Good morning one and all to another stunning day!
Trump Orders Major Escalation Against Venezuela
Clintons Rejecting Calls to Testify Live in Epstein Hearings
Elon Musk reportedly begins funding Republicans for 2026 midterms
House Republicans Forge Ahead With Vote on Health Care Reforms
CBP Brings in Record $200 Billion From Tariffs
DOGE program is successfully shrinking the federal workforce, new jobs report suggests
Christmas Day Gas Prices Expected to Drop to Lowest Level in 5 Years
Report Finds Government Spending Per Person Soared 10,000 Percent Over Last Century
EU scraps 2035 ban on new ICE car sales
State-Sanctioned Suicide Is The 4th Leading Cause Of Death In Canada
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
CBP Brings in Record $200 Billion From Tariffs
What’s the budget deficit again?
And how much is FedGov cutting spending?
STOP DEFLECTING FROM THE GOOD NEWS!! INCOME TAX GOING AWAY!! hurr-durr-hurrr
NY just made assisted suicide legal.
How long until it’s manditory?
We’ll have to see the budget numbers.
And by “budget” I mean “campaign contributions.”
I am guessing five more years (for Canada).
Illinois too. Guess TEAM BLUE is marching on toward its Brave New World.
Herr Servitor, I notice that you seem to be suffering from Oppositional Defiance Disorder. No one should have to suffer through such a disease, please enter the Chamber of Joyous Release!
“Carousel” for short.
The state is already committing economic suicide. So its just the next logical step.
House Republicans Forge Ahead With Vote on Health Care Reforms
I’ll write the law for them: “The Affordable Care Act is hereby repealed.”
Yeah, I’m sure the “reforms” will be at least as bad as the current mess. But the Republicans are worthless shits, so I wouldn’t expect any better.
If they got rid of the ACA, they might have to govern rather than campaign.
That really won’t fix the problem, since the mandate is already gone.
At least part of a solution would be “insurance premiums are deductible from income tax”.
Or the alternate, businesses can no longer deduct health insurance premiums.
Neph postulates the immediate destruction of HR departments across the land.
A: Heath insurance premiums are no longer deductable for either individuals or employers.
B: End mandate to buy insurance.
C: End minimum coverage requirements and other government-designated parameters.
Decouple health insurance from employment!
jruis imprudent:
You say that like it’s a bad thing. I consider it a bonus.
Decouple health insurance from ordinary, non-catastrophic, health care. The Government subsidies driving prices up are one problem, the bureaucratization of health care is another equally serious problem resulting from Government involvement. Patients should be directly selecting, and paying, their doctors. Free markets don’t produce perfect results, they work their magic by endless errors and corrections, but they do produce the best results possible over any medium to long time span. Arguing about what tweaks to make to a centrally planned regime is just foolishness, it never works, it cannot work as well as just getting out of the way.
(((Jar explains why this won’t ever happen, or at least not until the system utterly collapses. People do not want that responsibility or to deal with reality (see also TnT‘s point below).
People do not want that responsibility or to deal with reality
And Juris explains quite succinctly why Republics die. Unless a portion of the populace large enough and willing to take control of the Nation is also willing to accept responsibility for their own lives, a Republic will end up ruled by tyrannical demagogues.
***Looks at Washington
Yep, squabbling bands of tyrannical demagogues fighting for control.
You know, you kind of have to wonder about the Founders. Yes, they knew their Roman history, and yet they still seemed to think it could work – at least for a while. Where they really better grounded than Marxists? Didn’t they suffer from delusions of adequacy of the electorate?
The electorate we have now is grossly bloated and inflated from what it was during the founding. It was extended to the nonproductive.
at least for a while.
(insert Braveheart scene of dying in your beds).
Some of them knew exactly what would happen. Hence “eternal vigilance”. “if you can keep it”. “blood of patriots and tyrants”. Doesn’t mean you don’t set up the best system you can.
What’s the alternative they had? Monarchy? That just skips the steps where the Republic is failing and jumps ahead to the payoff. They knew this would happen, they hoped to delay it, but they knew it was inevitable. Human nature makes human institutions impermanent. We can’t have nice things because we are incapable of learning the one all important lesson. Nothing comes for free except suffering.
To be fair, Jar, Monarchy was fairly standard at the time, so it wouldn’t have been unreasonable. All these pretend non-monarchies cropped up recently.
Or both, businesses cannot deduct it, humans can.
Or unlimited HSAs which you can pay premiums out of, which is the same thing.
Jefferson assumed a new revolution every generation or so.
[glances at France] Yeah, that doesnt work well.
If we end the income tax, nothing is deductible! Or everything! Your choice!
Yeah, that doesnt work well.
Say what you will, at least it’s an ethos.
Honestly, it’s one of those unsolvable problems. The system, no matter how well set up, no matter how much you try to keep the citizenry on board with the project, no matter what guard rails you put up, WILL get corrupted. It WILL slump towards totalitarianism. Periodic revolution/resistance is really the only solution. But it’s never a viable one until it’s ‘too late’, *especially* if you’ve set up a good system. Rinse, lather, repeat (had to include the instructions in case Jasmine Crockett was reading).
Contempt! Contempt!
Send the Marshals after them, Pronto!
I wonder how many people would pay to watch them be perp-walked in cuffs.
Those US marshals are going to die by suicide via multiple gunshots to the back of the head.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced Tuesday it has collected more than $200 billion in tariff revenue in 2025, a record-setting total the agency credits to trade policies and executive actions implemented by President Donald Trump’s administration.
When I checked FY 2026 projections by the Treasury department in September, they were projecting a roughly $1.6 trillion annual deficit, down about $100 billion from the FY 2025 deficit. The Treasury was projecting an increase in both revenues and spending. The revenue projection increase can’t be explained by just an increase in tariffs, so they’re expecting other revenue to go up. The spending increase is Trump and Congressional Republicans not only not delivering on spending cuts, but increasing spending.
“But the Republicans are worthless shits, so I wouldn’t expect any better.”
– WTF
That Big, Beautiful Bill that Trump trumpeted?
But DOGE cut the government to the bone. I don’t see how this can be happening.
Obama insisted at least 15 years ago that there was nothing left to cut….
Pelosi has said the same thing.
“The cupboard is bare… There’s no more cuts to make”.
OK, let’s go back to that level of spending!
“ State-Sanctioned Suicide Is The 4th Leading Cause Of Death In Canada”
Wow. That is astounding.
Sidestepping the issue a bit. In my experience as a nurse there is just a huge gap in knowledge or understanding of end of life care in the US.
I can’t tell you how many 80 year old women (and their families) think being full code is appropriate for their age and condition. They can’t even handle a lab draw without huge bruises. What do they think will happen when we break all their ribs in a code?
Not enough docs are frank enough with these patients
Patients frequently confuse hospice with euthanasia, thus they feel their only option is pursuing full measures ( that will do nothing)
Too many people think they are living through a Hallmark movie and will be miraculously healed in short order. This is especially prevalent in certain cultures and it’s just bonkers
^This. Prolonging or prematurely ending the natural process is not something I support.
Also, we are not put on this earth to live like the Eloi. Our lives are suffering, sadness, and joy. One cannot exist without the other. Our bodies should decide when it is time to go, not a panel of experts or relatives who might prolong the inevitable or cut it short through their actions.
“The End is Near!”
/Checks birth certificate
Reminds me of what my father in law went through. He was 78 years old and not in the best health to begin with.
Had stomach surgery to remove a tumor, 2 days later had a heart attack, so they installed some stents.
One of the stents broke, so they went in and replaced it.
A week later, he was getting fluid in his abdomen, so they did surgery to fix that.
That didn’t work so they had a specialist fly in and he fixed it.
A few days after that his kidneys shut down and he died.
It never occurred to any of the Dr.s that maybe they should let the man die in peace.
My wife is very bitter about the whole thing and made me promise that I would let her die instead of doing all that for another couple weeks of “life”.
Honestly, none of those read as “unfixable” until the renal failure. The doctors operated from the understanding that he might turn around.
Moj’s mom was on the “getting ready to go” track but got turned around. So I don’t think the doctors were in error.
Oh Ron, you’re not going to leave out that all of those doctors expected to get paid for their “services”!
I’m with you, Ron. Missus F and I have “No Heroics” Do Not Resuscitate.
Prolonging life a few days, a few weeks, to lie in bed suffering? That sounds cruel.
Eh.
My father was very “don’t prolong it,” made a DNR etc. When it came to actually shut off the ventilator, he said “no.”
Of course it’s every individual’s choice. Yes, doctors and nurses have a certain viewpoint on things, but guess what — they don’t get to substitute their judgement for other another person’s!
Giving the state the power to kill people is always a bad idea. Yes, there maybe a theoretical example of someone who is either incapable (or too scared) to kill themselves but would totally appreciate someone else snuffing them. But how is this policy of state killing going to actually be applied in practice? And if the problem of suffering-but-too-weak so rare, why not just exercise prosecutorial discretion and not prosecute the spouse who does pull the plug?
While that is true, how many surgeries in that short of a time frame did they really think he would survive?
I might have the details wrong, since I got information from my wife second hand.
“ Yes, doctors and nurses have a certain viewpoint on things, but guess what — they don’t get to substitute their judgement for other another person’s!”
Sure. All I can do is shake my head. But when the costs of our HC are so distorted it is more than aggravating to hear a patient with an abdomen full of cancer punt on changing code status because in the words of the daughter “we don’t want to talk about this right now. mom will be able to change her mind IF things change”. Well guess what her potassium plus other issues went to shit while she slept and that special “time” to revisit code status while her mom still maintained full cognitive capacity never came
Yes, people do stupid shit.
Dying sucks. News at 11.
Honestly, all of these issues, both medical care and assisted dying, are the fruits of a technocratic society. That we can make these decisions, good bad whatever, speaks to Greek mythology and the story of Icarus more than anything.
Fuck that, I’m gonna live forever.
This is what solipsists actually believe!
“I intend to live forever. So far, so good.”
/Stephen Wright
People will see you and cry?
He will wear a mask carved from jade to hide his monstrosity.
I used to tell people my goal was 220.
I’ll be lucky if I make it to 70.
I always told my kids I was gonna live to 95.
But I was gonna start shitting my pants and live in their spare bedroom when I turned 65.
We’ve gone from attempting suicide was a crime to suicide is legal; but helping out is a crime; to helping out is OK; to Gov providing the means; to Gov coercing people into suicide.
We needed to put a stop to Gov getting involved a few steps back.
“We’re from the government and we’re here to help.”
I saw a disabled girl asking one of the MAID social workers about it (disabled girl is vehemently against MAID).
The glee on the older woman’s face as she wished she could put the disabled girl into the program, because “no one should have to live like that”, was extremely disturbing.
Euthanize the solcial worker. No one should be that sadistic and bloodthirsty.
That was my first thought too. Probably because this hits close to home.
If I remember right, it’s been awhile, the girl was on a mobile cart because she couldn’t walk and was concerned about being euthanized if she got in a car wreck or something and wound up in the hospital unconscious.
After watching her interactions with the social worker, her fears are extremely well founded.
Euthanize social workers.
This isn’t the death cult I intended to join!
The social contract begs to differ with you.
Just show me my signature agreeing to the terms and conditions in that contract.
Remember that footprint you put on it because you didn’t have the hand-eye coordination to use a pen yet? Legally binding!
–Granny Weatherwax; I Shall Wear Midnight (PTerry)
This is the real question. What were they all thinking? How can you imagine that Vanity Fair was going to be even-handed let alone flattering?
All I can figure is they knew what would happen, and will point to this as a combo of “see, the press is the enemy” to whip up enthusiasm and as a reason to say “no more interviews – see what happens!”
This was probably a bad idea? Drinker trying his hand at English understatement?
Deliberate contempt, or too stupid to understand Orwell’s writing? How about both!
Making Animal Farm into a critique of capitalism is extremely Orwellian.
Foucaultian – the only meaning is what we want to get from it.
Saw that headline yesterday. I was just left speechless.
Another case of why “remake” a movie if you’re going to fundentalky changebit
Uh, yep. Specifically to tell you ‘What it *really* means.’ And how your old teachers were all wrong. (They were racist and hated women and everything but their cocks, which were shriveled and lemon-shaped!) Only listen to New Teachers with the New New Deal after we replace the old new Green Deal. Like, duh, idiots.)
‘Clinton said one “goal” of Orwellian manipulation was “to sow mistrust towards exactly the people we need to rely on: our leaders, the press, experts who seek to guide public policy based on evidence, ourselves.”’
Yeah. I love she ‘wrote’ a 2017 memoir “What Happened?” Ha. You did, cunt. That’s what. Whoops?
This way they can memory hole the original meaning.
Remember when Hillary said the real meaning of 1984 was to learn to trust the authorities?
Well, he did love Big Brother in the end.
I got my wife to watch the movie and since she had never read the book, she was shocked at the ending.
They are just trying to get out ahead of the news.
I’ll bet $20 that at some point Napoleon says “Make the farm great again”
And then At the end he repeats the talking points of the left “worker exploitation…”
The Reiners’ death was a shocking end to some two decades of unsuccessful attempts to help Nick tame the demon of addiction, according to people close to the couple. Rob, 78, and Michele, 70, supported their son through more than a dozen stints in rehabilitation facilities, made a movie about addiction with him, and let him live in a guesthouse on the property where prosecutors said he killed them.
More than 12 steps of 12 steps? JFC.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/rob-reiner-and-the-plight-of-the-nepo-baby-82cfc0ca?st=S4R7EW&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Sorry wrong Reiner link
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/rob-reiner-last-week-death-c13b363e?st=TadCtX&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Politics aside, it was a sad end that shouldn’t happen to a dog. RIP.
I don’t wish people I disagree with bad things.
Although that’s tough to do with certain politicians.
I don’t wish people I disagree with bad things.
Although that’s tough to do with certain politicians.
And that’s the rub. Isn’t there a point where you have to wish bad things on people you disagree with? If the disagreement arises from their desire and actions to control you, even if through the ‘legitimate’ powers of the state?
Adds to collection of half-thought out “Random Thoughts” for gestation. Well, maybe 1/4 thought out, generally half-thought out is good enough for publication.
To be more specific. Things like illness, death and the like.
OTH, I’ve no issues with some drug warrior basically having an unmedicated end of life experience.
“Some men, you just can’t reach…”
I just wondered about “first rehab at 15”. WTF?
How does that happen?
In my limited experience, those types are almost always beyond help.
Wasnt Drew Barrymore in rehab at a much younger age?
Age 13 for Drew.
She apparently started drinking at 9, smoking pot at 10, and cocaine at 12.
Tell me again why we shouldn’t just nuke Hollywood from orbit?
It is the only way to be sure.
How does it happen?
Shitty parents.
I saw a long time ago women were bringing their kids to Hollywood for auditions.
They went on a group tour for aspiring star parents or something like that.
They met with a former child star and he told them how bad Hollywood is for kids.
Not one woman was even slightly discouraged by this.
I remember the man saying that he was going to quit soon because every parent looks at him the same way and they all say “That won’t happen to my kid”.
Then he sees it happening to everybody’s kids.
But this kid is not even “in Hollywood” – just adjacent to Hollywood elite. I can only agree it had to have been shitty parenting.
I was talking more about Drew Barrymore, I had never heard of Rob’s kid.
Push for global IDs
It looks like John Stossel has an apprentice.
Starmer can’t die a horrible death soon enough. JFC, what a prick.
Ya…no.
And both those ladies can be in my new country of Fuckoffslaverstan
Happy Birthday Simo Häyhä!
They should make his birthday International Ridiculous Badass Day.
Too much toxic masculinity!
That young man came to play. Love his story. (17 December 1905 – 1 April 2002) And, damn. What a remarkable run after… “Häyhä was severely wounded when an explosive bullet fired by a Red Army soldier tore through his face and shattered his lower left jaw. After the battle, as he appeared to be dead, he was placed on a pile of corpses. Someone later noticed his foot moving and he was removed from the pile and taken to hospital… (Regained consciousness a week later) Reading about his own death in a newspaper, he sent a letter to the paper to correct the misunderstanding.
—
a modest man who never boasted of his wartime achievements. He rarely spoke of the war or his experiences.[10] When asked in 1998 how he had become such a good sniper, he replied simply: “Practice”‘ <– Solid.
The sequel to Sisu just came out. I haven't seen the first, which is partially based on Häyhä. Good timing.
No. Sisu is standard fare Hollywood revenge-porn; if it bears any relation it is exploitation.
I guess this shirt was made for him.
https://dd0i63sijiwrbk.archive.is/1jRkl/d15918f9d0a37070c51eb77ac788d5793f198706.avif
I’m calling it. The “Green New Deal” is officially a bust. When you’ve lost the EU….
Given Germany’s struggles to keep the grid up, can you imagine if they had even a significant portion of transportation powered by electricity?
ICE is thriving and many fronts
Wait… my car is gonna deport me?
self driving cars …
Imagine if self-driving cabs deported people who had a deportation order and stepped in the cab. Or if people with an active warrant were driven to a police station.
RJ hits on how to achieve 15-minute neighborhoods!
The fine print is basically green death.
Trump Orders Major Escalation Against Venezuela
When the Ukraine thing started we expected hot young Ukrainian women to come in droves in Bucharest and that did not happen. Here’s hoping for Venezuelans… just chicks though no dudes
We have too many Venezuelans already.
You get military aged Islamic males like the rest of the EU and you better damn well like it!
U. Van der Leyen
The contempt she and other “western” “leaders” have for their “subjects” is almost beyond belief.
The graft must be amazing to be worth the amount of ruin and destruction they are causing.
I’m sure the money helps, but I don’t even think it’s primarily about the money. I think it’s mostly about getting to lord their power over the huddled masses of plebes of a culture they’ve taught themselves to hate.
If it was just the money, multi-millionaire congress assholes would retire instead of holding on to their positions like grim death.
The Lewis Rule applies. Better they were robber barons.
“Robber barons” provided jobs and raised the standard of living of everyone by producing products and lowering costs.
Much bad.
Once I asked my teacher why they were called robber barons, because they didn’t rob anybody.
I didn’t know enough to understand they got rich by making things cheaper, but I knew they weren’t stealing.
I never got any kind of answer.
The original Robber Barons were nobles along the Rhine who did rob passing merchants on the river.
In school they used that term for Rockefeller, Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and the like.
I know, but teachers are morons.
That might be a bit harsh, but the overrepresentation exists.
Not harsh, generally correct in my experience.
The compassionate, logical, naive young buck still struggling to assert itself says that MAID (most bullshit Bowdlerization ever, just call it medical suicide) is an abomination and an affront to G-d. The older, more cynical misanthrope says it’s NBD, just get rid of a few more insects to make way for our new AI overlords. Who the fuck knows but people have always and will always find creative ways to delete themselves and one another. One might say it’s the defining feature of our species.
https://archive.is/ZsE3J
Ass Wednesday.
Of course it was at a Winn-Dixie.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/randy-lovers-arrested-having-threesome-36395493
And “Ms.(?)” Czaplinsky has a very interesting facial bone structure and receding hairline for a female. But who am I to judge (wait… what is the letter after the name of the current president? what am I allowed to say?)
Those 3 people look like the sort you would expect to have a drunken threesome in a car outside of a grocery store at noon.
Christ, what a bunch of winners.
Strangest remake of Because of Winn-Dixie ever.
So, Dirty Mike and the Boys? We’re definitely in a cultural collapse, when life starts imitating The Other Guys…
Was that wrong?
Sad trombone…
“This is a calculated escalation,” Ben Cohen said. “Magnum is hollowing out the very things that give Ben & Jerry’s its soul, credibility and worth.”
https://www.wsj.com/business/ben-jerrys-co-founder-says-new-owner-aims-to-dismantle-social-mission-61f738ad?st=wd12Mv&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
If only there was some way they could have remained in charge of the company decision making…
“When we sold out to Unilever, we never thought they’d actually want to run the place.”
We wanted to sell out without selling out.
We thought capitalism meant we could capitalize – have our ice cream and eat it too!
Rather like Wayne’s and Garth’s dismay at what their show turns into. But they got $5000.
I haven’t seen that movie in decades.
I wonder if it is still funny?
I still hear then singing “We got five thousand dollars!”
Rob Lowe was good as the asshole, but I think my wife fell in love with him a little.
That’s OK since I did the same with Tia Carrara
are large condoms ruining their confidence or something?
Magnum condoms aren’t large.
Yeah; I use a melchizedek-sized condom.
the alphabet
https://x.com/nic_carter/status/2000753235875807331
Here’s the incomparable Kenneth Williams discussing accents. Absolutely glorious.
https://x.com/JamesMelville/status/2000999873408328142
this seems very problematic these days
Americans are generous.
RIP Buck Rogers
beedeebeedee
I really liked that guy. Rest in Peace.
I have to hand it to Scott Adams, he’s in a hospital getting radiation treatment and still doing his live show today. Though he has said he loves doing it, and it keeps him going.
I know how he feels.
“Former “Saturday Night Live” cast member Leslie Jones on Monday called for Democrats to arrest Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers if they take back Congress after the midterm elections….
“That’s why I want, all, everybody that work for ICE, I want them in jail. I just want a reckoning. I want a reckoning. Y’all know y’all did wrong stuff. You know some of the stuff you did was so wrong. I need a reckoning. Because that’s, to me, that’s the only thing that’s gonna make it right.”
https://nypost.com/2025/12/17/us-news/former-snl-star-leslie-jones-wants-democrats-to-jail-ice-agents-if-they-take-back-congress-after-midterm-elections/
CWAC
Yeah, well, she should be arrested for her role in Ghostbusters III.
“An unhinged Texas woman was arrested for allegedly shoving razor blades into loaves of bread at two Mississippi Walmart locations, according to authorities.
Camille Benson, 33, was cuffed on Tuesday and charged with attempted mayhem after customers reported finding the razor blades at a Walmart Supercenter and a Walmart Neighborhood Market in Biloxi, according to the Biloxi Police Department.”
https://nypost.com/2025/12/16/us-news/lunatic-allegedly-shoved-razor-blades-into-bread-loaves-at-mississippi-walmarts/
WTF??
Rule of thumb – stupid enough to get a face tattoo, stupid enough to do anything.
I disagree with a lot of you regarding women with tattoos (I honestly don’t mind), but I draw the line at face tattoos. And septum piercings. Not attractive.
I don’t mind tattoos in the least. Nose piercings? Sure, go for it. But I do mind crazy. And that chick is crazy.
Probably not crazy, just extremely stupid. At sufficiently high levels, crazy and stupid become rather indistinguishable…
She would fit right in with the Winn Dixie car sex crowd.
She must have lost her job at the Halloween candy factory.
“Celebrity fitness guru Jillian Michaels was left visibly stunned by a New York Times contributor’s false claim that she openly identifies as a ‘white nationalist’….
She was sure to point that out after New York Times opinion writer Wajahat Ali made the remark on Monday’s Piers Morgan Uncensored….
‘You, by your own admission, are a white nationalist,’ Ali said – declaring he was tired of Michael’s ‘hate-filled, stupid, reckless’ rhetoric about Muslims.
Ali, a Muslim American of Pakistani descent, added, ‘You admitted it. I saw the clip.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/media/article-15388399/jillian-michaels-wajahat-ali-white-nationalist-bondi-terror.html
Wajahat Ali is this asshole:
https://thenewamerican.com/us/culture/nyt-contributor-embarks-on-anti-white-rant-message-you-have-lost/
He graduated top of the class from the Nick Fuentes School of Outrageous Statements I hear.
Cage match? With the trick that the winner is left in the cage.
Those people need to be sued into oblivion. I’m so sick of them pushing a “narrative” that is nothing but easily disproved lies.
If he thinks that Palistan has a much better culture, he can go back there.
*Pakistan
Moon landing: A similarly sized chunk of the Current GOP (36%) believes that the Apollo 11 moon landing was faked by NASA. Again, younger men are more likely to hold this view (51% of men under 50 vs. 38% of women under 50). There are stark racial divides: while only 31% of white GOP voters believe the conspiracy, this rises to 59% among Hispanic Republicans and 63% among black Republicans.
Speaking of Buck Rogers.
https://manhattan.institute/article/the-new-gop-survey-analysis-of-americans-overall-todays-republican-coalition-and-the-minorities-of-maga
Leaving the stupidity of this particular instance to the side, suspicion of established narratives is an overall good thing.
I think that’s the real story. Not that people are stupid or gullible, but that they no longer trust authority. The people in power should be paying attention to that, but of course they won’t.
In the article take a look at the COVID came from a lab in China chart.
It wasn’t faked but they are keeping alien involvement secret …
Over the past decade, the number of young Americans identifying as transgender or “non-binary” rose sharply and then declined just as sharply, as Eric Kaufmann and Jean Twenge have recently shown. This pattern invites an obvious political story: transgender identification fell out of fashion due to a cultural backlash and/or its lesser prominence in left-wing politics. But there is another, more subtle explanation for the pattern, namely the dynamics of signalling in a crowded social environment.
Adopting new gender identities served as a form of personal expression and as a reliable signal of progressive views. As a consequence, the social payoff for low-cost signalling was high. But as signalling became widespread, audiences adjusted. When everyone displays the same badge, it no longer has much purpose. This dynamic explains why a decline in gender signalling can occur without major shifts in partisanship or explicit ideology. What changes is not so much what people believe, but the social payoff from adopting a certain identity.
https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-a-signal
Identifying as non-binary is a very low cost signal compared to transitioning.
Of course, you get more of what you encourage. Couldn’t think of a more potentially damaging flash in the pan to fall prey to though.
I have my own religious theory.
Modern progressivism is a cult. They have tenets like any other. The mostly highly regarded of them is that there is no form of salvation to being white (especially male).
Except one. Going trans. It’s quite literally the only way whites can relinquish themselves of their privilege, and claim minority status. It’s the only way they can wash away their sins. One must be oppressed in order to have value, and for a white man with no other route to salvation in the progressive worldview, they must trans themselves up in order to be the victim that is demanded of them.
Stupid public broadcasting. If they interrupt playing Christmas carols one more time for an Emergency Broadcast alert warning me that the End of the World Is Nigh because thunderstorms; why, I might unleash my fury and write a strongly worded letter.
I’ve been getting storm warnings since yesterday morning, and so far not a thing. I don’t want a storm, I have a one hundred plus y/o sycamore tree in my front yard, and it’s messy.
If I had a wish, I’d wish the Clintons would get all the storms, and the rest of us get left alone.
We got some mild rain. Reminds me to cut back the sprinklers for winter.
I think it all passed to the north of the Treasure Valley. I received a light breeze.
Ironically, the radio station, KBSU, has lost its signal and is pumping out nothing but static. I’m not saying its aliens… but it’s probably aliens.
I didn’t do it.
Idahos only sea port got high winds.
My ceiling birds are chirping as the power has been out since 5am or so.
I got an emergency alert yesterday saying “Emergency Alert: Severe”, and it said to shelter in place. It made me more curious as to what was going on, and if I wasn’t working, I would have likely headed out to see what the hell was going on.
(Turns out it was a SWAT standoff ~2 miles away).
Did they eventually recapture the SWAT team and put them back in their rape cages?
So, you almost died yesterday. As a survivor, how has this traumatic event affected your outlook on tarrifs for undocumented sex workers trafficking weed?
Mad Scientist:
I feel that I need a nice break from my job, and some guaranteed money from the police department for the trauma of needlessly instilling stress and drama upon my life. So I’m all for undocumented sex workers trafficking weed.
“Owens doubled down on the Egyptian planes, telling her audience on Tuesday night, “I am certain that these Egyptian planes are incredibly shady, and that they were, in fact, tracking Turning Point USA Faith, broader events. Of course, Erika was at some of them, Charlie was at some of them, but it is– the pattern here is undeniable.” She further said that she plans to present tomorrow “overwhelming evidence that these planes regularly fly in and out of Israel” and that they’re “turning their transponder off each time that they do it.””
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/12/watch-candace-owens-doubles-down-after-meeting-erika/
Maybe toss in some space aliens?
Lady – Alex Jones sounded saner than you do.
Scary to think that at one time we tended to think she was a reasonable voice.
Speak for yourself, Kemosabe.
To me she was just one of those names that floated around but whose words I never actually saw.
She has certainly lost the plot
She is paranoid delusional and probably should see a doctor
A Canadian doctor?
He added: “We are pulling every lever at our disposal: simplification, flexibility, European preference, targeted support and innovation. Together these measures are our commitment to restoring Europe’s industrial leadership while leading the global transition on climate.”
Throwing a slightly smaller anvil to the drowning man.
“An unhinged liberal woman from Orland, California, filmed herself berating an elderly Target worker for wearing a Charlie Kirk “Freedom” shirt and posted it to TikTok.
According to her Facebook profile, the woman, Michelea Ponce, works as a nurse at Enloe Health, a nonprofit healthcare system based in nearby Chico, CA, where she has held patient care roles…
Ponce demands to speak to a manager while declaring the shirt “unacceptable.”
UPDATE: Ponce deactivated or privated all of her social media accounts shortly after this report was published.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/12/shocking-video-far-left-activist-nurse-berates-elderly/
WTF is wrong with nurses and school teachers?
Amazing. Imagine living in a bubble where you think berating anyone on film and posting it is a good thing. Talk about severe mental issues. And this is probably 30% of our country now. Glad that Trump Derangement Syndrome is now an official diagnosis.
They just seem totally obsessed with race.
Dons iron jock strap…
They are largely female, so already in a cohort that is higher in empathy? And they probably skew towards the higher end of that distribution and are therefore much more prone to empathy going ‘toxic’ (to use an already overused phrase), into the realm of excusing any behavior? [Consciously avoids the same “analysis” on neuroticism, if you believe all that psychobabble…]
Almost all of them are white too.
Specifically ’empathy’ with the outgroup, as nurses and teachers are charged with the well-being of the outgroup by design.
AWFLs are a huge problem. As I see it, they’re leading the charge to cultural destruction and decay. Just look at your average pro-pali protest. I saw a video yesterday where quite literally everyone at an anti-Israel protest was a white woman.
College.
College is what’s wrong with both of those groups.
From Sensei’s Ben and Jerry link:
Mittal, who is chair, has been on the board since 2007. She is also the executive director of Oakland Institute, a policy think tank that says land rights, the climate crisis, international aid and equity are among its core issues.
The first few times I read that I kept tripping over “land rights”, thinking, as I do, climate justice and that other claptrap are diametrically opposed to property rights.
Upon further refection, I concluded “land rights” must mean the power to steal land and property from the rightful owners.
I was thinking “feather Indians” and similar groups in other non-European countries.
NY just made assisted suicide legal.
Pandering to the hitman vote.
UPDATE:
“A fundraiser launched for an elderly California Target worker who was berated by a customer for wearing a Charlie Kirk shirt is quickly approaching $100,000, just hours after video of the encounter went viral on social media.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/fundraiser-for-charlie-kirk-supporting-target-employee-who-was-harassed-by-woke-customer-approaches-100k
Jeez, I restrain myself from punching out a Karen almost every day. Where’s my hundred grand?
On Amazon
“The daughter of a Virginia delegate has come under fire for posting a video in which she said that she would poison a “white MAGA” family’s food if she were the owner of a restaurant with Windex, bathroom cleaners, and bodily excrement. The woman in the video has been identified as Katia Gardner, the daughter of Democrat Virginia Delegate Debra Gardner…
“I just feel like it should be required when people walk into restaurants to state your political status. Because I really wish somebody who voted for Trump would go into some Hispanic restaurant or some Asian restaurant or some soul food place and think that I would hand you a plate.”
Debra Gardner represents the 76th District in the Virginia House of Delegates. She was first elected to office in 2022 and was reelected in 2024. Gardner is a board member of the Virginia League of Planned Parenthood, per her House of Delegates page.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/revealed-woman-who-went-viral-for-saying-she-would-poison-white-maga-families-food-with-windex-feces-bathroom-cleaner-is-daughter-of-dem-virginia-lawmaker
Two generations of imbeciles is too much.
CWAC
X 2
FTFY
+ &
https://thepostmillennial.com/andy-ngo-reports-antifa-style-terror-cell-busted-over-new-years-eve-bomb-and-shooting-plot
CWABOA
Nah this one seems super iffy and maybe even overblown by our glorious FBI on their capabilities. Andy is a few days late on this also
They sure seem like violent leftists to me.
Not saying they arent, but everything from timing to capabilities all seem on a bit on the nose for the win column
I don’t see how. The previous admin would have ignored it.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/centrist-republicans-revolt-signing-petition-force-vote-obamacare-fund-rcna249693
Centrist Republicans revolt, signing a petition to force a vote on Obamacare funding
The enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies are still expected to expire at the end of this year, however, raising insurance premiums for millions of Americans.
Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Yossarian planned to live forever or die in the attempt.
It is currently drizzling rain. With any luck this will continue as the temperature drops so there will be sheet of ice under tomorrow morning’s snow.
Can someone give me a quick run down on why T thinks that Venezuela has “stolen American land and oil”?
Was it when the oil fields off Venezuela were nationalized?