You Will Anyway: December 2025

Wednesday, December 24, 2025

JFC

What she wants is a place in the White House.

Just the worst of humanity is crawling out from under every rock on the planet.

Unfucking believable

He should be watching out for MAGA with pitchforks when it doesn't happen for them.

And, this!

Tuesday, December 23, 2025

SCOTUS denies Trump for a change

Full story

Monday, December 22, 2025

Happy holidays

Why Trump wants his "Golden Fleet" of Trump Class battleships to be built "immediately".

Seems the fascists are winning

And then...

UPDATE 07:55 pm:

Is this what we call the Barbara Streisand effect?

Nazis

But the scandal is trans people in women's bathrooms.

Gotta get that name on everything before he dies

Obviously Kash doesn't think he's getting fired

Sunday, December 21, 2025

NOW I'll say it: Abolish ICE

At this point, it cannot be reformed. An entirely new system needs to be set up for immigration issues.

Saturday, December 20, 2025

In case you were wondering...

President Donald Trump said Monday that he authorized Nvidia to sell its powerful H200 artificial-intelligence chip in China in exchange for taking 25 percent of the revenue — a major win for the U.S. chipmaker that caps weeks of internal deliberations.

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Clearing the H200 for sale in China gives Nvidia and its CEO, Jensen Huang, a major boost after Huang visited Capitol Hill and personally met with Trump.

A spokesperson for Nvidia confirmed the deal in a statement, calling it “a thoughtful balance that is great for America.”

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Lawmakers have raised concerns that lifting curbs on the export of the chips will give Beijing a technological edge at U.S. expense.

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The move also provoked unease among Washington technology and defense policy experts, who warned it may jeopardize America’s lead in the emerging area.

Politico

Trump may have been too stupid to understand. Or simply doesn't care. Or more likely, is making some profit for himself off the deal.

New immigration rules

If you're rich, and nobody is asking how you got that money.

Laws are for little people, not the Trump administration

Congress is powerless.

UPDATE 12/21/2025:

A total of 16 photos were taken down at some point on Saturday from the website that the department created to house files — among them, one of the few that contained Mr. Trump’s image. It was a photo of a credenza in Mr. Epstein’s Manhattan home, with an open drawer containing other photos, including at least one of Mr. Trump.

The Justice Department did not explain on the site why the images had been removed, and a department spokesman did not respond to a message seeking comment.

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Despite mounting expectations, the released files, which included thousands of photographs and investigative documents, were something of an anticlimax.

NYT

Interesting choice of words.

They added little to the public’s understanding of Mr. Epstein’s conduct, and also did not provide much additional insight into his connections to wealthy and powerful businessmen and politicians who associated with him.

Wednesday, December 17, 2025

When you let the riffraff in the house

"It takes only a bit of knowledge of history to realize how dangerous it is to think that the people who run the country know what they are doing." -- Howard Zinn

"It’s not about not having something to hide; it’s about having something to lose. What we lose when we’re under observation is our humanity...Rights are inherent to our nature, they’re not granted by governments, they’re guaranteed by governments. They’re protected by governments." -- Edward Snowden

"Terrorism is the willingness to kill large numbers of people for some presumably good cause.” -- Howard Zinn

"What we have is a foreign policy which is essentially a marketing strategy for selling weapons." -- Jill Stein

"We should always remember that the danger to societies from security services is not that they will spontaneously decide to embrace [Stasi style] mustache twirling and jackboots to bear us bodily into dark places, but that the slowly shifting foundation of policy will make it such that mustaches and jackboots are discovered to prove an operational advantage toward a necessary purpose.” ~ Edward Snowden

"America: just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable." ~ Hunter S. Thompson

"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws." ~ Mayer Rothschild

"News is what somebody does not want you to print. All the rest is advertising." ~ LACUNA

"What matters in journalism isn't politics, which are as universal and inescapable as breathing. What matters -- along with a fundamentally adversarial attitude toward government, without which "journalism" is simply public relations -- is integrity, transparency, evidence, coherence, and principle. These are the principles on which we should evaluate the quality of journalism, and their absence is why some journalists are so desperate to get you to focus on something else." ~ Barry Eisler

"There is no inverse relationship between freedom and security. Less of one does not lead to more of the other. People with no rights are not safe from terrorist attack." ~ Molly Ivins

"The brain of our species is, as we know, made up largely of potassium, phosphorus, propaganda, and politics, with the result that how not to understand what should be clearer is becoming easier and easier for all of us." ~ James Thurber

"The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plane....When you hold up your arm and swear to uphold the Constitution, you don’t say, 'Except in wartime.'" -- George McGovern

"I’ll believe that corporations are people when Texas executes one." ~ Bill Moyers

"When did hope become a political dynamic? Hope is right below wishful thinking and right above performing a rain dance on the scale of activity." ~ Rich Hall

Life, as Explained in "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead"

GUILDENSTERN: What a fine persecution---to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.

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ROSENCRANTZ : The only thing that makes it bearable is the irrational belief that somebody interesting will come on in a minute.

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GUILDENSTERN: But for God's sake what are we supposed to do?!

PLAYER: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life questioning your situation at every turn.

GUILDENSTERN: But we don't know what's going on, or what to do with ourselves. We don't know how to act.

PLAYER: Act natural. You know why you're here at least.

GUILDENSTERN: We only know what we're told, and that's little enough. And for all we know it isn't even true.

PLAYER: For all anyone knows, nothing is. Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that which is taken to be true. It's the currency of living. There may be nothing behind it, but it doesn't make any difference so long as it is honoured. One acts on assumptions.

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GUILDENSTERN : We act on scraps of information... sifting half-remembered directions that we can hardly separate from instinct.

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PLAYER: Life is a gamble, at terrible odds-if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.