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[Kazinski]

December CPI came out Tuesday morning, and it looks pretty good.

All.items CPI was .3 for the month and 2.7% for the whole year.

Core inflation was .2 m/m and 2.6% for the whole year.

The baseline CPI number of 2.7% was of course .2% lower than 2024 2.9% CPI.

Food at home was up .7% for December but still 2.4% for the year, which is lower than the overall CPI rate.

But there was some good news, "Meat, Poultry, fish and eggs" actually dropped -.2% for December, but was up 3.9% for the year. I hope that number keeps dropping.

One kind of strange thing I noticed, Cereals and baked goods went up .6%, but that was the seasonally adjusted number, the unadjusted number was .2%. That's a healthy adjustment, if fact the unadjusted Food at Home was just .5, quite a bit lower than the adjusted .7 too.

Its almost guaranteed next months Y/Y total will drop, even without any substantial improved in January's monthly number.

But the bottom line is inflation in 2025 of 2.7%, dropped .2% from 2024 inflation despite Trump's tariffs breaking the entire world's economy.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/cpi_01132026.htm

[Malika la Maize]

Does it hurt your fingers, the cherry picking?

[John F. Carr]

AP takes a look at other consequences of sex that can be taken care of with a pill in the mail.

https://apnews.com/article/stds-fda-test-gonorreah-drug-visby-infection-2ff8c2ce9c757a2ad9eb599b291587ef

At-home STD tests following the design of the at-home COVID tests are available. One kit comes bundled with a telehealth consultation to get a prescription. New STD drugs have been recently approved. Samples for HPV tests can be collected at home and sent to a lab, no office visit required.

There is a lot of action by the FDA in a sensitive area during a time of cutbacks.

[Botaglove]

This is what they voted for (Are conservatives familiar with the "Are we the Baddies?" meme?):

"Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
Q: The premier of Greenland said today, 'We prefer to stay with Denmark.'

TRUMP: Who said that?

Q: The premier of Greenland

TRUMP: Well, that's their problem. I disagree with him. I don't know who he is. Don't know anything about him. But that's gonna be a big problem for him."

[Dr. Ed 2]

Send him to GITMO…

[Martinned]

Who? Trump?

[John F. Carr]

I imagine Trump triumphantly returning home like Napoleon from Elba, backed by an army of terrorist buddies he met in Cuba sharing his goal of deposing the illegitimate regime that succeeded him.

In reality there are not enough prisoners left in Gitmo to make a good army.

[Malika la Maize]

Deranged deplorable, Trump’ s base.

[Dr. Ed 2]

In Amherst, Massachusetts, anyone present during a disturbance can be arrested for no reason whatsoever and thrown in jail. Anyone within a mile or two of a disturbance can be arrested and thrown in jail. This has been the protocol for nearly 20 years now.

Anyone identified by facial recognition technology as being present, can have a termination of public benefits, I.e. be expelled from UMass.

This has been going on for over 20 years now, it is apparently legal.

Well, why can’t the same thing be done in Minneapolis, Minnesota?
Why can’t ICE establish a perimeter and simply arrest absolutely everybody inside of it. This practice is apparently legal…

What about civil forfeiture — confiscate the vehicles. Let the owners hire lawyers to sue for recovery in Federal Court, and get them back three years later. You wouldn’t have to do much of this to put an end to the pursuit teams.

Likewise, you kinda know these women are receiving public benefits, eliminate them, and put their children in foster care.

The real question I have is why do illegal aliens have more rights than American born college students? When will Trump take off the gloves?

[John F. Carr]

Thanks to the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act seizing property for dubious reasons is harder than it used to be. The government bears the burden of proof and owes attorney's fees if it fights a weak case all the way to a final judgment. The government might get away with holding the car for a few months. A search warrant would accomplish the same thing.

One difference between anti-Trump protesters and college students is, the protesters have a nationwide network of donors to pay for lawyers. The dead woman's family got $1.5 million in short order. The protesters also have the state Attorney General on their side.

[Martinned]

Why can’t ICE establish a perimeter and simply arrest absolutely everybody inside of it. This practice is apparently legal…

Of course they can. And that's basically what they're already doing. Razzias of appartment buildings, etc.

[Martinned]

Here is the Vice-President explaining the Regime's position:

"It was a legitimate law enforcement operation. We were going door to door to try to find criminal illegal aliens and deport them from the United States ... say a prayer for that agent ... he deserves a debt of gratitude."

https://x.com/atrupar/status/2009339619888816381

Yes, "door to door". That's a razzia, and pretty much the very definition of what the 4th Amendment was previously understood as forbidding.

https://x.com/jimstewartson/status/2009411677285216620

[Dr. Ed 2]

The fourth amendment lurks the pursuit of fugitives?

[John F. Carr]

Police may not forcibly enter a private dwelling without a warrant. There may be an exception for "hot pursuit."

But the remedy for an illegal arrest, like kidnapping somebody in Mexico and bringing him to the US to face trial, is not dismissal of a criminal case. A court has jurisdiction over the person brought before it by whatever means.

[John F. Carr]

If you leave immigration out of it, police can go up to a door, knock on it, look intimidating, and ask to come in. Occupants are expected to refuse entry if they don't want the cops to come in. Even if the cop has an aura of "obey or die!" he didn't say it explicitly.

The same sort of logic said a man on a bus whose exit was blocked by a police officer in an aisle was not being detained, only having a voluntary chat.

As I said in yesterday's thread, much of Trump's immigration enforcement uses powers that have long been available. If sanity returns to the country legal changes are in order.

[Martinned]

Yes, "ask", that's definitely what ICE is doing.

[John F. Carr]

Razzia is a rare word in America. It was borrowed into English from French and may be more common in the Netherlands.

Etymologically, it is related to ghazi, a Muslim warrior.

[Martinned]

Noah Smith has gathered a whole bunch of examples of ICE abuses together in this blog post. Imagine being so authoritarian that even Noah Smith thinks you've gone too far.

Here's how he sums it up:

A number of Republican politicians have defended ICE’s actions with rhetoric that sounds downright authoritarian. Texas Representative Wesley Hunt said: “The bottom line is this: when a federal officer gives you instructions, you abide by them and then you get to keep your life.” Florida Representative Randy Fine said: “If you get in the way of the government repelling a foreign invasion, you’re going to end up just like that lady did.”

Is this America now? A country where unaccountable and poorly trained government agents go door to door, arresting and beating people on pure suspicion, and shooting people who don’t obey their every order or who try to get away? “When a federal officer gives you instructions, you abide by them and then you get to keep your life” is a perfect description of an authoritarian police state. None of this is Constitutional, every bit of it is deeply antithetical to the American values we grew up taking for granted.

Oh, OK, it turns out it is actually Biden's fault after all:

Why is this happening? Part of it is because of the mistakes of the Biden administration. For the first three years of his presidency, Biden allowed a massive, disorderly flood of border-hopping asylum seekers and quasi-legal migrants of all types to pour into the country, and as a result, Americans got really, really mad. That made immigration into a major issue in the 2024 election, helped Trump get elected, and provided political cover for a dramatic expansion of deportations. Now, probably thanks to ICE’s brutality and the administration’s lawlessness, support for immigrants and disapproval of Trump’s immigration policies are rising again. But the administration still has what it considers a mandate to act with impunity.

But yes:

The only thing left for America to do now is to fight against this ideology. There is no future for a country that declares a third of its people to be illegitimate, and which deploys authoritarian force to intimidate and expel as many of them as possible. Instead, Americans have to insist that the Trump administration stop these abuses, and they have to vote against any politician who embraces the ideology that led to them. Otherwise, events like the killing of Renee Good are likely to become a normal occurrence.

[Dr. Ed 2]

Thank you for explaining why we need to reestablish the Klu Klux Klan.

[Brett Bellmore]

"There is no future for a country that declares a third of its people to be illegitimate,"

Just because somebody breaks into my home and squats in the spare bedroom doesn't mean they're "my people". Illegal immigrants aren't part of our people, they're intruders.

The alternate approach to making deaths like Renee Good's less common is for the opponents of immigration enforcement to accept that we actually have immigration laws, that enforcing them is democratically popular, and that they're just going to have to accept that until they can change the public's opinions and get the laws changed. And stop escalating towards insurrection.

[Martinned]

Shame on you

[Michael P]

Yes, "smart", that's definitely what you are.

Hillary Clinton declared a third of the country to be a basket of deplorables. In contrast, illegal immigrants are more like 6% of the population -- if we assume there are 20 million of them, rather than the more common estimate of 11 million.

Noah Smith's numbers do not pass the sniff test. Neither does his logic, typically.

[Brett Bellmore]

No, shame on you. There are plenty of laws I disapprove of, some of them I think are actually unconstitutional. But do you see me ambushing BATF and DEA agents? Blocking the road when they're transporting arrestees, letting the air out of their tires when they're not looking? Warning drug dealers that the cops are coming?

No, you don't. Partly that's because I'm not a moron, I take prudential considerations a LOT more seriously than Rebecca and Renee Good did, but part of it is that if you're going to live in a democracy, with the rule of law, you have to accept that sometimes you lose votes, and get laws you don't like, and these laws are every bit as legitimate as the ones you did want.

And you have no right to demand that the laws you like be enforced, if you won't let the laws OTHER people like be enforced.

Renee Good was trying to have it both ways: Enforcement of the laws she liked, obstructing the laws that she didn't like. Well, screw that, I don't have to pretend I think that's a respectable position.

[Sarcastr0]

ICE killed a lady. You're attacking the dead lady. With some lies about what she did.

One side is shooting people, ignoring the 4th Amendment, acting like a goon squad.
And that's who you are defending.

Your hate had lead you to get real mad on behalf of the wrong side.

Like, it's super clear:

ICE prosecutor who runs a white nationalist X account returns to work as an ICE prosecutor in immigration court
https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecutor-racist-account-back-at-immigration-court/

[Frank Drackman]

Bonnie Parker was a "Lady" also, so was Squeaky Fromme, you don't get to try to kill a Cop/President and play the Vagina Card.

[DDHarriman]

She tried to runover an officer with her. We have all seen the video.

This is the single most absurd finger wag you have ever done.

You gas light.

You shame.

I don't recall ever seen you pull them out in the same whinge.

[Brett Bellmore]

Said lady tried to run over the ICE agent. You tend to get killed if you do that, that's what I meant by saying I take prudential considerations more seriously than they did.

[Sarcastr0]

No, she didn't try and run them over. As has been explained to you many times. You're not here for the truth, just to defend ICE.

ICE is hiring open white supremacists and acting like Nazis. Not just the shooting, all over. Someone lost an eye; tons of needless property damage. Picking up citizens and kicking them out of the car in random places.

You're defending some truly authoritarian villains.

[Brett Bellmore]

Yes. She. Did. She looked straight at him while applying the accelerator. Another ICE agent had his arm in the car at the time.

"ICE is hiring open white supremacists and acting like Nazis. "

Yeah, and Democrats are openly hiring Islamic Jihadists and casually engaging in racial discrimination. Like I said below, we are definitely living in interesting times, way too interesting.

But that doesn't change the fact that you tend to get shot if you try to run over a cop.

[Armchair]

If someone fires a gun at a police officer (and miss) and they are shot by the police in return and die...

Who do you blame? The person? Or the Police?

[Swede425]

Oh, Gaslighto.

[Malika la Maize]

Latrine digger’s gonna cry.

[Stephen Lathrop]

Bellmore, what do you call it when a community is "escalating towards insurrection," without arriving at insurrection? If it happens, on what basis do you even decide laws are broken? Which laws broken, by what parties?

What is going on in Minnesota is unprecedented at least since the 1970s. It shows features of martial law, together with features of insurrectionary resistance, together with features of a police riot, and at the highest levels of government, features of tyranny.

It is unwise policy to continue down that path at all, let alone to stake the prestige of a national administration on enforcing it with arbitrary violence, and when resistance arises, increasing the violence. The people targeted—including hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizens in no way subject to legitimate immigration-related law enforcement jurisdiction—are left no way to organize systematic response without being further targeted.

That is folly. Stop supporting it.

[DDHarriman]

Enforcing the law is tyranny!

[Brett Bellmore]

"Bellmore, what do you call it when a community is "escalating towards insurrection," without arriving at insurrection? "

Pretending that you know a trend will stop tomorrow, rather than continuing.

It is not unprecedented for a minority of states to decide that they don't have to comply with federal law, or permit it to be enforced within their borders, but it isn't common, either, and doesn't have a good history of working out.

I'd agree, it's folly. Stop supporting it.

[Sarcastr0]

Under no scenario is what ICE doing at this point enforcing the law.

That you're posting over and over 'you must comply!' and call yourself a libertarian is some clownish shit.

[Commenter_XY]

Memo to MN ICE agitators: There are plenty of jail cells for you to occupy and agitate in. Try not to claim a Darwin Award, in the meantime.

Signed,
ICE Barbie 🙂

[Martinned]

Yes, you're right. All those ICE lunatics need to be in prison asap.

[Dr. Ed 2]

What people need to understand is that because of the asshole protests, the experienced ice guys in their 50s are volunteering to go to Minnesota. Instead, they’re getting guys in their 20s, full of aggression and fight, but not so much maturity.

Now what could possibly go wrong?

And the people who are responsible for it and the overweight, middle-aged women who really need to look in the mirror.

[Martinned]

For the record, that's called victim blaming. It's not civilians' fault that the US Regime chooses to send untrained thugs after them.

[Commenter_XY]

FTR, it is called human agency. Renee Good made a bad choice, Eurotrash, egged on by her partner, Becca Good.

[Dr. Ed 2]

And I see justice is now investigating the spouse.
As it should.
Throw her fat ass in jail, treat that insurrectionist the way the January 6thers were….

[Swede425]

LOL!
"Those poor, retarded, lesbian women are victims!".
Yes. Of their own stupidity.
Quit infantilizing these brave mentally ill women and taking away their agency!
SHAME!

[Malika la Maize]

Clinton was really crazy to talk about deplorables.

[ReaderY]

What Dr. Ed 2 needs to understand is that if you want to send a paramilitary force to rough up and intimidate opposition folks under a pretext you are doing something about immigration, the absolute LAST people you would want to send would be deep-state traitor libtard democrat-trained immigration enforcement types who might object or even attempt to curb people’s enthusiasm.

You WANT young rowdies who will create incidents, rough the libtards up, maybe shoot a few, put fear into their hearts, make them realize that treason against the Leader has consequences.

That’s the people you want to send in.

We’re past the point where Mr. Trump is even bothering to pretend to claim the “incidents” are unfortunate. He is openly saying, as are many of his shills on this blog, that protestors are terrorists and will he treated as such.

[Swede425]

LOL!
"The pretext".
Newsflash, sugar tits: ICE is, in fact, rounding up illegal aliens and deporting them. That should be construed as actually "doing something" about immigration.
It's the entire reason retards such as yourself are upset: You have to import your future voters and that plan doesn't work when the border gets closed and illegal aliens get put on a plane to wherever.
The fact that you've decided to suspend any kind of sense and support running over LEO's is a you problem.

[Malika la Maize]

LOL, RETARD!!!

That low ASVAB continues to show.

[Commenter_XY]

Eurotrash:

Only the ones who impede, obstruct, threaten or harm Federal LEOs go to jail (and they should). That is a fairly small number. You don't mess with an LEO performing their job duties; save it for the judge.

Loud, boisterous, peaceful protest is fine. Don't cross the line.

[Dr. Ed 2]

The only small number is the percentage will go to jail. What’s going on in Minnesota right now is an insurrection. Trump should call it that and do what Eisenhower I would have — arrest everyone and let the courts sort it out.

[Frank Drackman]

ICE is just enforcing the laws that were in place during Barry Hussein and Sleepy Joe's terms, laws passed by Congress, signed by a President. Maybe if your shithole did the same you wouldn't be living in an Islamic Republic.

[bloocow2]

Do you think that "agitators" deserve to get shot in the face? You think that's funny?

[Commenter_XY]

Aussietrash:

Renee Good made a BAD decision, egged on by her partner Becca Good (who should be charged as an accomplice). She made the choice, and paid the price. No, I don't think it is funny. It is tragic. There is a 6-year old orphan. Will the people who badly trained Renee Good take care of that child? Nope, they are nowhere to be found.

If other ICE Warriors want to claim Darwin Awards, well, that is on them. It is incredibly stupid to obstruct, impede, threaten or harm an LEO performing their job duties.

Why not fix your own problems; Bondi Beach, widespread societal anti-semitism, and aboriginal discrimination.

[Dr. Ed 2]

Yes, the dumb c*** got EXACTLY what she deserved.

[Botaglove]

Well I guess Mengele was also a doctor.

[Dr. Ed 2]

Something to think about the next time you attempted to try a free sample at grocery store.

https://www.themainewire.com/2026/01/orland-man-busted-for-stealing-and-masturbating-while-working-as-a-vendor-in-a-bangor-supermarket/

[John F. Carr]

The First Circuit recently published a decision upholding a government employer's mandatory COVID vaccination policy against religious objections. The employer had a policy of not granting religious exemptions for on-site employees. A medical exemption was granted to an on-site employee who recently had COVID. So maybe that's religious discrimination?

All fine, said the First Circuit agreeing with the District Court.

The twist in this case is, the employee procedurally defaulted claims about discretionary individualized exemptions. So the court didn't have to apply the recent "most favored nation" status of discretionary religious exemptions. That left the policy to be reviewed as a generally applicable law that incidentally affects religion.

The court asked first, does granting medical exemptions and not religious exemptions further the stated justification for the policy? The medical exemption does advance the policy. The religious exemption does not: "granting a religious accommodation does not further the Authority's health and safety interests nor decrease the risks of viral infection or transmission." And then, is there a rational basis for the policy? Yes. Maybe the shots work. The shots do not have to be 100% effective for the policy to survive review.

The District Court had ruled that the policy satisfied strict scrutiny. In the First Circuit it probably does, thanks to the Maine quarantine case. But a lower standard of review was appropriate: any conceivable reason for the vaccination policy and an actual reason for the exemption policy.

Brox v. Steamship Authority, https://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/files/opnfiles/24-1063P-01A.pdf

I recall a lot of fighting over whether having COVID justified not getting the vaccine. The more liberal regulators insisted on the shot or nothing. In fact infections and vaccinations were similarly effective in generating immunity. The medical exemption granted to a recently infected employee followed the science, as people liked to say during the pandemic.

[Dr. Ed 2]

The sad thing is that it was the Republicans, i.e. the mASSgop that was behind all of this.

Charlie Parker, Kerry Healy, Mitt Romney, Jane Swift, Paul Cellucci, Bill Weld, and assorted schmucks in the mASSgop and people wonder why I am now a registered Democrat.

[John F. Carr]

You can't very well go undercover in a school if you declare yourself to be a Republican. That would be like a Cold War spy checking the "yes, I am a Communist!" box on the visa application.

[Commenter_XY]

What is the likelihood an appeal is heard by SCOTUS?

It is only a matter of time before China creates the next lab-leak caused pandemic.

[John F. Carr]

As a Justice I would vote against taking the case. The plaintiffs failed to timely raise their best argument. There are other cases in the pipeline. West Virginia's longstanding ban on religious opt-out fron school vaccination may go to the Court. New York's new ban may go to the court. They may even present a circuit split. The latest situation is West Virginia's ban was struck down and New York's was upheld.

[Brett Bellmore]

I don't know, the pandemic hit them pretty hard. In fact, I think they made sure it leaked to the rest of the world before we found out about it because they knew they were screwed, and wanted to make sure the rest of the world was put through the wringer, too, in order to somewhat preserve their relative position.

I don't think they want that to happen again. The leak, I mean.

Not saying they would never develop a biowarfare agent and release it abroad. I'm quite concerned that they might, after seeing how thoroughly the West hosed itself with the way we responded. I bet they'd love to see us crash our economies again.

But being ground zero for its release will be something they don't want to repeat.

[Martinned]

I'm glad to hear that the Israeli government thinks we should no longer worry about right-wing antisemitism. Or maybe Netanyahu simply disagrees with the government that he himself leads...

Netanyahu Joins Germany's AfD, Far-right Europeans in Backing Orbán as Hungary Campaign Begins

The AfD and Austria's FPÖ are boycotted by Israel over their antisemitic roots and members. Launching an uphill re-election bid, Orbán invited international far-right allies to his illiberal Fidesz party convention, where he denounced the EU as an 'enemy of European Christian civilization'

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participated via video recording in Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's re-election campaign kickoff on Saturday, alongside far-right European leaders, including Germany's Alternative for Germany (AfD) and Austria's Freedom Party (FPÖ) – parties that Israel officially boycotts because of their antisemitic roots and members.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2026-01-11/ty-article/.premium/netanyahu-joins-germanys-afd-far-right-europeans-in-backing-orban-as-campaign-begins/0000019b-ae1f-da2a-abdf-ee3f5b0c0000

[Martinned]

US rightwing antisemitism, on the other hand...

Conservative media are promoting a GiveSendGo fundraiser for the ICE agent who killed Renee Good. The page includes the following statement from the organizer: "But this didn't happen in a vacuum—it's the direct result of anti-American traitors like Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (who is Jewish)"

[Dr. Ed 2]

Again, you articulate why we need an active and powerful KKK.

THREE REASONS
First, so that schmucks like you can see what true antisemitism looks like. A man acting in self-defense when attacked by a 4500 pound guided missile is not antisemitism, at least as I define antisemitism.

The man’s entire family has had to go into hiding. Pray tell, exactly what did his children do to deserve this? His children….

The second reason is balance of terror. The left has its violent thugs and without violent thugs on the other side, the left rules by Tara done this for the past 60 years.

And third occurred approach is to compromise. If you’re going to establish a midpoint between two sides, both sides have to be equally rabid.

[DDHarriman]

On no! Someone noticed!!! AnTI-sEMiTIsmS!!!

[Brett Bellmore]

Yeah, that's not great. While the left are promoting people who are agitating for a genocide of Jews in Israel, (From the river to the sea!) it's not the worst thing around by far, but it's not great.

The world is such a mixed bag right now. On the one hand we may just have the AI singularity in the next year or two, the long stalled conquest of space has resumed, progress is finally being made on conquering aging... On the other hand antisemitism is becoming mainstream again and we seem to be progressing at a disturbing pace towards civil war.

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way–in short, the period was so far like the present period that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.”

Everything seems to be coming to a head at once, and I haven't even had a chance to start building my retirement boat yet...

[John F. Carr]

Boycotting foreign political parties is a strange concept. Countries have diplomatic relations with other countries, not other parties. In my view the normal state of affairs is for a country's official policy not to be for or against specific parties in another democracy. I recall Reagan declining to formally endorse Thatcher even though everybody knew he wanted her to win. When Labour backed Harris that was also unofficial.

[Martinned]

Fast forward a couple of decades and the US Regime has a formal policy of endorsing far-right parties in every European election. Funny how things change.

[DDHarriman]

So what? He doesn't think we should. I say fuck the EU, they sent boots on the ground to campaign for Kamala in 2024.

Leftwing Europeans can't be hated enough.

[Mr. Bumble]

If only Mother Nature would step up and sock the Twin Cities with a good old fashioned blizzard maybe everyone would step back and take a breath.
(Would also give Dr. Ed's snow plow plan a chance to be tried out)

[Dr. Ed 2]

🙂

[Frank Drackman]

Winter's not even a month old, patience Grasshopper.

[Dr. Ed 2]

I notice that the courier leftists are all leaving the US DOJ.
This is a good thing.
A really good thing.

[Martinned]

Gleichschaltung

[Frank Drackman]

Nazi uses a Nazi word

[Dr. Ed 2]

https://www.themainewire.com/2026/01/eliot-cutler-now-in-trouble-a-third-time-accused-of-violating-bail-conditions-from-alleged-probation-violation/

He’s actually married…

[Martinned]

True

As we contemplate the regime’s depiction of Renee Nicole Good’s murder, one must remember that the main point of propaganda is not to propagate a lie—it is to demonstrate that the propagandists *have authority over the truth itself.*

Propaganda doesn’t just misrepresent reality; it DEFIES reality.

[Michael P]

... says a propagandist who identifies suicide by (attempted-vehicular-murder-of-)cop as "murder".

The left likes to say that every accusation is a confession. The quoted accusation of propaganda certainly is a confession.

[Martinned]

Sure, why would people look at the US Regime and think "Nazi Germany"?

The White House says the Smithsonian Institution must submit materials about current and upcoming exhibitions and events for a review that will determine whether they express "improper ideology."

Entartete Kunst is, I believe, the term they're looking for...

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/13/nx-s1-5672645/smithsonian-deadline-white-house

[Michael P]

The left has been ideologically screening what goes into museums, the Smithsonian no exception, for decades -- including Trump's first term and under both Bushes. The Smithsonian hasn't changed its leadership or their leftist inclinations, which is why the National Proletariat Rabble-raisers are so sympathetic.

[DDHarriman]

Is this just not jaw dropping? The bling hypocrisy these people have?

[Malika la Maize]

Whataboutism!

[Brett Bellmore]

"Sure, why would people look at the US Regime and think "Nazi Germany"?"

Probably due to a complete and utter sense of perspective, but also because Democrats have been calling their opponents Nazis for so long that the latest generation of them are starting to take it seriously.

[Sarcastr0]

So are you just ignorant of what ICE is doing these days or in denial?

[Swede425]

Deporting illegal aliens?
No, we see it.
You gonna be ok?
You tards seem pretty upset about it.

[Frank Drackman]

Fake News Dept:
"President Donald Trump on Tuesday flipped off an autoworker during an appearance at a Ford plant in Dearborn, Michigan, dropping an F-bomb during the interaction for good measure."

You have to get to the end where it explains

"Trump threw the bird after a worker in the crowd called him a “pedophile protector,” presumably a reference to the president’s relationship with the late *** trafficker Jeffrey Epstein ― and his efforts to prevent the release of Justice Department files regarding Epstein in its possession"

[DDHarriman]

After listening to some exerpts of KJBs questioning in that tranny case how can anyone think she survives without impeachment?

She is genuinely dumb and has a legal framework that starts at ideological goals and works backwards through the law amd feelings simultaneously.

Just an embarrassment. (Paraphrased from memory) "You call it 'tailoring' to make individual exceptions to the law..." that AG: "bitch, that's the literal definition of it, you retarded baboon"

[Armchair]

Three questions for the commentariat.

1. Should ICE be abolished?
2. Should the immigration laws of the United States be enforced?
3. Should the worker authorization laws of the United States be enforced? (IE, only those who have proper authorization can work).

[Malika la Maize]

Should unarmed women be shot in the face?

Your shtick is tiresome. Just make the points you clearly came here to make.

[ThePublius]

No, yes, yes.