Stately Plump Buck

"Does this feel like or look like a well-run competent administration? It took them 10 months to discover that the United States doesn't grow bananas and that therefore if we tariff bananas that that's not going to bring banana factories on shore."

Jacob Frey: "If we are now at the point where the federal govt is deploying agents on legal American citizens with a goal of uprooting people who have formed lives here, have families here, started businesses here, definitively made Minneapolis a better place, everybody should be speaking out."

Karoline Leavitt at a White House press briefing

Karoline Leavitt: “You’re either a U.S. citizen or not — You can’t be a U.S. citizen & a citizen of another country”

The Supreme Court thought differently as it ruled in 1967 that the government can’t strip U.S. citizenship unless a person voluntarily relinquishes it - not that they care

This is unfortunately and sadly who we are now….

Leavitt’s citizenship comments clash with SCOTUS

Karoline Leavitt: “You’re either a U.S. citizen or not — You can’t be a U.S. citizen & a citizen of another country.”

The Supreme Court: It ruled in 1967 that the government can’t strip U.S. citizenship unless a person voluntarily relinquishes it.

GOP Rep. Mike Turner: "This activity that's happening in the Caribbean where they are hitting these boats -- these individuals if they were captured and tried and convicted, they would be guilty of criminal activity for which they're not subject to capital punishment. These people are being killed."

Hayes: I'll level with you here. I too am a great believer in naps. I do try to avoid them while I'm on air with you. It goes without saying that the 79 year old president is no Thomas Edison

Pentagon knew boat attack left survivors but still launched a follow-on strike, AP sources say The Pentagon knew there were survivors after a September attack on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea and the U.S. military still carried out a follow-up strike.

The Trump Administration's latest rationale for killing striken seamen was that they knew that two men had survived the initial strike but that they "needed to sink the vessel" so they fired again.

That is the EXACT same defense Heinz-Wilhelm Eck used after WWII. He was found guilty and executed.

It's been almost two weeks and they still haven't released the Epstein files because withholding exculpatory evidence is clearly what you do when you're "innocent."

BREAKING: The New York Times is suing the Department of Defense over the Pentagon’s new restrictions on press access. The Times is seeking a declaration that the new policy is unconstitutional on its face and an injunction barring its enforcement.

Mike Johnson faces widespread Republican revolt One member called Johnson a "political novice."

Johnson isn't worried, though: He knows nothing about it because he hasn't been following the news. www.axios.com/2025/12/04/m...

What Tennessee Revealed About the G.O.P.’s Trump Trap in the Midterms

From NYT Politics:

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...

Republican Anger Erupts at Johnson as Party Frets About Future

NEW: Nancy Mace is considering following MTG's lead and resigning from Congress before the end of her term. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...

The United States joined 90 other countries at the United Nations on Wednesday to demand Russia "ensure the immediate, safe and unconditional return of all Ukrainian children who have been forcibly transferred or deported" and urge Moscow to stop the practice.

www.reuters.com/world/us-bac...

Looks to me it’s not good to stay up all night posting more than 200-plus truth socials. 😁

If only there had been signs that a group of below average men who espouse misogynist views and are led by an adjudicated rapist would treat their female colleagues poorly.

Data centres are energy hungry but what if we could use their waste heat to heat our homes?

That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.

This gangster government steals everyone’s property and doesn’t care about the laws respecting the rights of creators. Everything they see belongs to them like the greedy leeches on this country that they are.

This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves

Congratulations to Justin Crosby (D) on his election victory in Mississippi CD22 — he flipped the newly redrawn seat by defeating the incumbent with approximately 53 % of the vote.

This win is part of a broader shift after court-ordered map revisions aimed at increasing majority-Black districts.

Yesterday the President fell asleep, yet again, during a televised fake Cabinet meeting staged so that each of his courtiers could heap praise on him, praise for which he couldn't stay conscious. He woke up just long enough to spew racism. Why is this not being treated as an emergency? >

ICE is moving from illegal raids and brutality to ethic cleansing, just like any good Gestapo would do...

“Get insurance companies out of it. We don’t need a middle man. They’re like the mob, taking their cut off the top.”

@RepTimBurchett unwittingly makes the case for MEDICARE FOR ALL as Republicans flail for a way to deal with skyrocketing health care costs.

(H/T @PabloReports)

Poor, misunderstood Young Republican: racist, antisemitic, misogynistic messages were just jokes! I’m sure most folks here remember this Politico story from October about a group of Young Republicans exchanging Signal chats about their admiration for Hitler, wanting to shove their opponents into g...

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

If after we blow your boat up you still float, you are a witch, so we can kill you. If you drown you are not a witch.

PRO TIP: If you're going to lash out at reporters for questioning your stamina, don't fall asleep mid-rant.

Blatant corruption on full display.

Pete Hegseth

Admiral Bradley is set to brief Congress tomorrow on the boat strikes—

Which brings Admiral Holsey’s recent resignation to mind, after he informed Hegseth that he had no intention of carrying out an illegal order after 40 years of service in the U.S. Navy—

I’d like to hear Holsey’s testimony too

Tesla on Pace for First Down Year in China Sales Ever. The Stock Is Rising. The company produced more cars in China in November, bouncing back from a relatively weak October. Sales in Germany were less bad than recently.

Good article in Barron's summarizing the trajectory of Tesla's auto business. But the headline is incorrect.

2025 will be the second consecutive year of wholesale decline from the Shanghai factory. 2024 was down 3.3% from 2023.
www.barrons.com/articles/tes...