and vehicle codes in California.
Maybe a judge would accept that at face value.
Musk has lied about this for almost a decade. I’ve no issues with Tesla finally getting what it deserves here.
I can’t help thinking 98% of what Musk has said about Teslas qualifies as blatant exageration and puffery.
Jeeps “go anywhere” (well, not really).
That’s been the successful defense so far.
Has future president Gavin threatened to prosecute the J6 prosecutor prosecutors yet?
Maybe after he tears down the new White House ballroom?