Amanda Seyfried: Freedom of Speech LIVE on Fascist Saint Charlie Kirk

 "Saint" Charlie Kirk - Joe Raedle / Getty Images

Many saints of the Church started out as criminals, cheaters, murderers, armed militants.... Saint Paul is  the perfect example: He was a Roman military hunter and killer of Christians. He must have killed dozens, if not hundreds, of them, but then the made-up BS legend says that he got an epiphany on the road to Damascus, changed camps, changed his name from Semitic Shawuul (distorted by westerners as Saul) to western (Greek) Pavlos to indicate his rejection of his Semitic culture and adoption of western culture (therein lie the roots of antisemitism), and became a Christian who now started persecuting pagans like Romans, Phoenicians and Jewish refusniks of the new religion.

What religious authorities keep under lid is the fact that the first Christians - during those first three or four centuries - were all Jews. Christianity was just another Jewish sect created by the followers of Jesus (like the Pharisees, the Sadducees, etc.). The difference, though, with Christianity is that it migrated from the eastern Levant to the western Rome. It didn'y stay in Palestine. Had it stayed in Palestine, Christianity would be just another Jewish sect. 

So, obviously the Jews of the time were deeply divided between, on one hand, the Jewish conservative establishment who thought that Jesus was just another crazy self-proclaimed prophet, and those who rejected his followers' claims (eventually laid down in the Gospels mythology: son of God, immaculate conception and birth, turning miracles, resurrecting etc.). Because Rome was the center of the political world, its adoption of Christianity as its official religion imposed this new Jewish denomination across the empire. This Jewish sect became more of a global international movement, not unlike the Communist movement of the late 19th early 20th centuries. Just like Christians, the Communists were first an underground movement persecuted by the power holders, who later took power in Soviet Russia, etc.). Whereas Christians were the enemy under pagan Rome, pagans suddenly became the enemy of Christian Rome. The new Christians undertook campaigns of mass killings, destructions of temples, erasure of the old pantheon by re-naming old pagan gods into Christian saints, forced conversions under the sword... Read about what happened to Hypatia of Alexandria (Egypt) who was tortured and killed by a mob of early Christians because she was a scientist who refused to convert to the new religion. 

In Lebanon, the Phoenicians - pagans for the early Christians -  were persecuted and forced to become Christians. When their temples were not destroyed, they were turned into churches. Their gods changed their names: Baal became God, Ishtar became Mary, and Adonis became Jesus (Adonis too was killed but resurrected).

People like Paul start out as policial heroes for some, enemies for others. I don't believe that the Roman Empire persecuted the early Christians because they were all meek and mild people; they must have been what we call today "terrorists" carrying out criminal and illegal actions against the state. It's just that when Rome officially turned Christian during the 4th century, suddenly all those outlaws were forgiven their crimes, and only their loyalty to the new faith was maintained in the collective memory of the new order. Time and propaganda have a way of erasing from the collective memory the bad actions of these individuals and filtering them into heroes and saints.

Because he turned coats from a Roman pagan killing the rebel Christians to a Roman Christian killing pagans, Paul's original criminality was forgiven and fogotten,while his new criminality was used to elevate him to the rank of saint.

Saint Elias is another one. He was a mass murderer, depicted in paintings as a slayer of pagans with his sword.  

Charlie Kirk may not have killed people, but his racism, hatred and fascism are being slowly erased and his image is being purified by his followers to the point that he is being made untouchable by his followers. The fact that he was murdered makes him a martyr, which accelerates the purification. Had the protestant evangelical sects kept the tradition of producing saints, there is no doubt in my mind that a few miracles would have been made up and he'd be beatified on the road to sainthood. Had he been a Catholic, this process would be well under way.
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“She’s 100% Correct”: People Are Praising Amanda Seyfried For Her Latest Comments On Charlie Kirk, And She Did NOT Hold Back
Ellen Durney
Thu, December 11, 2025

Earlier this year, Amanda Seyfried publicly criticized Charlie Kirk, the right-wing activist who was shot and killed during a public speaking event at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10.

"He was hateful," the Mean Girls star commented under an Instagram Reel that compiled some of Kirk's offensive quotes about Black women, immigrants, and transgender people, just to highlight a few.


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The comment obviously gained a lot of attention, and a couple of days later, Amanda followed up by providing some extra context in a longer statement posted to her Instagram page. "We are forgetting the nuance of humanity," she wrote. "I can get angry about misogyny and racist rhetoric and ALSO very much agree that Charlie Kirk's murder was absolutely disturbing and deplorable in every way imaginable. No one should have to experience this level of violence. This country is grieving too many senseless and violent deaths and shootings. Can we agree on that at least?"

Now, three months later, Amanda is firmly standing by her words, telling Who What Wear in a new cover interview: "I'm not fucking apologizing."


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"I mean, for fuck's sake, I commented on one thing," she recalled. "I said something that was based on actual reality and actual footage and actual quotes. What I said was pretty damn factual, and I'm free to have an opinion, of course."

Amanda also discussed the decision to post a longer message explaining the comment at the time, saying, "I was able to give some clarity, and it was about getting my voice back because I felt like it had been stolen and recontextualized—which is what people do, of course."

Though Amanda's stance is sure to rile up some folks, her latest comments have already been met with a wave of praise online. One post reacting to the quotes with over 110,000 likes reads: "Thank god someone with a fucking spine."

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Yes, Fascist Homeland Insecurity Chief Kristi Noem Targets US Citizens...

 ...because they "look" Asians, Africans, Hispanics.... Racial profiling is a nice way of describing it. More accurately, what Noem and Trump are doing is racist persecution of people who don't look "white", and that is OFFICIAL REGIME-APPROVED RACISM.

When the African-American and Hispanic communities stand up, instead of voting like slaves to their white masters? 
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‘Unjust, Uncalled For’: U.S. Citizen Sounds The Alarm About Being Arrested By ICE In Minneapolis
Li Zhou
Fri, December 12, 2025

Mubashir, a 20-year-old Somali American citizen, said he was taking his lunch break in Minneapolis when a federal agent abruptly tackled him.

“I told him, ‘I’m a U.S. citizen, what is going on?’ He didn’t seem to care,” Mubashir, who declined to share his last name for safety reasons, recalled during a Wednesday press conference alongside Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Police Chief Brian O’Hara.

Video that officials played at the press event captured two agents shoving Mubashir into a stairwell and handcuffing him. A subsequent clip showed an agent putting Mubashir in a chokehold and pushing him down into the snow before placing him in a vehicle. 

Mubashir’s harrowing arrest underscores longstanding concerns local leaders have expressed about the potential for racial profiling as the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents surges in the Minneapolis area. The recent operation, which reportedly includes a focus on Somali immigrants in the region, also follows repeated attacks Trump has levied against members of that community in recent weeks.

As Minnesota Public Radio reported, Mubashir was not suspected of any crime.

“What you very clearly saw in that video was Mubashir, an American citizen, someone who has been here nearly his entire life, tackled, handcuffed, taken into custody … for simply walking down the street and looking like he’s Somali,” Frey said during Wednesday’s briefing.


Mubashir, 20, speaks out about his experience getting violently arrested by federal agents. City of Minneapolis

Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, claimed that an agent confronted Mubashir because he fled from them, something he denied. 

“I didn’t even see him first. All I did was turn around. When I seen a black-topped car pull up, I just turned around to go back inside the office,” Mubashir said. “I could seen him behind me just running towards me. He pushes me inside the restaurant. I thought it was a random person assaulting me or kidnapping me.”

Mubashir said the agent didn’t tell him to stop or say that he was with ICE.

“Having reasonable suspicion — as protected under the U.S. Constitution —officers gave chase and caught up with the individual, who violently resisted officers and refused to answer questions,” McLaughlin claimed. “A large crowd of agitators descended and began to threaten the officers. For their safety, they temporarily detained the individual to safely finish asking their questions. Once officers finished their questioning, he was promptly released.”

McLaughlin also suggested that allegations that DHS engages in racial profiling are “categorically FALSE.”

Mubashir says he repeatedly offered the federal agents multiple ways to verify his citizenship, including sharing a photo of his passport and providing his name and date of birth, but they declined to consider them.

Instead, they asked to photograph and scan his face, which he refused to do. They also attempted to take his fingerprints, but were unable to do so because their devices were malfunctioning, he said.

Eventually, the agents drove him to the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building at Fort Snelling.

Upon arrival at the facility, Mubashir says he was denied both water and medical care. The agents put his feet in shackles and detained him before they finally verified his citizenship and released him to his parents, he said. 

“What happened to me cannot stay quiet,” Mubashir said. “What happened to me was unjust, uncalled for.”

Mubashir said he spoke out to raise awareness of DHS’s abuses and questioned how agents were treating people when there were no cameras to capture their actions.

A growing number of U.S. citizens have reported being detained by federal agents as the administration has ramped up its crackdown. Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old U.S. citizen in Minneapolis, says she was also arrested Tuesday after she confronted and observed ICE agents apprehending her neighbors. According to an October ProPublica report, immigration agents have held more than 170 U.S. citizens this past year, including multiple who reported being subject to violence during their arrests. 

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Kristi Noem Testifies DHS Hasn't Deported Any Veterans. Seconds Later, a Kicked-Out War Hero Calls into the Hearing

Noem was questioned about her department's deportation practices during a tense hearing in Washington, D.C.
Greta Bjornson
Thu, December 11, 2025 


Anna Moneymaker/Getty - Kristi Noem testifies during a Dec. 11, 2025 hearing in Washington, D.C.

NEED TO KNOW

Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem was questioned about a Purple Heart veteran deported by ICE during a Dec. 11 hearing

Rep. Seth Magaziner brought the veteran, Sae Joon Park, to the hearing over Zoom after he was deported to Korea earlier this year.

Magaziner accused Noem of not knowing "the difference between the good guys and the bad guys"

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was challenged during a hearing today about her department's controversial deportation practices.

Noem, 54, testified before the House on Thursday, Dec. 11, about national security threats, where she was questioned by a representative about the deportation of military veterans by the Trump administration.

"Madame Secretary, how many United States military veterans have you deported?" Rep. Seth Magaziner, a Democrat from Rhode Island, asked Noem during the hearing.

When she replied, "Sir, we have not deported U.S. citizens or military veterans," Magaziner began to express his respect for military members as a man who had been sitting behind him stood and brought over a tablet featuring a veteran calling into the hearing over video.

"As Americans, we owe everything to those who have served our country in uniform, particularly those who have served in combat. Do you agree with that?" Magaziner asked.

Noem began to say, "Sir, I believe that people that are in the United States that are citizens have legal status here—" before Magaziner interrupted to introduce the video guest.

"Madame Secretary, we are joined on Zoom by a gentleman named Sae Joon Park," Magaziner said. "He is a United States Army combat veteran who was shot twice while serving our country in Panama in 1989."

Magaziner said Park — a Purple Heart recipient — had struggled with PTSD and substance abuse issues after his time in combat, and had been arrested in the '90s for "minor drug offenses." NPR previously reported that Park was charged with possession of a controlled substance and bail jumping while battling an addiction to crack cocaine.

Park has been sober for the last 14 years, the congressman told Noem, before saying, "Earlier this year, you deported him to Korea, a country he hasn't lived in since he was 7 years old."

Magaziner then asked Noem to join him in "thanking Mr. Park for his service to our country."

She responded by saying she is "grateful for every single person that has served our country and follows our laws, and knows that our laws are important and every one of them needs to be enforced."

When he pressed her about looking into Park's case, Noem said she "absolutely" would, but added, "Our programs need to have integrity, as well."

Magaziner continued with his questioning when he introduced a Navy veteran named Jim Brown who is married to a woman who came to the U.S. from Ireland and has lived in the country for 48 years, but has been in prison for the last four months.

"She did not come here illegally, and she has never committed any crime other than writing two bad checks totaling $80 ten years ago," Magaziner said.

Noem claimed it was not "my prerogative, my latitude or my job to pick and choose which laws in this country get enforced," but Magaziner hit back by claiming she has "broad discretion" as DHS secretary. When asked, she said she would review the case of Brown's wife.

The congressman also introduced a veteran whose father, Narciso Barranco, had been targeted by immigration agents over the summer and punched in the the head. He asked Noem to consider offering parole to Barranco.

Magaziner went on to criticize Noem, telling her, “There are many problems with your leadership, but the biggest problem is this: You don’t seem to know how to tell the difference between the good guys and the bad guys. Go after the bad guys, go after the terrorists, do not go after veterans, Marines, children, United States citizens.”

Noem allegedly left the hearing early, according to The Hill and The Washington Post, claiming she had to attend another meeting that had been canceled. Noem’s office told The Hill the secretary found out the meeting had been called off after leaving the witness table.

Noem has come under fire during her tenure at DHS for her attention-grabbing deportation tactics. Earlier this month, she said on X that she had been discussing ramping up travel bans with President Donald Trump.

Noem recommended a "full travel ban on every damn country that's been flooding our nation with killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies."

Her Dec. 1 post came not long after Trump, 79, said his administration planned to "permanently pause" migration from "Third World Countries." He did not identify countries by name or clarify how he would implement the immigration pause.

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Donald Dumb is Really Old, Senile and Weird: IMPEACH HIM ALREADY?

 

The MAGA herd of morons spent years crucifying and persecuting Joe Biden because he was aging on the job. Donald Dumb's main campaign message back then was, and even now still is, "Sleepy Joe doesn't know what the hell he's doing".

The "establishment" Republicans who boarded the Trump ship to save their own political skins, and those who vanished in the great beyond out of fear of retribution by the senile Orangutan madman in the White House SHOULD START JUMPING OFF THE SINKING TRUMP SHIP BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE, OR AT LEAST SAVE THEIR REPUTATIONS AND THEIR LEGACY.

Will the racists, the Nazis, the white supremacist racists, Nazis, nativists, isolationists, pro-slavery, anti-emancipation..., who are repeating sad chapters of American history when the conservatives hated everyone who was not white, protestant, and anglo-saxon and did their share of persecuting all these populations whom they called "immigrants", when they themselves - the white supremacist racists, Nazis, nativists, isolationists, pro-slavery, anti-emancipation...- descend from their own batches of immigrants to the US.

The US doesn't belong to the white supremacist racists, Nazis, nativists, isolationists, pro-slavery, anti-emancipation...any more than it belongs to ALL its other immigrants. What could their argument be? That they came here first and decided what the rules are? That is the silliest argument that can be made. Was the genesis of the US a contest? If it was, then the rules of the contest should remain the same. But the white supremacist racists, Nazis, nativists, isolationists, pro-slavery, anti-emancipation...periodically change the rules in the middle of the game, BECAUSE THEY KEEP LOSING.

In any case, Donald Dumb is leading this yet another wave of ugliness that has peppered the history of the US.

The white supremacist racists, Nazis, nativists, isolationists, pro-slavery, anti-emancipation... morons killed John Kennedy bacuse he was a Catholic. They killed Bobby Kennedy because he was a Catholic. They killed Martin Luther King because he was African. They hated Barack Obama because he was African. Then they hated Joe Biden because he was the second Catholic president of the US, JFK being the first ever.

Right now their stupid demented criminal president is very fast declining into senility. The white supremacist racists, Nazis, nativists, isolationists, pro-slavery, anti-emancipation... are now led by a republican clone of senile Joe Biden minus the decency and with a heavy touch of vulgarity. How long can they keep the charade of trusting what the senile criminal idiot is doing to the country? They love his racism and vulgarity, and don't give a damn about what is happening to the country.

I can be repetitive in my opinion of Donald Dumb and his herd of white supremacist racists, Nazis, nativists, isolationists, pro-slavery, anti-emancipation... But everyone has their way of expressing their sorrow at America's decline under Donald Dumb, and this blog is my way of mourning the America I have come to know and love, and which may never recover from the damage this criminal charlatan is causing it.
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Opinion

Opinion: It’s Clear That Trump, 79, Is as Cooked as a Well-Done Steak
Michael Ian Black
Thu, December 11, 2025

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Let me be frank: The President of the United States is out of his mind, and nobody’s doing a goddamned thing about it. What do I mean? Any number of red flags, really, but in particular right now it’s the latest five hundred words of blithering lunacy he shared on his social media site Tuesday night.

They are not the words of a man elected to lead the world’s most powerful nation. They are, instead, those of a malevolent Don Quixote tilting at a cancer-causing, bird-killing windmill which exists only to billow stale air around in the space between his ears.

Since the start of his second regime, Trump has roared against any suggestion that he’s not the man he used to be. But it is true nonetheless. I mean, his cankles have now swollen to twice their pre-presidential girth. The formerly truculent stride has been replaced by a wobbly gait more suitable to a listing sailboat than the captain of the ship of state. The make-up which used only to coat his doughy face has now migrated southward to his hands, covering mysterious bruises—bruises no doubt related to all the arm-twisting he’s done to solve all those wars, right? Wrong!

Trump is no lion in winter; he is, instead, lying in winter.

A bandage is seen on President Donald Trump's right hand as he delivers remarks during an event at Mount Airy Casino Resort on December 9, 2025 in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania. / Alex Wong / Getty Images

“There has never been a President that has worked as hard as me!” his rant began. To which I say, “Golfing isn’t work, Mr. President.” Nor is napping during Cabinet meetings. You see, our hardest-working POTUS famously keeps a light schedule. “Executive time” (TV watching, yelling at people on the phone) usually keeps the nearly 80-year-old in the residence until late morning, when he begins his official day. Which is packed.

Today, for example, Trump’s publicly available schedule has him doing a 9:00 a.m. press pool, followed by a 2:00 p.m. roundtable (closed to the press), ending the day with a 5:00 p.m. Oval Office event described as “The President greets Pastors.” How does he have the stamina?!

Remember when DOGE was out there haranguing federal employees to detail lists of accomplishments in order to root out the redundant, the lazy and the incompetent? I have some news for Elon—you missed somebody.

Trump’s “weave” only degrades from there. No, he didn’t stop eight wars. No, he hasn’t saved millions of lives. In fact, cuts to USAID have likely already cost hundreds of thousands; research published in prestigious medical journal The Lancet estimates that the cuts could cost 14 million by 2030, putting Trump on par with some of history’s greatest mass murderers.

As for our financial situation, no, you wethead, it is not “the Greatest Economy in the History of our Country.” By nearly all metrics—GDP growth, unemployment, inflation, and wage growth—the current economy is worsening. Hardly the stuff of a Nobel Prize for Economics, which he will surely be demanding just as soon as he gets that Peace Prize.

President Donald Trump delivers a speech after receiving the FIFA Peace Prize during the draw for the 2026 FIFA World Cup at the Kennedy Center, in Washington, D.C. on December 5, 2025. / JIA HAOCHENG / POOL/AFP via Getty Images

Nor has he created an ‘aura’ around the United States that has led “every Country in the World to respect us more than ever before.” Just today, journalist Matt Gurney published an account from his time at the Halifax International Security Forum, an annual gathering of military, defense, and intelligence bigwigs from across the globe. There, Gurney describes an off-the-record dinner in which one officer from a “major allied nation” said regarding America’s moral leadership in the world: “we will never f---ing trust you again.”

Oh.

And let’s get to the really good stuff before, you know, it’s a crime to talk about it: the bizarre bragging about the fact that he’s had to get multiple cognitive exams tests. He makes a point of stating that no other president has gone through the battery of tests to which he has been subjected. The reason, unstated: most other presidents haven’t demonstrated the level of cognitive impairment our current one displays on a minute-to-minute basis.

I mean, does he think his doctors are just pulling him away from his duties as president to ask him to count to seventeen or spell “autocracy” for funsies?

What we’re seeing from Trump is way worse than anything that came out of our last gerontocratic president, Gampy Joe.

Most alarming of all is Trump’s notion that telling the truth amounts to treason. We’ve seen this battering of the press since his first campaign, but the vitriol is getting worse. The political prosecutions show no sign of slowing down, despite the administration’s unenviable record of failing to secure indictments against James Comey, Letitia James or even that villain-to-end-all-villains, the Guy Who Threw The Sandwich. How long until some Trump flunky decides that the perfect gift you give to the man who has everything (but loves nothing) is a journalistic prosecution? An FBI raid on an unfriendly outlet?

Or worse?

President Donald Trump participates in a roundtable discussion with farmers at the White House on December 8, 2025 in Washington, D.C. / Alex Wong / Getty Images

Taken together, this latest Trumpian screed ought to be Exhibit A in a discharge of the 25th Amendment. If he were a more stable genius, I would assume the president to be exercising a certain degree of hyperbole. I no longer make such assumptions. Scarily enough, I think Trump actually believes what he’s saying. I no longer believe he’s capable of separating reality from fantasy.

Donny Demento is slowing up. His health is bad. His brain is mush. His ego has swollen to the size of a thousand suns. He’s transformed 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue from a dignified seat of American governance to a gold-gilded cuckoo’s nest of his own design. And, for some reason, most of the American establishment is still bending over backward to avoid saying the obvious: The Burger King is cooked.
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Opinion - Trump’s presidency is crumbling before our eyes
Max Burns, opinion contributor
Wed, December 10, 2025


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It doesn’t take a political genius to recognize that things are in free fall over at the White House. Less than a year after staffing his administration with a cadre of bumbling goons valued only for their slavish devotion to his ego, President Trump now finds himself leading a government wholly incapable of governing.

Forgive my lack of surprise.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is facing mounting Republican criticism over a potentially illegal order to kill the survivors of a Caribbean boat strike. Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice is in disarray after three failed efforts to prosecute former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James. And on Monday, U.S. Attorney Alina Habba abruptly resigned after being disqualified by a federal judge from holding her office.

Meanwhile, FBI Director Kash Patel is defending his misuse of a government jet to ferry his country music star girlfriend to her shows, and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is defending himself against claims from his alleged former mistress Olivia Nuzzi that he is lying to the nation about his sobriety.

If anyone in Trump’s White House is actually getting any work done, they’ve done a good job hiding it from the public.

Trump’s approval rating cratered to a new low of just 36 percent in late November following months of open-air dysfunction and his repeated failure to address fundamental problems like rising consumer prices. For the millions of Americans who are just starting to tune in politically ahead of next year’s big midterm election, the added horror of Trump’s nonfunctional White House team simply solidifies the growing consensus that, despite his big promises, Trump just doesn’t seem to know what he’s doing.

The situation has grown so bleak for Republicans that many endangered Republican lawmakers are doing something once considered impossible: directly criticizing Trump’s failure to lead. As Axios reports, Republicans concerned about their 2026 prospects have taken to bucking Trump at a level that would have been unimaginable during his first term, including forcing the release of the Epstein files (which Trump has yet to do) and lambasting his scheme to issue budget-busting “tariff rebate checks.”

In fact, most of Trump’s second-term strategy seems to revolve around offering substantial payouts to critical voting blocs alienated by his half-baked economic policies. Facing a revolt by once reliably Republican farmers, Trump hurriedly announced a $12 billion farm-focused bailout aimed at undoing some of the damage caused by his agricultural tariffs.

In a sign of just how frosty Trump’s relationship with Congress has grown, most of that money will be distributed through the Farmer Bridge Assistance Program, avoiding what would likely be a losing fight with skeptical Republican senators. Whatever power Trump once exerted over his colleagues on Capitol Hill seems to have dissolved as his popularity continues to skid.

But Trump’s own advisers are beginning to realize they can’t pay off all of the people all of the time, and even die-hard MAGA voters are growing impatient for Trump to deliver any significant legislative wins. If Trump’s current priorities are any indication, they’re going to be waiting a while.

Nearly 40 percent of Trump voters now say the cost of living in their area is the worst they can remember, and they largely blame Trump for failing to act on his pledge to immediately lower prices “starting on day one.” Instead of acknowledging his misstep and doubling down on a solution, Trump is instead furious that Republicans are talking about affordability issues at all. It’s hard to imagine a more out-of-touch response to legitimate voter concerns.

Trump’s crumbling administration is living proof that the best way to convince voters to elect Democrats is to let Republicans run things for a year. The White House is so soaked in ethical and legal scandals that its governing agenda — what little there ever was — has evaporated completely. No one, least of all the president, seems very interested in trying to salvage the few stalled policy initiatives that remain. Merely keeping track of their multiplying crises eats up most of the day.

As America turns the page on 2025, Trump’s already overburdened and underqualified team will now have to add a tempestuous midterm election to its growing list of headaches. Republicans outside Trump’s orbit have serious doubts about his ability to save the party from a looming electoral reckoning now that the veil has slipped off the MAGA movement to reveal the sloppy mess that always churned just below its oily surface. They are right to be horrified at the nightmare that lurks below.

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A former strategist for the Republican Party says Donald Trump’s latest rally miserably failed to persuade the public that the aging president’s still got it.

“A few hours after we discussed on [podcast Hacks on Tap] why Trump has cut back rallies so much, it was pretty evident at his event today in PA just why,” Mike Murphy, who previously worked as a political consultant for John McCain, Jeb Bush, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, posted on X Wednesday.

“Meandering, more confusion and mental weakness than usual,” he went on. “Even a bit shall we say, low-energy. Weaker optics too. He’s clearing [sic] fading.”

The White House had billed Trump’s Tuesday address in Pennsylvania as an event where the president would reassure voters the U.S. economy is in good hands amid persistently high inflation, mounting economic uncertainty, poor job growth, high unemployment, and a widespread cost-of-living crisis.

Instead, the 79-year-old president’s performance has now been widely panned by critics as a brutal reminder of an accelerating decline in his cognitive and physical health.

X/Mike Murphy

In the course of his 100-minute speech, Trump suffered from slowed speech, trouble finding his words, repetition and veering off on wild tangents—all signs that mental health experts have lately pointed to as evidence he is clearly feeling his age.

Speculation about the state of his cognitive and physical health is clearly getting to Trump. After his rally on Tuesday night, he posted a rambling 500-word screed to Truth Social in which he complained about media reports on his health and even suggested such reporting might constitute high crimes against the country.

“After all the work I have done with Medical Exams, Cognitive Exams, and everything else, I actually believe it’s seditious, perhaps even treasonous, for The New York Times, and others, to consistently do FAKE reports in order to libel and demean ‘THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES’,” he wrote.

His critics have been swift in their response. “Donald Trump is in poor physical health,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom almost immediately shot back on X.

Donald Lump Blames Aides for His Falling Asleep During Meetings

He's an 80-year-old tantrum-prone toddler. When his mama says it is time to change the soiled diaper, he gets mad.
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Why Sleepy Trump, 79, Is Really Panicking Aides: Wolff
Erkki Forster, The Daily Beast Podcast
Wed, December 10, 2025
 

Donald Trump’s aides are in a constant state of panic about the elderly president dozing off on camera—not least because he blows up at them afterward—according to his biographer.

Trump, 79, appeared to fall asleep in the middle of a televised roundtable with lawmakers and farmers on Monday—less than a week after he was caught drifting off at a Cabinet meeting.

Speaking on the Inside Trump’s Head podcast, author Michael Wolff said Trump’s increasingly frequent on-camera naps are putting his aides on edge.

President Donald Trump appeared to nod off before snapping awake during a roundtable at the White House on Monday. / GIF by The Daily Beast/The White House

“I mean, you can’t wake him up. Also, the cameras are running. Everybody is in a low-level panic now all of the time about Trump falling asleep because then he gets mad,” Wolff said. “He gets angry. He essentially blames the people around him for the fact that he fell asleep.”

Co-host Joanna Coles said, “Well that’s ridiculous. I mean, poor Marco Rubio was trying to talk louder, I think, to keep him awake.”

Wolff added, “You’re on camera, so you can’t jostle him... So nobody knows what to do.”

Trump couldn't keep his eyes open as his secretaries took turns lavishing praise on him at last week’s Cabinet meeting. The 79-year-old’s public dozing spells have heightened scrutiny of his mental and physical fitness. / X/Daily Beast

The author, who has written four Trump tell-alls, including 2018’s Fire and Fury, drawn from his White House access during Trump’s first term, said the president is “in denial” about his dozing episodes.

“He’s railing about this, and he’s mad at people, but he’s also in denial. ‘I didn’t fall asleep.’ I mean, that’s what he’s saying now.’”

Wolff said Trump’s habit of sleeping on the job is unusual, noting that in the decade he has followed the president, he never saw him fall asleep during events. He recalled that when Trump got “bored” during his first term, he would simply “walk out” of the room.

“Certainly, in the first White House, 90 seconds, he was bored. He was out of the room,” Wolff said.

But Trump was still very much in the room—and on live TV—when he drifted off to slumberland at Monday’s roundtable, at last week’s Cabinet meeting, and at an Oval Office press conference last month. Some have seen the moments as yet another indicator of a cognitive decline in the president.

But Wolff said that within the president’s inner circle, the naps have contributed to a sense that he may be “losing interest” in the face of a more challenging political landscape.

“He’s had this incredible year. Everything essentially has gone right for him. And I think now what we’re starting to see is, it’s not really going right anymore. It may be going kind of dramatically wrong,” Wolff said.

“And I think he’s losing interest in that. He likes success. He certainly doesn’t like hard work.”

When reached for comment, the White House provided the Daily Beast with a statement from Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt.

“As the President’s physician, Dr. Sean Barbabella, has made clear time and again — and as the American people see with their own eyes every single day — President Trump remains in excellent overall health,” Leavitt said.

Trump, the oldest person ever inaugurated as president, was recently spotted with a mysterious bandage on his right hand. He has carried a dark bruise on the hand for months, which the White House has attributed to frequent handshaking and aspirin use. / Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

“President Trump’s relentless work ethic, unmatched energy, and historic accessibility stand in sharp contrast to what we saw during the past four years when the failing legacy media intentionally covered up Joe Biden’s serious mental and physical decline from the American people. Pushing these fake and desperate narratives now about President Trump is why Americans’ trust in the media just fell to a new all-time low.”

In addition, White House Communications Director Steven Cheung told the Daily Beast in a statement, “Michael Wolff is a lying sack of s--t and has been proven to be a fraud. He routinely fabricates stories originating from his sick and warped imagination, only possible because he has a severe and debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has rotted his peanut-sized brain.”

"Hot Lips" KKK Leavitt Lies on Behalf of Penile Grand-Daddy Donald

One of the skills the "Hot Lips" maid-superior acquired at the White House is how to lie to millions of people in their face. Grand-Daddy Donald keeps praising her for her lips for three reasons: 1- He likes them young, 2- She excels at lying and 3- She blames Biden for everything that senile Grand-Daddy is inflicting on America and the world.

She says China was not buying soybeans from the US during the Biden Administration. THAT'S A LIE. China WAS buying soybeans from the US during the Biden Administration. China stopped buying soybeans from the US only when senile Dozy Don imposed his stupid tariffs. So American soybean farmers suffered and complained, but they are white MAGA racists who keep voting for him and his MAGA shills. So Dozy Don begged the Chinese dictator to resume buying soybeans from the US and is bailing the farmers out with billions of dollars. All because his incompetence wrecked the system that was in place. Now he and KKK Leavitt claim he fixed a Joe Biden problem.

That is pure Donald Dumb strategy. He starts with no problem. He creates the problem. Problem festers for a while, at which point he goes TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out) and retreats back to the no-problem situation. Then he brags about having fixed the problem. They say he's an arsonist-fireman: He starts the fire then claims to put it down. I say he's just an arse.

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Karoline Leavitt Roasted Over Blatantly False Claim on Trump’s Tariffs Impacting Farmers

Alex Griffing

Tue, December 9, 2025

Karoline Leavitt

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt sparked a wave of condemnation on Tuesday by claiming China was not buying soybeans during the Biden administration as a way of defending President Donald Trump’s tariffs, which were the actual reason China stopped purchasing soybeans from American farmers this past May.

Leavitt made the blatantly false claim while on Newsmax, “Another huge win for our farmers. Following his successful meeting with President Xi Jinping in South Korea, President Trump convinced President Xi to continue purchasing, or begin purchasing again, American soybeans, which is something China wasn’t doing under the last administration because they had no respect for President Biden or for the country at the time.”

“But now they know President Trump is not messing around. He’s going to stand up for American farmers and American families. And so those purchases have begun from China, and American soybeans are being exported from the United States as we speak because of President Trump. He promised the farmers he would be there for them. He is delivering on that promise,” she added.

On Monday, Trump announced a $12 billion bailout for farmers impacted by the loss of access to foreign markets – something that also happened as a result of his trade wars during his first term. In September, Politico reported on the key background:

China has not purchased any U.S. soybeans since May, according to the American Soybean Association. Beijing has pivoted to suppliers in Brazil and Argentina — logging huge orders for Latin American beans and leaving U.S. farmers in the cold and panicking.

The dramatic shift echoes China’s response to the tariff war during Trump’s first term when the value of U.S. soybean exports plunged to $3.1 billion in 2018 from $14 billion in 2016.

Leavitt’s claim that China’s buying freeze had begun during the Biden administration was quickly called out by economists and journalists online, many of whom accused her of ham-fistedly trying to pass the blame.

Erica York of the Federal Tax Policy Foundation shared a graph showing the drop of Chinese soybean purchases during Trump’s two terms in office and added, “Which president presided over two major drops in U.S. soybean exports to China?”

Which president presided over two major drops in U.S. soybean exports to China? https://t.co/Fv2KRJQERP pic.twitter.com/ya9JyqbKGF

— Erica York (@ericadyork) December 9, 2025

Political Science Professor Branislav Slantchev replied, “It will surprise no one that reality is exactly the opposite of what Baghdad Barbie says. Trump has decimated the farmers — twice — so it remains a mystery why they keep voting for him.”

It will surprise no one that reality is exactly the opposite of what Baghdad Barbie says.

Trump has decimated the farmers — twice — so it remains a mystery why they keep voting for him. pic.twitter.com/lZtfAdBMAt

— Branislav Slantchev (@slantchev) December 9, 2025

Below are some additional replies:

How easily she just blatantly lies is really incredible. https://t.co/deyT7j4Bnx

— Charli XCBBX (@TrojanCBB) December 9, 2025

In related news: Down is up.

China bought 27m tons of US soybeans in 2024 and only 3m this year, due to Trump’s tariffs. China has now agreed to buy a total of 12m this year, but who knows? They bought zero dollars of anything under a $200b commitment during Trump 1.0. https://t.co/s1aAwUG0qc

— Paul Carroll (@paulbcarroll) December 9, 2025

It should be criminal for a government employee to flat out lie like this. At a bare minimum it should cost you your job. We used to make fun of N Korea and Iraq for shit like this… https://t.co/JLrG1p5JZx

— Jeff Middleton (@UCBearcat92) December 9, 2025

Making stuff up all day long, day after day—this has gotta be one of Washington’s most exhausting jobs… https://t.co/piytnInf88

— Stephen Sestanovich (@SSestanovich) December 9, 2025

"Something China wasn't doing under the last administration."

Huh. https://t.co/LPFYMCmBtg pic.twitter.com/lmITrQC3E3

— Sara Maslar-Donar (@SaraMDNews) December 9, 2025

With just a wee bit of effort – one can find this claim completely false.
The issue – L'Orange's base refuses to do even the tiniest bit of work. So the Admin just keeps on shoveling out the lies.
If one repeats the lie often enough, it becomes one's truth. https://t.co/5H4hL5GBi6

— George Young (@GYCoMo) December 9, 2025

Hey Karoline: fact check!

US soybeans were sold to China under Biden.

They declined after Trump won the election, and halted when he introduced his “judgement day” tariffs.

That’s why your ‘Dear Leader

’ has to now do farmer bailouts! https://t.co/Wuzjn7TbxTpic.twitter.com/XgZWk3tlUp

— Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) (@adamscochran) December 9, 2025

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US-Born White "Santa" and School Teacher Loves Sex with Children

What is it with white Americans and their infatuation with sexually abusing children? Could it be that Nicke Fuentes is right? Namely that American white men should not marry because American women are obnoxious, talk a lot, spend their hard-earned money, and look manly? Which drives men away from women and into abusing children. Not a day goes by without some white morons, including priests, teachers, cops, firemen, reverends, preachers, politicians, women, and other otherwise "respectable" white Aryans getting caught for possessing and practicing child sex abuse. 

And now even Santa is in the American pedophile gang.


Mercer County Prosecutor's Office - Mark Paulino

A retired school teacher who now works as a seasonal Santa Claus character has been arrested in New Jersey for alleged possession of child sex abuse images.

Mark Paulino, 64, has been charged with possession and distribution of child sexual abuse material, and of endangering the welfare of a child by the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office in New Jersey.

Mercer County Prosecutor Janetta D. Marbrey said due to Paulino’s “active engagement with young children” as a Santa character who is available for photographs and private, corporate and organizational events, “detectives worked around the clock to obtain a search warrant.”

Prosecutors say that a website believed to be Paulino's says he is "recently retired from the Hamilton Township School District as an elementary school teacher and is now a Santa character available for photographs and private, corporate and organizational events.

Marbrey said authorities were able to seize “multiple items of evidentiary value” as Paulino was taken into custody without incident. If convicted, the retired school teacher could face five to 10 years in state prison and a fine of up to $150,000 for his second-degree offenses.

MAGA "Austerity" Advice to Struggling Americans

Donald Dumb to Americans: I am ruining the economy for you, but please love me by not complaining. Save money by eating less and buying less. This way you won't complain about my wrecking the economy with higher medical insurance premiums, tariff-driven taxes and high prices, and skyrocketing layoffs. 

"Dr" Mohammad Oz: Eat only one cookie. You don’t have to try every cookie on the cookie table.

"President" Donald J. Dumb: Buy no more than two dolls for your children. You don't need 37 dolls". “You know, you can give up certain products. You can give up pencils"...

Trumpian Nick Fuentes to men: Don't get married because women will spend your money.

GOP Representative Joni Ernst to Americans: Don't worry about Trump's cuts to your health care and food benefits. Y'all going to die anyway!

Feeding America says, “the extra amount of money that people facing hunger said they need to have enough food” has “reached its highest point in the last 20 years".

The billionaire moron with golden toilets tells Americans to buy less and make do with fewer possessions. He is trying to make them feel more comfortable with the economic disaster he has unleashed on them. The US economy is entirely dependent on consumer spending. He is therefore digging the dagger deeper into the US economy as holiday season is upon season. 

"Mohammad" Oz also tells Americans to practice portion control with smaller plates and small portions. 

In other words, Trump and his minions are proposing AUSTERITY to a US population fooled into believing they live in the "Hottest country" on earth. 

With significant cuts to social programs like Medicaid and SNAP, while promoting tax cuts  for the wealthy, Donald Dumb's way to reduce the national debt is to tell working-class Americans that they should not see the doctor and that they should eat less. 

Trump's Economy Tanking? Distract his MAGA Morons with Attacks on Immigrants

The dumb and ugly American in Trump is raising his head. Now that his promises turned out to be lies  and his illegal policies miserably failing he's got nothing to brag about. 

- Living expenses skyrocketing, crime on the rise across the country

- Companies laying off people and not recruting replacements

- Pardoning and releasing from prison a notorious drug criminal - former president of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernández - who smuggled 400 tons of cocaine into the US and was serving 45 years in prison. 

- As of December 2025, the U.S. national debt has surpassed $38 trillion, marking a significant increase during Trump's presidency. The national debt is projected to continue rising, with estimates suggesting it could exceed $52 trillion by the end of fiscal 2035

- Immigration crackdown has depleted the workforce

- Blowing up fishermen's boats in the Carribean to distract from the Epstein files. Did you notice how nobody now talks about Epstein?

- He restored crushing student debt payments on young people who can't find jobs

- Carrying out illegal assassinations

- Gave a $12 billion bailout to farmers who are struggling because of the president’s trade war with China 

- Falsely accusing African countries of genocide against whites and Christians

- Starting a war with Venezuela while failing at making peace between Russia and Ukraine "in 24 hours" as he promisedI. nstead, he is doing everything that the Russian criminal dictator wants, serious undermining the long standing US-EU-NATO alliance to make it easier for Puting to destroy Europe 

- Attacking and undermining our European allies instead of supporting them againt Putin's aggressions and ambitions over Eastern Europe 

- Bailing out failing countries like Argentina (because he's friends with the Radical Right dictator there) while US farmers are feeling the brunt of his tariffs 

Given his catastrophic failures, what does he do? Like all fascists and backward conservatives have done throughout history, he distracts his MAGA morons' attention by attacking the most vulnerable, least able to defend themselves, with racism and hatred: The immigrants who have built this country for the two centuries and a half of its short history. The country has been there before: All during the 19th and 20th centuries, ignorant conservatives have periodically turend against immigrants to deflect from their disastrous policies. 

A year on in the White House, he still blames Biden and Obama. He said he could fix all the "wrongs" they did, and he's had a year to prove his point. But he can't fix the systemic structural problems that the raw capitalist economy of the US has chronically suffered from. It used to be that the US compensated for its problems by opening up new markets in a globalized world economy. But with the nativist isolationist protectionist 

His tactic worked on 77 million imbeciles in 2024. Will it work again?  

The criminal idiot is on the road again doing his "rallies" with the incoherent rants of a bitter and senile old geezer because he is otherwise failing. 

At a little attended MAGA rally on Tuesday night in Pennsylvania - in the tiny insignificant town of Mount Pocono of about 3,000 residents - Donald Dumb incited his followers by claiming that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is in the country illegally. He was supposed to talk about skyrocketing grocery prices, "affordability", and his plans to repair the damages his tariffs have caused to the US economy. But since he had little to show for, how does his rile up the sinister blood hounds who elected him? What better than pure unadulterated racism, islamophobia and xenophobia? 

He began his racist burlesque show by asking the audience if any of them were from Somalia.

“Do we have any individuals from Somalia in the group?... Please raise your hand. That’s for Minnesota.” He then attacked Ilhan Omar, a Somali immigrant and U.S. citizen who has served in Congress since 2019.

“I love this Ilhan Omar, whatever the hell her name is, with the little turban,” Trump said, referring to Omar's hijab. “I love her. She comes in, does nothing but bitch. She’s always complaining. She comes from her country, where, I mean, it’s considered about the worst country in the world, right?”

The senile madman, who is a suspected pedophile and friend with the late master pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, then accused Omar of incest, saying that she married her brother.

“We oughta get her the hell out,” he continued. “She married her brother in order to get in, right? She married her brother. Can you imagine if Donald Trump married his sister? Beautiful. She’s a beautiful person. If I married my sister to get my citizenship, do you think I’d last for about two hours? Or would it be something less than that? She married her brother to get in. Therefore, she’s here illegally. She should get the hell out. Throw her the hell out. She does nothing but complain.” The racist crowd continued by chanting, “Send her back!”

Then the dumb ass--le "president" told the crowd that inflation was no longer a problem and that  “affordability” is a Democrat “hoax” targeting his reputation. His racist remarks included his wondering why the U.S. doesn't have more immigrants from Scandinavia.

“Why is it we only take people from shithole countries, right?” Trump said onstage. "Why can’t we have some people from Norway, Sweden, just a few?”

People in Scandinavia are the happiest people on earth. Why on earth would they want to leave countries whose governments work for their citizens and immigrate to the hellhole cesspool of violence and scammers - the United States - where governments like his work for giant scamming corporations and corrupt billionaires like him?

He then unleashed a tirade of disgusting vulgar comments in which he objected to taking immigrants from “hellholes like Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia and many other countries." He said those places “are a disaster, right? Filthy, dirty, disgusting, ridden with crime.”

Did he address inflation? Not really, even though his own moron voters are slowly taking stock of the disaster they brought to the country by electing this idiot. The vast majority of Americans are blaming the resilient inflation on Republicans. His Republicans are losing in every single off-cycle elections because of Trump's policies. 

In its attempts to sway its moronic racist MAGA followers, Trump's White House has sought to convince voters that the economy will emerge stronger next year and that inflation is not his problem. The easiest way to convince an illiterate ignorant base is to continue blaming his predecessor, Joe Biden. But even his own base knows that the overall inflation rate has climbed since he announced broad tariffs in April and left many Americans facing rising grocery, utility and housing bills.

“I have no higher priority than making America affordable again,” Trump said. “They caused the high prices and we’re bringing them down", which is simply not true.

In Miami and in New York city voters chose Democrat mayors. In Miami it's the first Democrat in nearly 30 years, and in New York it's the first Socialist and Muslim mayor ever. Those are telling signs of the decline of the Trumpian agenda.

In Pennsylvania, Trump held his rally in a congressional district held by first-term Republican Rep. Rob Bresnahan who hypocritically declared that the administration was "to lower costs, but voters aren’t asking for partisan arguments — they’re asking for results”. Very telling. 

It's not clear if Trump can motivate voters in Monroe County to show up in next year's election if they're worried about inflation. Some voters in the area say they're cutting back on luxuries, like going out to eat, as they absorbs higher bills for food and electricity and are having a hard time finding a good deal on a used car. Many independents who voted for Trump in 2020 plan sit out the vote in 2026 and 2028 or vote Democrat. 

“We’re all broke. It doesn’t matter whether you support Republicans or support Democrats,” pone voter said. “We’re all broke, and we’re all feeling it”.

The dumb jerk in the White House is trying to speak from both sides of his ugly oral orifice: He is trying to fix the problems he himself created in the economy about the while simultaneously parotting the falsehood that the economy is enjoying a historic boom.

Many Americans see the prices of housing, groceries, education, electricity and other basic needs as swallowing up their incomes, and Trump continues to dangle the mirage of more investments in artificial intelligence and manufacturing. With automation and artificial intelligence, no old 1940s' style manufacturing is ever coming back. He knows it but he continues lying to the American people so he can stay in power and continue raping the country with racist, Project 2025 policies.

So far, the public has been skeptical about Trump's economic performance. Just 33% of U.S. adults approve of Trump's handling of the economy, according to a November survey by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

Wanna Know Why European (Im)Migration to US Has Dried Up?

Six-weeks annual vacations, paid parental time off, guaranteed healthcare, safety, no guns in the streets, no mass shootings at schools .... Why would a European want to move to the US? 

Trump's US is turning aways millions of (im)migrants the country desperately needs because Americans are either too lazy or not too smart. 

In Europe, there is so much security and social trust that parents leave their children unattended outside on the sidewalk when they go inside a coffee shop or restaurant. 

 

In the US, there is so much violence and fear around that cops will stop and question mothers walking with their children on the street. Everyone is a suspect of one thing or another. This is, according to Trump, the "hottest" country on earth. See two articles below: 

- Walking with your child in the street is a highly suspicious activity, not just for cops, but for other ordinary citizens who rat on you. (State of Georgia). The story below turns this incident into a "transportation" issue, when it is really a cultural American puritanism issue.

[Addendum: Another very similar story at the bottom of this post]

- Back in 1997, Danish mother visiting New York left her child in a stroller outside while she went inside a shop. SHE GOT ARRESTED because "concerned" Americans called the cops. 

Pretty much anywhere around the world, you'll see children playing in the streets. Not in America. Pretty much anywhere else in the world, children walk to their schools unaccompanied. In America, it's one big choreographed spectacle when a school bus with untold numbers of lights, sounds, stop signs, crossing "lollipop" seniors.....picks up children. Elsewhere, they teach children personal responsibility. In the US, they infantilize children so much that the children no longer make their own decisions... Why? There is so much violence in American culture that fear for one's children spoils them and sedates them into a false sense of security and overrides any sense of self-awarness and responsibility. 

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Mom confronted by police while walking across town with 3-year-old: 'It's been frustrating every time it's happened'

Kim LaCapria

Mon, December 8, 2025 

The United States is notoriously car-dependent: 92% of households have access to a car, but only 55% have viable public transit options.

Those statistics underscore how vehicles shaped norms and dictated urban planning — but a post on an anti-car subreddit evidenced how stifling American "car culture" has become.

"I got the cops called on me for walking," the original post's title stated.

Reddit post titles occasionally belie their contents; claims like this can signal a misleading omission by the poster.

Not here, though.

The user explained that her pediatrician was "a 45-minute walk" from their home. Anticipating rain, she packed weather-appropriate clothing and bundled her toddler into a stroller. On the way back, however, the woman was "pulled over" by the chief of police in her small Georgia city.

"He asked where I'd been, where I was going, and told me that they'd had a call from a 'concerned citizen' regarding a woman walking with her young child in the storms. Keep in mind, it HAS NOT rained yet," she continued.

Immediately, the poster's story got even more infuriating — she added that the bizarre traffic stop marked the third time in five years she'd been stopped by police for the highly suspicious behavior of walking short distances.

"It's been frustrating every time it's happened," she admitted.

On Oct. 1, the Natural Resources Defense Council noted that, despite high rates of car ownership, nearly 16 million Americans had no access to a car. A third lacked "reliable" access to a car amid broadly poor public transportation options.

Public transportation isn't just about getting to work; a British study showed that increasing access to services like bus routes reduced social isolation, and researchers observed a 12% decrease in depressive symptoms.

Another recent study linked time spent driving, such as a daily commute, to higher rates of depression and divorce, lower sleep quality, and poorer mental health overall.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, transportation is the source of "​​the largest portion (28%)" of planet-warming pollution in the U.S., with 57% of that pollution attributed to "light-duty vehicles," also known as "cars."

Treating pedestrians as presumptive criminals is surprisingly not uncommon, but Redditors were enraged on the poster's behalf.

"The call from a concerned citizen is b*******. The cop just lied to interject themselves," one replied.

Another advised the original poster to contact their local lawmakers. "I would complain to your local elected officials. They spent money on all that walking infrastructure, and the cops are harassing people for using it?" they wrote.

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Meanwhile in "liberal" New York, back in 1997 (I can't imagine it got any better with the great Moron drenching the US in government-induced violence. Today the Danish mother below would be arrested by ICE or CBP, detained for several weeks, and separated from her child.

nbcnewyork.com/news: 

Danish Mom: I Was Unfairly Vilified For Leaving Baby Outside in Stroller

November 26, 2017

A Danish mother whose 1997 arrest for leaving her baby outside an East Village restaurant sparked an international debate about parenting styles says she still feels she was unfairly vilified.

"(My) case that happened 20 years ago is even more relevant today," Anette Sorensen told the New York Post for a story published Saturday. She said American parents "live in fear," and she still wants "to show it's possible to live another way."

Then an actress in her 30s, Sorensen parked her 14-month-old daughter in a stroller outside a Dallas BBQ while she and the baby's father, a New York-based playwright, had margaritas inside on a chilly May evening. Sorensen said she repeatedly checked on the blanket-covered baby during the hour they were at the restaurant before a patron summoned police.

The parents were arrested on child-endangerment charges that were eventually dropped. Child welfare authorities briefly took charge of the girl.

"I don't think there's any greater punishment than to have your child taken away from you," Sorensen told the Post.

The episode sparked outrage from New York, where residents were astounded at the idea of parents depositing a child alone on a sidewalk, to Denmark, where residents were equally stunned by the notion of being arrested for leaving a child unattended for a spell while shopping or dining.

Sorensen filed a $20 million false-arrest lawsuit against the city. A jury in 1999 awarded her $66,000, rejecting many of her claims but agreeing that she should not have been strip-searched, among other findings.

Sorensen, who now lives in Hamburg, Germany, is trying to raise money online to get an English translation of a novel she wrote based on her 1997 experience.

"I always had a big longing for an apology," she says in a fundraising video that also features her now 21-year-old daughter. "I probably never will get this apology."

Copyright The Associated Press

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Dad confronted by former police officer while walking through neighborhood with daughter: 'He was part of the problem'
Noah Jampol
Wed, December 10, 2025



"I was walking with my daughter on a sidewalk in the neighborhood," the user explained. "She was about 5 ft behind me - we were playing with walkie talkies."

Disrupting this wholesome fun was a man who said he was a former police officer. He offered his unsolicited two cents that the daughter was walking too far behind and could be accidentally hit by truck drivers during the holiday season. His rationale for that was unclear.

The OP didn't respond to the officer but expressed frustration over the encounter, considering he himself was in a large truck and "he was part of the problem." Additionally, they added that moving to an area with good walkability and low car traffic was an intentional decision. They later noted the incident was at 6 a.m. on a barely-trafficked road.

"Yet, this truck man stopped to explain to me that I am wrong," the OP concluded. "This makes me wish I didn't live in the US."

This unsettling story highlights real concerns about the country's priorities when it comes to walkability and pedestrian safety. There is ample evidence domestically and overseas that walkable cities are effective in reducing air and noise pollution while enhancing the richness of a place.

Frustratingly, there are far too many places where cars are given the upper hand, leading to an overwhelming number of vehicles on the road. Even when this isn't the case, if the cars are increasingly monstrous trucks, they can both inconvenience or endanger pedestrians due to their huge size and poor visibility.

There are positive examples of communities exploring solutions like improving public transportation and enhancing pedestrian-friendly infrastructure. Still, the attitude the man showed toward the parent unfortunately remains in many drivers and lawmakers.

Commenters empathized, with many expressing outrage at the retired cop's attitude.

"Sounds like he was projecting his intrusive thoughts of running over your kid," a user suggested.

A commenter was baffled: "They're in trucks because of the holidays. What the f*** does that even mean?"
"GET THAT KID INTO A GIANT TRUCK, THERE ARE DANGEROUS GIANT TRUCKS OUT HERE," a Redditor joked.

Texas Morons Copy Communist Party (USSR) and Baath Party (Syria, Iraq)

When a dictatorship seizes power, one of the things it does to indoctrinate and control people is to open a "youth" branch of the only official party in power.

In the Soviet Union, as a student you had to join Komsomol, the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League. I have personally met several Russian students who told me they joined the Komsomol just for protection and influence and not out of conviction. As members, these students were tasked with repressing and reporting any dissidence among the rising generations of Russian students. No other student organizations were allowed.

In the Syria and Iraq under the Assad and Hussein dictatorships, respectively, the government imposed a student branch of the Baath Party in every campus of every university in the country, including private universities. No other student organizations were allowed. I once met an Armenian Syrian from the city of Aleppo who told me that he joined the Baath Party's National Union of Syrian Students to gain acceptance and not be harassed. 

And now in the backward state of Texas, the imbecile governor of the state, Greg Abbott, now wants to impose a MAGA chapter on every campus in his state, using Saint Charlie Kirk's organization - Turning Point USA (which should be more aptly called Turning Stomach USA) - as a Torjan horse. Abbott wants to stifle any dissent against Trump, to force a Radical Right agenda on all the students of the state, and to indoctrinate the state's students into the barbarian ideology of the Republicans-GOP-MAGA. But to make things worse, Abbott has banned other student organizations that do not conform to the Radical Right-MAGA agenda.

Student organizations are of course an important part of growing up into useful and engaged citizens. But for the state to impose its own political organization on ALL campuses in the state smacks of dictatorship.

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Texas launches plan to open Turning Point USA chapters in every high school
Jaden Edison
Mon, December 8, 2025


From left: Lt. Gov Dan Patrick and Gov. Greg Abbott listen as Turning Point USA Senior Director Josh Thifault speaks at the Governor's Mansion on Dec. 8, 2025.

Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy, and give us feedback.

Texas has launched a partnership with Turning Point USA to create chapters of the right-wing organization on every high school campus in the state.

Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Turning Point USA Senior Director Josh Thifault revealed the initiative during a news conference at the Governor’s Mansion on Monday. They did not outline any plans that would require schools to initiate the clubs, but Abbott said that he expects “meaningful disciplinary action” to take place against “any stoppage of TPUSA in the great state of Texas.”

“Let me be clear: Any school that stands in the way of a Club America program in their school should be reported immediately to the Texas Education Agency,” the governor said, referring to the name of the high school clubs.

The announcement comes after Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath, who stood behind Abbott at Monday’s gathering, privately met with Thifault in early November to discuss expanding the organization’s presence in the state’s schools, which was first reported by The Texas Tribune. Four days after that meeting, Patrick said he would commit $1 million in campaign funds to help bring the project to fruition.

Turning Point USA was founded by Charlie Kirk, the late right-wing activist who was often praised by conservatives as a champion of free speech and criticized for comments that many other Americans found hateful toward LGBTQ+ communities, non-Christians, people of color and women. Kirk was killed in early September while speaking on a college campus in Utah.

Following Kirk’s death, Abbott and Morath accused some teachers of posting social media remarks promoting violence and mocking the conservative activist. The state has since begun investigating hundreds of complaints submitted to the education agency about educators’ alleged comments — a move that raised questions considering teachers’ First Amendment protections. The agency has typically conducted such investigations for violations like threats or abuse.

Kirk’s organization has traditionally operated on college campuses, promoting itself as a hub for young people committed to conservative values. The group is also known for having created a so-called professor watchlist, which allows users to search for educators perceived as supporting and promoting liberal viewpoints in the classroom. Turning Point’s work has at times caused tension, particularly among students and faculty members who have reported being harassed because of the negative spotlight placed on them by the organization.

The group’s “Club America” chapters, meanwhile, operate in high schools. The clubs aim to “build strong networks, spearhead impactful initiatives, help students register to vote, and inspire meaningful conversations about the foundations of a free society,” according to their website.

Turning Point organizers say they have received tens of thousands of new inquiries about starting local chapters since Kirk’s death, while claiming that some students wanting to launch chapters have faced pushback from their schools’ administrators.

Republican officials in Oklahoma and Florida have also announced partnerships with Turning Point to expand the organization’s presence. Those partnerships rely on interested students to initiate the clubs, while Turning Point provides them with organizational support.

Oklahoma’s former right-wing superintendent, Ryan Walters, had threatened to go after the accreditation of schools that refused to welcome the conservative group.

Petitions calling for the removal of the school chapters have also emerged, with some students and parents criticizing the national organization for what they describe as “racist, homophobic, and sexist hate speech on college campuses across America.” The Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights group that tracks extremism, describes Turning Point as an organization with a strategy of sowing fear “that white Christian supremacy is under attack by nefarious actors, including immigrants, the LGBTQ+ community and civil rights activists.”

Texas’ partnership with Turning Point marks the latest attempt by Republican officials to push education further to the right, after years of them accusing public schools of indoctrinating students with left-leaning beliefs about race and gender. The state, for example, has passed laws requiring schools to post the Ten Commandments in classrooms — an effort currently facing legal challenges — and imposing restrictions on how educators teach America’s history of slavery and racism.

Abbott on Monday sought to distance Turning Point from any particular political party, comparing it to organizations like the Fellowship of Christian Athletes currently present in many public schools.

“This is about values,” Abbott said. “This is about constitutional principles. This is about a restoration of who we are as a country.”

The governor acknowledged that it is highly unlikely he would endorse a similar initiative for more progressive, left-leaning causes, but added that “it would not be illegal” for them to exist in public schools. Abbott signed Senate Bill 12 earlier this year, a sweeping state law that banned student clubs with an LGBTQ+ focus.

Existing partnerships between Turning Point and other states have already raised questions about the constitutionality of state governments using their resources to promote political causes in public schools, with legal experts saying it’s unclear whether the initiatives cross any lines but that they do warrant further observation.

Abbott and Patrick said Monday that Texas already has more than 500 high schools with Club America chapters. Thifault said Turning Point’s goal is to have 20,000 chapters in high schools across the nation.

The president of the Texas American Federation of Teachers, Zeph Capo, recently told the Tribune that groups with a divisive political presence like Turning Point may have a place on college campuses. But he does not think that they belong in high schools, where students are more impressionable.