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December 29, 2025
IT’S SCAMS ALL THE WAY DOWN:
Remember when Democrats tried to make Universal daycare a thing for the last 15 years? Now you know why. https://t.co/Enh4SF1N3V
— Paul (@WomanDefiner) December 28, 2025
RIGHTS ARE RIGHTS: Anti-Gun Film Makers Don’t Respect Workers’ Rights Any More Than Gun Rights. “Workers on the set of ‘The Gun on Second Street,’ a film that had Sean Penn and California Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell listed as executive producers, walked off in protest while attempting to negotiate a union contract.”
HOW IT STARTED:
How It’s Going: Richard Hammond tried the Xiaomi SU7 Ultra, Yangwang U9, and the Maextro S800 in Shanghai.
According to someone posting at the Pistonheads forum, “So this is essentially bootleg Top Gear. Videos made by a guy that started out by adding Chinese subs to official (but illegally downloaded) Top Gear episodes that were never officially available in China…Then all these years later Hammond is their guest star!”
I started watching this with raised eyebrows but they seemed like genuine car guys and were totally honest with RH when he asked about the habit of copying the west — and various other questions about the turning tide of car manufacturer supremacy..
I’m genuinely impressed that RH’s interest in cars was sufficient for him to do this, given that he’s getting driven around by the guys that illegally provided his Top Gear content to the entirety of China. The local car culture guys clearly adored Top Gear and to be fair there was no way they could have ever had it legally.
Got to admit, the cars are very impressive — despite being a bit bootleg, although it’s hard to argue with the lap times at the Nurburgring. Every last thing about this video is bootleg though, and RH seemed entirely at peace with that.
Bootlegging? The Chinese are extremely good at that:
WITHHOLDING: Bessent: Americans Should Get ‘Gigantic’ Tax Refunds in 2026. “I can see that we’re gonna have a gigantic refund year in the first quarter because working Americans did not change their withholdings. I think households could see, depending on the number of workers, $1,000- $2,000 refunds.”
Honestly, I’d rather owe a little.
SOMEONE SHOULD LOOK INTO THIS:
BLS data confirms home health aides as the fastest-growing U.S. occupation with a 10% surge to over 500,000 in 2024.
It's MOSTLY Medicaid-funded.
42% are foreign-born across the US.
78% are foreign-born in NYC where most home health aides are used.
Want to guess where the…
— Katie Miller (@KatieMiller) December 28, 2025
DISPATCHES FROM THE QUALITY LEARING CENTER: I found the dankest memes about Somali daycare fraud to tide you over while we wait for Republicans to DO SOMETHING.
I heard he owns 4 Somalian daycares in Minnesota pic.twitter.com/EoQI7jp4eY
— Murray Hill Guy (@MurrayHillGuy1) December 29, 2025
Related:
The fraud of your taxpayer money is happening nationwide and is liberally applied to attract illegal (and some legal) immigrants who will reliably vote Democrat.
The more you look, the more you find. And you don’t need to be a world-class detective to figure it out. This is… https://t.co/dO9syOulD6
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 29, 2025
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THE YEAR IN PICTURES (JWST EDITION): Stunning James Webb Space Telescope Images of 2025.
TO BE FAIR, WHEN ARE THEY HAPPY? The J6 Pipebomber Explains His Motive, and the Left Won’t Be Happy.
FAIR QUESTION:
Um, what are you going to do about it?
— Matthew Marsden (@matthewdmarsden) December 29, 2025
EVERGREEN: The Far-Left’s Talking Out of Both Sides of Its Mouth Again. “The CSPI ‘2025 Progress Report’ was mailed to my house last week in an effort to solicit a donation before the year’s end. Out of pure curiosity, I opened the 8-page newsletter and was appalled by the very first page. Before I was halfway through the product, I had a pen in my hand and made notes just to keep track of the lies, insinuations, and fear mongering.”
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YOU’VE BEEN ROBBED:
I'm starting to detect a pattern. https://t.co/xsLtyDoYmu
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) December 29, 2025
But the media doesn’t want you to know:
Still no coverage in NYT, WaPo, CNN, or Minneapolis Star-Tribune of massive fraud being uncovered in Minnesota. The media's willingness to ignore stories that hurt Democrats is truly astonishing. pic.twitter.com/xZcZcbUSm9
— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) December 29, 2025
And here’s some perspective from Elon Musk: “My lower bound guess for how much fraud there is nationally is ~20% of the Federal budget, which would mean $1.5 trillion per year. Probably much higher.”
When Democrats in government import huge numbers of fraudsters and Democrats in the media refuse to report on the resulting fraud, you have to assume that Democrats in both institutions are in on it.
EDIT: I also assume that many Republicans are effectively Democrats. Although that’s less of an assumption than a proven fact.
Related (From Ed): Rushing to Ilhan Omar’s Defense, New York Times Hides Somali Fraud Scheme from Readers.
The New York Times recently dedicated more than 1,500 words to President Trump’s “Anti-Somali attacks” — but somehow failed to mention the staggering fraud operation allegedly being run by Minnesota’s Somali community, which precipitated the attacks from Trump.
The piece centers on Representative Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.), who has “long been a target of racist insults by the president.”
And while Omar and the Somali community have undoubtedly faced inappropriate attacks from the president, it is journalistic malpractice that the Times fails to mention the elephant in the room: federal prosecutors said last week that the fraud scandal could end up costing taxpayers around $9 billion.
More than 90 people, the majority of whom belong to Minnesota’s Somali community, have been accused of defrauding public assistance programs.
Without mentioning the fraud as a major driving factor behind Trump’s criticisms and the immigration crackdown in the state, the Times allows Omar, who emigrated to the U.S. from Somalia when she was twelve, to reflect “on the latest cycle of dehumanizing personal attacks on her by the president.”
Evergreen:
GOOD LORD: Migrant With Deportation Order Suspected in Paris Metro Mass Stabbing.
An illegal migrant from Africa who had a deportation order is suspected of stabbing three women on the Paris metro on Friday in what appears to be another example of the French immigration system failing to protect the public.
A Malian migrant was arrested on Friday evening after three women were attacked on the number 3 line of the Parisian metro system between 4:15 and 4:45 pm local time.
Thankfully, the lives of the three victims are not in danger as their wounds were superficial. However, the 25-year-old African should not have been in the country had authorities performed their duty, reports indicate.
According to Le Figaro, citing sources from within the Paris prosecutor’s office, the illegal from Mali was previously imprisoned last year for aggravated theft and sexual assault.
He was released in July and was issued with a OQTF deportation orders, yet nearly half a year later, has still not been removed from the country.
Of course.
LET THE LAWSUITS BEGIN: Latest on Brown shooting: Custodian warned about shooter, police chief put on leave.
OLD AND BUSTED: “One Giant Leap for Mankind.”
The New Hotness?
A young man who watched the Wright brothers take flight lived to watch American astronauts stroll on the moon. So why doesn’t the modern world look like our ancestors imagined it? Because America (and the West) spent subsequent generations engaged in a vast, consuming project of…
— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) December 29, 2025
Tweet continues, “Because America (and the West) spent subsequent generations engaged in a vast, consuming project of self-loathing, self-denigration and the redistribution of our national resources to the states and peoples of the undeveloped world.”
As the line when in The Right Stuff, “No bucks, no Buck Rogers.” That money is being spent very differently today:
Kinda funny that the two stories dominating my X feed are:
1. Needing to take 5% of net worth from billionaires to prop up government spending
2. Fraudsters brazenly taking billions of dollars of taxpayer money with little being done to stop it
— Austen Allred (@Austen) December 29, 2025
I’m at a point where I just don’t think progressive technocracy can do anything,
Say you allocated $100 million to fix potholes.
I could see connected NGOs manufacturing potholes to fill and gobbling $80 million to no net benefit.
I could see the academic/ expert class…
— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) December 28, 2025
NEWSPAPERS, HAVING RENDERED THEMSELVES OBSOLETE BY NOT COVERING IMPORTANT, YOU KNOW, NEWS.
More than any the daily readership of all newspapers in America combined https://t.co/5ZqlH5SlfI
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 29, 2025
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HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Northwestern University releases pro-DEI instructions for educators to ‘anchor equity in strategy.’
SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS ENJOYING AN EXTENDED HOLIDAY VACATION: Britain Pushed Ahead With Green Power. Its Grid Can’t Handle It.
Britain’s grid hasn’t undergone a major upgrade since the 1960s, when the rising popularity of refrigerators and washing machines turbocharged demand for electricity. The country is now embarking on an expensive building boom, sparking outrage at unsightly transmission towers and the potential harm to bats, dormice and other local wildlife.
At stake is Britain’s ability to capitalize on the AI boom, and secure the jobs and investment that come with it, as well as to lower household electricity bills.
National Grid is investing the equivalent of about $40 billion to upgrade the U.K.’s power networks over the next five years in a project dubbed “The Great Grid Upgrade.”
Grid upgrades and associated costs add to what are already some of the world’s most expensive electricity bills. The average-size British household paid almost $1,500 for electricity last year, more than double the bill in 2008, government data show. That’s close to the $1,700 that American households pay each year for consuming three times as much electricity.
Outdated infrastructure has created massive distortions in the energy market. Wind farms off the coast of Scotland are far from customers in the populated south, and leaving them constantly on risks frying the grid. The U.K. paid power generators $2.3 billion in the year to March to not produce electricity, a bill that is set to rise in coming years.
The mind reels.
THE RACE CARD IS NO LONGER VALID:
Just stop caring whether they call you racist or not. They do that to scare away inquiries. Doing so used to work, but not any more.
Fraud is fraud and it doesn’t matter what race someone is. https://t.co/t7LdDp1hPS
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 29, 2025
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Bells Are Jingling All the Wrong Way for Tim Walz. “One of the things I find most odd about Walz is that he constantly seeks the spotlight, even though that spotlight hasn’t been very friendly to him. Walz is one of those politicians who definitely doesn’t grow on the public when they get to know him more. The public outside of his home state, that is. I don’t know what’s in the water in Minnesota that makes him so popular there.”