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Today's News with Larry Schweikart

Today's News with Larry Schweikart

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  • Today's News, December 20-22, 2025

    Today's News, December 20-22, 2025
    Dec 22 2025
    IN POLITICAL NEWS 1) Just a general observation on the leftoid/RINO/DeSorosoid attacks on the J.D. Vance speech at TPUSA: Remember Rush Limbaugh. "they will tell you whom they fear." 2) A new House report says that researchers and faculty knowingly collaborated with the ChiComs on military work. 3) Last Saturday I had a substack about Trump's incredible energy---not just personally but in his administration---and how the ballroom, the name change of the Kennedy Center, and the Reiner tweet were all consuming almost all news while the real news was that the administration had deported 2.5 million illegals, brought about a real (red) color revolution in Latin America, is moving into fusion, and most of all how he has started dismantling the federal government with over 275,000 employees dumped, three entire agencies closed, DoEd dismantled, and so on. Yesterday, Roger Kimball picked up on that. I showed that many of these resignations (30 for Rs, 22 for Ds) are due to the fact that Trump has made Congress irrelevant, yet to even tread water they have to work like dogs to keep up with Trump. It ain't fun, and they don't have junkets anymore. Need more evidence that the Congresscritters and Senate Snorers are overwhelmed by the amount of work Trump makes them do? New senator Cynthia Lummis of WY, having just been elected five years ago, is quitting due to EXHAUSTION saying "I feel like a sprinter in a marathon." Yep. That's Trump for ya. Get on the dance floor or go home. 4) Just the latest excuse, this one from Axios: DemoKKKrats aren't winning because they are fat and ugly and now are getting makeovers. Yes, they are fat and ugly, largely ugly because their inner Satan comes through way too much. 5) DOJ has indicted two more, both Haitians, in a food stamp fraud scheme. 6) A power outage in Groomer City (SF) left 130,000 in the dark as self-driving cars took the day off in the middle of the street. 7) The District of Columbia DEI Police Chief resigned, citing "haters" about her diddling with the crime stats. 8) Kollyfornia is facing fuel shortages as refineries shut down and energy companies leave. Boo hoo. The state could go full Chernobyl and I wouldn't care. 9) I told you about this and saw this coming a mile away. Trump Tar Babied the DemoKKKrats into demanding the release of the Epstein files. Now that they are out, Bill Clinton is all over them like ugly on an ape. 10) The acting director of cybersecurity failed a lie detector test, and now the whole unit is suspect. 11) At her TPUSA speech, Tulsi Gabbard called "Islamic Ideology" as the greatest threat to Western Civilization. No, Tulsi, it's #2 because LIBERAL DemoKKKrat ideology encourages and permits "Islamic ideology." 12) President Trump is ousting more career diplomats, or, as President Harry Truman called them, "Striped-pants boys." 13) It's obvious the whole Epstein file thing failed badly for DemoKKKrats. All they can talk about today is J.D. Vance. That's because the DOJ just re-released a bunch of docs that had been redacted. More problems for DemoKKKrats. And this doesn't help: the FBI arrested a top VA DemoKKKrat official for kiddie porn. 14) Emails show Rutabaga's White House coordinated with DOJ and FBI on the Mar-a-Lago raid. Well, it would sure be nice if people went to jail. For example, Stacy (M1) Abrams, the Human Planet had a group that pocketed $5 million in "green" money before Trump killed it. 15) Say what? The Brown shooter, the Portuguese analclot, had an X account with only 79 followers. Guess who one of the 79 was? Barack (Zero) Obama. IN ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ALIEN NEWS 16) HHS is at it again, this time requiring the corporate sponsors of illegal criminal alien invaders to pay their medical share of Medicaid or face collection. This is the way. 17) DHS has rescued almost 130,000 illegal immmigrant children who were missing and trafficked. Good. Now, what are you going to do with them? 18) The Department of Transpo has demanded English efficiency from cross-border Mexican railway workers. IN CULTURAL NEWS 19) Shocking numbers on how DEI pushed men out of culture by Christopher Rufo (Hollywood TV screenwriters went from 48% in 2011 to just 11.9% in 2024). 20) Well, this was obvious when I worked in the university system: "How federal funds are diverted to DEI and administrative bloat." IN TRANSOID NEWS 21) Texas has released a new tool for the public to report men in women's sports. Good. IN ECONOMIC NEWS 22) The Delaware Supes restored Elon Musks's gigantic $139 billion Tesla pay deal. Aw, poor little Elon haters jes kain't get a win. 23) JIm Beam pausing production for "site enhancements." Some people are gonna be Jonesing. 24) DemoKKKrat states keep getting stupider. Now CO is going to phase out natural gas for rural homes. Seriously? 25) The food supplier for Domino's and Papa John's in Kollyfornia is leaving to set up shop in TX. 26) Trump/Truth's fusion deal was a huge moneymaker. Right now...
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    17 mins
  • Today's News, December 18-19, 2025

    Today's News, December 18-19, 2025
    Dec 19 2025
    IN POLITICAL NEWS 1) How convenient: the suspect in the Brown shooting was finally found, five days later, daid. He was a Portuguese foreign national (but what else?) Claudio Valente. I am NOT a conspiracy theorist. I am NOT a conspiracy theorist. (Brown shooting, MIT shooting of a Jewish man, FBI breaks up massive terror plot, Charlie Kirk shooting, attempts on President Trump---but the left has no hand in trying to do ANYTHING to distract from their upcoming extinction?) Wait, it gets worse. Far-lefoid glandjuggler students at Brown reportedly forced the University to disable cameras across campus so the violent pro-Hamas Murder Pirate/pro-Pale cheesesnooters wouldn't be indentified when they did their little "Free Palestine" rampages. 2) A few DemoKKKrats are feeling used, as in they are now claiming the GOP (the Gang that Couldn't Shoot Straight) managed to maneuver Jazzy What-a-Crockett into dropping out of the House and running (hopelessly) for the Senate. I dunno, you guys think we're that smart? 3) The DOJ has now ordered voting records from Fulton Co. Fraud there? Nahhhhh. Except here we have pretty good evidence that Rutabaga stole GA in the 2020 election fraud. 4) Here's that infamous word, "eyeing," but . . . "Feds are eyeing civil rights violations vs feds who pursued Trump and MAGA." 5) The guys over at "Liberal Patriot' are apparently the only ones on the left who see where their policies of death are headed. Here they argue for "government realism" (i.e., you need Five-O), immigration realism (good luck) and, in their next column, merit realism and biological realism. Guys, these are all the positions of bigoted homophobic chilipeppers, and they are not going to apply realism to anything. 6) Seth Keshel summarizes the voter registration shifts, after roll purges, in all 57 states. Rs net gained 1.18 million last year. NY alone lost almost 80,000 Ds. 7) Related to this---and that 18% DemoKKKrat Congressional approval number? The DNC had commissioned a "what went wrong" study for the 2024 election. DNC Chairman Ken Martin (who booted out Lil' Hitler, David Hogglet) promised transparency. Oops. Now they are burying that, saying "Does this help us win? No." In other words, honesty about why they lost must take a back seat to fantasy about how they can, gosh-darn it, just win next time with no changes. Can it be worse? I dunno. Now the DemoKKKrats are at a pathetic 15% approval among men. Most likely, they are men named Sue. 8) "He'll be lucky to have a bookmobile." Donations to Rutabaga's presidential library fall. Remember the "rumors" during the campaign of 2024 that the Senior Skank was negotiating Rutabaga's drop out in return for gigantic sums for the library? 8) Today is deadline day for the release of all the Epstein stuff. We'll see. DOJ says it still cannot release everything just cuz . . . . 9) President Trump ordered a $1776 holiday bonus to all active duty military. IN ILLEGAL CRIMINAL NEWS 10) Federal Prosecutor Joe Thompson announced six more indictments in the Skinny Minny fraud case whose price tag may well now be $10 billion. Please make the Prancing Gheyboy, Tampon Timmy, one of those indictments. 11) Trump paused the green card lottery after the Brown shooting. Hmm. Do you think he was just waiting for some opportunity to do this, then make it permanent? 12) ICE had its most successful recruiting season ever. 13) Naww, the Amazing Zohran ain't no antisemite. Politico: Zohran's appointments chief quits amidst anti-Jewish posts. 14) Remember that WI judge who obstructed ICE agents? Yeah, a jury convicted her. IN CULTURAL NEWS 15) Little Benji Shapiro denounced the Tuckster and Candace Owens as "frauds" and "grifters" in his speech to TPUSA and also lambasted "conspiracy theorists." Ah, Benji, where have you been? Do you not know that 90% of the so-called "conspiracy theories" over the last 8 years have proven true? Hideous little man. I met him when Andrew Breitbart arranged a luncheon in my honor in LA around 2014. Didn't like him then, either. And for the record, I think Candace is a kookburger and I do not trust the Tuckster---never have. IN TRANSOID NEWS 16) HHS has moved to cut funding for ALL child mutilation procedures. Deputy HHS Secretary said "Men are men. Women are women." The sound of a million screeching transoids could be heard throughout the universe. Well, at least one or two. IN ECONOMIC NEWS 17) Hold on now! Trump Media is getting into nuclear fusion? Trump stock soars as it announces a merger with TAE Technologies. 18) U.S. GDP still growing at 3.5%. 19) Goldman seems to be expecting a boom and a party: Buy nicotine, and candy stocks, they said. 20) New evidence on side effects and blowback from the China Virus vax caused Pfizer shares to fall 5%. Just the first of many? 21) Triple Play: The Trump administration just achieved the economic triple play of tariffs, rate cuts, and falling inflation. DemoKKKrats who were about to ...
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    14 mins
  • Today's News, December 16-17, 2025

    Today's News, December 16-17, 2025
    Dec 18 2025
    IN POLITICAL NEWS 1) Excellent news, as the War Department has upgraded its initial inquiry into Sen. Mark Moonman Kelly into an "Official Command Investigation." People, do you get how important this is? A military investigation goes to a military court, no spickle-duster Rutabaga civilian judges. 2) Boston area po-po, you know the same ones who after nearly three days still don't even have a face or name for the Brown U. shooter? Yeah, they are opening an investigation into the shooting of an MIT prof. I'm sure it was an Amish guy who is responsible. 3) Just the latest rot uncovered in the Rutabaga admin: he let in 18,000 "known" or "suspected" terrorists into the country. Tell me again this guy, like Zero, wasn't doing everything he could to destroy the United States. 4) Rob Reiner's son, Nick, has been taken into custody for slitting his parents' throats. He is not yet "medically ready" for a court appearance. New reports say that he would not sleep for days and fly into meth-filled rages. 5) President Trump has ordered a naval blockade off Venezuela to stop sanctioned oil tankers. 6) Dan Bongino has resigned as assistant director of the FBI. Bongino was reported to have been "ready to leave" over three months ago. There is no question he and AG Pam Bondi had different approaches to the mission, but he was the subordinate. However, this appears to be mostly about being separated from his family. I get it. Mrs. LS told me in the first Trump admin, when Bannon was discussing a couple of positions with me, that she was fine with me going, but she was NOT going to move. 7) Here are the 29 Rs and 22 Ds not seeking reelection. Many of the R spots are safe and present an opportunity for a more MAGA presence. 8) Shipwreckedcrew says the Covid fraud in Kollyfornia dwarfs the Skinny Minny fraud. It is crucial to understand that for today's DemoKKKrat Terror Party, fraud is a feature, not a bug. 9) "It'll be in the next batch." The DOJ is scheduled to release all Epstein files by Friday, but DemoKKKrats as always say there are more. There have to be, because Trump is not implicated in anything released so far. 10) NV is the latest of 18 states to be sued for voter data by the DOJ 11) A judge will not halt construction of President Trump's White House ballroom expansion. 12) SpewMore won't rule out another gubment shutdown, cuz, you know, the first one worked so well for DemoKKKrats. Today, a poll has them at 18% approval, an all time low. 13) President Trump designated street fentanyl as a "WMD." 14) "The Punisher," SecWar Pete Hegseth, is reorganizing the Pentagon away from Europe and war with Russia, and slashing the number lf 4-star generals. Good. Silly that we have such a top-heavy officer corps. IN ECONOMIC NEWS 15) Elon Musk's SpaceX valuation is now bigger than the deep state itself. 16) While some fret about the AI "bubble," Fortune estimates quantum computing will hit $198 billion in value. 17) Correct: Wolf Richter says the Fed should look at PRIVATE employment when making decisions, not "all." 18) Texas has sued five television makers for secretly spying on consumers. 19) Elon Musk is Boring. No, I don't mean un-interesting. His company, Boring, is using robot drillers to lay a subway type system under Las Vegas, which would use (Disney-style) Teslas to pick people up rather than mass transportation subway cars or train cars. 20) GM is investing $242 million to develop a skilled workforce. 21) Well deserved. Here is a tribute to the Rush Limbaugh of Energy, David Blackmon. And David himself weighs in on the woke Ford $1.9 billion hit it will take on EVs. Meanwhile, interest in EVs by gas-guzzler owners has fallen by 20%. IN INTERNATIONAL NEWS 22) The world spent $4 TRILLION to move the percentage of power supplied by oil, gas, and coal from 87% to 86%. 23) Of course, when Aussies are killed by a tag-team father/son terror duo firing single shot weapons, the Aussie government immediately spouts "gun control." The evil that these former Brit dominion nations (Canada, Australia, South Africa) have become is shocking. 24) Isn't this sweet? The terrorist networks of al-Qaeda, ISIS, and all the rest are strategically intermarried. 25) The head of Saskatchewan's transit union told the city that the electric buses they bought are only good for a couple of hours. A councilman, with the brain of a mustard seed, asked if maybe they could use the Electric Busses for the Spring, Summer, and Fall and use diesel busses in the winter. Sure, if you want to pay for two separate bus systems. By the way, these walking dung cocktails have thirteen more of these useless vehicles on order. I mean, this is up there with Sen. John Kennedy's quip that DemoKKKrats think they can fly to the sun as long as they flight at night. 26) This may do it: President Trump has sued the Bolshevik Broadcast Network (BBC) for %10 billion for lying in their cuts about the Patriot Day, (J6) festivities. When he ...
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    19 mins
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