Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - December 3, 2025 [Shopping Rex]
—Open Blogger
Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the post-cafe overnight variety.
Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Good will offerings of amusing puns are happily accepted. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors.
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Dog Luge Cafe
—Ace
Kristen Mae Photography/@Kristen_Mae
This dog is going to get the family Christmas tree all by himself.
One puppy is a real rebel and rule-breaker.
Kitten's favorite toy is the dog's tail.
Dolphins are the dogs of the sea.
North Carolina tree farms have donated 1000 Christmas trees to military families.
Dog is giving subtle hints that he'd like some of your BBQ.
This cat loves corn on the cob. Better than you'd think!
Goat says: There is no "I" in gravity. See he's a goat, and he can't spell so good.
This bird is a real food Nazi.
Kitten is all about that Van Life.
Prancing buffalo, and I don't mean Brian Stelter when his Cupcake of the Month package arrives.
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Methodist Pastor Has Had Enough of Jesus-This and Jesus-That, So He Makes His Homily About the Only Thing That Really Matters, His Trans Identity
—Ace
But a lot of leftists spell it that way.
A Methodist pastor in upstate New York turned a Sunday church service into a personal announcement ceremony, telling stunned worshippers that the 51-year-old spiritual leader is now transitioning and no longer identifies as male. Rev. Phillip Phaneuf of North Chili United Methodist Church in Rochester delivered the news while draped in a rainbow stole, declaring, "I get to announce with joy that I'm transitioning," and later adding, "I'm not becoming a woman, I'm giving up pretending to be a man."The pastor also told congregants that a new identity--"Phillippa," with she/her pronouns--will now be used, and that hormone treatments have already been underway for three months.
Phaneuf went even further, announcing a shift to asexuality and telling the church that romance has never been a focus: "I'm in the category of what they call asexual... I am not living my life in a way that involves looking for romance." The message, delivered from the pulpit, was treated as a moment of celebration inside a denomination that has recently rewritten its doctrine to align itself with progressive gender ideology. The United Methodist Church reversed its previous teachings last year and now describes sexuality as a "sacred gift" for all "regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity."
Phaneuf told Fox News Digital on Tuesday that the congregation has been "overwhelmingly affirming," and noted that the bishop was consulted beforehand and offered full institutional support. Any questions about pastoral duties were brushed aside with assurances that nothing will change spiritually--aside from the pastor's name, voice, appearance, and presentation as the hormone regimen continues.
Well, and every homily will be about his Gender Journey, of course.
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Of Course: Biden Created a Special Exemption So That "Low-Level" Taliban Officials Could Migrate to the US
—Ace
Yeah they're Taliban -- members of the radical cult that sheltered bin Ladin and floods the world with heroin -- but they're "low-level" "civil servants" so I'm sure they're cool.
BTW, why would Taliban civil servants have to flee the Taliban?
It's almost as if the Democrats just want to fill the US with foreign terrorists because they believe we should all be equal in poverty, misery, murder and terror.
Biden administration created exemption for many low-level Taliban 'civil servants' to come to U.S.Amidst renewed scrutiny about the poor vetting of Afghan refugees in the wake of the debacle in August 2021, a review of a little-known Biden Administration policy allowing former Taliban government workers to come to the United States is taking center stage.
By Jerry Dunleavy
The Biden Administration implemented a terrorism exemption for Afghan refugees allowing hundreds of low-level "civil servants" from the Taliban government to resettle in the United States in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal and evacuation from the country.The Biden-led Department of Homeland Security and State Department announced in June 2022 that it had put together new exemptions for purportedly vetted applicants who would otherwise be blocked from the United States -- including some former Taliban government workers. The policy allowed hundreds of Afghans to come to the U.S. when they would have previously likely been barred due to terrorism-related inadmissibility grounds (TRIG). This reportedly allowed hundreds of former Taliban government workers to come to the U.S.
The exemptions were for Afghans who had worked as "civil servants" under the Taliban (both before 9/11 and after August 2021), as well as for Afghans who "supported U.S. military interests" such as participation in resistance movements against the Taliban or the Soviet Army and for Afghans "who provided only certain limited material support to the Taliban or other designated terrorist organizations."
The Biden administration agencies said that the "new exemptions may apply" to "individuals employed as civil servants in Afghanistan at any time from September 27, 1996 to December 22, 2001 or after August 15, 2021." These time periods covered both the Taliban's first stint ruling Afghanistan -- when they protected al-Qaeda before and after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and were subsequently overthrown following a U.S. invasion -- and the Taliban's current rule of the country in the wake of the disastrous and chaotic U.S. evacuation in August 2021.
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The agencies said the exemptions did not include Afghans "who held high-level positions, worked for certain ministries, or directly assisted violent Taliban activities or activities in which the individual's civil service was motivated by an allegiance to the Taliban" nor Afghan individuals "who share the goals or ideology of the Taliban, provided preferential treatment to them, or who intended to support the Taliban through their activities."
The State Department and DHS under the Trump administration did not immediately respond to a request for comment on whether they would maintain this TRIG exemption for former Taliban government workers.
"President Trump's State Department has paused visa issuance for ALL individuals traveling on Afghan passports," Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on X on Friday. "The United States has no higher priority than protecting our nation and our people."
Some unrelated items:
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A Man Brutalized a Woman and Put Her In the Hospital. In a Private Conversation, She Called Her Attacker a "Faggot."
She Was Arrested.
—Ace
In the UK, of course. Another "non-crime hate incident" prosecution.
You're not allowed to use harsh language when describing the thug who beat the shit out of you, you see.
In the UK, a woman who was hospitalized after being brutally assaulted by a man faced legal consequences when she vented to a friend, calling her attacker a "faggot."Police were notified, she was investigated for a non-crime hate incident (later escalated), charged with malicious communications, and ultimately convicted of committing a homophobic hate crime.
The victim of physical violence ended up with a criminal record for using an offensive slur about her own assailant in a private conversation.
Britain has absolutely lost the plot.
You can be imprisoned for five to ten years for calling the man who brutalized you a "faggot."
Meanwhile, I'm sure, he didn't spend a day in jail.
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Trump's Ag Secretary: States Will Either Open Their Books So We Can Detect SNAP Fraud, Or We're Cutting Them Off
—Ace
Can't wait for a left-wing rogue judge to be "randomly" assigned to the lawsuit and immediately grant an injunction.
States that refuse to open their books on food-stamp spending are about to feel real pressure from Washington. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told the Trump cabinet Tuesday that the USDA will cut off federal SNAP funds to any state that keeps hiding its data -- a direct response to what she called a mountain of fraud sitting inside a program used by 42 million Americans.Rollins said the problem came into full view earlier this year, when the USDA asked every governor to hand over their SNAP data so federal investigators could finally track where the money was going. Only 29 states -- almost all Republican-led -- cooperated. The others, including California, New York, and Minnesota, refused outright. Rollins said that refusal has consequences. Starting next week, she announced, "the money stops moving" until those states comply.
Rollins said the partial dataset already reviewed shows the program is bleeding taxpayer dollars on an astonishing scale. She pointed to 186,000 dead Americans still receiving benefits -- and that's just from the states that turned over their records. She told Newsmax the deeper the USDA digs, the more outrageous the findings become: EBT cards with balances over $10,000, cards untouched for years, and some issued to people who never existed.
With just the information provided by the red states, she's already eliminated a good amount of fraud.
Benny Johnson @bennyjohnsonMAJOR: Over 800,000 people have officially been removed from SNAP, confirmed by Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins.
She highlights that the fraud is off the charts:
- 500,000 people receiving benefits twice.
- 186,000 dead people receiving benefits
- People receiving benefits in SIX different statesThis is an incredible start. Keep removing more. No more robbing the American taxpayer.
"800,000 of those 42 million have moved off of food stamps, which is hopefully the plan with better jobs, higher wages.""We found 186,000 dead people or dead people's Social Security numbers being used, 500,000 people receiving benefits more than twice, we had a couple of people receiving benefits in six states."
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Lefties Continue To Live in Denial, But Gas Prices Are Now Under $2/Gallon in Some Parts of the Country
—Ace
When is Trump going to fulfill his campaign promise of reducing inflation?
Wait, he already has?
Well in that case, when is he going to stop murdering poor innocent narcoterrorist drug smugglers?! Huh, racist?!
US gas prices fell below $3 on Tuesday for the first time since May 2021, according to AAA.The national average price for regular gas dropped to $2.998 a gallon, down from $3.001 the previous day, according to the fuel price tracker.
It was also down from $3.036 a month ago and $3.05 this time last year.
Low prices at the pump come as Americans have been beaten down by sticky inflation and a weak labor market.
A survey from the Conference Board last week found consumer confidence plunged to 88.7 in November -- down from 95.5 in October. That's the lowest level since April.
...Recent weeks have seen President Trump tout his affordability agenda as Americans shell out more on everything from a cup of joe to plush sofas and kids' toys.
But on Tuesday, the average price of gas dipped below $2.75 a gallon in 18 states including New Mexico, South Carolina, Wisconsin, Iowa and Colorado, according to AAA.
Gas prices dropped alongside oil costs as the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, or OPEC, ramped up its production of oil -- keeping supply higher than demand and sending a barrel of crude down to just $59 as of Tuesday.
You may wonder where I got the "under $2/gallon" fact. That's from local news reports compiled in a Black Conservative Perspective video, linked below. That video also features leftists coping and seething and denying that gas prices have come down, even as they drop to $2 or less.
Last week, Axios actually admitted that the economy is, get this, strong.
Axios perhaps just inadvertently committed one of the most based forms of narrative-wrecking journalism ever to hit the leftist media ecosphere by admitting the Trump economy is a lot better than what the propaganda suggests.Axios economics reporter Courtenay Brown and Chief Economics Correspondent Neil Irwin -- the latter of which forecasted economic doom since President Donald Trump first took office -- released a shocking Thanksgiving Eve story declaring that "the biggest-picture indicators point to this being one of the better economies of modern times."
Talk about a seismic concession for an outlet that had been routinely denigrating Trump's agenda from the get-go. As Brown and Irwin wrote, "There have been plenty of ominous warnings this year about the job market, trade war-fueled inflation, asset bubbles, and more. The mighty U.S. economy has chugged ahead in 2025 despite them all." In fact, "through 11 months of 2025, the overall trajectory is pretty darn solid." Well, dang!
But of course, the authors tried to throw President Joe Biden a line by tracing some of the markers as far back as his administration, which makes sense given that Irwin was a notorious Bidenomics simp. Brown and Irwin pointed to a bevy of economic indicators such as unemployment remaining under 4.5 percent for 47 consecutive months, glossing over the fact that during Biden's term, millions were still missing from the labor force. But now, as EJ Antoni pointed out based on the recent September jobs numbers, "Net job growth in Sep was from full-time hiring and replacing part-time work w/ those full-time jobs; this is a welcomed improvement after the weakness earlier in the year."
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Incredible: Up to Forty Percent of the Students at Supposedly-Elite Universities Claim to Be, and Are Acknowledged by the School to be, "Disabled"
—Ace
As you know, people who claim to be disabled get all sorts of privileges, like taking standardized tests -- to the extent they're even required any longer -- without any time limit.
But once at college, you can also use your "disability" to take all exams untimed, too.
Also, since white people are discriminated against unconstitutionally, it is even more useful to be able to claim you're a minority too, by faking a "disability." (Or, of course, by claiming to be some type of sexual minority, like "queer," which no longer means just homosexual but can mean being an "ally" of homosexuals.)
These factors plus universities now being clownshows that eat nonsense and shit failure have resulted in Stanford, supposedly an "elite" university accepting only the highest-performing students, having a student body that is 30% "disabled," almost always with some soft mental "disability" like "nuerdivergence." Things that cannot be easily disproved, in other words.
Serek Thompson @DKThompThis is a great piece with some mind-boggling statistics.
- At Brown and Harvard, more than 20% of undergraduates are registered as disabled
- At Amherst: more than 30 percent
- At Stanford: nearly 40 percentSoon, many of these schools "may have more students receiving [disability] accommodations than not, a scenario that would have seemed absurd just a decade ago."
As students and their parents have recognized the benefits of claiming disability--extended time on tests, housing accommodations, etc -- the rates of disability at colleges, and especially at elite colleges, has exploded.
America used to stigmatize disability too severely. Now elite institutions reward it too liberally. It simply does not make any sense to have a policy that declares half of the students at Stanford cognitively disabled and in need of accommodations.
Even Steve Jobs' ex-wife's vanity newsletter The Atlantic sees this as a problem.
America's colleges have an extra-time-on-tests problem.
Administering an exam used to be straightforward: All a college professor needed was an open room and a stack of blue books. At many American universities, this is no longer true. Professors now struggle to accommodate the many students with an official disability designation, which may entitle them to extra time, a distraction-free environment, or the use of otherwise-prohibited technology.
Like cell phones you can look up the answers on.
The University of Michigan has two centers where students with disabilities can take exams, but they frequently fill to capacity, leaving professors scrambling to find more desks and proctors. Juan Collar, a physicist at the University of Chicago, told me that so many students now take their exams in the school's low-distraction testing outposts that they have become more distracting than the main classrooms.Accommodations in higher education were supposed to help disabled Americans enjoy the same opportunities as everyone else. No one should be kept from taking a class, for example, because they are physically unable to enter the building where it's taught. Over the past decade and a half, however, the share of students at selective universities who qualify for accommodations--often, extra time on tests--has grown at a breathtaking pace. At the University of Chicago, the number has more than tripled over the past eight years; at UC Berkeley, it has nearly quintupled over the past 15 years.
The increase is driven by more young people getting diagnosed with conditions such as ADHD, anxiety, and depression, and by universities making the process of getting accommodations easier. The change has occurred disproportionately at the most prestigious and expensive institutions. At Brown and Harvard, more than 20 percent of undergraduates are registered as disabled. At Amherst, that figure is 34 percent. Not all of those students receive accommodations, but researchers told me that most do. The schools that enroll the most academically successful students, in other words, also have the largest share of students with a disability that could prevent them from succeeding academically.
"You hear 'students with disabilities' and it's not kids in wheelchairs," one professor at a selective university, who requested anonymity because he doesn't have tenure, told me. "It's just not. It's rich kids getting extra time on tests." Even as poor students with disabilities still struggle to get necessary provisions, elite universities have entered an age of accommodation. Instead of leveling the playing field, the system has put the entire idea of fairness at risk.
We can't just blame the universities.
Left-wing Congressmen are also to blame.
...Change was slow at first, in part because Supreme Court rulings narrowed the scope of the law. Professors I spoke with told me that, even in the early 2000s, they taught only a handful of students with disabilities. Then, in 2008, Congress amended the ADA to restore the law's original intent. The government broadened the definition of disability, effectively expanding the number of people the law covered. It also included a list of major life activities that could be disrupted by a disability ("learning, reading, concentrating, thinking," among others) and clarified that individuals were protected under the ADA even if their impairment didn't severely restrict their daily life.
In response to the 2008 amendments, the Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD), an organization of disability-services staff, released guidance urging universities to give greater weight to students' own accounts of how their disability affected them, rather than relying solely on a medical diagnosis. "Requiring extensive medical and scientific evidence perpetuates a deviance model of disability, undervalues the individual's history and experience with disability and is inappropriate and burdensome under the revised statute and regulations," AHEAD wrote.
So these dirtbag fraudsters are just self-reporting "I'm neurodivergent, I have ADHD" with no medical diagnosis at all and Congress says that we must treat this self-diagnosis as real.
Coincidentally, I just happened to watch this interesting video about people -- mostly women -- self-diagnosing themselves with a novel and quite fake new syndrome called "AuDHD," which is, supposedly, autism plus ADHD.
Autism, which involves fixating on something and focusing on it to the exclusion of all else, plus the inability to focus on something.
This woman, who I guess is a psychologist or psychiatrist, says that this fake diagnosis is gaining traction because psychiatrists just can't say "no" to patients. If some moron comes in claiming they are both hyper-focused and yet cannot focus, the psychiatrist just says "Yes."
Why are psychiatrists board certified if any asshole off the street can self-diagnose?
This woman points out that one of the women claiming to have this nonsensical diagnosis is clearly not autistic, as, for example, she admits she craves attention and validation -- something autistics usually don't care about -- and deploys strategies like "mirroring" and "love-bombing" to manipulate men into falling in love with her.
As she says: Autistics wish they could deploy the tactic of personality-mirroring to make people fall in love with them. But actual autistics cannot even understand other people's specific personalities, nevermind being able to "mirror" them, that is, act just like them so that the other person sees you as a kindred spirit.
If autistics could just "act like other people" then, get this, they would not be autistic.
But just as with the trans fad, young women are determined to diagnose themselves with some "hot" new mental illness, and just like with the trans fad, alleged medical professionals are too afraid to tell them that they're full of shit and need to grow the hell up.
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Republican Matt Van Epps Holds On to Win the Tennessee 7 Special Election, But It's A Much Closer Race Than We'd've Hoped
—Ace
Trump won the district by 22 points in 2024.
Van Epps won by about nine points.
The Democrats are hysterical and frantic and absolutely energized to kill us at the polls -- and maybe in real life too.
And too many Republicans, and especially too many Trump supporters, are content with the 2024 win and don't really care about the Democrats winning Congress back and impeaching Trump in the first month of 2026.
Republicans won Tuesday's special election in Tennessee. But instead of celebrating, many are dreading what it means about the midterms.Republican Rep.-elect Matt Van Epps' roughly nine point win marks a massive shift toward Democrats from 2024, when President Donald Trump carried the district by 22 points. That double digit swing -- on the heels of crushing losses in off-year elections in November -- could be a harbinger of what House Republicans will face in the midterms next year, members and strategists warned, as they seek to hold on to their narrow control of the chamber.
"Tonight is a sign that 2026 is going to be a bitch of an election cycle," said one House Republican, granted anonymity to speak candidly. "Republicans can survive if we play team and the Trump administration officials play smart. Neither is certain."
Democrat Aftyn Behn's overperformance in the Tennessee special election -- which attracted millions of dollars in spending and national attention in its final days -- continues a trend of concerning electoral results for the GOP. Earlier this year, Democrats saw big overperformances in losses in other special elections in deep-red seats, and last month they swept a slate of critical off-year elections, including gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey.
In the wake of those victories, some Republicans urged the White House to retool its political message to better engage moderate voters and independents who broke for Trump in the presidential election.
"I'm glad we won. But the GOP should not ignore the Virginia, New Jersey and Tennessee elections," Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), who is retiring from his swingy Omaha-based district, said. "We must reach swing voters. America wants some normalcy."
Gerrymandering is becoming a very tricky thing for us. When you gerrymander to increase the number of seats you could win, you necessarily increase the number of seats you can lose. There's no way around that. Gerrymandering for numbers involves drawing districts which have scant majorities of your voters. You spread your voters around so that you can win with thin margins in as many districts as possible.
But doing this means that in a bad year, you lose many of those districts you've drawn to have thin margins. Your deliberately-thin margin of victory turns into a loss.
Does that mean we shouldn't redistrict? No, because control of the House is a very binary thing. It kind of doesn't matter if you lose the House by ten seats or thirty seats. Either way, you have lost the power to bring bills in for a vote, or block them from a vote, and of course Democrats are intensely partisan hive-mind bug people who will all vote in lockstep so even a majority of two seats for the Democrats is a guaranteed majority in every important vote. There are effectively no more swing districts or moderate Congressmen... except on the GOP side.
But given our performance so far, I think it's now guaranteed that we will lose the House by thirty seats, unless something changes bigly, and I don't know what that could be.
Trump has attracted new voters, yes, but these voters... don't really vote.
Meanwhile, a new poll released by the Democrats shows that Ken Paxton is leading shameless RINO traitor John Cornyn.
InteractivePolls @IAPolls2022
TEXAS SENATE GOP PRIMARY POLLKen Paxton - 32%
Wesley Hunt - 22%
John Cornyn - 22%
Not sure - 24%
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Paxton vs Cornyn
Paxton - 44%
Cornyn - 34%
Not sure - 22%
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Hunt vs Cornyn
Hunt - 45%
Cornyn - 28%
Not sure - 27%
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Hunt: 34-14 (+20)
Paxton: 48-35 (+13)
Cornyn: 29-44 (-15)
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• PPP for Senate Majority PAC (Dem)
• 12/1-2 | 527 LV
Why did the Democrats release this poll? PPP is a bad polling outfit that pumps out crap polls, so we shouldn't put much stock in this poll either way; but why are the Democrats releasing it? Presumably they want to make trouble and influence the primary vote, but influence it how?
Are they trying to gin up support for Cornyn, the liberal? Or are they trying to depress his voters in the belief that Ken Paxton, the actual conservative, would be easier for Jasmine Ratchet to defeat in the general election?
I don't know. Neither seem like very compelling ops to me.
But Cornyn is claiming the poll is rigged by Democrats to hurt him.
Cornyn has led several recent polls; his campaign adviser Matt Mackowiak said the incumbent senator will win and that "Democrats are desperate to run against fatally flawed homewrecker Ken Paxton and cost the GOP a critically valuable Senate seat and as much as $200M in the general election."Lauren French, a Senate Majority PAC spokeswoman, called that response "weak, half-hearted spin."
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Wednesday Morning Rant
—Joe Mannix
For a little while now, there has been a new term that keeps cropping up on the internet. That term, which was apparently popularized by Gad Saad, is "suicidal empathy." I think "pathological empathy" is a bit more accurate, but it's more or less the same thing. The "suicidal empathy" concept is that the desire of some - usually leftists, and usually AWFLs - to be "caring" or "compassionate" has become destructive to themselves and the culture.
Cases of rape victims who refuse to describe their attackers when the attacker is a minority because they don't want to accuse a minority of a crime and "contribute to the problem of racism" or somesuch are often pointed out as micro-level examples of "suicidal empathy," as are cases of the parents of children murdered by illegal aliens publicly emphasizing how much they support unchecked migration and the dissolution of borders. At the macro level, examples are usually things like open borders or elimination of prisons. At some point, the desire to "do good" or be one of the "good people" (and not ever a garbage person like those MAGA people!) becomes so destructive as to be fatal. There is some truth to that, at least among individuals.
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The Morning Report — 12/3/25
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. Starting off on a positive note, congratulations to Matt Van Epps for winning the TN special election for the state's 7th District, and to the voters who prevented a truly twisted hardcore Leftist, this Aftyn Behn maniac from heading to Congress. Considering the redistricting meshugas in California, we can ill afford to lose any seats that might hand the House back to the Dems as we head towards the midterms, and the second half of Trump 2.0, and of course nationally in 2028.
Moving on, in yesterday's editorial, I questioned why President Trump from time to time throws all kinds of red meat with the blood still dripping from it out there. In that instance it was his contention that the truly horrid Ilhan "BRO-FO" Omar should be stripped of her citizenship and repatriated back to the gaping bedsore of a nation known as Somalia from whence she oozed. No need to rehash my thoughts on this, as I agree with him on this for sure. (reminder not to comment on old threads to avoid accidental banning) And once again, he threw something out there that definitely caused a reaction, intentional on his part or not:
Somali migrants should go home to fix up their own country, President Donald Trump told his cabinet meeting on Tuesday. “They come from hell and they complain and do nothing but bitch” about Americans and America, he said, adding: “We don’t want them in our country. Let them go back to where they came from and fix it.”. . .“I don’t want them in our country,” Trump told his cabinet meeting, adding: Their country is no good for a reason. Their country stinks … I can say it about other countries too. We got to, we have to rebuild our country … [Rep.] Ilhan Omar [D-MN] is garbage. She’s garbage. Her friends are garbage. These aren’t people that work. These aren’t people that say, “Let’s go, come on, let’s make this place [Somalia] great.” These are people that do nothing but complain.
Again, I cannot disagree with what the President is saying. But the issue he is skirting around is WHY? What is the reason Somalia stinks? ISLAM, and its Dark Age culture of death and subjugation of those who refuse to submit (which is what Islam mans in English FYI) to it. Mr. President, Bro-Fo Omar did not come here to escape Hell, she and her ilk came here to unleash it on us and transform America and everywhere else they emigrate into Hell.
If you want to throw out red meat, well what I just said is an abattoir primed and ready for you to go to town. Could you not see the smoldering ruins of the World Trade Center from the top of Trump Tower? Did you not watch in abject horror what happened at the Munich Olympics in 1972, the Marine Barracks in Beirut 11 years later, and on and on and on.
But that said, there are indeed good and decent people who are desperate to escape the hell of places like Somalia. The estimable and noble Ayaan Hirsi Ali to name but one. The issue was and always has been the proper vetting of people who seek American citizenship and once here the monitoring of them to ensure they become assimilated to the fullest extent possible so as whatever cultural proclivities from their societies of origin cannot ever pose any kind of threat to American society.
Good luck with that, considering there is a very large segment of our own native born citizenry that views this nation as founded as racist and illegitimate in the first place and have been feverishly working to destroy it and seize absolute power to remake it into some other nightmarish hellscape of their own liking. The importation of anti-American, anti-Western ideologies and those who mean us harm in the acquisition of absolute power and control was and is a major weapon in the Leftist arsenal.
As for Islam, all you have to do is peruse the links I have aggregated today alone in that section, not to mention every weekday for nine years now. Be that as it may, arguably the greater threat to the American experiment and our society as we approach our 250th birthday are the native born miscreants and power-mad narcissists with delusions of "Ubermenscheit" who continue to rot at the vitals of our nation.
It's one thing to give Bro-Fo the boot, but how do we neutralize the Newsoms, Pelosis, Randi Weingartens, Ibram X. Krements, Al Sharptons, and all the others like them in our midst?
Okay, I'm done.
Have a good day.
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- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
- Students had protested ICE enforcement against Muslim terrorist supporters.
Pakistani Muslim Terrorist Busted Planning to Shoot Up University of Delaware
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Daily Tech News 3 December 2025
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- AMD is reportedly planning price hikes to its graphics cards to cover soaring memory costs: An extra $20 for 8GB models and $40 for 16GB models. (Tom's Hardware)
Which is not all that bad.
- AMD has also - reportedly - increased prices for its CPUs, which don't contain any DRAM. (Overclock3D)
To add to the mystery, while this increase is supposed to have already happened, nobody seems to know which models are affected or what the increases are. Indeed, the whole thing might just be the end of Black Friday discounts at the distributor level.
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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - December 2, 2025 [Doof]
—Open Blogger
Photo credit - Howard in Alberta
Howdy Hordelings! Tuesday night ONT time. Thanks for joining us. What's on your mind tonight?
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Rainy Day Cafe
—Ace
Kristen Mae Photography
The Christmas Guardian will save the tree.
Re-post: Baby elephant wants cuddles, does not realize he weighs 300 pounds.
Elephant visits hospital to say goodbye to his dying caregiver.
CONTENT WARNING (for Duncanthrax): Baby penguin still has his baby feather-fur on his head.
Cat capsule hotel.
Man vs. Tiger tug of war.
It's breakfast time, I have commanded.
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Quick Hits
—Ace
@C_3 C_320h
There are 42,861 NGOs handling $120 billion in Minnesota per year.
Imagine the fraud.
We're just scratching the surface.
Madonna's got AIDS
on her mind.
The criminal dementia patient Joe Biden will be rewarded for advancing the Sexual Left's radical agenda with some kind of Gay Award.
Former President Biden will receive the Chris Abele Impact Award at the LGBTQ+ Victory Institute's Leaders Conference in Washington, D.C., on Friday, and deliver a rare post-presidency speech.The award for Biden follows "what LGBTQ+ advocates widely view as the most inclusive administration in U.S. history," as the former president had appointed the most LGBTQ+ officials, restored transgender military service, and reinstated and expanded federal protections, The Advocate reported.
It is "rare" for Biden to give a post-presidential speech for the same reason it was rare for him to appear publicly as president: Because he's demented and dying.
But release Trump's MRI, right?
House and Senate Republicans targeted by former Special Counsel Jack Smith's subpoenas were gearing up for significant oversight of both the Justice Department and the FBI when their phone records were seized.
This raises questions about whether the subpoenas served a dual purpose--to investigate Jan. 6, as Smith was appointed to do, and to keep tabs on the oversight probes into agency conduct, one former representative whose phone records were seized by Smith suggested.
"They were trying to spy on us to see what we were doing," former Rep. Louie Gohmert told the John Solomon Reports podcast. "And also, I think they were looking for anything that they could use to come after us, or hold over our heads, because, you know, you can intimidate the people that are coming after you."
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Fascist Government Shows Its Authoritarianism By Responding to Voters' Wishes
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Kristi Noem says "We don't want them [third world criminal immigrants]."
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Monday delivered one of the strongest border-security demands yet of the Trump administration's second term, urging President Trump to enact a sweeping travel ban on "every damn country" sending violent offenders into the United States. Noem revealed the recommendation in a blistering post on X shortly after meeting with the president, saying the nation can no longer accept foreign nationals who, in her words, are "flooding our nation with killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies."Noem framed the proposal as a necessary break from the failed leniency of the Biden years. "Our forefathers built this nation on blood, sweat, and the unyielding love of freedom -- not for foreign invaders to slaughter our heroes, suck dry our hard-earned tax dollars, or snatch the benefits owed to AMERICANS," she wrote, adding a final line aimed squarely at the countries she argues are exploiting U.S. generosity: "WE DON'T WANT THEM. NOT ONE."
A DHS spokesperson told the New York Post that the department will soon publish the list of countries facing new restrictions.
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In the immediate aftermath of the attack, the State Department halted visa processing for Afghan passport holders, a move intended to prevent additional entry from the same channels that admitted the alleged gunman.
It's not just the terrorists, and it's not just the Somali pirates stealing a billion dollars from us and sending it back home to fund Al-Shaabab terrorism against us.
And it's not just Democrat politicians enabling that massive theft and funding of terrorism for Somali pirate votes.
Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett said Monday that Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz allowed the state's massive COVID-era fraud scandal to fester because he sought political favor from the state's large Somali community.Walz defended his administration Sunday by claiming Minnesota "attracts criminals" and telling the public not to "demonize" the Somali community, even as he faced questions over more than $1 billion in welfare fraud tied to Somali-linked schemes. Appearing on "The Evening Edit," Jarrett said the question many Minnesotans want answered is simple: Why would Walz allow a massive fraud scheme to flourish?
"So if all of this is true, and I suspect it is, the question is, why would he do it? Well, the answer is he was currying favor with the large Somali community where the fraud was largely happening. He was turning a blind eye for political gain," Jarrett told host Elizabeth MacDonald.
Jarrett said state employees allege more than just simple administrative failure.
It's also incompetent third-world drivers paying for fraudulent commercial drivers licenses to kill us on the highways:
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As the Media Insists That It's Illegal To Shoot Missiles at Foreign Terrorist Drug Boats, They Also Claim That It's Okay to Shoot National Guardsmen If You Object to Their Presence
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At some point, the left will have the shooting war they crave.
Charles C.W. Cooke:
Responding to the news that a crazed asylee from Afghanistan had shot two National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., the New Yorker's Jane Mayer concluded that the attack was "so tragic" and "so unnecessary," before proceeding to identify the real culprit of the abomination: President Donald J. Trump. "These poor guardsmen," wrote Mayer, "should never have been deployed."In this ugly asseveration, Mayer was swiftly joined by a bunch of other political commentators, each more desperate than the last to train their fire on the current occupant of the White House. In The Atlantic, Juliette Kayyem wrote that "there are costs to performatively deploying members of the military, one of which is the risk of endangering them." On Twitter, the author John Pavlovitz explicitly proposed that "Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are culpable for endangering the National Guard by putting them in harm's way." Not to be outdone, MS NOW's Ken Dilanian followed this path to its revolting terminus by suggesting that the guardsmen were "walking around with uniforms in an American city," that "there are some Americans that might object to that," and "so, apparently, this shooting has happened."
As with Charlie Kirk: The victims brought their murders at the hands of leftists upon themselves.
I'm sorry . . . what? In what possible universe could that be an appropriate response? Washington, D.C., is a federal city over which the federal government has plenary control. If, as has been the case this year, the federal government decides that it is necessary to deploy federal agents to enforce the law, it is permitted to do so without the expectation that those agents will be murdered. Certainly, the American social contract has become more complicated over time than it was back in 1787, but at no point has it come to tolerate the proposition that officials who have been sent to keep the peace should expect to be gunned down by assassins if their deployment is disapproved of by the progressive intellectual class. Politically, one can believe that Donald Trump's decision to deploy the National Guard was a good one, a bad one, or a middling one and that postulate will not change one whit. Whether they are there to pick up trash, fight an alien invasion, or solely to smile for foreign tourists, there is no circumstance in which killing them is appropriate.
Meanwhile, ABC "News" under George Sloppadopoulos and the Gay Model says that the Motive May Never Be Known, but right now we can confidently say that he shot those National Guardsmen not because he is a foreign Islamic terrorist and not becuase he was programmed to kill by a traitor media that justifies the murders of its opponents, but because... of Trump's economy.
He was feeling financial stress you guys.
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A Week of Ops: Traitor Media That Insisted Biden Was a Cognitively-Gifted "Super-Ager" Continues Pushing the Op That Trump Is Too Old to Serve and Must be Removed by the 25th Amendment
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Shipwreckedcrew @shipwreckedcrewNov 29
Wayyy too much coordination on the new manufactured narrative about Trump showing signs of aging.
Wayyy to much coordination on WaPo story about strike on drug boat.
Does no one remember 2017-2018??
This is a redo -- facts don't matter to media, only narrative matters.
Facts that don't fit the narrative don't get published.
The NYT admitted it as an EXPRESS policy. There was no "neutrality" -- Trump was such a threat to how they wanted the Govt to work that driving him from office what the overriding consideration.
The media and Dems were back on their heels for 9 months.
Now that his approval numbers have been talked down, they think he's vulnerable enough to go after him with falsified reports to drive a narrative.
I've seen this movie -- and I paid attention when the credits ran.
Experts say!
Brian Stelter @brianstelterThe NYT produced a seemingly undeniable report on Trump showing signs of aging. The story was data-driven, almost clinical, proving that Americans see Trump "less than they used to" and that "his battery shows signs of wear."
Trump is trying to deny it anyway.
The data is that Trump usually scheduled his first event of the day at 10:30 am in his first term, but now the average first event starts at 12:08 pm.
Obviously then, based on this seemingly undeniable data-driven almost-clinical evidence, Trump is unfit to serve.
You'll notice that that's Noted Truth Merchant Brian Stelter saying that.
Who claimed Biden was fit as a fiddle and video showing him stumbling and bumbling and wandering and fondling were all "cheap fakes."
The seriously retarded fraud co-conspirator Tim Walz claimed Biden was "fit for office," but now gurgles that Trump must be removed from office due to health.
"Release the MRI," he says.
I'd like to see this fat retard's medical records. He looks pretty unhealthy to me, and his brains are rotten garbage.
So... is any of this true? Is it true that the guy who seems to always be doing something, speaking to reporters, negotiating peace deals, etc., is really running out of energy?
Well no, of course not, it's another fucking traitor media lie.
President Trump has been clocking 12-hour days this month, according to internal White House documents shared exclusively with the New York Post, an unusual disclosure meant to swat down a New York Times storyline that the 79-year-old president is showing "signs of fatigue." The unpublished logs, spanning 10 weekdays between Nov. 12 and Nov. 25, show Trump working roughly 50-hour weeks -- not counting weekend duties, pre-dawn phone calls, or the after-midnight bursts of activity his staff has come to expect. Far from slowing, the records depict a president driving hard on trade and immigration reforms, pushing for an end to the Russia-Ukraine war, and overseeing the most extensive White House construction effort in decades.The schedule stands in stark contrast to the Biden era that Americans still remember vividly, when the previous president's staff routinely called early-afternoon "lids" and shielded him from public view on days when he appeared visibly drained. Biden, who left office at age 82, was widely understood to be fading cognitively long before he stepped aside -- a reality even many Democrats eventually acknowledged. Trump, by comparison, is presenting a workload more reminiscent of his first year in office, with the private logs showing a relentless pace from morning into late night.
On Wednesday, November 12 -- the day Congress ended the 43-day government shutdown -- aides documented 32 meetings and calls. Trump began with a 10:30 a.m. staff session in the Roosevelt Room and moved straight into a gauntlet of calls with Vice President JD Vance, Staff Secretary Will Scharf, lawmakers, judicial nominees, and business leaders. He ended with a 7:45 p.m. dinner with Wall Street executives, a bill-signing event after 10 p.m., and a late-night meeting with a corporate executive at 10:40 p.m. Notably, none of this includes the off-schedule calls he is known for taking at dawn and well past midnight.
The next day brought another 17 meetings and calls over eight-and-a-half hours. He met with Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Counsel David Warrington at 10:39 a.m., conferred with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, reviewed intelligence, sat for a "pre-brief" with speechwriters, signed an executive order alongside Melania Trump, granted a media interview, spoke with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, and joined a 6 p.m. tele-rally for Tennessee congressional candidate Matt Van Epps.
The old op was this: Trump's boundless energy was not a sign of good health, but proof that this famous teetotaler was an amphetamine addict.
I actually was open to the idea he was popping uppers. How else to explain the constant energy? (It also made me feel better about being Low Energy Ace.)
Now that op's usefulness is expired, so the new op: Trump is so tired you guys, seriously you guys, he may work 12-hour days but you can see that sometimes he gets fatigued.
You don't say. You don't say.
Karoline Leavitt is not having it:
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Indiana Republicans Unveil New Restricting Map That Could Result in Two More GOP House Members, But It's Unclear if Indiana RINOs Will Pass It
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RINOs are balking about redistricting because... I don't know why. Because Democrats will be mad at them.
But other Republicans have unveiled their redistricting plan to spit Democrats up so that Indiana's 7 to 2 delegation can become a clean sweep of nine Republicans to zero Democrats.
(If things work out -- there are no guarantees.)
The move comes as President Donald Trump pressures Republicans across the country to redistrict in order to bolster the GOP's chances of holding the House in 2026.Indiana currently has 7 Republicans and 2 Democrats in Congress. The proposed map would split the current Democratic-leaning districts into the other GOP-leaning districts and divide the blue-leaning urban areas, Politico reported.
It remains unclear whether the legislature will pass the plan, though Trump has urged them to do so.
Ron "The Meatball" DeSantis says he'll call a special legislative session early next year in order to pass a redistricting map for Florida.
"Yeah, so we're going to redistrict," DeSantis told The Floridian on Monday, according to NOTUS.The governor said that the timing of redrawing the state's congressional map will depend on the results of a voting rights case before the Supreme Court.
The case is regarding the legality of Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which has been interpreted as the enforcement mechanism for the 15th Amendment. The statute allows judicial relief for a voter if they believe their right to vote is being infringed upon on the basis of race.
"The argument in October about Section 2 of the VRA, that impacts Florida's maps, so we're going to do it next spring," DeSantis said. "I am going to talk to [state Senate Majority Leader Ben Albritton] about when it makes sense to do it, but that will be done. I think we are going to be required to do it because of this court decision."
Florida GOP Chairman Evan Power said last month that he expects Republicans to gain three to five House seats under the new redistricting proposal.
Note that DeSantis seems to be saying he must redistrict if the Supreme Court overturns the unconstitional judge-made rule that districts must be drawn on racial grounds. But I don't know if he's saying that if the Supreme Court punts on this issue, he'll redistrict anyway.
In the meantime, we're waiting for results from the special election in Tennessee 7, a +10 Trump district in which an absolute maniac even further to the left than AOC is actually within two points of winning the seat and narrowing the deadly-thin GOP majority still further.
If you're in the district, you must vote. It's critical.
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