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December 17, 2025
Sunrise — .6:54, 7:06, 7:27, 7:39.
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“Stonedome”
Seeing as how voters apparently think the left are the ones will to make New York City ‘affordable’ for every twenty something on an activists salary, perhaps it’s time for a review of the fundamentals. To share around the Christmas tree…
The Grumpy Economist Weekly Rant Videos
Muslim terrorism cancels New Year’s Eve in Paris.
New Year’s Eve at the Champs-Élysées, which was already utilizing bag checks and pat-downs to screen for not only weapons but any alcohol, glass bottles and anything that could be used as a weapon, was canceled because the authorities and the police could not assure the safety of the celebrants in the most iconic spot in all of France. The place where General DeGaulle had once walked down to celebrate France’s liberation has fallen under Islamic occupation.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/all-of-france-is-a-no-go-zone-now/
"Religion of Peace", don't you know?
The last pic
https://x.com/wajacobson/status/2001334807209369655?
"police could not assure the safety of the celebrants"
One of my pet peeves has always been paying taxes for a service and then the people hired to do that service and paid handsomely to do it simply fucking refuse to do their jobs.
The people of Paris need overthrow their government.
The French paid very high taxes to fund a police department and government that has sold them down the fucking Seine.
Storm the Bastille.
Mason G said...
"Religion of Peace", don't you know?
Macron is running somewhere in the teens for approval rating.
It isn't just the Muslims he is locking down.
With all the fun we’ve been having here I’ve also been getting a steady stream of videos about the provinces seceding from Canada to become US states. Quebec? Really? Anyways, I don’t think they were invited right? I mean invited invited. Plus the left said it was all Trump bs…right?
"It isn't just the Muslims he is locking down."
Based on the article, it doesn't appear the muslims are being locked down at all.
FormerLawClerk said...
"police could not assure the safety of the celebrants"
One of my pet peeves has always been paying taxes for a service and then the people hired to do that service and paid handsomely to do it simply fucking refuse to do their jobs.
Their jobs aren't necessarily to protect the French people though.
The people of Paris need overthrow their government.
The French paid very high taxes to fund a police department and government that has sold them down the fucking Seine.
Storm the Bastille.
They need to over throw the French government for a variety of reasons.
One reason is that the Police have teamed up with the Muslims much the same way Portland Police have teamed up with Antifa.
Most places, the police will team up with whoever is paying them.
Mason G said...
"It isn't just the Muslims he is locking down."
Based on the article, it doesn't appear the muslims are being locked down at all.
Macron is teaming up with imported soldiers in France much the same way Democrats are teaming up with illegal aliens they imported here in the US.
Macron and the Democrats are bought and paid for by the same people who have the same goals all around the world.
From the School of Meadehouse.
Very nice pix.
But I thought you guys liked never-ending wars and having innocent civilians fear not God but American-financed violence? You're pretending to be peoples of peace now? Tens of thousands of dead women and children in Gaza don't give you pause? The poor diaspora... Netanyahu calculated their lives into the price of growing the Jewish state. The world likely wi know peace for some time now. Sowing and reaping. This is your harvest.
Dan Bongino is out at the FBI after less than a year ~ Politico
Bongino just found out that both the Deep State and the Epstein files are full of Republicans, so now he's ready to head back to his podcast and keep lying to people.
I'm not sure if appointing a right-wing conspiracy theorist and podcaster as deputy director of the FBI was the best idea.
Will not know, sadly ...
No duckie pix today to distract us from the news of late, meade boy? No pretty song lists? No ann silly stories? Cmon boomer kids... Be silly again.
The enarques like the harvard mba club hate the flics and the soldiers
The enarques like the harvard mba club hate the flics and the soldiers
For reasons unknown to me, several of my comments after the Prof's correction to the Darnton story have gone astray.
I want to thank Professor Althouse for taking a closer look.
Close reading and proper attribution are as important in writing about history as they are in legal work.
Recall macron ran on the regrets about the invasion of algeria nearly 200 hundred years agi
A rather strange platform plank his predecessor hollande put up 100, 000 troops as a kabuki exercise after bataclan
My only question about the speech tonight -- will the networks pull out when he starts lying?
Don is on fire. Go Don go.
Watching the speech now. Trump is doing a pretty good "old man yelling at the TV" act. Except he's yelling from the TV. But everything he is saying about his accomplishments is true.
He's using his stump speech style but without a live audience. Loses something. CC, JSM
Definitely better than the Jimmy Carter Malaise speech.
But not as good as Carter talking the guy down from the bad acid trip. CC, JSM
Meade said..."Stonedome”
We should erect on obelisk on Picnic Point to mark the proper viewing point on the solstice.
Clyde's Top 15 Favorite "New" Songs of 2025 - Part 3 of 16
#14 - Joe Walsh - "Wrecking Ball" - Analog Man (2012)
This is one of those songs that showed up on one of my recommended playlists and I fell in love with it. Great lyrics! I had no idea that Jeff Lynne was involved with it until I saw the live video version of this song, which I will share as a bonus song. It turns out that Lynne was also one of the producers on the album and did the mixing on this song as well as others. No wonder I liked it so much!
https://youtu.be/YRKQ1-37tVs?si=6VkxNKVDDp2sEzZJ
Clyde's Top 15 Favorite "New" Songs of 2025
Bonus song - Joe Walsh - "Wrecking Ball" (Live) - Analog Man (2012)
Yes, that IS Jeff Lynne on stage with Joe! All roads lead to ELO!
https://youtu.be/Ym8QqvF6xW8?si=CQx7SE9cYrAx9hvb
I remember Carter talking Peter down from his Yellow Sunshine trip. When SNL was funny,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-68iTvhWNB0
Anybody watched a college football bowl game this season?
gspencer: Yes, that sketch describes Carter so well that it should be true. Kind of like Palin and "I can see Russia from my house."
(by which I mean, not that she was a ditzy bimbo with a simplistic view of the world, but that she was right about Russia) CC, JSM
JK Rowling wrote a Star wars knock off with sucky light sabres.
Kakistocracy said...
My only question about the speech tonight -- will the networks pull out when he starts lying?
Retard thinks lying means disagreeing with him.
He repeated a campaign stump speech while yelling and looking desperate. Does he need to get ahead of impending bad news?
Here There and Everywhere, by Joscho Stephan and Richard Smith
Sometimes, when I listen to Trump speak, I think he's well on his way to dementia. Other times, I think he's on something. Then again, I consider that it might just be because his vocabulary is very limited and he's struggling to read someone else's words. But most of the time, I think it's all three.
The most honest account of Trump’s second term
didn’t come from a critic. It came from his own chief of staff.
Great little speech by Trump. Short and sweet. We are about to experience a tremendous economic and cultural boom.
"The most honest account of Trump’s second term
didn’t come from a critic. It came from his own chief of staff."
Now you're getting it.
"...the finest President, White House staff, and Cabinet in history.... The truth is the Trump White House has already accomplished more in eleven months than any other President has accomplished in eight years and that is due to the unmatched leadership and vision of President Trump." ~ S. Wiles
MAGA!
Political Junkie said...
Anybody watched a college football bowl game this season?
I plan to watch one on December 30th. For the Wisconsin fans who hate Bert Bielema, I would watch Wisconsin in a bowl game, but I can’t seem to figure out which bowl game they’re in. I also plan to watch the Dukes of nearby James Madison University play Oregon on the 20th (I think that’s the date)
I think if we made a rule prohibiting Trump from talking about himself, we could cut the length of his speeches substantially.
From where I sit the mayor of Providence, RI, and the President of Brown University appear to be colluding to prevent identification of the gunman who killed two students on campus last Saturday.
There is a credible report that students who were witnesses to the murders have been bullied into noncooperation with the FBI.
Let's discuss blockades for a moment.
For example, has the USA established a blockade around Venezuela? The President, and his speechwriters, and most of his cabinet, likely have no clue what a blockade is. And they didn't ask the Navy. No, we haven't. What we have done is announce something as a blockade that's actually a interdiction operation for stateless vessels. We're not stopping and searching all Venezuelan bound ships. Fly one nation's flag one day, another nation's flag the next, or registered in the international shipping registry in one country and flying the flag of another, and, well, you're going to be stopped and searched. That is not a blockade. Stopping and searching every inbound/outbound vessel from Venezuela? That's a blockade. In my lifetime, Clinton, Obama, Biden, and now Trump are the 4 presidents who likely couldn't correctly describe what a blockade actually is off the top of their heads. No military service. Kennedy was the first president with Navy service, followed by Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, and George W Bush.
Stopping stateless vessels is not an act of war, and doesn't require notification to congress. Sinking stateless vessels the same.
There has been no presumption of innocence for stateless vessels since vessels started sailing the open seas. Still isn't. The presumption is- smuggler or pirate unless proven otherwise. One job hazard of both professions is sudden death. Always has been.
Everybody is obsessed with Trump, especially you. Why should Trump be different. At least he knows what the guy is really about, and doesn't have to make shit up.
The price tag at Walmart is the price tag at Walmart. So calling inflation a hoax is self-defeating and just plain dumb. Broadcast network executives should be ashamed that they carried that gaslit tirade.
Lately, these speeches have me missing the old days—the ones filled with rants about Al Capone, Hannibal Lecter, electric tanks, sharks devouring people, windmills causing cancer, and whales driven mad.
Gasoline lowest in five years
. Groceries no substantial real world increase .
Outstanding photos!
Step away from the crack pipe, kak. You are WACK, as well as exceedingly full of excrement.
Sanctuary policies are an attempt to remove illegal aliens from federal jurisdiction. Ignoring an ICE detainer says, “We don’t believe that this person has to obey Federal immigration law.”
IOW, sanctuary policies dispute that illegal aliens are subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
Sanctuary policies prove that the progeny of illegal aliens are not US citizens.
I find it interesting those who hate Trump spend more time listening to/watching him than his supporters.
I don't watch his speeches. Never have. And I most certainly didn't watch Obama's or Biden's speeches because I didn't give a shit what they had to say.
What's your excuse, leftists? Addiction? Can't get by without your daily dose of hate?
"I find it interesting those who hate Trump spend more time listening to/watching him than his supporters."
And when they're not watching him, they're listening to others who are watching him talk about him.
I've never watched a Trump speech, never listened to or attended a Trump rally. I pay attention to what he does, not what he says. The latter is often used in service of the former, I notice - not infrequently, as a catalyst.
Kakistocracy said...
The price tag at Walmart is the price tag at Walmart. So calling inflation a hoax is self-defeating and just plain dumb. Broadcast network executives should be ashamed that they carried that gaslit tirade.
Prices at Walmart were going up double digits every year between 2021-2024.
Now we are back down to historically normal inflation that is lower than wage growth for American citizens.
The muppet is just mad that American citizens are making more money and Walmart can't import things made in China for free.
DO ALL RIGHTIES DO MATH LIKE TRUMP, ITS GOING DOWN 600 ,800 ,900%. Make up numbers ,best thing in last 3000 years, Does anyone really listen to this nonsense, Someone needs to let this fella know you go to the store something is on sale for 150% of price, what does that mean to you? It means the store owner pays you back 50%.100% IS THE GUIDELINE. MY GOD MADGE this is the fella they made president. The trumpers need help. 150% 0f $10.00- or 1.5x$10=$15.00 THE STORE OWNER PAYS YOU BACK $5.00 ?? Did the MAGAS who listen to this nonsense go to same school as trump? This is guy in charge of country. And MAGAS go yeah baby that's right 600% 700% 1000% dumbing down of the US, maga ,im gonna go get me 600% off... WTF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS dropped 300%,400% 700% .WTF turn TV off when kids are around, they'll pick up on this dribble and no one tells this guy its absurd. Cmon man
What's your excuse, leftists? Addiction? Can't get by without your daily dose of hate?
@Jim at, you broke the effin’ code, Dude! Hate is all they have so they bitterly cling to their hatred with both arms.
AI,FACTS CHECKERS,POLITICO etc on the FACTS and not the lie fest in tonights trump arama.
In his December 17, 2025 primetime speech, President Trump made several claims that fact-checkers flagged as false or misleading, including saying zero illegal migrants entered the U.S. for seven months, exaggerating energy cost increases under Biden, and promising $1,776 “warrior dividend” checks funded by tariffs that experts say don’t exist.
Key False or Misleading Claims
Border Security:
Trump claimed “for the past seven months, zero illegal aliens have been allowed into our country.”
Fact-checkers found this false — border apprehensions and crossings have continued, though numbers fluctuate.
Energy Costs:
He said electricity costs surged 30–100% under Biden, costing families $5,000–$10,000.
Analysts found this wildly exaggerated. Average household energy costs rose, but nowhere near those levels.
Economic Success:
Trump insisted he had “brought down soaring prices.”
Inflation has cooled somewhat, but food, housing, and utilities remain high compared to pre-pandemic levels. His claim of dramatic relief is misleading.
Warrior Dividend Checks:
He announced $1,776 checks for 1–1.5 million service members, supposedly funded by tariffs.
Experts say there is no evidence such funds exist or are being distributed. The announcement appears more symbolic than real.
But “we didn’t need legislation, just a new president.”
and cooperation with states. His claim oversimplifies and misrepresents the process.
📊Findings
designed to contrast Trump with Biden, but fact-checkers warn they distort reality.
Public Impact: False claims about energy costs and border security can heighten fear and frustration, even when data shows more nuanced trends.
Military Dividend: Announcing checks without proof risks misleading service members and families expecting real payouts.
Trump’s December 17 speech leaned heavily on exaggerations and falsehoods about immigration, energy costs, and economic relief. Fact-checkers across multiple outlets (Politifact, CBS, Hindustan Times, USA Today Post etc) concluded that his narrative was more political spin than factual reality.
LIE FEST and meandering from a senile ,old man telling his trumpeters what they want to hear and going YEAH BABY heck with the facts just believe Donny As he shouts at the American people ,dont work well without his live audience of trumpeters there though, new health plan in 2 weeks, PEOPLE GET MONETY to do what PAY INSURANCE COMPANIES. Cmon an NATIONAL AVERAGE GAS $2.91 ,INFLATION AT 3% JUST WHAT IT WAS A YEAR AGO WHEN HE TOOK OVER. This is very easy to check instead of putting your head in the sand ,fingers in your ears and believe what this obsessive compulsive lie machine says. 7 consecutive months of jobs loss, tariffs largest tax increase on Americans c;mon man, ,are you really that gullible> FED CHAIR CANNOT unilaterally decrease interest rates. SUSIE WILES just touched the out of control meanderings from this guy and his trumpeters. AFFORDABILITY is a hoax as he originally touts himself of president of affordability/His speech like a truth social rant. iring as this guy posts a 36% poll on the economy. This was not a major international event calling for a address to the nation,and he fuked up the final SURVIVOR show, MEDIA SHOULD REALLY DEBATE WHETHER THEY ARE GONNA LET INTERRUPTION FOR RANTS THAT HAVE NO NATIONAL MEANING .
Trump must have given a good speech given that frothing wall of text.
It is pretty frothy.
"food, housing, and utilities remain high compared to pre-pandemic levels"
You cant force prices down by fiat, even with dictatorial powers. Dictators have tried. And prices are "sticky" - Economics 101. You can hope for a depression, which will do that, but thats vastly worse than even the inflation of the 1970s-80s.
" border apprehensions and crossings have continued, though numbers fluctuate."
At a vastly lower level than 2021-2024. This is one of Trumps bigger successes, and the simplest and most predictable.
Nick Reiner’s lawyer is Alan Jackson. Lost the Weinstein trial in CA but has a lot of wins to his name. Will there be a plea or a trial? I’m betting it’s a trial.
He says he has a 95% success rate.
Grok says chances are low for a trial.
We used to sing this with the kids, in the car, we had a tape of American folksongs. Hey, we indoctrinated the kids as Americans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqowmHgxVJQ
I just thought it fit so well with Dinky's whining.
In the big rock candy mountain
You never change your socks
And the little streams of alcohol
Come trickling down the rocks
The brakemen have to tip their hats
And the railway bulls are blind
There's a lake of stew and of whiskey too
You can paddle all around it in a big canoe
In the big rock candy mountain
I'll see all this coming fall
In the big rock candy mountain
Forbes estimates Elon Musk's wealth as $671 billion. Hard to believe.
https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/#38d5f03d788b
For the third time, a Virginia grand jury has rejected an attempt by the DOJ to indict Trish James. Worse, the government requested that this "no bill" be kept secret from the public - a request that the judge rejected.
Trump's Presidential Walk of Fame has new insults regarding Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
“Sleepy Joe Biden was, by far, the worst President in American history,” reads one new sign.
A new plaque for President Barack Obama includes his middle name, Hussein, and calls him “one of the most divisive political figures in American history.”
The 2024 edition of the Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey has Biden in 14th place, just ahead of Woodrow Wilson and Ronald Reagan. Obama was ranked #7. Trump comes in 45th, last behind fellow impeachee Andrew Johnson and James Buchanan, the previous cellar-dweller in these ratings.
gadfly, any "Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey" that has the Autopen at 14th place is self-beclowning. What a joke!
“Sleepy Joe Biden was, by far, the worst President in American history,” reads one new sign.
A new plaque for President Barack Obama includes his middle name, Hussein, and calls him “one of the most divisive political figures in American history.”
That's something Hitler would say, no?
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When are you chuds going to figure out we're now playing by your rules?
Eva Marie: "Nick Reiner’s lawyer is Alan Jackson.... Will there be a plea or a trial?"
Dunno, but at some point he's going to tell the court it's 5 o'clock somewhere. CC, JSM
buwaya: "We used to sing this with the kids, in the car,"
Guess you stopped the tape right before the part about "buggered sore/Like a hobo's whore/on the Big Rock Candy Mountain." CC, JSM
I assume gadfly thinks an argument from authority will work with us. An argument from authority only works with the feeble-minded, like gadfly. There is a reason why it is regarded as a logical fallacy.
Trial concluded. Begley v Big Solar. Big Solar has a market cap of $170b. Begley does not. But if Begley wins, no $600m solar project in southern Lancaster County, Nebraska.
I’m doing my best to keep Nebraska beautiful in our minds and imaginations.
What's notable about the Jacob Savage article in Compact is not that DEI programs discriminate against white males in hiring and promotion. We all know they do. Often, out in the open.
What's different about this article is the journalist is documenting actual discrimination against white males. So that's a liberal first, that they are now seeing how white males can be victimized by racism and sexism.
This racial and sexist discrimination has been going on for a long time. I'm sure I've been denied a spot at a university or a job that I've wanted. And most of this discrimination has benefited women, including a lot of white women.
Women have been complaining about "glass ceilings" forever. All those ceilings have been broken, except the White House, of course. But I don't see how a leftist DEI woman could ever win the White House. Particularly when articles like this start coming out, revealing what we all suspected to be true.
Matt Taibbi interviews the author here.
(I found Taibbi's complaint that these white men ought to be saved because they voted Democrat and love abortion rights laughably naive and stupid). Overall it's a good interview, though. And brave journalism, kudos.
You can hope for a depression, which will do that, but thats vastly worse than even the inflation of the 1970s-80s.
Yes for all the discussion around the fears of inflation periods of deflation are a big problem, like we all have much bigger problems than money and economics big problem
“What's different about this article is the journalist is documenting actual discrimination against white males. So that's a liberal first, that they are now seeing how white males can be victimized by racism and sexism.“
Democrats trying to solve their male voter problem... Admitting they did this to males, especially white males, is quite the trick. “Come on back, you can trust us because we now admit we screwed you and your deserved livelihood so thoroughly!”
WSJ says: A second-term boom in crypto and other areas has created billions in new wealth for the first family
Well making it look like their wealth is a crypo scam is irresponsible journalism (it isn’t journalism- who are we kidding at this point?) but not that long ago (literally yesterday) Trump’s detractors were claiming he’s always bankrupt…
Trump also claimed his policies would reduce domestic drug prices by up to “600 per cent”.
With stupidity like this, where do we even start ...
It's like watching an old guy shouting at traffic.
the mayor of Providence, RI, and the President of Brown University appear to be colluding to prevent identification of the gunman who killed two students on campus last Saturday
I guess we’ll know when they finally can’t hide the student they’re hiding. The leaders you mention sure sound like they copied a few pages of the playbook of the head of the secret service when Trump was shot…
Biden's in 14th place!
Imagine how high he would have been if the man was in his right mind.
Joe Biden with dementia: #14.
Joe Biden without dementia: ?????
Makes you wonder how the Democrats failed to nominate him in 1988, when his brain was working, more or less. How did you miss his genius for so long?
Outflanked by Dukakis
We love the auto-pen
Makes you wonder, with that historic performance in his first term, the Democrats did not want him to seek re-election. Weird, right?
Democrats trying to solve their male voter problem... Admitting they did this to males, especially white males, is quite the trick. “Come on back, you can trust us because we now admit we screwed you and your deserved livelihood so thoroughly!”
Not only that, the Democrats are promising more of the same.
The other interesting thing in that article is how terrified all of the men were, and how anonymous they wanted to be. The only reason Savage felt free to publish the article is that he's not in the industry anymore, and they can't hurt him.
I think he's right in his assumption that they probably would. These Democrat-run industries are brutal, oppressive and now, officially, racist and sexist.
All of this is illegal, of course, under current law. But the Democrats scoff at our laws.
600% drop in drug prices. That's tough to do. Of course even a 100% drop would bankrupt all the pharmaceutical companies. What an idiot. He doesn't understand anything he's saying.
Trump is similar to Achilles -- if you're explaining, you're losing.
The tide is finally turning and people have finally woken up to the absolute car crash that is this Administration.
If this was a Netflix show it be deemed too far fetched and removed from reality to be taken seriously. Yet here we are.
You reap what you sow.
Trump’s meandering primetime address raises new questions about Joe Biden’s press conferences.
Peter Arnett passed away. CC, JSM
I take it it was a Trump rally speech. Not a fan of those but his zingers are great.
It is fun seeing Kak act like he has some gift in understand economics while TSLA is set to open at 473 and FANG still hasn’t recovered from Kak touting its CEO.
The tide is finally turning and people have finally woken up to the absolute car crash that is this Administration.
Oh horse shit. His approval is the same or slightly greater than Obama, and well above Bush Jr., at the same point in their second terms. He's doing fine, and economists are starting to realize that 2026 may be a banger of a year.
The 2024 edition of the Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey has Biden in 14th place, just ahead of Woodrow Wilson and Ronald Reagan.
HAHAHA, no shit?!
That tells me ten thousand times more about the "experts" than it does about any of the Presidents. What a joke.
Starting to see rumors that the 800-camera setup on the Brown University campus had been turned off to avoid collecting evidence. Why? Anti-ICE principles, sanctuary campus - can't have the Feds using our cameras to potentially deport people here illegally.
Big, if true, considering what appears to be a targeted killing that benefited. $8 billion endowment big. The questions to the 'officials' are becoming more pointed, and their answers are extremely careful.
The numbers in that Compact article are kind of astounding.
In 2011, the year I moved to Los Angeles, white men were 48 percent of lower-level TV writers; by 2024, they accounted for just 11.9 percent.
Or look at Yale hiring.
Since 2018, only 14.6 percent of tenure-track assistant professors hired at Yale have been white American men. In the humanities, that number was just six out of 76 (7.9 percent).
And it wasn't just the racism and sexism. If you wanted to apply for a job, you were forced to bow down before DEI and worship the agenda.
As elsewhere, the UC schools required DEI statements, in which prospective faculty were asked to detail “future plans to advance diversity, equity and inclusion.” Ethan had to write dozens of these statements in the course of his job search. But the UCs took it a step further. Under an $8.5 million state program called “Advancing Faculty Diversity,” UC administrators used DEI statements as a “first cut” to winnow down applicant pools before faculty were even allowed to consider candidates.
First you cut the white men who aren't strong enough supporters of DEI. And then you start cutting out white men just because they're white men.
The head of security had two votes of confidence against him chatman is his name
Look at the legal insurrection link about the larger storu
The head of security had two votes of confidence against him chatman is his name
Look at the legal insurrection link about the larger storu
’Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey’
A survey of experts!! What’s not to love… lol
A classic hack from the 90s
The academy and the media proved as genuine as a python sketch
Hey Dave just curious how many jobs will be lost if you win?
Biden the 14th greatest president? Details revealed poll was conducted by the staff of MSNBC, now known as MS-NFL, not for long.
Trump should confiscate the oil /tankers. Recall Hugo Chavez stole, then plundered US oil company assets when he came to power.
The summarize proust sketch
Actually nationalization was under carlos andres perez in the 70d
Weren't there cameras? Isn't there technology to identify people from photographs
…asked the blogger. Deliberately turned off? Off because of illegals or to get rid of Charlie Kirk on campus? You see if questions aren’t answered people draw their own conclusions. By baseline is do not attribute to malice that which but I’m beginning to embrace the power of and right off the bat…
Burl Ives does my favorite version of Big Rock Candy Mountain.
The circumstances along side the erasures of the university profiles suggest the latter
I think there ought to be a class-action lawsuit against Yale University. They've got deep pockets and they engaged in illegal behavior. Why wouldn't you sue them?
I'll bet they have a lot of damning internal documents
yah when the private money starts demanding stop him do something that is what they have in mind…
Yale had a fair bit of money from prince talal (that zelig character in a whole host of pots)
Harvard, Yale Accused Of Not Reporting Hundreds Of Millions In Foreign Donations : NPR https://share.google/OIlWuV3ASkDStVw4s
How is visiting professor boustani from bir zeit involved
Like any other industry annual award banquet, the Oscars will become a streamed show on YouTube.
Remember when the Commies said passing Obamacare was the cure-all for high healthcare costs. It was all a lie. Obama lied through his teeth and the Commies nodded in agreement. Now the recipients need billions in subsidies.
Prior to Obamacare passing, I confronted my congress chick face to face on the projected cost of this Obamanation. She lied to me. She (Kathy Dahlkemper) got smoked in the 2010 house election.
Yes but those are entertaining
And 15 years later mangione murders someone because of that lie
Somebody needs to throw Kak a life preserver. That dude is flailing in the current, and he keeps screaming "Trump!".
Unemployment rising? I suspect if the feds continue their crackdown on the illegal immigrant employment, employers will be forced to increased wages to attract US citizens.
As an aside, the local electric company hired a company to trim all the trees along their power lines. They trimmed two trees on my property. It was the Spanish Olympics.
The unemployment measuring system is flawed
Thats why they forced ej anthoni from the nomination
When education is replaced with vile targeted propaganda
Curious as to why no survivors of the Brown University shooting(s) have gone public. How many were in the classroom? How many if, any, were not hit by the gunman? Were the survivors bullied into silence? Strange.
Kak: "It's like watching an old guy shouting at traffic."
So, pretty much like looking in the mirror, eh, Kak?
Isnt it curious
Leftists like to murder people they disagree with - using guns and bullets.
Last night, I gave one of the bestest presidential speeches in U.S. history. Many people say so. It was so great, so great, many say greater than the Gettysburg Address. Why? Because it was mainly all about Me. It was about how I fixed the mess that Barack Hussein Obama and Sleepy Joe Biden left. See these two portraits of Hussein with Sharpie blacked out teeth and Sleepy Joe wearing a dress? That’s what you had, that’s where we were going. The country was going to hell. But I fixed that. But many still aren’t happy which is why last night I gave you the bestest speech you’ve ever heard. Many people say that. The problem isn’t me but it’s actually you. You should be thankful. Many people say that. If you want a president with blacked out teeth or wearing a dress, just get the hell out. As a matter of fact, we’re in the process of getting these haters out as I speak. The country is doing great but some are bitching, some wanting prices even lower than what I’ve made them. Why so many haters? This administration will continue to fix that in a way no one has ever seen. Thank you and God bless America and Me.
bagoh20 said...
“Somebody needs to throw Kak a life preserver. That dude is flailing in the current, and he keeps screaming ‘Trump!’.”
The life preserver should be Maximum Red [ Hex: #D8281B, RGB: (216, 40, 27), or CMYK: (0, 82, 88, 15) ] and have white lettering USS Make America Great Again.
Our speech is violence their violence is speech (thats straight up marcuse: from the frankfurt school
The corrupt child abusing teachers union - still coming after our kids with trans madness/ & sex obsessed child abuse... while erasing actual education. don't stop fighting.
Jillian Michaels and Tim Crowder having a discussion.
Remember - leftist cultists the nation over - were sad and angry when the 20-something assassin missed killing Trump.
The collective left didn't shed any tears for Cory, either.
The 2024 edition of the Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey has Biden in 14th place, just ahead of Woodrow Wilson and RONALD REAGAN.
Jesus H, Gadfly. If a bunch of football experts told you that Trent Dilfer was a better QB than Tom Brady, would you reconsider your assessment of Trent Dilfer, or decide the "experts" were out of their minds?
Jim5301: "Hey Dave just curious how many jobs will be lost if you win?"
Lots. Nearly all ChiCom. That's who makes the solar crap.
The fossil and nuke power plants to replace that capacity will be made and put up by Americans.
Win-Win! CC, JSM
The collection of lefty stooges holding the press conferences at Brown University have repeatedly stated the community is safe, even though a person is out there armed with a 9mm pistol. That would cause me to conclude it was a targeted shooting.
After the 10th time hearing Morning Shmoe make fun of Trump's 600% drug discounts, I think I figured out Trump's math.
I think he means the prices were jacked up 600% before he brought them back to normal. So really he achieved an 80-ish percent reduction. Not nuffin.
Kind of like how I counteracted 10 Scarborough repetitions: I defeated his logic 1000%!
Makes sense to non-pedants. CC, JSM
The tide is finally turning and people have finally woken up to the absolute car crash that is this Administration.
"The walls are closing in!!!"
jim5301 said...
Hey Dave just curious how many jobs will be lost if you win?
Jobs, in and of themselves, are not always a good thing. They are only good if they create a net positive for the economy. Green energy projects are often expensive boondoggles that misallocate finite resources. Wind especially falls into this category.
Woodrow Wilson was in the top half? Way to undermine your credibility.
He created the censorship org the creel outfit
Brown University - a bastion of hate.
Origins
gadfly said...
“Trump's Presidential Walk of Fame has new insults regarding Barack Obama … A new plaque for President Barack Obama includes his middle name…”
He called him by his full given name oh no!
Remember the jobs increases under the Demented One? The previous month’s the numbers were always corrected (read: reduced).
John Mosby - about 225 jobs during construction. American jobs. Nebraska jobs. Remind me again why a private sector solar farm should be blocked from being built on private property?
As Jeff Childers (Coffee & Covid) notes: Except when Republicans are in office, rates of unemployment below 5% are considered healthy.
Leland said...
“Woodrow Wilson was in the top half? Way to undermine your credibility.”
Calvin Coolidge in the bottom half? Another way to undermine credibility. Greatest presidents lists often seem to rank them by who did the most Great Things - regardless of whether those Great Things were actually good or bad.
Brown University has many, many very prominent, powerful and influential alumni and parents of students. It is frankly hard to believe that they are not absolutely up in arms about this situation.
He also segregated the dc public schools
Tried to watch the Michaels/Crowder discussion. Maybe there’s a transcript. She may have some good points but I couldn’t stand the dramatic presentation. I’m kind of tired of people questioning who was invited, who was spoken to. Invite anyone, talk to anyone. Just make sure you have plastic cutlery.
’It is frankly hard to believe that they are not absolutely up in arms about this situation.’
It seems extraordinary to me, too, but we’re not woke über alles.
https://x.com/angertab/status/2001637494048329822
That $1776 you’re getting? He’s taking it out of your already approved BHA and putting his name on it.
Trump rebrands Congressionally-approved troop housing subsidy as ‘warrior dividend’ bonus ~ Defense One
‘More than $2.9 billion in reconciliation funds was allocated to beef up troop housing allowances. Now it’s being used for $1,776 checks.’
Further reading: So the National Guard doesn’t get the little $1776 bonus, just Regular forces.
Not a great look, since that part of the military is currently bearing the brunt of the administration’s domestic deployments and has 3 dead in the last 3 weeks (DC and Syria)
"Achilles said...
Jillian Michaels and Tim Crowder having a discussion."
Steven Crowder.
"Dave Begley said...
Trial concluded. Begley v Big Solar. Big Solar has a market cap of $170b. Begley does not. But if Begley wins, no $600m solar project in southern Lancaster County, Nebraska."
Congrats, now, let's get that movie made!
"Kakistocracy said...
Trump’s meandering primetime address raises new questions about Joe Biden’s press conferences."
All four of them?
Just one of many LIES in the national address FROM THE MASTER OF lies.
A DefenseOne reporter received confirmation from a senior official that the “warrior dividends” are going to come from Congressionally-allocated reconciliation funds intended to subsidize housing allowances for service members — meaning, this money is what they were going to get ANYWAY.
It will be interesting to see how he explains it to the troops when they suddenly get a check for $1776 but no money for their rent this month. As usual, everything with Trump is snake oil, a mirror trick, or a straight-up fabrication. Can you hear the MAGA'S cheering loudly. Duped again but who cares right ,sounds good..
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Jim5301: "Hey Dave just curious how many jobs will be lost if you win?"
None. The contract hasn't awarded.
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