Full screen recommended.
Michael Bordenaro, 12/19/25
"Americans Are Trapped as Prices Keep Rising"
Comments here:
So, we rise from the rubble...
Friday, December 19, 2025
"Christmas Shopping At An Alabama Walmart - Shelves Packed, Shoppers Not Spending"
Full screen recommended.
Jeremiah Babe, 12/19/25
"Christmas Shopping At An Alabama Walmart -
Shelves Packed, Shoppers Not Spending"
Comments here:
Judge Napolitano, "INTEL Roundtable w/Johnson & McGovern Weekly Wrap 19-Dec"
Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom, 12/19/25
"INTEL Roundtable w/Johnson &
McGovern Weekly Wrap 19-Dec"
Comments here:
"A Christmas Musical Interlude, With Placido Domingo"
Placido Domingo, "La Virgen Lava Pañales"
○
Plácido Domingo, Wiener Sängerknaben,
"Ave Maria" (Franz Schubert)
"A Look to the Heavens"
A now famous picture from the Hubble Space Telescope featured Pillars of Creation, star forming columns of cold gas and dust light-years long inside M16, the Eagle Nebula. This false-color composite image views the nearby stellar nursery using data from the Herschel Space Observatory's panoramic exploration of interstellar clouds along the plane of our Milky Way galaxy. Herschel's far infrared detectors record the emission from the region's cold dust directly.
The famous pillars are included near the center of the scene. While the central group of hot young stars is not apparent at these infrared wavelengths, the stars' radiation and winds carve the shapes within the interstellar clouds. Scattered white spots are denser knots of gas and dust, clumps of material collapsing to form new stars. The Eagle Nebula is some 6,500 light-years distant, an easy target for binoculars or small telescopes in a nebula rich part of the sky toward the split constellation Serpens Cauda (the tail of the snake).”
"The Only Time..."
"If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call
you could make, who would you call and what would you say?
And why are you waiting?"
- Stephen Levine
“The 11 Nations Of The United States”
“The 11 Nations Of The United States”
by Andy Kiersz and Marguerite Ward
Excerpt: “The map above shows how the US really has 11 separate ‘nations’ with entirely different cultures. Author and journalist Colin Woodard identified 11 distinct cultures that have historically divided the US. His book “American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures in North America” breaks down those cultures and the regions they each dominate. From the utopian “Yankeedom” to the conservative “Greater Appalachia” and liberal “Left Coast,” looking at these cultures sheds an interesting light on America’s political and cultural divides.
View this complete and fascinating article here:
"It's Just...Life"
“Bad things don’t happen to people because they deserve for them to happen. It just doesn’t work that way. It’s just… life. And no matter who we are, we have to take the hand we’re dealt, crappy though it may be, and try our very best to move forward anyway, to love anyway, to have hope anyway… to have faith that there’s a purpose to the journey we’re on.”
- Mia Sheridan
The Poet: May Sarton, “Now I Become Myself”
“Now I Become Myself”
“Now I become myself. It’s taken
Time, many years and places,
I have been dissolved and shaken,
Worn other people’s faces,
Run madly, as if Time were there,
Terribly old, crying a warning,
“Hurry, you will be dead before —”
(What? Before you reach the morning?
or the end of the poem, is clear?
Or love safe in the walled city?)
Now to stand still, to be here,
Feel my own weight and density!
Now there is time and Time is young.
O, in this single hour I live
All of myself and do not move,
I, the pursued, who madly ran,
Stand still, stand still, and stop the Sun!”
Time, many years and places,
I have been dissolved and shaken,
Worn other people’s faces,
Run madly, as if Time were there,
Terribly old, crying a warning,
“Hurry, you will be dead before —”
(What? Before you reach the morning?
or the end of the poem, is clear?
Or love safe in the walled city?)
Now to stand still, to be here,
Feel my own weight and density!
Now there is time and Time is young.
O, in this single hour I live
All of myself and do not move,
I, the pursued, who madly ran,
Stand still, stand still, and stop the Sun!”
~ May Sarton,
Collected Poems, 1930-1993
"They Want More..."
"When people pile up debts they will find difficult and perhaps even impossible to repay, they are saying several things at once. They are obviously saying that they want more than they can immediately afford. They are saying, less obviously, that their present wants are so important that, to satisfy them, it is worth some future difficulty. But in making that bargain they are implying that when the future difficulty arrives, they’ll figure it out. They don’t always do that.”
– Michael Lewis, “Boomerang”
"Millions Regret Quitting Their Job As Layoffs Hit Worst Level In Four Years"
Full screen recommended.
Epic Economist, 12/19/25
"Millions Regret Quitting Their Job As
Layoffs Hit Worst Level In Four Years"
"Did you quit your job this year thinking something better was coming? Or did you get laid off without any warning? Either way, you're not alone. Millions of Americans are finding themselves in the same uncertain place right now, wondering what comes next. In this video, we're looking at real stories from people who walked away from their jobs and now wish they hadn't, and people who showed up every day only to get a phone call that changed everything. From single moms scrambling before Christmas to senior level professionals being read a script by HR, this is the reality of the 2025 job market that nobody wants to talk about.
With over one million jobs lost this year and experts saying 2026 could be just as bad, it's getting harder and harder to feel secure. The job search never stops. The mental weight never lifts. And for a lot of people, the dream job they thought they had is gone. If you're going through this right now, I hope this video reminds you that you're not alone. Sometimes just knowing other people feel it too makes it a little easier to keep going. Let me know in the comments what you're experiencing. Are you job searching right now? Did you quit or get laid off? I want to hear your story."
Comments here:
Dan, I Allegedly, "Is this Too Far Gone to Fix? Foreclosure Festival"
Full screen recommended.
Dan, I Allegedly, 12/19/25
"Is this Too Far Gone to Fix?
Foreclosure Festival"
"In this video, we're diving into the $18M foreclosure on luxury apartments at 222 Alvarado Street in Echo Park, Los Angeles. It's a wild story that highlights the current economic challenges, including inflation, housing market struggles, and corporate mismanagement. Is this just another example of the collapse we're seeing in real estate, or is there hope for a turnaround? Join me as I share insights from foreclosure experts, discuss the impact on the economy, and explore what this means for renters and homebuyers alike."
Comments here:
"The Ukraine Border Myth: How a Manufactured Crisis Threatens America" (Excerpt)
"The Ukraine Border Myth:
How a Manufactured Crisis Threatens America"
by Davis Stockman
Excerpt: "Here we go again. The Donald recently offered a constructive 28-point plan that implicitly and correctly identified America’s Homeland Security interest in Ukraine as nichts, nada, nugatory and nyet. Yet before the ink was dry the Washington neocon brigade that he foolishly invited back into his government to sabotage it for the second time, did exactly that. This time they pulled the guts right out of the Trump Peace Plan for Ukraine, and did so in plain sight.
To wit, the only thing that really mattered in the original gussied-up word salad of 28-points was that - Ukraine would be partitioned roughly along the lines of the pre-1918 Novorussiya province of the Russian Empire, meaning that mainly Russian-speaking Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk and the major parts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia would be allowed to secede from the tyrannical, corruption-ridden, Nazi-tainted, anti-Russian Kiev regime.
The resulting rump of Ukraine would forswear now and forevermore any interest in joining NATO. That is, eschew any possibility of functioning as a Cuba on Moscow’s borders just like Khrushchev foolishly attempted with JFK way back in October 1962.
Neither of these so-called “concessions” to Putin would harm America’s true homeland security by a whit because Russia with a $2 trillion GDP based on oil, grains and metals is no threat whatsoever to America’s $30 trillion high-tech economy. Nor would they have adversely impacted the so-called “rules-based international order”. After all, the latter is but a beard for the Washington-based Warfare State and global empire, which is already bankrupting America and which remains utterly unnecessary for the maintenance of what’s left of its liberty, democracy and capitalist prosperity.
In short, the Donald was - knowingly or otherwise - fixing to make like the long-ago Senator from Vermont, George Aiken. The latter correctly and famously told LBJ the way to get out of the Vietnam morass was to “declare victory and go home”.
That’s essentially what Trump’s 28-point plan did. It amounted to packing up and going home just like in the case of that comparable 60-years ago folly that had no bearing on America’s security, either.
But apparently to quell the War Party uproar over the plan’s correct rebuke to the $300 billion financial and human catastrophe that the Washington War Party and its NATO footmen have visited upon the ashes of the Ukrainian steppes, the Donald unaccountably sent Little Marco Rubio to Geneva last weekend. His remit was to negotiate an acceptance of Trump’s 28-point plan by the crooks, sadists and war criminals who conduct the Ukrainian version of Mafia rule in their woebegone nation. But what Rubio actually did was connive with the thieves and brigands who (temporarily) rule in Kiev to essentially disembowel Trump’s plan by dropping the aforementioned provisions, which were the only thing that really mattered to the Russians.
Still, Rubio’s treachery in plain sight should not have been a surprise to anyone who has actually paid attention (viz, not the Donald) to Washington’s machination during recent decades. After all, sending the fox into the hen house to gather the eggs is a hardly an adequate metaphor for what happened in Geneva.
To wit, Rubio was, is and always will be the enemy of America First because he is an inveterate neocon interventionist. After having hung around the Deep Swamp most of his adult life, he has no clue that the entire machinery of the Washington-based Warfare State is about selling arms and conducting live-action military exercises abroad against anyone who fails to cow-tow to the dictates of the war-makers on the Potomac and their auxiliaries and proconsuls scattered around the planet.
In this case, Rubio has functioned as the veritable hand-maid of the pathetic Euro-politicians who endlessly talk gibberish and urge Washington to keep footing the butchers’ bill. For instance, here is the reprehensible Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, former German defense minister and full-throated war-hawk, recently talking absolute nonsense about what isn’t at stake in Ukraine:
Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to see empires and autocracies back in Europe, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told the European Economic Congress in Katowice. Speaking alongside Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, von der Leyen insisted that she stands for a European Union that is ready to do whatever it takes to protect Europe, and especially Ukraine. “Putin’s war is about redrawing the map of Europe, but it is also a war on our Union and on the entire global rules-based system,” she said.
Well, that’s rubbish if there ever was such. The only time the borders of Ukraine have been unjustly redrawn at the point of a gun barrel was when Lenin, Stalin and Khrushchev did so between 1922 and 1954. That’s right, this EU half-wit still wants to embroil the world in WWIII in order to enforce borders drawn by a trio of history’s most blood-thirsty tyrants.
As explained below, there never was a country even remotely resembling modern Ukraine until the Soviet communists decreed its existence. Before that, the pieces and parts of the country’s history go back to the 1650s when one of the more powerful and brutal rulers of the Cossack Hetmanate, which occupied a small part of today’s central Ukraine, abandoned his tribe’s historic fealty to the Polish kings and switched his loyalty to the Russians. After that, the “borderlands” (i.e.”Ukraine” in Russian) were all about vassalage in the Russian Empire and the Soviet one which followed.
During the past centuries, in fact, the borders in that region shifted all over the lot and back, as the Mongol, Turkish and Polish-Lithuanian empires arrived and receded, even as the Russian and communist ones in the end expanded. So what’s so sacrosanct about the very last version of the map - one that hosted both the murderous regime of Stalin and Hitler’s Wehrmacht, too?
Indeed, Europe is rife with borders drawn, redrawn and redrawn again. While von der Leyen was in Poland preaching for border wars in Ukraine, in fact, it might well be asked, which sacrosanct borders of her host country did she have in mind?
After all, for 700 years “Poland” has cavorted around the rivers, plains, mountains and forests of central Europe like a traveling minstrel show. This includes its disappearance entirely at the hands of the Prussians, Russians, Hapsburgs and other lesser powers during the later years of the 18th century and the entirety of the 19th century. Only in 1919 was it resurrected as an intact nation - in part upon German lands seconded to it at Versailles. And that utterly foolish planking for German revanchism, Hitler and WWII happened for the not so noble reason of American electioneering.
That is to say, US President Woodrow Wilson, who was the Grand Poobah at Versailles, was keen on pleasing the millions of voters among the fair part of the Polish nation which had migrated to Chicago, Cleveland, Gary and elsewhere in the industrial Midwest. So he insisted that the long gone nation of their Old World kin be resurrected, and with ample geographic aspect, too.
At length, of course, Hitler and Stalin redrew Poland’s borders yet again under the infamous Molotov-Ribbentrop pact of 1938, cancelling Wilson handwork and returning the German-populated Danzig Corridor to its previous owner. And then, seven years later, Poland’s borders were redrawn still another time by a new set of victors, who realigned the borders of “Poland” at the Yalta Conference in a way that satisfied Stalin’s aim to recover eastern lands the Soviets lost in the post-1918 civil war.
So all along during the course of the misbegotten NATO expansion and Ukraine intervention adventure, someone should have told the Washington and NATO warmongers to take a long jump off a short pier. That is to say not only how the latest borders of “Poland” were drawn, but how over the last several centuries of history most of Europe’s present borders came to be. They were not drawn by God’s deputies on earth or even the statesman of the day– - but by the victors of the most recent wars. And in the case of “Ukraine” it is even worse than that, as we amplify below.
Moreover, even a glance at today’s map reminds that the border-drawing work of victorious generals and politicians, and occasionally statesman, has always been subject to revision without necessarily making a war about it. And that kind of revisionist work - negotiation of a Ukrainian partition - is exactly what Trump had now offered to Putin - only to see it kicked to the curb by the perfidious former Senator from Florida.
Still, if the Donald is to rescue his Nobel Peace Prize he might well take inspiration from the several major European boundary adjustments of recent times, which remind us that the shibboleth of sacrosanct borders has no roots in actual history. Thus, the statesman at Versailles decreed the existence of Czechoslovakia in 1919 as a potpourri of nations including a lot of Slovaks, Czechs, Hungarians, Romani people, Silesians, Ruthenians, Ukrainians, Poles, Jews and most especially millions of Germans."
Full, highly recommended article is here. Aren't you curious
about what you bought with the $359 billion Trump says we sent?
Adventures With Danno, "Very Shocking Prices at Walmart"
Full screen recommended.
Adventures With Danno, 12/19/25
"Very Shocking Prices at Walmart"
Comments here:
Bill Bonner, "The Underlying Malady"
Hippocrates (Primum, non noncere)
"The Underlying Malady"
by Bill Bonner
Baltimore, Maryland - "All we have to go on is the past. The future hasn’t happened yet. So, all we can do is to try to match up what we know from the past with the patterns of today. One of the outlier patterns we’ve been looking out this week is ‘democracy.’ The headlines tell us it is in danger.
Reuters: "Americans worry democracy in danger amid gerrymandering fights, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds."
Demos.org: "Molly, You in Danger, Girl"
Chicago Tribune: "Pete Buttigieg says democracy is ‘in danger’ as Republicans consider mid-census redistricting."
But for all the caterwauling and moaning...America was never meant to be a democracy...and a democracy is not a stable form of government anyhow. As soon as the foxes figure out how to vote themselves a rack of lamb for dinner, the sheep are doomed. A ‘republic’ seems to be transitory too. France has had five of them since 1789...each one reached for perfection, followed by a clumsy flop. No matter what you call it, the elite and their jefes do what they can to 1) shift more and more wealth power to themselves...and 2) keep the masses happy with lies, loaves, and sentimental diversions. How else to explain the latest ‘war’ with Venezuela?
And here’s another one. Newsweek: "Donald Trump’s “Warrior Dividend” checks will cost more than $2.5 billion. President Donald Trump has announced that he plans to issue $1,776 checks to U.S. military service members."
Of course, it is no ‘dividend.’ There is no income source from which to take real earnings. It will be just more money borrowed and spent to secure the support of the lumpenproletariat. Much has been written about this process. The feds spend too much. Then, they go broke.
But the money itself rarely draws the attention it deserves. Almost all instances of imperial decline are accompanied by monetary decline, manifesting itself as inflation, corruption, and/or bankruptcy. But the real process - the underlying malady - is profound and mostly invisible.
Real money keeps people honest and keeps them free. Because it honestly ciphers the crucial relationships...between a pound of ham and a pound of butter...between an hour of work and an hour’s pay...between capitalist and laborer...between creditor and debtor. Without real money, and free markets, you have no way of knowing where you stand…and whether you are going or coming.
Each person’s private calculation - about whether to buy beans or meat...whether to hire someone or do the work himself...whether to be a borrower or a lender depends on a true measure. Neither high. Nor low. Just honest. Proverbs: "Differing weights are detestable to the LORD, and dishonest scales are unfair."
America had real money for nearly 200 years. Gold-backed money. And consumer prices were more or less stable. In those first 2 centuries, the US grew to be the most powerful country on earth. And its government accumulated a total of $4 trillion in debt. Over the following 54 years, it added 8 times as much debt, with another $1 trillion added in the last two and a half months.
The new, post-1971 money, conjured up by the Nixon Administration, and welcomed by almost all economists of the time, was essentially dishonest. The stock market, for example, gradually failed to measure the real worth of America’s leading companies. Investors stopped trying to calculate the value of each company’s expected earnings discounted by a genuine interest rate. How could they; they didn’t know what the real interest rate was? Instead, they began wasting capital by gambling on the Fed’s interest rate policies....on political moves...and leveraged speculations on memes, tokens, and cryptos.
And by artificially making more credit available, the Fed skewed the entire economy and everyone in it. It tilted people away from saving...and towards borrowing. The two are very different. A saver looks ahead, to his earnings. He is naturally ‘conservative,’ master of himself, and eager to protect what he has earned. But a borrower, deep in debt, is a slave to the credit industry. He depends on the government to keep interest rates low and fears the future…when he will have to pay up. As he accumulates more debt, he becomes more desperate. Soon, he has no real wealth...but only monthly credit obligations, expressed in shifting terms.
And then what kind of government does he really have...a democracy? A republic? Forget about it. He is gripped by a system he can neither understand nor control. He may go through the motions of self-government, but he is ruled; he is not the ruler."
"2025 In Review: The Wilder Way"
"2025 In Review: The Wilder Way"
by John Wilder
"As an annual feature of Wilder, Wealthy and Wise, we poll our writers and editors and ask them to nominate the top stories of the year. Since they are just me, it’s a far less complex process than you might imagine. Here are the top stories of 2025:
January 2025:
• Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 47th U.S. President. Trump immediately issues executive orders on immigration, trade, and withdrawing from international agreements like the Paris Accord. Alexandria Occasional-Cortex protests, “I didn’t even know the French could pronounce ‘Honda®’, I mean, wouldn’t it sound like ‘Onda? So we should let them have an Accord®. It’s a sensible car.”
• Wildfires ravage Greater Los Angeles, destroying over 13,000 structures, prompting evacuations and a state of emergency. Governor Gavin “Reptile Smile” Newsom declares homeowners may rebuild that the land will be confiscated and given to people that buy him nice things.
• Bulgaria and Romania join the Schengen Area, lifting land border controls in Europe. Bulgaria is still awaiting its first visitor and has the crepe paper decorations and everything along with party poppers and a 10% discount coupon to Bob’s Bulgarian Borscht, Baguette and Baklava Buffet®.
• Liechtenstein legalizes same-sex marriage, becoming the 37th country to do so, and demands to be known as Gay Liechtenstein.
February 2025:
• Trump imposes 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico, and 10% on China, sparking retaliatory measures and trade tensions. Trump then immediately lowers them, noting, “I shot the tariff, but I did not shoot the subsidy.”
• Trump imposes 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico, and 10% on China, sparking retaliatory measures and trade tensions. Trump then immediately lowers them, noting, “I shot the tariff, but I did not shoot the subsidy.”
• China retaliates with export controls and tariffs on U.S. imports amid escalating trade war, threatening to send more TEMU® products and advertisements if the U.S. does not relent.
• Canada wins the 2025 4 Nations Face-Off hockey tournament against the U.S. Nic Cage and John Travolta are unavailable for comment.
• The Taliban visit Japan for first diplomatic engagement since 2021 as the Japanese noted they were no longer talibanned.
March 2025:
• Trump pauses U.S. military aid to Ukraine after tensions with Zelensky when Zelensky wouldn’t eat his peas at dinner.
• Romanian protests erupt against election annulment, supporting the far-right one candidate who doesn’t Romanians replaced by Syrians.
• The Nagoya High Court in Japan rules non-recognition of same-sex marriage unconstitutional, primarily because of military pressure from Gay Liechtenstein.
• Trump increases tariffs on Chinese imports to 20%. Or 60%. Or 200%. Can’t keep track.
India launches missiles into Pakistan after a terrorist attack, escalating border tensions over regional fights against body hygiene, deodorant requirements, and who had first scamming rights over Oregon.
April 2025:
• Trump imposes sweeping tariffs on imports from multiple countries, escalating global trade wars. Or lowers them. Or maybe doesn’t change anything at all. I can’t remember.
• Pope Francis dies at 88 after mentioning he had inside information about Clinton crimes.
• China increases tariffs on U.S. exports to 84% in retaliation. Or lowers them.
• South Korean President Win Won Soon impeached and removed and sent to Alabama to coach football.
May 2025:
• Robert Prevost elected as Pope Leo XIV in the papal conclave, narrowly edging out Grammy®-nominated artist Taylor Swift.
• Germany’s AfD designated as extremist because it objects complete replacement of Germans by 2032, instead demanding it be put back to at least 2040.
• Japan allows bears in urban areas to be shot by hunters, as long as the bears are not gay, though the hunters can be gay and are encouraged to be vegan.
June 2025:
• Protests erupt in Los Angeles over ICE deportations, leading to clashes and National Guard deployment and threats of military intervention from the Grand Gay Dutchy of Gay Liechtenstein.
• The U.S. intervenes in the Israel-Iran conflict by bombing Iranian nuclear facilities, which is less an intervention and more of a bombing.
• No Kings protests occur across U.S., Canada, Europe, Japan, and Mexico against Stephen King, Larry King, King’s Hawaiian Rolls® and King Kong™.
• An Air India© flight crashes in Ahmedabad, killing 242, proving that Indians can manage to kill more Indians than Pakistan can. Prime Minister Modi proclaims: “India Global Superpower 2030!”
July 2025:
• Republicans pass sweeping tax changes through reconciliation in U.S. Congress. No one is sure what is in them but the lobbyists say that it’ll be great.
• The International Court of Justice® (Superman presiding) rules countries can sue over historical greenhouse gas emissions. White Americans immediately sue the descendants of black slaves for greenhouse reparations, noting that if they really were the ones who built America, it’s time for them to pay up.
August 2025:
• OpenAI® releases GPT-5™. Sam Altman celebrates by sacrificing a small child, but the evil god he worships rejects it because, “It’s not really a sacrifice because he does it every Tuesday.”
• The Russia-U.S. summit at Joint Base Elmendorf in Anchorage focused on the Ukraine conflict, got nothing done, but did have a nice burger and a promise to meet up again “in a week or two, you know, I’ve got a lot of stuff going on”.
• Air Canada© flight attendants strike to ban requiring stewardesses to serve in-flight beverage service to Indians hanging on the wings.
• Anti-immigration rallies in Australia lead to clashes against the evil white people who are totally not being replaced by the hundreds of thousands of refugees brought in to replace them.
September 2025:
• The French government collapses after no-confidence vote. Again.
• The Grand Gay Dutchy of Gay Liechtenstein demands the return of their gay crown jewels from France. France protests, noting, “We’re not exactly sure where Liechtenstein is.”
October 2025:
• In the U.K., Sarah Mullally becomes the first female Archbishop of Canterbury and immediately offers apology for all Christians resistance to moslem grooming gangs, noting, “It’s really white privilege to expect to not be sexually violated by short swarthy men with no upper body strength.”
• Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg abdicates as the Gay Grand Gay Dutchy of Gay Liechtenstein attacks and begins to consolidate a European Homohegemony.
Why did Bing® A.I.® put Manson in the picture?
November 2025:
• Canada’s measles-free status revoked. Which is weird, because they had been measles-free since 1998. Wonder how that could have happened? No reason at all, I guess. Odd coincidence that some of the highest measles rates in the world are in India.
• The Saskatchewan Roughriders win the Grey Cup. Whoever and wherever they are, and whatever that it.
December 2025:
• Trump’s economic approval hits a new low at 36%, but that only fills him with strength, and he decided to annex Antarctica and name it New Greenland.
• Sanae Takaichi becomes Japan’s first female prime minister, and immediately begins plotting to re-take Manchuria after tidying up a bit and doing some dishes.
• The Gay Grand Gay Dutchy of Gay Liechtenstein cedes the Gay Presidency of Europe to The Trans Republic of Trans Transylvania.
• Thieves steal priceless jewelry from the Louvre in France, but after they’re caught and determined to be moslem, are then given a key so they can loot whenever they want.
What a year! What did I miss?"
Jim Kunstler, "Developments"
Dan Bongino leaves the J Edgar Hoover Building
"Developments"
by Jim Kunstler
“Leftists are evil scum who castrate children and invite
Mexican rapists into the USA to peddle fent to your kids.”
- Aimee Terese on “X”
"The frantic ceremonies of Christmas shopping climax now... the stockings are hung by the chimney with care... and the republic judders into the darkest season of an evil era. You fear the one gift you have waited for lo these twelve months will not be delivered: the frog-marching of Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Strzok, HRC, Mayorkas, Monaco, Rosenstein, Priestap, Halper, Yates, Lynch, Garland, Wray, Haynes, Sullivan, Schiff, Warner, Eisen, Elias, Weissmann, Jack Smith... and many other deep state treason-goblins into the maw of a federal courthouse for processing like so many mackerel in a cat food cannery. “No arrests!” is the melancholy cry heard from sea to shining sea.
It’s true. A whole year ticked by and no accountability for the immense decade-long free-ranging crime-spree against our country by so many government officials. Did I leave out Mr. Obama? Yes. He would probably have to dangle as an “unindicted co-conspirator,” cuz president, and all. But maybe not. It’s open to interpretation, I grant you....assuming anyone in the Trump DOJ could actually get serious and move a folder off his/her desk. Anyway, Christmas is upon us and the MAGA minions sulk in despair. No arrests!
And no Epstein files for you either, Tiny Tim, after all this hassling, haggling, screwing-around, trash-talk, innuendo, duplicity, dissimulation, and subterfuge. What is in there, do you suppose, that the country couldn’t take? Photos of Bill Clinton riding Ghislaine Maxwell like a bucking bronco? Larry Summers naked as a manatee in the shallow end of the Little St. James pool? Tom Hanks chowing down on a roasted human heart? You see: that’s where the mind goes when the truth is withheld.
Anyway, Dan Bongino, good old Danny Boombatz, has left the building, visibly sadder but wiser. He is - no sarc here - a first-class American patriot. Do not doubt that. He surely took the job as Deputy Director of the FBI because the president importuned him to do so, and how can you say no when a president calls? Yet, something happened to him in FBI HQ, some dark passage into altered consciousness, and now he is out.
It’s pretty obvious that he missed his wife and children, and his former life in Florida, and his days on the mic in his studio... and that he had to suffer being quartered on some dreary DC military base for his safety the whole time he served the FBI. I suppose he accomplished quite a bit of a routine, plodding, law enforcement nature - catching bad guys and such all year. But, and it’s a big but... he was not able to effectuate the rounding-up of the aforementioned deep state villains we all know about - and hardly anyone knew more about that gang than Danny B - and it must have really grated to see them all still out there, flapping their gums on MSNBC.
He connected the dots, month after month and year after year, on his celebrated podcast better than any reporter in whatever pathetic remnant of the news media still exists. He remembered all the names (as he always reminded his audience to do). He saw how the whole treasonous saga played out from RussiaGate to Arthur Engoron’s malodorous courtroom and he knew exactly how all the pieces fit together. And the whole year he was at the FBI he kept his mouth shut out of a sense of duty.
Which leads you to wonder, what might Dan Bongino have to say now that he is out of the FBI inner sanctum? He had a year to sift through every document stashed in the J Edgar Hoover building, including, probably, a shit-load of incriminating memos and emails from the days of McCabe and Wray, all that stuff they found in the burn-bags. Did he have to sign some kind of non-disclosure document? Are there arcane regulations that we don’t know about constraining former FBI employees? Will his enemies - who are also enemies of the people - try to kill him now that he is on-the-loose?
I guess we’ll just have to stand by and see what happens with Dan Bongino, just as we have to stand by on where anything might go at Kash’s FBI and in Pam Bondi’s DOJ - and just about everybody in the public arena is piling on AG Pam Bondi these days. She’s in a tough spot. Can’t really bring any prosecutions in the hopelessly compromised, woked-up, DEI-infested, Trump-deranged DC federal court district - where so many treasonous crimes were committed. So, the work-around for that has been to tie all the ten years of treasons and seditious acts into one skein of a RICO case, allowing the DOJ to run a prosecution for all of it out of the Southern District of Florida, because that’s where one of the more recent crimes occurred in a chain of conspiracy: the unpredicated raid into Mar-a-Lago by Christopher Wray and prosecutor Jack Smith. It also works around various statute of limitation issues.
That case is underway, under Judge Aileen Cannon and prosecuting US Attorney Jason Reding Quiñones, but apparently will not go to the grand jury until sometime in the new year. So, you will just have to cool your jets a bit longer.
One other thing: will White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles do some ‘splainin’ about what possessed her to shoot her mouth off at Vanity Fair, one of the most out-front, scurrilous enemies of the president and his voters in all the mosh pits of Woke-gay-retarded journalism? She sat with their writers eleven times in 2025, and the result was a hit piece on the whole Trump White House. How does this square with everybody saying she’s the savviest Chief of Staff to ever haunt the West Wing? Can you figure how she doesn’t deserve to be fired for that?"
"Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason?
Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason."
- Sir John Harington
Thursday, December 18, 2025
Jeremiah Babe, "The U.S. Economy Is Fake, The Lie Will End In Collapse"
Jeremiah Babe, 12/18/25
"The U.S. Economy Is Fake, The Lie Will End In Collapse"
Comments here:
"The West Coast Is Being Absolutely Pummeled By Trillions Of Gallons Of Rain, Wind Speeds Of Up To 144 MPH, And Flooding That Will Close Roads For Months"
"The West Coast Is Being Absolutely Pummeled By
Trillions Of Gallons Of Rain, Wind Speeds Of Up To 144 MPH,
And Flooding That Will Close Roads For Months"
by Michael Snyder
"The slow-motion disaster that we are witnessing on the west coast is unlike anything we have ever seen before. A series of atmospheric rivers has already dumped trillions of gallons of water on the region, and trillions of gallons of additional water will fall before the end of the year. This has caused some rivers to rise to the highest levels that we have ever seen. Meanwhile, some areas in the Northwest have been repeatedly pummeled by extremely high winds. As you will see below, some of the wind speeds that have been recorded are difficult to believe. For a long time I have been warning my readers that weather patterns have been going nuts all over the globe, but of course many people will never be convinced until it actually happens where they live. For tens of millions of Americans that live along the west coast, a wake up call has finally arrived.
According to the Weather Channel, the parade of storms that we have been witnessing will continue to roll on into next week…"A parade of Pacific storms accompanied by atmospheric rivers will continue to march into the West Coast into Christmas week, spreading the threat of heavy rain from already flooded areas of western Washington to Oregon and California."
To say it’s been a terrible stretch of weather in parts of the West has been an understatement. The last sentence in that quote made me smile. Yes, “a terrible stretch of weather” would most certainly be an understatement…"First, record flooding hit parts of western Washington. Then, as flood-ravaged areas were recovering, a powerhouse windstorm blasted much of the Northwest and Rockies Wednesday, with winds clocked up to 144 mph and over 160 reports of wind damage in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Colorado."
I can’t recall a windstorm of this magnitude ever hitting the Pacific Northwest in modern times. It is being reported that at least nine different states experienced wind speeds of over 100 mph…"High winds slammed the Pacific Northwest and Rockies Wednesday and Wednesday night, cutting power to three-quarters of a million customers at peak, according to PowerOutage.US. That number was down to 325,000 as of Thursday morning. The highest wind gusts in the region were on mountain tops - 144 mph at Mount Coffin, Wyoming, 142 mph at Coldwater Ridge, Washington, and 138 mph at Mount Hood, Oregon. Winds gusted over 100 mph on mountaintops in at least nine different states.
Now that storm has moved into the middle of the country, and blizzard conditions are expected in much of the Northern Plains…“Wind gusts of 80+ mph, several feet of mountain snow, and blizzard conditions are in the forecast for the northern and western U.S. today and tomorrow,” the forecast said. A map included with the post on X showed that while the entirety of the Northern Plains was expected to see some impacts from the storm, some states will likely be hit by widespread major impacts. These include Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, Colorado and Idaho."
But it is the west coast that has been getting hit harder than anyone else. Some areas of Washington state have already had about 2 feet of rain, and more rain is on the way.Yes, Washington state always gets rain, but this is truly unusual. If you can believe it, approximately 5 trillion gallons of water fell on the state in just a 7 day period…"Warm water and air and unusual weather conditions tracing back as far as tropical cyclone flooding in Indonesia helped supercharge stubborn atmospheric rivers that have drenched Washington state with almost 5 trillion gallons (19 trillion liters) of rain in the past seven days, threatening record flood levels, meteorologists said."
The Skagit River rose to the highest level ever recored. So did the Snohomish River. Needless to say, many other bodies of water flooded as well. According to Governor Bob Ferguson, a 49 mile stretch of US Highway 2 will be closed for months as a result of the flooding…"Massive flooding conditions persist across western Washington as another round of heavy rain and wind targets the region, adding to the damage from last week’s historic flooding and raising renewed concerns about vulnerable levees, landslide risks, and long-term transportation disruptions. On Tuesday, Gov. Bob Ferguson said a 49-mile stretch of US Highway 2 between Skykomish and Leavenworth will be closed for months after floodwaters and mudslides heavily damaged the roadway."
Unfortunately, more rain is in the forecast. In fact, it is being projected that some areas of western Oregon could get more than 10 inches of rain from this next storm…"A general 4-8 inches of rain is forecast to fall on western Oregon, with slightly less in the Interstate 5 corridor near Portland. From 8-12 inches of rain with an AccuWeather Local StormMax™ of 16 inches is projected for the western slopes of the Oregon Cascades."
This amount of rain will be enough to unleash moderate to major flooding along both small streams and rivers in western Oregon. A few locations may experience crests close to record levels, such as in the Portland area. Motorists should be prepared for areas of high water and road washouts. Mudslides are also a danger with the storm.
Meanwhile, meteorologist Ryan Maue is telling us that the Sierra Mountains in California could see up to 30 inches of precipitation from the “firehose of moisture” that is approaching…"California is looking at historic precipitation from onslaught of atmospheric rivers in next 10-days. Could be 20″ or 30″ mostly rain in the Sierra from “firehose of moisture” directed right at coast with strong jet stream."
This going to be really bad. He isn’t exaggerating. It certainly looks like the next couple of weeks will be really bad. If you live in an area along the west coast that is prone to flooding, you should be doing what you can to get prepared. Of course this is just the beginning.Global weather patterns have been getting increasingly unstable for quite a while, and I am entirely convinced that what is coming in the years ahead will be much worse than anything that we are experiencing now. We really are living in extremely chaotic times, and the insane weather that we are currently witnessing is just one element of “the perfect storm” that is now upon us."
Gerald Celente, "Fake U.S. Inflation Numbers, Prepare For Dragflation"
Strong language alert!
Gerald Celente, 12/18/25
"Fake U.S. Inflation Numbers,
Prepare For Dragflation"
"The Trends Journal is a weekly magazine analyzing global current events forming future trends. Our mission is to present Facts and Truth over fear and propaganda to help subscribers prepare for What’s Next in these increasingly turbulent times."
Comments here:
"Americans Can Feel Hard Times Are Ahead And They Are Getting Ready"
Full screen recommended.
Epic Economist, 12/18/25
"Americans Can Feel Hard Times
Are Ahead And They Are Getting Ready"
"Americans can feel something coming. And they're not waiting around to find out what it is. Grocery prices climbing. Job market tightening. Health insurance doubling. Housing unstable. And winter on the way with more uncertainty than ever. People are watching the signs and making moves. Stockpiling pantries. Couponing strategically. Learning skills. Cutting expenses. Preparing for a 2026 that might hit harder than anyone wants to admit. This isn't panic. This is pattern recognition. When regular people across the country start preparing the same way at the same time, that tells you something. The instincts are firing for a reason. Are you feeling it too? What are you doing to get ready? Drop your thoughts in the comments. If this resonated, subscribe for more real talk on what's actually happening out there."
Comments here:
"A Look to the Heavens"
“Riding high in the constellation of Auriga, beautiful, blue vdB 31 is the 31st object in Sidney van den Bergh's 1966 catalog of reflection nebulae. It shares this well-composed celestial still life with dark, obscuring clouds recorded in Edward E. Barnard's 1919 catalog of dark markings in the sky. All are interstellar dust clouds, blocking the light from background stars in the case of Barnard's dark nebulae. For vdB 31, the dust preferentially reflects the bluish starlight from embedded, hot, variable star AB Aurigae.
Exploring the environs of AB Aurigae with the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed the several million year young star is itself surrounded by flattened dusty disk with evidence for the ongoing formation of a planetary system. AB Aurigae is about 470 light-years away. At that distance this cosmic canvas would span about four light-years.”
"I Have Accepted The Fact..."
“One can fight evil but against stupidity one is helpless… I have accepted the fact, hard as it may be, that human beings are inclined to behave in ways that would make animals blush. The ironic, the tragic thing is that we often behave in ignoble fashion from what we consider the highest motives. The animal makes no excuse for killing his prey; the human animal, on the other hand, can invoke God’s blessing when massacring his fellow men. He forgets that God is not on his side but at his side.”
“There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.”
- Henry Miller
"There Was Truth..."
"Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.
There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth
even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
- George Orwell, “1984”
"Permanent Adolescence: The Epidemic That Will Destroy America"
"Permanent Adolescence:
The Epidemic That Will Destroy America"
by Dr. Paul Kindlon
"As a Humanities professor I have had the opportunity to teach psychology and social psychology for more than 25 years. Occasionally the knowledge obtained in these areas allows me to analyze and understand social behavior and certain cultural trends. This is one those occasions.
If one is able to observe American society in an objective manner (granted no easy task) it becomes clear that the country is suffering from an epidemic of arrested emotional development (AED). This particular illness is characterized by some combination of: addiction, greed, immaturity, fear, blame, shame, resentments, anger, confusion and suffering. What it means is that the vast majority of Americans are stuck in adolescence exhibiting behavior like lying, negative attitudes, disobedience and disrespect, drug and alcohol abuse, depression, and issues of sexuality.
One has only to watch American movies or television shows to get a snapshot of juvenile, puerile, and base comedy characteristic of adolescent humor. It’s no accident that 48 year old Jimmy Fallon is essentially the “eternal teenager” performing comedy that mostly includes bathroom humor and gags that are based on and appeal to a silly sense of immaturity. The other darling of late-night shows in America is Stephen Colbert, age 58, who specializes in insulting public figues in an overtly adolescent display of negative attitude and disrespect.
Another hallmark of AED is to evade responsibility and blame others for failure. One had only to observe the millions of Hillary supporters to understand this phenomenon. Also common for AED sufferers is to show disrespect in sophomoric ways usually by damaging property as we see with monuments being defaced and destroyed.
Teenagers, of course, tend to have identity issues often involving sexuality which is another phenomenon all too apparent in contemporary America. It’s almost uncool not to be LGBT or confused about your gender nowadays. Soon there will be as many genders as ice-cream flavors for it’s all just a matter of taste!
In terms of cognitive activity AED is characterized by exaggeration and over-simplification. If you are angry with one of your parents you might refer to them as a Nazi or Fascist.
This negative attitude now is extended to anyone who disagrees with you and can be seen in slogans such as “No Trump, No KKK, No Fascist USA”. Adults are an endangered species. The cognitive effect of exaggeration and over-simplification leads to irrationality and confusion. Witness the millions of people who think they are being anti-racist by opposing “White Supremacy”. No anthropologist on earth would claim that “White” is a race (although a Neo- Nazi would) It’s not even a primary color. The Irish were discriminated against for more than a hundred years in America due to Anglo-Saxon racism yet the Irish are considered “white”. There are millions of Americans of German, Polish, and Scandinavian extraction who have been working-class and lower for a very long time. Are these “white people” guilty of supremacy? Against whom? Themselves?
Of course, what the protestors should be focusing on is class and not race which is really an arbitrary term. Unfortunately. the progressive movement in America has gone from “Occupy Wall street” to “occupy the public bathroom”. Lenin would be turning over in his grave – if he had one. With regard to alcohol and drug addiction in America, the statistics are startling. Opiod addiction alone is becoming a national health issue as is depression. Alcohol abuse, of course, is also quite high. Lying is also becoming commonplace. It used to be just politicians and lawyers who were known to “play with the truth”. Nowadays the mainstream media is widely seen as a mainstream of lies with CNN now wearing the title of FAKE NEWS.
The teenage attempt to rebel and show disobedience is often manifested through the use of profanity intended to shock the older generation. Gratuitous profanity is pervasive in American culture and has replaced the imagination as a form of creativity. It is not an accident that Pussy Riot – a group of “performance artists” using profanity in a Cathedral considered sacred to “shock” the Russian public and “disobey” authorities – has found a home in the United States and been befriended by Madonna, another symbol of eternal adolescence. Her AED was on full display when she publicly offered all men fellatio if they voted for Hillary Clinton. And as any rebellious teenager attempting to shock the “older generation” she had to announce that she “swallows”. Stay classy, Madonna. Keep in mind we’re talking about a 63 year old mother of six.
You see…if everyone is a teenager there is no adult supervision. That is the problem. After an autopsy is conducted years from now to ascertain how and why the American Empire expired, the obituary will include multiple causes of death and AED will be listed prominently. Perhaps a precocious teenager will be allowed to write the epitaph that will read…”When extended, the bridge between adolescence and adulthood can take a heavy toll”.
○
“Most people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That’s the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don’t grow up. Not really. They get older. But to grow up costs the earth, the earth. It means you take responsibility for the time you take up, for the space you occupy. It’s serious business. And you find out what it costs us to love and to lose, to dare and to fail. And maybe even more, to succeed."
- Maya Angelou
Dan, I Allegedly, "Everyone Looks Rich… Nobody Actually Is"
Full screen recommended.
Dan, I Allegedly, 12/18/25
"Everyone Looks Rich… Nobody Actually Is"
"Is $100K really broke? Today, I’m breaking down the illusion of wealth and why making six figures isn’t what it used to be. Living costs are soaring, and many people earning $100K are relying on side hustles like Uber Eats or cutting corners just to stay afloat. It’s a fascinating look into how the American dream is shifting, with people prioritizing appearances over financial stability. We’ll talk about everything from designer goods, extreme budgeting, and financial traps like buy-now-pay-later schemes to shocking stories of fraud in private banking. Plus, I’m sharing tips on cutting unnecessary expenses and why being real about your financial situation is key to thriving in today’s economy."
Comments here:
"The Crash Of The American Economy Is Worse Than You Think"
Full screen recommended.
EconoSilicon, 12/18/25
"The Crash Of The American Economy
Is Worse Than You Think"
"The crash of the American economy is no longer a distant warning - it’s unfolding in real time, and it’s far worse than most people realize. In this video, we break down why the economic stress you feel every day is not a coincidence, not temporary, and not being accurately explained to the public. From record-high consumer debt and collapsing affordability to silent layoffs, shrinking job security, and a system propped up by borrowing instead of growth - this is not a normal slowdown. This is a structural breakdown. While headlines celebrate stock market highs, millions of Americans are falling behind, burning through savings, relying on credit just to survive, and watching the cost of living spiral out of control.
We connect the dots between rising interest costs, government debt approaching historic levels, weakening consumer demand, and the dangerous gap between Wall Street and Main Street. This video explains why official data often hides the real damage, why policy responses keep making the problem bigger, and why confidence - not money - is the final pillar holding the system together. If you’re wondering why everything feels harder despite being told the economy is “strong,” this video gives you the full picture. No hype. No political spin. Just a clear, documentary-style breakdown of what’s happening, why it’s accelerating, and what it means as we move closer to a major economic reset."
Comments here:
