Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - December 9, 2025 [Doof]
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Howdy Hordelings! The Tuesday ONT is here, and so are you. Content to be read, comments to be posted. Some assembly required. Off we go!
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This Better Not Be AI Cafe
—Ace
Kristin_Mae photography
I'm pretty sure this must be AI, because it's so... perfectly contrived. But I can't really see any problems with the video. The human hands shown have five fingers. The sing-song narration might be the biggest tell that this is fake. Anyone see anything definitive?
The Kitten Always Knocks Twice.
Another lost dog surprises his family by finding his way home.
Kitten just wants to play.
Puppy never outgrows his love of cuddling with his mom.
Crow enjoys the see-saw.
Ultimate Fighting Championship: Bunny vs. baby goat.
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Gavin Newsom and Tim Walz Discuss the Fine Points of Being High-T Super-Masculine Mish-Slayers
—Ace
That video below the fold, from a great post about the radiating masculine energy of the Democrat Party by Beege Wellborn.
As you know, Gavin Newsom sits in an extremely "cover your mish" way that makes people doubt the physical existence of his testicles.
Andrew Stiles has expert reaction to Newsom's "Crotch Clutch" manner of sitting.
Newsom baffled experts who assessed that his posture appeared to defy the conventional scientific understanding of the human form. Gender scholars were just as perplexed. Several noted that Newsom, despite being born a male, was exhibiting a form of self-compressed emasculation or "crotch clench," while conveying an unmistakably female-coded body language. Political historians argued that Newsom's unusual posture was characteristic of failed candidates and sniveling cowards. It was, these experts contended, the seated equivalent of former President Obama's obsequious bow.That is why American voters could never trust Newsom to stand up to "wide-stance" authoritarian rivals such as Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping.
He is certainly no match for Donald Trump, and no amount of snarky tweets is going to change that.
Did you hear the news? Super-masculine and Fiercely Heterosexual lisping theater kid Cory Booker got "married" to a "woman" he just happened to meet and fall madly, heterosexually in love with a couple of weeks after he decided to run for president again.
Must just be Fiercely Heterosexual Cupid timing things perfectly!
Andrew Stiles again breaks it down:
Cory Booker Obtains Female Wife in Boost to 2028 White House Bid Notorious bachelor ties the knot in 'private' ceremony shared exclusively with the New York Times
Cory Booker married a female woman over the weekend, closing the book on idle speculation about a man often described as "the Leonardo DiCaprio of American politics." The Democratic senator from New Jersey wed his recently acquired fiancée, Alexis Lewis, at an intimate ceremony in Washington, D.C., over the weekend. The move satisfies a major public relations need for Booker and arrives with exquisite timing as he prepares to launch his 2028 presidential campaign.The happy couple shared exclusive details about their relationship and "private" wedding ceremony with the New York Times. Booker, 56, and Lewis, 38, reportedly met in May 2024, several weeks after the senator pre-launched his White House bid with a record-breaking (and utterly pointless) filibuster that went viral on Bluesky. Most Democrats celebrated Booker's stunt even though they denounced the filibuster as a "Jim Crow relic" that should be abolished.
Booker, who has described himself as "Spartacus," met his future bride through a "mutual friend known for matchmaking." Knowledgeable sources tell the Washington Free Beacon that the mutual friend is Anna Wintour, the fashion maven and Democratic megadonor who orchestrated the brief "romance" between Bradley Cooper, the Hollywood beefcake, and Huma Abedin, the longtime personal servant of Hillary Clinton. Wintour also hosted an engagement party for Abedin and Democratic billionaire Alex Soros in 2024.
After their first meeting, the couple enjoyed a second date that Booker, a normal adult male, described as "magical."
Read the whole thing. Stiles is obviously impressed by the sheer force of Cory Booker's fiercely heterosexual desire for this rando woman supplied to him by a gay icon.
Again thanks to Tree Hugging Sister, gay magazine The Advocate reports on Democrat Senator Reuben Gallego accidentally telling the truth about Democrats' gender fluidity.
First-year U.S. Sen. Ruben Gallego of Arizona is facing intensified scrutiny after leaked text messages showed the Democrat deriding the appearance of women and men in his own party. The comments mirror far-right rhetoric about gender and deepen concerns about his recent repositioning on LGBTQ+ issues.
In the messages, first circulated by a conservative outlet and reported by People last week Gallego, who started his first term in the U.S. Senate in January after previously serving in the House, complained that Democrats are "not allowing men to be men" or "women to be hot," and wrote, "Dem women look like Dem men and Dem men look like women." He also lamented that Democrats had become "the not fun party" and no longer embodied "sex, drugs, and rock and roll."
No lies detected.
Below, two Men's Men talk about manly things like fixin' trucks and coachin' football and, of course, what men always talk about -- our gender identities.
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Trump Chief of Staff Suzie Wiles Promises That Trump Will Campaign In 2026 Like It's His Name on the Ballot
—Ace
Which it effectively is. Trump's impeachment begins one minute after a new Democrat House is installed.
President Trump is gearing up to storm the 2026 midterm map, with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles saying Monday that the president is preparing to hit the trail with the same force and stamina he brought to his 2024 comeback run. Appearing on "The Mom View," a YouTube show from Moms for America, Wiles said Trump is already laying the groundwork to help Republicans hold the House and expand their Senate edge -- and that he plans to do it the only way he knows how: by showing up everywhere."I haven't quite broken it to him yet, but he's going to campaign like it's 2024 again," Wiles said with a laugh, describing a president who remains the GOP's most powerful turnout magnet. "All these people that he helps -- he doesn't help everybody -- but for those he does, he's a difference maker, and he's certainly a turnout machine."
Wiles, who managed Trump's victorious 2024 bid, said the White House is deliberately rejecting the old playbook that urged presidents to stay out of midterms and let local candidates dominate the spotlight. Instead, she said, Trump will insert himself directly into the fight -- a sharp pivot meant to energize the voters who showed up for him last November.
"Typically in the midterms, it's not about who's sitting at the White House. You localize the election, and you keep the federal officials out of it," she said. "We're actually going to turn that on its head, and put him on the ballot, because so many of those low-propensity voters are Trump voters."
She pointed to recent Democrat wins -- capped by the shock election of socialist Zohran Mamdani as New York City mayor -- as a warning of what happens when Trump isn't out front driving Republican enthusiasm. "We saw what happens when he's not on the ballot and not active," she said.
Hopefully he'll deploy a "Morning Again in America" campaign of good news.
The national average for a gallon of unleaded gasoline slipped below the $3 mark this week, continuing a months-long trend that's easing pressure on drivers heading into the Christmas season. New data from GasBuddy shows the average price falling to just under $3, fueled by what analysts describe as broad declines across most regions of the country. The update notes the national average is down 17.6 cents from a month ago and 7.3 cents from this time last year, based on more than 12 million price reports pulled from over 150,000 stations nationwide. Diesel prices also dipped, dropping another 5.1 cents to $3.671.Patrick De Haan, GasBuddy's head of petroleum analysis, said Monday that the country is "now at multi-year lows heading into Christmas" and predicted prices will hold steady through the early weeks of the new year. AAA's latest survey reached the same conclusion, pegging the national average at roughly $2.952 on Monday -- down from $3.001 a week ago and $3.073 a month ago.
Drivers across the South and Midwest are seeing some of the steepest savings. Oklahoma's statewide average sits around $2.36, Texas is hovering near $2.50, and Missouri is clocking in at roughly $2.61. Florida, Alabama, both Carolinas, Ohio, Michigan, Virginia, and Montana have all fallen below the $3 line as well. But coastal blue states continue to stand out on the other end of the spectrum. California's statewide average remains an eye-popping $4.46 -- about $1.57 higher than the national price -- with New York, Washington, Hawaii, and Nevada all posting averages above $3.
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"Intentional Negligence"? FBI Had J6 Bomber's Cell Phone Putting Him at the Scene of the Crime... Five Years Ago
—Ace
If the FBI had cell phone records of 10,000 people's cell phones sending signals from near the RNC and DNC on the night the bombs were planted, I could understand not finding the suspect. With a suspect list of 10,000 people, I guess I could understand the claim, "We just didn't have the manpower to run down every phone."
Guess how many cell phones they actually had records of in the vicinity of the RNC and DNC at the time when the bombs were being planted?
Fewer than 200.
No, i do not believe the FBI "just didn't have the resources" to look into 186 suspects -- not when they showed they could mobilize every agent to track down every grandma within ten blocks of the Capitol on January 6th.
So was this a case of "intentional negligence"?
Miranda Divine:
Surely there's more to it than that. Director Kash Patel hinted Friday at a reason the FBI under Biden administration Director Christopher Wray may not have wanted to solve the case: "intentional negligence."'Corrupted' cell data
This, after all, was the FBI that managed to round up and charge 1,500 supporters of President Trump who set foot anywhere vaguely near the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, tracking them down through cellphone pings and video footage.
Yet with all its technical ability, Wray's FBI somehow missed the phone used by the suspect in the vicinity of the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee headquarters on the evening of Jan. 5 when the pipe bombs were planted. Surveillance footage shows the suspect, wearing a gray hoodie and COVID-style white mask, seemingly talking on the phone while walking around that night less than half a mile from the Capitol.
According to an FBI document presented to the DC District Court during his arraignment Friday, Cole's cellphone "engaged in approximately seven data session transactions with [his cellphone provider's] towers between 7:39 p.m. and 8:24 p.m. ... in the area of the RNC and DNC on January 5, 2021," locating him in the right place at the right time.
That information was obtained by the FBI within weeks of the discovery of the pipe bombs the next day. Investigators found 186 cellphone numbers "of interest" and 130 "devices of interest," according to the congressional report released this January by the chairmen of the House Oversight and Judiciary subcommittees, Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.).
By early February 2021, according to the subcommittees, FBI agents had been assigned to interview people associated with 36 of the 186 phone numbers; 98 still "required additional investigative steps." A further 51 phone numbers were identified as "not needing further action" because, curiously enough, the phones "belong[ed] to law enforcement officers or persons on the exclusion list."The FBI never told Congress what came of those leads.
They only bothered looking into 36 of the 186 phone numbers?
Let me guess - the 36 they looked into were Trump supporting Republicans, right?
Then there is the curious tale of the "corrupted" cellphone data that turned out not to be corrupted at all.
The story came from Steve D'Antuono, head of the FBI's Washington field office until his retirement in December 2022, who was in charge of the crucial first year of the pipe bomb case as well as the Capitol riot investigation, which has been described as the biggest in FBI history.
He was assigned to Washington one month before the 2020 election from his previous role in Detroit, when he ran the disastrous Gretchen Whitmer "fednapping" case that resulted in multiple mistrials and acquittals, amid claims of FBI entrapment of patsies.
D'Antuono, who has since found a job at KPMG, also led the controversial FBI raid on Trump's home, Mar-a-Lago, in August 2022. He claims he opposed the raid but was overruled by then-Deputy FBI Director Paul Abbate.
In any case, in June 2023, D'Antuono testified before Congress, claiming that the FBI had received "corrupted data" in the pipe bomb case from one of the three major cellphone carriers and that may have been the reason it couldn't find the culprit.
"We did a complete geofence. [But] there's some data that was corrupted by one of the providers, not purposely by them," he said."It just [was an] unusual circumstance that we have corrupt data from one of the providers ... I can't remember right now which one. But for that day, which is awful because we don't have that information to search. So could it have been that provider? Yeah, with our luck, you know, with this investigation it probably was, right."
Yet all three of the cellphone carriers contacted by Loudermilk's subcommittee confirmed that they "did not provide corrupted data to the FBI and that the FBI never notified them of any issues with accessing the cellular data."
It gets worse. The FBI didn't release any pictures of the suspect that could identify him -- and one investigator claims that the FBI deliberately blurred out the one part of his face that was clearly visible in the surveillance footage, his eyes.
Why would they do that, if not to conceal his identity?
I don't know if I'm ready to believe that. It's a claim made by someone looking at the video and determining that he sees "pixelation" added to the video to obscure Brian Cole, Jr.'s eyes. I remember other claims about "chromatic aberrations" not turning out to be true.
But I would like this investigated further.
...But by the end of February 2021, according to Loudermilk and Massie's report, the bureau actively began diverting resources away from the pipe bomb investigation. At the same time, Wray and Abbate were ramping up resources to track down and aggressively prosecute trespassing J6 grandmothers.
Miranda Divine concludes that the political operators of the FBI didn't want to taint their Trump Did the J6 Insurrection narrative with any information that might undermine it, and started winding down the investigation when it looked like the main suspect was not a MAGA grandma.
ABC Bows to Woke Mob and Grants Jimmy Kimmel Another Year to Lose the Network Money and Prestige
—Ace
When ABC took Kimmel off the air for five minutes, woke leftists announced a boycott of the company. He was back within days.
So of course ABC can't just let him go now. The woke mob has spoken.
ABC has extended Jimmy Kimmel's show for at least one year after the late-night comedian was suspended in September for his controversial comments about Charlie Kirk's assassin, The Post has learned."Jimmy Kimmel Live!" will continue to air on the Disney-owned network until at least May 2027 under the new deal, a source told The Post.
Kimmel, 58 -- whose current contract expires in May 2026 -- told his staff on Monday that the show was renewed, according to Bloomberg, which earlier reported the news.
The agreement was reached months ago, but Kimmel and Disney held off making the announcement out of respect for late-night host Stephen Colbert, according to the report.
Oh, the agreement was reached during the woke freak-out? Not surprising at all.
CBS in May announced Colbert's show would end in May 2026, and Kimmel did not want to leave at the same time as Colbert, the report said.
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His suspension came just a few hours after FCC Chairman Brendan Carr warned the network and Disney that "we can do this the easy or the hard way."
As I said at the time: Carr does in fact have the right to threaten that. There is a category of show called a "bona fide news program" which is allowed to be partisan without any "equal time" requirements. Any show that is not a "bona fide news program" cannot openly propagandize for a party without invoking the still-existing "equal time" rules.
Obviously Jimmy Kimmel (and The View) are emphatically not "bona fide news programs" so they either have to be balanced and avoid outright lying or else the GOP is entitled to run their own "equal time" propaganda shows on ABC's airwaves.
Speaking of unearned privilege:
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Paramount/Skydance Launches Hostile Takeover Bid for Warner Bros.
—Ace
For those just joining the story in progress:
David Ellison -- son of the Oracle founder and multibillionaire Larry Ellison, and himself worth millions -- owned Skydance, and then used that company to purchase one of the smaller major studios, Paramount.
Then he made a bid to buy Warner Bros. studios from Warner Discovery. That offer was rejected. Then Warner Bros. advertised that it was for sale and would entertain other offers.
Netflix made a bid to buy it, and this bid was accepted.
By management, I mean.
David Ellison still wants Warner Bros. So he's making a hostile takeoever bid. That just means that unlike the Netflix bid which was arranged with the current management of Warner Discovery and has their blessing, this bid is made against current mangement's wishes and so is "hostile" to their intentions.
But it's the shareholders who get to decide. Ellison is offering shareholders a competing bid.
Ellison's bid is $30 per share, in cash. Neflix's bid is for less cash per sale -- $27 -- but shareholders would also get shares in whatever spin-off corporation they create out of the the parts of Warner Discovery they don't want. Which is I think the "Discovery" part, all the cable channels like The Murder Channel (aka Investigative Discovery or ID).
Which is more valuable? I have no idea.
Both suitors will make the pitch to shareholders and await the shareholder vote.
Paramount Skydance is launching a hostile bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery after it lost out to Netflixin a monthslong bidding war for the legacy assets, the company said Monday.
Paramount will go straight to WBD shareholders with an all-cash, $30 per share offer. That's the same bid WBD rejected last week and equates to an enterprise value of $108.4 billion.
The offer is backstopped with equity financing from the Ellison family and the private equity firm RedBird Capital as well as $54 billion in debt commitments from Bank of America, Citi and Apollo Global Management, Paramount said in a news release.
A portion of the equity financing comes from outside Middle Eastern financing partners including Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, Abu Dhabi's L'imad Holding Company PJSC, and the Qatar Investment Authority. Another portion derives from Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners. Kushner is U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law.
Those partners have agreed to "forgo any governance rights," including board seats, as part of their non-voting equity investment, according to a Paramount filing. The modifications allow the deal to be outside of the jurisdiction of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., or CFIUS.
Shares of Paramount gained 9% Monday. Warner Bros. Discovery's shares rose about 4% while Netflix was down 3%.
"We're really here to finish what we started," Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison told CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" on Monday. "We put the company in play."
There are antitrust questions about any mergers between tech giants, of course. I think the Netflix bid will face more scrutiny, because while Netflix makes movies, it makes movies for streaming, not for exhibition in physical theaters. Yes, sometimes it exhibits a movie in theaters but only in a small number of theaters and only for a weekend or two before it puts it on Netflix exclusively. (They chiefly show movies in theaters just to meet the minimum requirements for theatrical exhibition to qualify them for the Oscars and such.)
So what antitrust lawyers in the government will be looking at is not just the diminution in competition that will occur if one media company swallows up another one, but the real possibility that if Netflix buys Warner Bros. it will use Warner Bros. movie production to make movies for its streaming service, not for theaters.
And antitrust lawyers do not like it when a reduction of competition in one industry causes disruptions in another industry.
And yes, movie production is a separate industry form movie exhibition. In fact, it was antitrust action by the government that forced this separation -- movie studios used to own their own movie theaters and play their movies in their own theaters. But the government considered this illegal vertical integration and forced the movie companies to sell their theaters to independent owners.
I don't think Netflix will be necessarily blocked from buying Warner Bros. A common result in these cases is that the government approves the merger but extracts a promise from the merged company that it will not take certain steps. Like Netflix would agree that it would continue showing Warner Bros. movies in physical theaters.
(Though that's hard to police -- Netflix could just move a lot of Warner Bros. production to the Netflix production side of things and just produce few official "Warner Bros."-branded movies.)
I think the NFL's monopoly on professional football was allowed only because the NFL agreed to never schedule games on Saturday when college teams were playing, to avoid using the professional football monopoly to damage the college football market.
This is a very perilous time for theatrical exhibitors. Hollywood is producing crap movies and consequently exhibitors don't have much product to show that the public is willing to pay for. Any reduction in the number of movies going to physical theaters could, possibly, kill the industry, or cull half of all movie theaters.
I don't know what the government will decide.
David Ellison is reportedly trying to induce Trump to block the Netflix buyout by promising that if he gets hold of Warner Bros. -- and its failing "news" channel CNN -- he'll remake CNN into a fair and balanced network.
Paramount CEO David Ellison assured Trump officials that if the government OKs his company's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) he would overhaul the president's media arch nemesis -- CNN.Netflix announced last Friday it reached a deal to acquire Warner and HBO properties for $72 billion - but Paramount immediately launched a hostile counterbid, taking its case directly to shareholders.
The Netflix-WBD merger is facing a stiff challenge from Paramount, whose majority shareholder is the billionaire Donald Trump ally, Oracle founder Larry Ellison.
On Monday, Paramount made its move, offering $77.9 billion in all-cash and urging Warner shareholders to reject the Netflix deal.
On a recent visit to Washington, DC, Ellison's son David told Trump's team he would impose sweeping changes at CNN if he purchased its parent company WBD, sources told the Wall Street Journal.
David's father Larry discussed firing hosts like Erin Burnett and Brianna Keilar - figures Trump dislikes - with White House officials during takeover bid talks last month, the Guardian reported.
Is that true? No idea. I do know that if you really were making this offer you would want to do it privately, not publicly, with the Wall Street Journal notified. Because the president isn't supposed to approve or nix mergers based on his personal or political self-interest. By making this supposed offer so public, it basically stops Trump from even considering taking the alleged "deal."
It could be that Netflix, not Ellison, is pushing this story out there to pressure Trump to approve their own bid.
Leftwing movie review Grace Randolf claimed that Warner Discovery shareholders are faced with two repellent options -- accept Netlix's deal and "kill the theater business," or accept Ellison's deal and (horrors!) put two movie studios under the control of a "conservative" man friendly to Trump.
The fact that she sees each of these possibilities as equally calamitous is what makes me think it's plausible that members of the left will just lie to stop Ellison from acquiring Warner Bros., and push Fake News stories about Ellison offering to fire Kaitlin Collins if Trump blocks Netflix's bid and approves his own. The left was horrified that Paramount was bought by (horror!) a conservative. It is offended and horrified that the much-bigger Warner Bros. might be purchased by the same conservative man.
Any thoughts? Do you buy this very-public offer of bribery to Trump from David Ellison?
I don't know about you, but if I were bribing the president, I would probably do it quietly.
Through a trusted intermediary.
Such as... well, as the article noted, Jared Kushner is part of the group putting up billions to back Ellison's bid.
So instead of just quietly telling Kushner to carry that message to his father-in-law, everyone blabs about it to the Wall Street Journal?
Seems unlikely to me. Sounds more like political partisans or Netflix executives trying to poison Parmount's pill so that Warner Discovery can't swallow it.
No Shock: Tech Company Offers $60/Hour Coding Job with Proviso: "No US Citizens" May Apply
—Ace
Immigrants are doing the jobs that Americans just won't do are illegally blacklisted from.
The job post for LanceSoft, an IT staffing firm committed to "diversity, equality, and inclusivity," began innocently enough.The $60-per-hour role would be based in Santa Clara, Calif., focus on "technical support," and entail a 3--10 p.m. shift. Posted on Nvoids, an IT jobs aggregator, the ad described LanceSoft as an equal opportunity employer and said that the firm, one of the largest staffing agencies in the country, strives "to be as diverse as the clients and employees we partner with."
"We embrace people of any race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender identity, and sexual orientation," the Nov. 25 post read.
This particular job, however, would not be open to a very large group of people: citizens of the United States.
In a section titled "Visa requirement," LanceSoft recruiter Riyaz Ansari wrote that "candidates must hold an active H1B visa"--and stated explicitly that American citizens need not apply.
"No USC/GC for this role," Ansari wrote, using the acronyms for U.S. citizens and green card holders. He added that "LanceSoft is a certified Minority Business Enterprise"--a status the firm has used to secure public contracts--and touted the company's "diversified team environment."
Federal law bars employers from discriminating based on citizenship status. But in the industries most reliant on the H-1B program, which provides visas to more than 700,000 immigrants, advertisements like LanceSoft's litter online recruiting boards.
The Washington Free Beacon identified over two dozen job postings since 2024 that appear to bar applications from U.S. citizens. The posts were made on a variety of platforms, including Glassdoor and LinkedIn, and typically indicate a preference for H-1B visas, though some allow for other visa types as well. Several of the firms are minority-owned businesses, meaning they receive preferential access to government contracts even as they exclude U.S. workers.
The posts illustrate what Trump administration officials say is a common form of hiring discrimination that has long been underpoliced. They come as conservatives are debating the merits of the H-1B visa program, which some argue has been abused by employers to hire foreign workers--especially Indian outsourcers--at the expense of American ones.
"A shocking number of covered entities, especially recruiters, continue to express explicit preferences for visa guest workers," said Andrea Lucas, the chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). "In the shadows of under-enforcement, this type of discrimination has festered."
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Trump needs to put together a squad of employment-discrimination Untouchables and begin suing these companies into bankruptcy.
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Jasmine Ratchet Makes It Official: She's Running to Win the Primary to Lose the Election for Texas Senator
—Ace
Remember the Atlantic's profile of her, revealing her to be an absolutely self-obsessed narcissist? That the lock screen of her phone shows a glamor shot of her smiling chubby face?
Her video announcement for her candidacy also focuses on her self-believed beauty.
Oh, and Trump knocking her as "low IQ," which she says proves the GOP is terrified of her charisma and power. It's a variation of the Rush Limbaugh chestnut "They'll tell you who they fear," which I never believed, and I sure don't believe it as regards Jasmine Ratchet.
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The Morning Rant
—CBD
It's so easy to blame the Democrat machine for this ridiculous outcome, but the reality is that it is the feckless, spineless, gutless, traitorous Republican leadership in the United States Senate that is holding up confirmations.
The Democrats are doing what they always do...use every means at their disposal (fair or foul) and vote as a bloc to deny even obviously qualified and competent nominees to be confirmed. Yes, the Republicans will occasionally use some of the same maneuvers, but in general, as we can see by the flood of hard-left lunatic judges on the federal bench, that it is the Democrat Party that always uses whatever power is available to it.
Alina Habba resigns as acting NJ US attorney
President Trump had tapped Habba, who previously served as his personal attorney and later a White House advisor, for the role in an acting capacity in March.Trump blamed the Senate tradition of blue slips for Habba’s inability to be confirmed to a permanent post, given the power of home state senators — in this case, New Jersey — to object to nominees before the Judiciary Committee. He urged Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to no longer honor the practice.
“It’s a very sad situation. We’re losing … a lot of great people,” Trump said of Democrats’ objections. “We have about seven US attorneys who are not going to be able to keep their jobs much longer because of the blue slip.”
Oh yes! The "Blue Slip!" Is it a law? No.
It is tradition, nothing more. You know, the same tradition that allows congressmen to pull fire alarms, and suggest that violence against ICE personnel is appropriate, and molest congressional pages, and enrich themselves with insider trading, and allow pimps to operate out of their homes, and to sexually harass at will, and molest and rape and who knows what else...all without penalty.
President Trump needs to make this a priority, and push the Senate to ignore the blue slips and go full steam ahead with every single one of his nominations for every position available. Thom Tillis, the consummate GOPe apparatchik, supports this tradition, and has considerable clout. Until the Senate is cleansed of him and others like him (backstabbing corporate shills), this will be a constant issue. To avoid the blue slip in committee, the Senate requires a "discharge petition," whatever that is, and that is a 60 vote hurdle that will never happen.
This is a constant reminder that it isn't just a majority that is important in the Senate...getting rid of pathetic RINO senators is far more important than simply electing any Republican without a live boy or a dead girl in the back seat. That's how we get Tillis and Collins and Cornyn and Murkowski and....
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The Morning Report — 12/9/25
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. Before diving into the top story I'm afraid I have to hit you with this before or perhaps as you are having your breakfast, so apologies in advance. (Meh, if that's not emetic enough, just peruse the links.)
Shout Your Abortion has been promoting a book aimed at children five to eight years old called “Abortion is Everything,” which will begin shipping to purchasers in January 2026. A description on the organization’s website says the book tells children “about what abortion is, how it might feel, and why people have abortions.”
Stories like this remind me of that line from Apocalypse Now that charging someone for murder out here is like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500
The underlying rationale of this vile tract and its purveyors, ipso facto turns Josef Mengele into an Olympian Deity, nein? He helped abort hundreds of thousands of 5-8 year olds, and 1-100 year-olds.
Still, the act of abortion itself along with the concomitant devaluing of human life and the reduction of the individual to insignificance, and merely as part of some mass that is to be shaped and molded at the whim of who or whatever sits at the top of that mass, is the sine qua non of the Left as well as its current partner in the Axis of Evil, ISLAM.
We are dealing with people in our midst, be they imported foreigners or worse native born citizens, who see themselves as on a mission from God, or Karl Marx, and given the SUPER DUPER POWER of moral superiority to Lord over and therefore weed out all of us who do not submit to their will to perfect Humanity in their image. Because they are Super Duper Supermen as the late great Spike Jones once crooned (about "Der Furher's Face")
Trump v. Slaughter, about the removal of an FCC commissioner with the unfortunate ‘slaughter’ name, looks set to roll back more of the bureaucratic state.“You’re asking us to destroy the structure of government and to take away from Congress its ability to protect its idea that the government is better structured with some agencies that are independent,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor complained.
Well yes. Destroying the structure of a gargantuan government with unlimited powers and no constitutional basis is an essentially conservative project.
Independence from elected officials also means independent of the electorate. That’s the realm of philosopher kings. And these days the philosopher kings are all lefties. That’s not to say that there shouldn’t be more limitations on executive power. There should. And Congress should exercise more oversight over the monstrous size and power of the government. But the solution isn’t a fake independence, it’s direct engagement, and the ability of the public to also litigate when its interests are legitimately threatened.
Bingo to the estimable Daniel Greenfield. While the wide-ass Wiseass Latina was at least accidentally honest in proclaiming the existence of "independent agencies" that essentially form an unelected and virtually unaccountable fourth branch of govvernment that via its abilities to issue regulations that carry with them the force of law if they are disobeyed, completely contrary to the founding of this nation and the reason why this nation declared its independence in the first place by breaking away from a totalitarian overbearing tyrannical monarchy.
We go from her idiocy to that of this inept DEI hire Kentanji Brown-25 Jackson whose knee-jerk remonstrations were predictable.
During an exchange with U.S. Solicitor General John Sauer, Jackson expressed confusion about the Trump administration’s argument that, as she summarized, these independent agencies “aren’t answering to Congress.” Under the current constitutional framework, she reasoned, “Congress established them and can eliminate them. Congress funds them and can stop.” . . .“So,” Jackson continued, “having a president come in and fire all the scientists, and the doctors, and the economists, and the Ph.D.s, and replacing them with loyalists and people who don’t know anything is actually not in the best interest of the citizens of the United States. This is what I think Congress’s policy decision is when it says that ‘these certain agencies we’re not going to make directly accountable to the president.’ So, I think there’s a pretty significant danger that Congress has actually identified and cares about when it determines that these issues should not be in presidential control.”
She's not only a clueless, rude imbecile, but utterly ignorant of the Constitution that she allegedly studied, which forms or is supposed to form the basis of our entire legal and governmental system. Or is she really clueless? No, it's more nefarious. To the extent that Leftists study American law and our traditions and precedents, they do so to more effectively use them as weapons to enslave us and wrest absolute power.
It's why Adolph Eichmann learned Hebrew, So as to better be able to ultimately destroy Europe's and ultimately the world's Jews.
Psaki-Psircling back to my remarks on that abortion story. Sotomayor and Jackson are part of that group that view themselves as intellectually, morally and perhaps evolutionarily superior to the rest of us, and therefore do what they do with a smugness reflected in the slogan on the belt buckles of the SS troops "Gott Mit Uns" God is with us, or more likely in the case of the Left, We Are God.
And one way or another, God has a way of dealing with apostates. Soon enough we are all going to find out which one is which.
Of course there's this bit of cheery news to buck you up. Or Buck with an "F" — —
In the handful of establishment media stories that bothered to cover the arrest of Luqmaan Khan at all, most make no mention at all regarding Khan’s immigration status. Only WHYY, which operates in Philadelphia and its environs, including Delaware, bothers to note that Khan was born in Pakistan, and is now a citizen of the United States. In other words, he is another indication that Trump, for all the abuse he is getting for terming some migrants “garbage,” was entirely correct.NBC Philadelphia reportedTuesday that the drama began at 11:47 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 24, when “police initiated a traffic stop after Khan was, allegedly found operating a white Toyota Tacoma in Canby Park West after hours.” When the cops stopped him, Khan was “visibly nervous.” Police ordered Khan to step out of his car, but he refused and resisted arrest.
Once police searched his car, they could see why Khan was so uncooperative: “In an investigation into the vehicle, police said, officers discovered a loaded .357 Glock handgun with 27 rounds of ammunition, along with three additional fully loaded 27-round magazines. Police also found ammunition for a 9mm handgun along with an armored ballistic plate in the vehicle.”
Along with that, the cops found “a notebook in the vehicle that included handwritten details of additional weapons and ammunition and how they could be used in an attack.” This notebook was filled with “information on how someone could hide from law enforcement following such an attack.” It also “referenced a member of the University of Delaware Police Department by name and included a layout of a building with entry and exit points marked.” That map bore the label “UD Police Station.”
As Captain Kirk might say KHAAAAAAN!!!!"
We're at the point of a Khan almost every other day of the week now.
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- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
- Daniel Greenfield: There are no such things as 'independent' agencies.
“You’re Asking Us to Destroy the Structure of Government”: Justice Sotomayor
- But you’ll hear nothing about it.
Delaware Undergrad Had Machine Gun and Manifesto Targeting Cops
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Daily Tech News 9 December 2025
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Grab a 32GB DDR5 memory kit from Crucial for just $273.99. (Tom's Hardware)
In March, I paid less than that for a Crucial 128GB kit.
- Samsung is switching production from high-margin HBM3E memory used on AI accelerator cards to regular DDR5 used on everything else. (WCCFTech)
You still can't have any.
Also, Samsung a 75% gross margin on server memory. So at least someone is making hay from all that AI investor money.
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Monday Overnight Open Thread (12/8/25)
—Misanthropic Humanitarian
“Perhaps, we should be a little less fearful and look for ways to promote authentic dialogue and respect. I know that, in practice, this has not always been the case. I know that fears persist in Europe.” Pope Leo XIV
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Monday Cafe
—Ace
by Guido Krüttgen
We all tend to pursue the unavailable.
Waking up with a strange bedpartner.
This cat exemplifies the phenomenon of "fur children."
Kids today, they just learn from the TV.
Dog wants more shiatsu massage.
A dog sled in bizzaro world.
Thwarting a chaos agent.
More fun than popping bubble wrap.
Must... destroy... Christmas...
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Supreme Court Seems Likely To Rule That the President Has Control Over, Get This, the Exectutive Branch
—Ace
" " " Reformers " " " decided that the actually-responsible, actually-elected political leaders were too corrupt so we should give power to appointed bureaucrats who, of course, cannot be corrupt and only want What's Best for Everybody.
A plethora of "independent" agencies were created. Into these agencies were poured executive power, taken from the actual Executive. And it was claimed the actual president could not fire the commissioners of these agencies, even if they were appointed by previous presidents and were now working to thwart the will of the current elected president.
It's this last part that got the most attention from the Supreme Court during oral arguments today. What kind of a system, they wondered, allows prior presidents, who no longer have any constitutional power -- like Joe Biden -- to essentially continue governing through the commissioners he appointed, stopping the actual Chief Executive of the United States from carrying out his duties?
Why is the dead hand of the last president allowed to strangle the current one?
The Supreme Court's questions seem to indicate that they find this bizarre arrangement to be unconstitutional and will reverse a 1935 precedent called Humphrey's Executor and find that the executive power of the United States is entrusted to the elected Chief Executive and the appointments of prior presidents cannot bind him.
The Supreme Court signaled Monday that it's prepared to hand President Donald Trump another win in his drive to consolidate his power over federal agencies.During arguments over Trump's dismissal of Federal Trade Commission member Rebecca Slaughter, the high court's conservative majority appeared intent on overturning or effectively gutting a 90-year-old precedent that upheld restrictions on the president's ability to fire leaders of independent agencies across the executive branch.
"I think broad delegations to unaccountable independent agencies raise enormous constitutional and real world problems for individual liberty," Justice Brett Kavanaugh said during the arguments.
Overturning that precedent, known as Humphrey's Executor, has become a key goal for conservatives.
"The text and structure of the Constitution confer on the president the exclusive and illimitable power to remove executive officers, and as a result of that Humphrey's should be overruled," Solicitor General D. John Sauer told the justices on Monday, repeatedly calling the 1935 ruling "a decaying husk."
The White House told Slaughter in March that she was fired, without citing any concern about her performance or conduct. A federal appeals court ruled that Slaughter should be reinstated, but the Supreme Court said her dismissal could take effect while it considered the merits of her claim -- and now seems poised to rule against her.
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Kavanaugh sought reassurances that such a ruling wouldn't allow presidents to fire Federal Reserve governors.
"We recognize and acknowledge ... that the Federal Reserve is a quasi private, uniquely structured entity that follows a distinct historical tradition," Sauer said, calling the Fed "sui generis," or in a category by itself.
The Supreme Court has also lined up for argument next month a case over Trump's attempt to fire Federal Reserve Board member Lisa Cook. The justices signaled in May that they were inclined for historical reasons to give the Fed more autonomy than other agencies. And in October they issued an order that allowed Cook to stay in her job until the court resolves that fight.
Justices Samuel Alito and Amy Coney Barrett suggested the court could rule for Trump in the FTC case, while leaving the knotty issues around some other agencies for another day. Alito proposed that the court could "reserve decision on those agencies that may not come before us in the near future, or perhaps at any time in the future."
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh🚨 BREAKING: Justice Brett Kavanaugh intellectually PUMMELS DEI Justice Ketanji Jackson at the Supreme Court on whether President Trump can fire a Democrat member of the FTC 🔥
JACKSON: I don't understand why the president gets to control everything and outweigh Congress' authority and duty to protect the people!
KAVANAUGH: "When both houses of Congress and President are controlled by the same party - them creating a lot of these 'independent' agencies with or extending current independent agencies, into these situations, to THWART future presidents of the opposite party..."
TRANSLATION: DEI Jackson wants single party rule to destroy Article 2 under the guise of "independence," Kavanaugh warns that's antithetical to the presidency.
Low-IQ Justice Jackson "doesn't understand" a lot of things.
It's not just that she's stupid. It's also that this is preferred method of left-wingers to passively-aggressively disagree. Instead of saying "I disagree," they almost always say "I don't understand why..." and then specify the thing they disagree with.
She is constantly, constantly saying "I don't understand why..."
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Nepo Baby Communist Congresswoman Grijalva Blocks ICE from Enforcing the Law, Gets Pepper Sprayed, Then Plays Victim
—Ace
She inherited her Arizona seat from her father, the communist ratfucker Raul Grivalja.
This antifa politician obstructed ICE operations as part of a dangerous mob and got pepper sprayed, as the other antifa rioters did.
Then she claimed, "I didn't do nuffin'."
That never gets old. Never.
Grijalva gibbered on X, "ICE just conducted a raid by Taco Giro in Tucson -- a small mom-and-pop restaurant that has served our community for years. When I presented myself as a Member of Congress asking for more information, I was pushed-aside and pepper sprayed."I know you'll be shocked, but she didn't just present herself and ask politely for information. She rushed screaming at ICE officers, ordering them to leave, and tried to disrupt their operation.
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Former Surgeon General "Admiral" "Rachel" Levine's Official Portrait Changed to Bear His Actual, Real Man's Name
—Ace
NPR is very sad about that.
As you walk down a particular hallway on the seventh floor of the Humphrey Building in Washington, D.C., you'll find a line of photographic portraits of all the people from years past who have led the Public Health Corps at the federal Department of Health and Human Services.Only one of those portraits is of a transgender person: Adm. Rachel Levine, who served for four years as President Biden's assistant secretary for health. She was the first transgender person to win Senate confirmation, and her portrait has been displayed in the hallway since soon after she was confirmed in 2021. The role is a four-star admiral position in charge of the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service.
Levine's official portrait was recently altered, a spokesperson for HHS confirmed to NPR. A digital photograph of the portrait in the hallway obtained by NPR shows that Levine's previous name is now typed below the portrait, under the glass of the frame.
Levine responds"During the federal shutdown, the current leadership of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health changed Admiral Levine's photo to remove her current legal name and use a prior name," says Adrian Shanker, former deputy assistant secretary for health policy in the Biden administration who worked with Levine and is now her spokesperson. He called the move an act "of bigotry against her."
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Levine told NPR that it was an honor to serve the American people as the assistant secretary for health "and I'm not going to comment on this type of petty action."
Well, Sir, you did call it petty, so you lied about not commenting.
NPR asked HHS who made the change and why. In response, HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon wrote: "Our priority is ensuring that the information presented internally and externally by HHS reflects gold standard science. We remain committed to reversing harmful policies enacted by Levine and ensuring that biological reality guides our approach to public health."
...Shanker says the alteration of Levine's official portrait is unprecedented. He praised her public health work on COVID-19, syphilis, HIV/AIDS and opioids, and said rather than act vindictively towards her, current leaders at HHS should focus on the many public health challenges facing the American people.
Levine is one of the many mentally-ill people who don't like feeling "marginalized" due to their mental illness so they embarked on a crusade to make the entire world -- starting with the children, of course -- mentally ill like themselves.
It is time to say no, and no, and no again, and keep saying no to the lunatics until they understand that their sickness is their sickness and they must stop attempting to infect the healthy.
You Will Believe a Car Can Fly Open Thread
—Ace
Mercedes Benz goes airborne, soaring over other cars, in terrifying caught-on-video crashA luxury Mercedes Benz sedan went airborne and sailed over other traffic in a terrifying crash -- with the entire incident caught on heart-stopping video.
Just to put your minds at ease: Despite flying through the air twenty feet above the ground, the driver only suffered some broken bones.
The dramatic wreck unfolded Wednesday night in the Romanian city of Oradea, where the car jumped a curb, nearly smashed into a bus and flew into the air and over other cars, The Sun reported.
Miraculously, the 49-year-old driver walked away with just a few broken bones, the outlet said.
Police said the driver suffered a diabetic episode and fainted behind the wheel, with his vehicle then barreling out of control and soaring into the air and eventually into a utility pole near a local gas station.
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Cops fined the unidentified injured driver the equivalent of $365, and he faces a 90-day license suspension, the outlet reported.
WORTH IT!
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Family of J5 Bomber Denies Leftwing Media Claims That Bomber Was MAGA
—Ace
"Sources" put out the word to leftwing CNN and the Washington Post stating that the J5 Bomber "expressed doubts" about the 2020 election.
They pushed this claim to prop up their narrative that the bomber was inspired by Trump to plant the bombs.
In fact, he started buying bomb components in 2019 and then bought more of them during the George Floyd riots. All before the election.
So what, is he a MAGA Psychic?
Note to self: Copyright "MAGA Psychic."
Here's what I think happened. I would bet any number of dollars on this.
I think lefty FBI determined to tie this to Trump kept asking him if he accepted the fake results of the rigged 2020 election and eventually he made a half-hearted, noncommittal statement like "I don't know, maybe it was fixed, I dunno."
And then they ran to CNN and Washington Post: "HE DENIED THE 2020 ELECTION!"
Here are true facts: people are 1, naturally suspicious generally, and 2, even more suspicious of political power, and 3, often, unless they're twitter blowhards like Candace Owens, admit doubt about things they don't know much about.
The only people in America who are 100% certain of things that no sentient being should be certain of are ideologically deranged lefties, who believe in All the Things, passionately and zealously.
The same people who mock people for believing in God are 100% convinced they are on the right side of history and are going to Political Heaven.
At any rate, the bomber's leftwing BLM-supporting family is pushing back against what they probably see as defamation by the media.
The grandmother of the January 6 pipe bomb suspect denied in a news report Friday that her grandson was a fan of President Donald Trump, arguing that he had no party affiliation and never votes in elections.The 30-year-old suspect has been identified as Brian Cole Jr., who allegedly confessed to planting the two bombs and told FBI interrogators that he is a Trump supporter and holds anarchist views, sources told MS NOW.
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"He's borderline autistic," she claimed. "He's slow. He may be 30, but he's got the mind of a 16-year-old. That's why we're thinking - What the hell? What's going on?"The grandmother said her grandson works a data entry job for his family's bail bonds business and does not like either political party, so she does not believe the charges against Cole.
"He's not politically affiliated with anything," the grandmother said. "He has no social media contacts. He's never online going back and forth with politics or anything like that. He says he don't like either party.
She also claims he's not an anarchist. On that, I think she's probably wrong.
