Althouse: Sunrise

December 8, 2025

Sunrise — 7:13.

Photo by Meade, who braved the cold when I did not.

Feel free to talk about whatever you want in the comments.

56 comments:

rehajm said...: Christmas Brunch is on at Trump Doral, 11am-2:00pm in the Crystal Ballroom…; 12/8/25, 4:58 PM
lonejustice said...: Trump's tariffs cost American farmers billions and billions of dollars in lost sales to overseas markets. So Trump's solution? Bail out our farmers with a 12 billion dollar payout from American taxpayers. This is progress? Making the American taxpayer pay for American farm products that previously other nations were more than glad to purchase?; 12/8/25, 5:03 PM
Achilles said...: lonejustice said...
Trump's tariffs cost American farmers billions and billions of dollars in lost sales to overseas markets. So Trump's solution? Bail out our farmers with a 12 billion dollar payout from American taxpayers. This is progress? Making the American taxpayer pay for American farm products that previously other nations were more than glad to purchase?

Yes. We more than covered that with revenue collected from corporate oligarchs who shipped jobs overseas.

Lonejustice just doesn’t like it when globalist oligarchs pay taxes.

He would rather tax Americans who build things here.; 12/8/25, 5:10 PM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: To me it seems like mismanagement on the part of the people who schedule trumps meetings ,trips and daily activities to set him up and have the world watch him sleep, talk nonsense as most 80 years olds start doing when coming in and out of stupors. The guy is too old and can't stay awake and the sycophants) Levitt say "he's only resting his eyes, you know just like you 80 year old grandpa would do, its part of aging. They may need a better scheduling team or spend more time hiding this fella. MISMANAGEMENT DELUXE.. Watching the president of the US fall asleep in front of the world is a BAD LOOK...Hide him more or manage the times when you can think he will stay awake , public appearance 101.So far they haven't had to wipe drool from him nodding out but its obvious we ain't far from that, A ROUTINE MRI ,ever heard of that or any other president getting one on physical 2x a year? Could be meds or something else beside old age, NOT A GOOD LOOK and not reassuring for someone who is supposed to be in charge as he has a lot of "I don't know " ANSWERS AGE LIMITS NEEDED; 12/8/25, 5:10 PM
Achilles said...: Dinky posts a word salad.

Thinks Trump speaks nonsense.; 12/8/25, 5:16 PM
Vance said...: I don't think Dinky knows what the "Return" key on his keyboard does.; 12/8/25, 5:26 PM
Maynard said...: It is very pleasant here in the Tucson area. AM temps (when I walk and hike) are usually in the 40's and it gets to about 70 during the day,

I moved here from the Midwest after retiring 7 1/2 years ago and do not regret it for an instant.; 12/8/25, 5:32 PM
narciso said...: Hanging out in blue scream does nothing for ones health; 12/8/25, 5:37 PM
gadfly said...: Our government is now in the business of running gulags. The following description appears in an Amnesty International report released Friday on the conditions of confinement for migrants at Alligator Alcatraz:

The four men interviewed by Amnesty International, as well as Florida-based organizations, told the organization about the ‘box’, described as a 2x2-foot cage-like structure located in the yard of “Alligator Alcatraz,” where individuals are sent for punishment. Individuals are put in the ‘box’, their hands are shackled, and their feet are attached to restraints on the ground. They are unable to sit down or move positions and are forced to remain there for hours in the heat with hardly any water or protection from the sun, heat, and insects. According to a man seeking safety, “People ended up in the ‘box’ just for asking the guards for anything. I saw a guy who was put in it for an entire day.”; 12/8/25, 5:54 PM
rehajm said...: The fuckers at Amnesty International conspicuously absent for the J6 political prisoners. Fuck them…; 12/8/25, 6:04 PM
narciso said...: You know right, the plantados in the capitol seven of whom comitted suicide; 12/8/25, 6:07 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: We have been talking about shoes and inflammation.
Yesterday it dawn on me that I might know when I'm experiencing inflammation, when my shoes feel too tight. I may be wrong about this. I don't know. And I haven't checked with AI.

Today the shoes feel terrific, back to normal.; 12/8/25, 6:12 PM
Beasts of England said...: It looks cold in that photo. Brrrr.; 12/8/25, 6:30 PM
narciso said...: How do the ducks unfreeze themselves; 12/8/25, 6:36 PM
Jaq said...: Failure to compensate the agrarian south for the tariffs that turned the industrial north into a world economic power was one of the causes of the Civil War, South Carolina tried to say that "state's rights" exempted them, but . Obviously tariffs are not a free market solution, and if we don't go into them with a "we are all in this together" attitude, they will be regionally divisive. So Trump is acting rationally.

Here, from ChatGPT

In 1832, South Carolina passed a state ordinance declaring two federal tariffs—
the Tariff of 1828 (“Tariff of Abominations”)
and the Tariff of 1832
to be “null and void” within the state. In other words, South Carolina claimed it had the right to refuse to collect or pay the federal tariff.
This was not symbolic. The state:
— Prepared its militia
— Threatened secession
— Warned that any federal attempt to collect tariffs by force would be met with force; 12/8/25, 6:41 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: Notre Dame upset they got shut out of the playoffs. No bowls for the Irish. Hard to sympathize. 10-2 just like Miami. And Miami beat them.; 12/8/25, 6:45 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: Notre Dame schedule is too much of them beating up on weaklings like Navy, Syracuse, or Stanford. Meanwhile Alabama takes on SEC powerhouses every week.; 12/8/25, 6:46 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: As part of my nostalgia tour, revisiting SNL 1990s. God was Chris Farley funny. What a talent. As were Norm and Phil Hartmann. Meanwhile, Al franken is still alive. As is A whitney brown. God must hate comedy.; 12/8/25, 6:50 PM
Mason G said...: Absent admitting everybody into the playoffs, nothing you do will prevent somebody from being unhappy they were shut out.; 12/8/25, 6:51 PM
narciso said...: Well its that deal with the devil,*a whitney brown thats a name i havent heard in ages
*like the simon and garfunkel sketch; 12/8/25, 6:52 PM
Kakistocracy said...: Achilles opines: "We more than covered that with revenue collected from corporate oligarchs who shipped jobs overseas."

I think you mean the consumption tax paid by US consumers. Also... see tax cuts for the US oligarchs.

Trump is a National Socialist after all. Nanny state, subsidy, tariffs, patronage, pork barrel -- the full socialist works.

Trump trying to bailout his base from his failed economic policy. No matter of aid is going to rescue American farmers from the long-term damage caused by the reorientation of food importers’ demand away from the US. And if Trump is looking for “positive supply shocks” from AI to rescue his rapidly declining ratings then he’s in deep trouble.; 12/8/25, 6:55 PM
narciso said...: Dennis miller i think out was burned out by the experience; 12/8/25, 6:56 PM
Jaq said...: That's right, anybody who opposed open borders, sending our factories overseas, and an endless supply of cheap labor to compete for the low skill jobs left in America is a "nazi."; 12/8/25, 7:02 PM
Kakistocracy said...: 'Now that I've hit everyone with ruinous taxes, I'll dole some of it back out to my political supporters as welfare payments.' ~ Donald Trump; 12/8/25, 7:05 PM
narciso said...: They really ought to get newer material; 12/8/25, 7:07 PM
narciso said...: Yeah the snl of the 80s seems like high art compared to the drivel they have offered now; 12/8/25, 7:12 PM
Jaq said...: "Now that I have pushed the world to the brink of WW3, I can just sit back and watch the world burn." - Joe Biden.; 12/8/25, 7:14 PM
Kakistocracy said...: Trump Unveils $12 Billion Bailout for Farmers ~ WSJ
'The financial aid comes as the agriculture sector grapples with the fallout from the president’s tariffs'

Same headline.

Seven years apart. 🤡

1) Impose massive tariffs on China
2) China retaliates by ending its soybean imports
3) Cut deal w/ China so they'll buy our soybeans
4) China buys only 20%, so far, of what it agreed to purchase
5) Offer $12 billion to US farmers so they don't go bankrupt

Farm bankruptcies are up 60% in the first year of Trump's new term, compared to the last year of Biden's term.

What a brilliant idea that no one ever thought about before! As consumers, we pay for the tariffs. Then as taxpayers, we get to pay again for the subsidies. Nothing like a good ole win-win.; 12/8/25, 7:14 PM
narciso said...: Take the phil hartmann 'mastermind" sketch vs whoever they have doing trump; 12/8/25, 7:16 PM
rehajm said...: They stopped trying to be entertaining, amusing, funny. Instead they are here to be ‘important’ politically. They are just another View or Colbert or Kimmel; 12/8/25, 7:19 PM
narciso said...: And they evil fail at that task; 12/8/25, 7:23 PM
Peachy said...: We've got biden all wrong. He's amazing!; 12/8/25, 7:26 PM
narciso said...: That wasnt a typo; 12/8/25, 7:26 PM
Peachy said...: kak is here to deliver some fake quotes.; 12/8/25, 7:27 PM
Derve said...: Tell him to stay home with his wife.
It's no big bragging thing that he went out in the cold to capture the daily picture. Your readers really can live without it. No big brag... no brownie/boy scout points for getting up and out early just to do something so trivial. It's not like he's getting up to drive a bus, or work a shift. It's not essential work. He's not proving anything. Let him stay home with his wife.; 12/8/25, 7:28 PM
narciso said...: Send it western union; 12/8/25, 7:28 PM
Derve said...: lonejustice said...
Trump's tariffs cost American farmers billions and billions of dollars in lost sales to overseas markets. So Trump's solution? Bail out our farmers with a 12 billion dollar payout from American taxpayers. This is progress? Making the American taxpayer pay for American farm products that previously other nations were more than glad to purchase?

12/8/25, 5:03 PM
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Trump's in it for the rich people.
He's not a good businessman, nor a fair thinker. Everyone with brains is afraid to speak up...
The Jews love him.; 12/8/25, 7:29 PM
Peachy said...: kak - yeah - we've never bailed out farmers before.
btw - the decline of small farms because of mass-farming - happened long ago. We are still paying for it.; 12/8/25, 7:29 PM
Peachy said...: Kak - Achilles has a point. What party is paid by China/ owned by china?; 12/8/25, 7:31 PM
Vance said...: Kak here supports 1) a full on fascist state, with unaccountable, all powerful government agency "experts" who rule with an iron fist and who make decisions rewarding and punishing people based only on their race and skin color and 2) calls other people "Nazi" for disagreeing with him.

And that is universal among the left, not just Kak.; 12/8/25, 7:32 PM
Derve said...: I don't care if the affordability issues started under Biden.
Trump said he'd work to fix them.
He's not. He's doing what Netanyahu and the Jewish lobby tell him. "Good news"? Only if you're a richie rich with trivial concerns...

Whose dick is the biggest in that cabinet anyway?
Some say JD not Marco. But who knows? Smart minds don't give a fuck... we have important issues to discuss and think about for the country's future.

Beware of the rich women and their kept husbands who try to distract with daily trivia. Someday, we will look back on this century and say, where were the wise minds who knew this war/foreign policies and economic policies and immigration policies were tanking our nation? Ann's blog will be held up as a permanent record of what people were concerned with... or not.

Dumb fucks all. Hit the tip jar. The meades won't stop til they've got enough...; 12/8/25, 7:33 PM
Derve said...: Shorter "Dinky":
The world is going to go on when the boomers are all dead. We have to override them now and start thinking about keeping the social safety nets secure for the people who come up after them... WE CARE if it all goes to shit after they're gone, even if they squirrel away enough for their children and grandchildren. The young minds are smarter in the way the younger bodies are prettier. If that offends our elders... tough shit. Truth matter, and justice too. Two elements long missing in our country this past century.

We're America, not Israel. We don't kill women and children here. We don't use guns to solve or problems; we can't bomb our way (and steal our way) ... to "success". It's false. We see right though the lives you lead... We want better for ourselves and our own.

God bless us all.; 12/8/25, 7:37 PM
Derve said...: Question: does mr. meadey bring bread to feed the duckies every morning? Is that his job/daily contribution? Hmmm.; 12/8/25, 7:38 PM
Mason G said...: "with unaccountable, all powerful Democrat government agency "experts" who rule with an iron fist"; 12/8/25, 7:39 PM
Curious George said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 12/8/25, 7:39 PM
Derve said...: Our government is now in the business of running gulags. The following description appears in an Amnesty International report released Friday on the conditions of confinement for migrants at Alligator Alcatraz:
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Was it Kissinger who said, some human lives matter more than others? The Jews look after their tribe, everyone else doesn't have much value.

Women like ann bought into that nonsense. Which is fine... just don't pretend to be a Christian for "extra points."; 12/8/25, 7:40 PM
Curious George said...: "RCOCEAN II said...
Notre Dame upset they got shut out of the playoffs. No bowls for the Irish. Hard to sympathize. 10-2 just like Miami. And Miami beat them."

The decision to not play in a bowl game was Notre Dame's. They chose to pout and end many of their player's football career.

"RCOCEAN II said...
Notre Dame schedule is too much of them beating up on weaklings like Navy, Syracuse, or Stanford. Meanwhile Alabama takes on SEC powerhouses every week."

They need to get in a conference.; 12/8/25, 7:42 PM
Derve said...: What a brilliant idea that no one ever thought about before! As consumers, we pay for the tariffs. Then as taxpayers, we get to pay again for the subsidies. Nothing like a good ole win-win.
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Look at the people who are more than comfortable and prospering today. Some of the dumb fuckers are even advertising it... buying enormous amounts of things they -- and their dogs -- don't need, and having it all delivered (and then returned, for free!) via amazon...

They are advertising who is "getting ahead" in this economy and still wants more. Hit the tip jar and buy more, (commission earrrrrrrned). Suppor the professor's work! Her pension and social security can't support her boy toy. He has needs, you know. That camper truck parked all winter isn't paying for itself. Not like you can live out of it in wintertime. It's a toy, and guys like that are never satisfied and want the women to buy them more and more... He'll move on if he doesn't get what he wants. Once you leave the first wife, you see how easy it is and there's always a dumb aging cluck waiting around the corner to take an "aw shucks" feller like that in, it seems...

Poor co-hens.; 12/8/25, 7:48 PM
Peachy said...: file under - Yep.
"She’s a sadistic clown using a widow as a prop to get more attention and money for herself. It’s downright demonic. Be more discerning."; 12/8/25, 7:50 PM
Derve said...: They need to get in a conference.
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Lol. Fucking no.
You can't incentivize everyone.
Suck up the financial losses from no ND playing in the Pop Tart bowl...
If you look back to the first game of the season when these young men -- not professional athletes -- are still gelling as a team and making mistakes early in the season, and don't focus on the recent win streak... and want to punish the independents/Catholics, stop whining when they refuse to play along...

You can't buy everyone.; 12/8/25, 7:51 PM
Derve said...: How bout them Wisco Badgers? lol
What is Wisconsin if not a drunken football school? Lolol.; 12/8/25, 7:52 PM
Peachy said...: Why biden was installed.; 12/8/25, 7:54 PM
Peachy said...: from link:
@amuse
"SCOTUS: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson told the Court that presidents should not be able to fire the PhDs & experts who run the government. She even argued presidents should avoid control over transportation & the economy.

In a remarkable exchange in Trump v Slaughter, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson claimed the president should have no power to fire expert bureaucrats. She said economists, PhDs, scientists, & transportation officials should operate beyond presidential reach. Such a view would carve the heart out of Article II & cement rule by permanent insiders rather than elected leadership. Jackson’s theory elevates the deep state over the voters who choose a president. That is a constitutional revolution in plain sight."; 12/8/25, 7:56 PM
gspencer said...: All those construction cranes are telling you, Citizen, "We're getting bigger and we'll make you a subject yet."; 12/8/25, 8:06 PM
FullMoon said...: Possibly not true, awaiting confirmation
Nigerian Prince Scammed By Somali Immigrant
.; 12/8/25, 8:07 PM
buwaya said...: The effect of the EU (and its predecessors) has been to bring Southern and Eastern Europe into the first world.
Up close and personal. My grandparents retired to my grandpas ancestral fishing village. We kids lived there for a few years in the 1960s while my dad ran around Europe being a manufacturers rep/machinery dealer. At that time it really was a fishing village, everyone was poor, the harbor was full of little fishing boats. And the piers were crowded with women repairing nets. It smelled like, well, fish.
Today the harbor is filled with yachts and leisure craft, the homes are summer houses for the old fishermens kids and grandkids, and there are at least three gourmet cafes. In spring and summer parking is impossible. It doesn't smell like fish.
There arent many tourist here btw.
Thats the effect of the (EU) reduction in risk premiums and thus enormous local investment and FDI. That too is whats been going on in Eastern Europe.
If, say, Orban seriously suggested leaving the EU he'd be lynched.; 12/8/25, 8:16 PM