I’D RATHER RAGE, RAGE AGAINST THE DYING OF THE LIGHT:  Go out in style with the National Death Service.

REMEMBER YOUR DUMBRELLA IF YOU GO NEAR THE DENS OF THE LEFT. IT’S RAINING GOBS OF STUPID:  Baby It’s Dumb Outside.

IT’S NOT A LIE! IT’S SATIRE:  Joe Biden Is a Genius.

BETTER THIS WAY THAN WITH A GUILLOTINE:  The power of the working class.

WELL, YES, AND HUNTER KNOWS IT TOO:  Hunter Biden’s Pardon Is All About Protecting Joe Biden, Not His Son.

WHAT ABOUT AMERICANS DISPLACED BY DISASTERS:  Biden Promises $1 Billion to Help Africans Displaced by Natural Disasters.

APPARENTLY THE STREAK OF LEFTISTS SHOOTING THEMSELVES IN THE FOOT CONTINUES:  The Pardon May Not Be Quite the Magic Bullet It Seems.

OF COURSE THEY DO. THEY THINK THEY’RE ARISTOCRATS:  Ways and Means Committee Democrats Mock People for Complaining About Food Prices.

WELL YES. REMEMBER YOU STILL NEED THE TRAINING THOUGH:  Report: As more states enact constitutional carry, CCW numbers dip.

CHILDREN LEARNED MORE USEFUL SKILLS IN THE DARK, SATANIC MILLS OF VICTORIAN ENGLAND  THAN THEY DO IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS:  Sanitation contractor for Sioux City pork plant fined for using child labor.

OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.

STILL A FEW BUGS IN THE SYSTEM: Broken water pipe knocks out data processing for NASA sun-studying spacecraft.

WELL, GOOD, HE WAS A BAD CHOICE: Unrepentant covid tyrant withdraws from DEA nomination. Accountability. Chad Chronister’s nomination fell apart in just three days.

WAIT, IT’S NOT A WARNING ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE? “Venus’s reputation as a cautionary tale of an Earth Gone Bad may have been somewhat exaggerated.”

WELL, GOOD: Six-Month HIV Prevention Shot Achieves 99% Efficacy in Major Study.

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THEY HAVE THEIR PRIORITIES.

To my fellow Californians who are struggling to make ends meet, who want better schools, better roads, and safer communities, this is what your democrat politicians are spending your money on. https://t.co/KEVls1mWPN

— Senator Melissa Melendez (@senatormelendez) December 2, 2024

WELL, GOOD: Chad Chronister, Donald Trump’s pick to run the DEA, withdraws name from consideration.

More… much more:

I am from Tampa Bay, Florida. I have followed Chad Chronister's career and people are asking me why he is a bad pick to be head of DEA. Conservatives here do not support Chronister. Chronister is a woke and weak Democrat plant and will backstab President Trump. He cannot be… pic.twitter.com/AfGxiFXvIc

— Spence Rogers (@SpenceRogers) December 1, 2024

SO WHEN GERMAN SOLDIERS USED METH IN WWII THEY WERE JUST FOLLOWING TRIBAL TRADITION: Barbarian warriors in Roman times used stimulants in battle, findings suggest.

COUNT DE MONET, GOVERNOR LEPETOMANE, AND BIGGUS DICKUS COULD NOT BE REACHED FOR COMMENT: The View’s Ana Navarro Cites Completely Fake Pardon of ‘Hunter deButts’ In Defense of the Hunter Biden Pardon.

But she has proof he existed!

https://t.co/JL3Co8r5DC pic.twitter.com/uoQP06cM99

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) December 3, 2024

EV COSTS: Why Did Our Kia EV9’s First Service Cost $322? Aren’t EVs Supposed to Be Cheaper To Maintain? On top of everything, we have to visit the service department again.

ACE OF SPADES: Trump Nominates Revealer of the Russiagate Psyop Kash Patel to be New Director of the FBI.

Patel is a solid, sensible man who has been on the right side of every single Deep State op and hoax.

That means they will stop at nothing to block him.

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Unfortunately, the head of the FBI is considered a cabinet-level posting and Trump will need Senate approval to confirm Patel.

I don’t think he’ll get it, unfortunately[.]

Related: Matt Taibbi’s “Note on the FBI:”

When I heard Kash Patel had been tabbed by Donald Trump to run the FBI, I could already imagine the pushback and moved immediately to start the just-published article “The Bell Finally Tolls for the FBI” piece. The thought was that the role Patel played in preparing the “Nunes memo” was both the clearest example of media corruption from Trump’s first term and also the most easily demonstrated episode of FBI malfeasance. Since I had to spend an unnatural amount of time on the topic over the years (it even intersected with the Twitter Files and Hamilton 68) I quickly found myself in the weeds of the “memo” tale, when there’s a larger argument about why the FBI needs a major reorganization that someone needs to make amid what’s already an ugly fight about Patel’s nomination:

The transformation of the FBI back into a J. Edgar Hoover-style domestic spy service with sweeping political ambition has been a long-developing story, obscured by a political anomaly. In the first phase of this nightmare, between 2001 and 2016, the post-9/11 Bureau used the pretext of an enhanced counterintelligence mandate to throw off some mild restraints that had been placed on it the last time it had to be slapped down, i.e. after the Church Committee hearings in the 1970s. The second phase of its transformation took place after the election of Donald Trump, when the Bureau remade itself on the fly as a kind of government-in-exile, empowered by an outpouring of public and media support to view itself as a counterweight to the Trump government.

Read the whole thing.

UPDATE: Heckuva job, Brownie!

Calling parents terrorists, arresting activists with SWAT Teams, and spying on churches will do that. https://t.co/WPAPGmJgFv

— Carl Paulus (@CarlPaulus) December 3, 2024

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‘JESUS CHRIST:’ Social Media Erupts Over House Democrats STILL Mocking Inflation Worries After Election Beatdown.

Social media erupted on Tuesday after the X account for the Democratic members of the House Ways and Means Committee went out of its way to mock Americans over their continued concerns about rising prices.

Reposting a tweet claiming that despite “record air travel, holiday shopping busting records,” and “stock market all-time highs,” there remain “some Pollyannas” whining that the economy is “the worst ever,” the Ways and Means Democrats account added, “And here we were thinking y’all couldn’t afford eggs!”

Onlookers reacted to it like they might a particularly ugly car crash.

“Jesus Christ,” exclaimed the popular New Liberals (formerly Neoliberal) account.

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“They never learn,” chimed in House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN).

“‘But how can things be unaffordable when people are spending record amounts of money on things? Checkmate, losers!’” tweeted one right-wing personality unimpressed not only with the messaging, but the logic behind the post.

A CBS News exit poll from the 2024 election — which saw Republicans win the presidency as well as both chambers of Congress — found that 53% of voters called inflation a “moderate hardship” over the last year and an additional 22% called it a “severe hardship.”

The same survey found that only 24% of Americans said their personal financial situation was better than it was four years ago, as compared to 45% who said it was worse.

The tweet sparking the firestorm of criticism was later deleted.

But not before it was screen-capped by numerous Twitter users: