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  • Today's News, December 2-3, 2025

    Today's News, December 2-3, 2025
    Dec 4 2025
    IN POLITICAL NEWS 1) The TN special election brought out every panican doomspooger and his brother. "The GOP's gonna lose this race!" "Epstein! (Sqwak!) Epstein." "Israel!" Just yesterday Politico blared "GOP FRETS (get it? They are fretting---when they aren't "pouncing") dangerous result in TN". Well none of that came to pass. Matt Van Epps won by over 8 points, but the-now creepily predictable doomspooge brigade whines "Trump won by 22.' Indeed this is the subheader in the All Bill Clinton News Network headline! Can we talk? I mean, can we really talk? Seth Keshel in his column today explains this was not only an off-year election but an off-off-year election; that the district is heavily rural; and that typically turnout is MUCH lower for plain old "off year" elections. The only place you're going to find uber-heavy turnout when Trump isn't on the ballot is if the DemoKKKrats give away Golden Corral coupons. By the way, Seth did not make a prediction publicly, but in a phone convo yesterday he told me that Van Epps would with with between 5-8 points. So even Seth was a tad low. So how bad was this DemoKKKrat loss? The Hill said Democrats “went all in." The Democrat House Majority PAC blew $1m in the PAC's first special election, and the DCCC (all that's missing is the "P" at the end of that) also dumped $1m, plus PACs put in still more, while the useless DemoKKKrat herself also burned up $1.2 million after she said she hated Nashville and Country Music. Van Epps, at $993,000, was outspent nearly 3;1 and the DemoKKKrat STILL lost by 8. But wait. It gets even worse for DemoKKKrats. They focus tested the "affordability" message, and it flopped, even after Cackles, DNC Chairman Ken Martin, and many other big-name DemoKKKrats, with nothing to do between Thanksgiving and Christmas, appeared in TN to "get out the vote." 2) Welp, surely then the voter registrations have shifted in the DemoKKKrats' favor, no? No. It is important to understand that in many cases, the November reports show a lot of voter roll purging with both sides dropping. In AZ, for example, both sides dropped, but Ds dropped a lot more. NC saw both drop, but Ds fell by 10,000 more than Rs. In OR, both parties lost but Ds lost 4,000 more than Rs; in Blue CO, Rs lost 30,000 but Ds lost 36,000 for a net GOP "gain" of 6,000; same general result in RI, where Rs lost 630 but Ds dropped 3,886; meanwhile in NM, which has seen an almost 5,000 shift to Rs in the past several months, both parties gained, but Rs net gained about 400 more. LA showed Rs gaining, Ds losing (about 4,000 net); FL, right on cue, adds another 10,000 net Rs. Then there is OK, which to a lesser degree than FL, continues its deep reddening as Rs net gained 1600; DE showed a net gain of Rs near 1,000; I don't have the link for PA, but it slid a tiny bit with Ds gaining about 270. Seth Keshel looked at the key swing counties, such as Northampton and saw no movement, so likely big-city-related primary or other issues.NJ did see Ds bounce back slightly with a 1,000 gain. 3) We got IN to move on its redistricting, now in the hands of the Senate after the IN House passed it, giving the Rs another seat. Now Gov. Ron DeSantis announced FL will redistrict, which could be good for between 2-4. And waiting in the wings is the Supreme Court with its racial redistricting case. No one I've spoken to, including Zen Master and Seth Keshel, know whether the some or most of the currently redistricted districts will be affected, Seth thinks it's about 10. 4) Michael and Susan Dell pledged $6.25 million for "start up" accounts for kids that will provide them money for college or other approved outlets when they turn 18. 5) Shipwreckedcrew says there are no bombshells in the Epstein material to be released this month. 6) Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, "The Punisher" sings the Carpenters "We've Only Just Begun" as he vows to accelerate strikes on drug boats. Wait, what was that? Hakeem "Movin' on Up" Jeffries says DemoKKKrats won't pursue any chages against "The Punisher." This is how deep the DemoKKKrats are in on this one. Senator Jack Reed dismisses narco-terrorists as just "people wanting to make money." So the Nazis were just people "wanting to reduce opposition?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__VQX2Xn7tI (Carpenters. "We've Only Just Begun") 7) DemoKKKrats breathed a huge sigh of relief when, in discussing the 2028 election, President Trump said, "It's not going to be me." 8) The LA governor has requested Trump to send National Guard to N'yawlins. 9) MN state employees blame the Prancing Gheyboy, Tampon Timmy for the Somaliland Fraud. Department of Homeland Security head Kristi Noem says half of visa applications for MN are fraudulent. Meanwhile, the Treasury Dept. is investigating MN for its Skinny fraud problem. 10) R Congressman Jim Jordan and others were probing DOJ J6 (Patriot Day) conduct when Grand Moff Garland's storm trooper siezed their phone records. 11) A student ...
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    17 mins
  • Today's News, November 30-December 1, 2025

    Today's News, November 30-December 1, 2025
    Dec 1 2025
    IN POLITICAL NEWS 1) The shooting of two National Guard soldiers, one of whom, Sarah Beckstrom, died, was carried out by a CIA-trained America-hating Afghan brought over here under Rutabaga. President Trump has had it. He is going to pause all immigration from third world countries. 2) He terminated all visa applications from Afghanistan and paused all asylum applications from everywhere. Scott Bessent is cracking down on remittances and is expunging all illegal immigrants from the financial structure. Meanwhile, it has been revealed that the CIA brought thousands of "Zero Unit" Afghan fighters over. Understand that while they all hated the Tolly-Ban (as Zero used to say), they also hated us. There is no explanation so far as to why Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the assassin, drove 2,500 miles to D.C. to kill people. 3) Well, this is like throwing a racoon onto a frying skillet: Trump said he is revoking all of Rutabaga's exec orders signed with the autopen. Now, we'll see how far this goes but it is a titanic move. If he is successful, virtually all of Rutabaga's pardons will be null and void, for example. 4) Woke attitudes are beginning to ebb. 5) FBI Director Kash Patel did an interview in which he noted law enforcement has staged a massive campaign against the kiddie porn group 762; has staged a huge raid in Memphis where 3,100 were arrested and 121 kids rescued (in his interview Patel said overall they've rescued 6,000---which is wonderful, but there hasn't been any discussion regarding what is happening with these kids). He also said that violent crime has fallen overall and that the murder rate dropped back to 2015 levels. The Feds are also "mapping out the money" that is supporting fascist antifa. 6) The Spook/PSYOPS teams put out a recruitment video that is chilling. "We are everywhere." 7) Pigs must be flying. The New York Slimes reported that "Fraud Swamps Minneota's Social Services System on Tim Walz's Watch. and the Slimes named "Somalis" in the first sentence. Wow. 8) A GA judge dropped the election interference case against Trump. 9) The Seditious Six, including that walking prostate gland, Mark Kelly, were outright urging military members to mutiny against President Trump. I say some William Wallace-type justice is needed here. 10) Data shows that thousands of liquor and smoke shops are selling products with EBT. 11) John ("Lurch") Kerry, the useless and irrelevant former DemoKKKrat presidential loser candidate, says CEOs are afraid of Trump. Gooooooood. 12) Indiana's legislature has convened to start redistricting. 13) Arizona Senator El Pollo Gallego complained that the DemoKKKrats used to be the party of "sex, drugs, and rock and roll" with "hot women." Sorry, El Pollo, I never remember ugly women with armpit hair as "hot"---and I was IN Rock and Roll. IN CULTURAL NEWS 14) All those jokes about MS being "uneducated" have gone out the window as its fourth graders now have reading scores in the top 10 of all states. Betcha they're better than Somaliland, er, MN. 15) Interesting study here about women in the academic workforce: women with equal credentials get hired at higher rates than men; women get lower student evaluations; women's manuscripts are accepted at higher rates than men; women have slightly lower salaries than equally qualified men. And speaking of academia, a Harvard grading study found that 60% of the grades were As. 16) The woke enclave of Portlandia had a Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony---only they couldn't even use the word "Christmas." 17) Ryan Burge shows that the U.S. military is more religious than the civilian population. 18) David Shor reports on extremely troubling social trends. IN TRANSOID NEWS 19) The HHS final report on transoidism and gender dysphoria in kids left the transoid lobby empty handed. There is now no support at all in this or the UK government for mutilating kiddos. 20) New links have been discovered between autism and transoidism. IN ECONOMIC NEWS 21) Employment WILL catch up, prices will begin to tail off. These are signs of great economic growth when 74-75% of your companies beat revenue and all other growth estimates. Business thinks we'll have lower rates, too as the DOW hit a new high, 47,700. 22) With subsidies gone, EV sales have crashed. 23) U.S. oil production hit a record high in September. 24) Retailers had the best Black Friday ever. 25) Some 30 states now have gas below $3.00 a gallon. IN INTERNATIONAL NEWS 26) Bodies are still piling up in the Hong Kong tower fire, with now 146 known dead, many missing. 27) And here . . . we . . . go as CEOs of car companies are telling the EUweenies that their new regs would put the Euro auto industry into "irreversible decline." 28) There is a growing corruption scandal in Ukraine, with Green Screen Zelensky's #2 Andriy Yermak getting fired. His #3, Tymur Mindich, fled to Israel. Jeff Childers, in his "Coffee and Covid" substack, hypothesized that the "next man ...
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  • Today's News, November 25-26, 2025

    Today's News, November 25-26, 2025
    Nov 26 2025
    IN POLITICAL NEWS 1) Several forces (and I have my suspicions who) are trying to drive muy-MAGA people out of the administration: Wiles, Patel, and Hegseth. They are using hoaxified "sources" to claim Trump is displeased. Nope. Trump said he's happy with Kash. And as Patrick Ruffini shows, Trump isn't losing MAGA at all---but he is slipping with indies, whose #1 issue is the economy. Once the economy turns, they are back. 2) Nothing But Communists (NBC) is very upset that X's new policy places locations of posters in the Tweet. Lo and behold, a large majority of the "influencers" anti-Trump stuff was coming from India and Israel. 3) DemoKKKrats supposedly are going to pour "eight figures" into the midterms---from where? They're broke. The DNC just has to BORROW $15m to stay afloat. 4) A judge (who else?) dismissed cases against James Scrotumtoter Comey and Letitia James, saying the prosecuting attorney, Lindsey Halligan, was unlawfully appointed. And this judge blocked Trump from eliminating four agencies. 5) An illegal street takeover in Queens, NY, turned violent. Get ready for more with the Amazing Zohran. 6) The Pentagon opened an investigation into the seditious moonman Sen. Mark Kelly. Moonman and others did a video encouraging members of the military to disobey orders that come from President Trump. This evil demonspooge needs to be given the William Wallace treatment, sans "freedom." Not to be outdone by his fellow glandmagnet in AZ, fraudulent senator El Pollo Gallego threatened any military who court martial Moonman with "consequences." By the way, the soft and pudgy-looking El Pollo Gallego trashed DemoKKKrat men, saying they look like women. Well, hold on partner. Are you talking about "women" like Lia Thomas? Cus most DemoKKKrat men look like that man. 7) The Pentagon will end a century long partnership with Scouting America over wokeness. 8) President Trump has launched an AI initiative he compared to the Manhattan Project. Jeff Childers assessed this "Genesis" project this way: If successful, the Genesis inflection point could soar far beyond “just” technology. It could reshape economies, geopolitics, education, culture, arts, and even the essential meanings of human creativity, responsibility, and discovery. It is potentially the ultimate pivot from “human-driven advancement” to “machine-accelerated civilization.” DOE must review and inspect and approval ALL research labs using AI-directed workflow. But then he says something I (and George Gilder) have said for some time: that authoritarian/totalitarian (dare we say, DemoKKKrat?) societies are not compatible with AI. It is impossible to control. As Jeff adroitly notes, Trump sees opportunity and a "profitable asset where everyone else saw bureaucratic chaos." 9) The ridiculous snoot-tooter mayor of New Azteca (LA) celebrates the first house rebuilt since the wildfires in Pacific Palisades last year. Only problem? It was already approved for construction by a developer before the fires. 10) Meanwhile, in New Kabul (NYC), the Amazing Zohran has brought an anti-cop activist onto his transition team. I know, "transition team" may mean something new these days. 11) And in yet another hellhole big city, Benghazi-by-the-Lake, mayor Let's Go Brandon Williams says that jailing violent criminal is unholy. Having them set fire to peaceful citizens, to shoot up birthday parties, or to attack people on the streets is holy, I guess. 12) Parents are suing a CO school after their teen daughter was forced to share a bed with a male. IN ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ALIEN NEWS 13) The Rutabaga regime forced airports to house unvetted illegal criminal invaders. 14) Of course they do. Minnesota DemoKKKrats are defending the Somali fraudsters. But of course a lib female judge overturned the conviction of one Somali spoogebucket convicted of stealing $7.2m in welfare funds. 15) Another 20 were arrested in a human trafficking sting in WI and IL. Once again, where are these leads coming from? (Epstein?) IN CULTURAL NEWS 16) Interesting survey here on sex and age differences. Among other things, da youts pray for themselves more than for others; young men increasingly see drinking as a moral problem; and young women just want to "express themselves," no matter who they hurt. IN TRANSOID NEWS 17) The "world's strongest woman" was stripped of his title because it's a man, baby. IN ECONOMIC NEWS 18) This is becoming a thing: Americans are saying one thing with regards to the economy, doing another, as spending at restaurants and bars is rising despite their stated "sour mood." Overall retail sales ticked up last month. 20) Tyson will shut down a beef plant due to dwindling cattle supplies. 21Now that illegals are being given the boot, housing prices in major cities are finally starting to fall. 22) The oversupply of college-educated people has increased. 23) McKinsey says AI could replace up to 57% of American work hours. IN INTERNATIONAL...
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