SCHLICHTER EXPLAINS IT ALL:

Long explainer:

Let’s examine the emerging “scapegoat” narrative, because it demonstrates the true objective of the Democrat/Regime Media/Fredocon axis – to hurt Trump politically and to stop the changing of the Pentagon from a leftist-supporting social pathology Petri dish back…

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) December 2, 2025

A bit more:

Let’s examine the emerging “scapegoat” narrative, because it demonstrates the true objective of the Democrat/Regime Media/Fredocon axis – to hurt Trump politically and to stop the changing of the Pentagon from a leftist-supporting social pathology Petri dish back into a patriotic war-fighting force that can effectively prevent the eventual color revolution they are working toward.

At the threshold, let’s understand that there was nothing illegal here. Even under the facts as alleged, which change as they keep shifting the goalposts, there was no violation of the law of war. There was no violation of any Geneva Convention, not least because no Geneva Convention applies here. So, everything I say here is simply taking their story du jour and testing it to see if it makes internal sense. It does not, because it’s all baloney. They don’t care. It’s the lie that’s important.

So, just last week, we had a bunch of Democrats claiming they were just helpfully explaining to our troops that our troops cannot follow illegal orders. The whole basis is that you were going to be issued an illegal order by some Trump higher-up, and that you should disobey it because it’s illegal. This was part of a narrative to tee-up the current fake scandal.

Read the whole thing.

ABOUT THAT ‘JUNK DNA’ ISSUE: Odds are good you have been told or taught that 98 percent of the DNA in your body is useless because it doesn’t appear to have any discernible function.

But, as the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture contends, the latest research points to a conclusion that at least 80 percent and maybe the whole bunch of it is anything but junk. Even if you don’t agree with it, the video’s graphics are entertaining and the evidence is anything but insubstantial.

“THOSE AREN’T PILLOWS” IS A CAPITALIST MESSAGE? Holiday classic ‘Planes, Trains and Automobiles’ has ‘dangerous’ capitalist message: professor.

SHE IS TRULY AWFL:

This is going to shock you, but after she lost, Aftyn Behn called up Van Epps and nagged him.

This may be the most AWFL thing I’ve ever seen. And I saw that clip from Jennifer Welch’s podcast yesterday. https://t.co/HpEsvrU9iU

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) December 3, 2025

“Hey, I know the people chose you, but do what I would have done if they’d have chosen me.”

Related:

Dem candidate: I hate Nashville!

Nashville: pic.twitter.com/i0kTbRF5ha

— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) December 3, 2025

And what’s with her shirt? Was she trying to disguise herself as someone who doesn’t hate Nashville? Nashville Dems voted for her regardless, so I suppose they hate Nashville, too.

Previously: Crazy Tennessee Dem Has Meltdown, Runs for Congress, Won’t Win, Will Blame Patriarchy.

DANCING WITH TEARS IN HIS EYES: This Dude Does a Lot of Dancing for Someone With a $50 Million Bounty on His Head.

LAWLESS CAMPUS: Video shows students vandalizing TPUSA leader’s patriotic poster at UW-Madison.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Chinese reusable booster explodes during first orbital test, in failed bid to catch SpaceX.

A private Chinese space firm successfully sent its Zhuque-3 rocket to orbit but failed in its historic attempt to re-land the rocket booster Wednesday – the first such trial by a Chinese firm as the country’s growing commercial space sector races to catch up with American rivals like SpaceX.

Beijing-based LandSpace, one of the sector’s leading firms, launched its Zhuque-3 rocket into space from a remote, desert launch site in northwestern China.

The rocket entered orbit as planned, but its first stage – the portion of the vehicle that propels it at liftoff – did not successfully return to a landing site, instead crashing down, the company said in a statement.

“An anomaly occurred after the first-stage engine ignited during the landing phase, preventing a soft landing on the designated recovery pad,” the statement said. “The debris landed at the edge of the recovery area, resulting in a failed recovery test.”

Space is hard. Recovery is harder.

“THE AVERAGE SQUATTER HAS NO MELEE EXPERIENCE.” Meet the sword-wielding man hired to kick squatters out of empty Oakland homes.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: There’s a Lot of Entertainment Value in Mark Kelly’s Implosion. “I have been watching Kelly closely for five years now, and I’m still surprised at the fact that a former fighter pilot and astronaut can be such a mediocrity. His two Senate campaigns consisted mostly of ‘I’M AN ASTRONAUT!’ and some blather about how much his parents loved him. His time in office hasn’t exactly made him stand out. He fits the standard modern Dem mold, which values grandstanding and publicity stunts over crafting coherent policy. “

ROGER KIMBALL: Federal judges crave the spotlight: In case after case, judges ruled to stymie the executive branch for one main reason.

Some of these injunctions and temporary restraining orders are still pending. Many, perhaps most, have been resolved by the Supreme Court in ways that favor the Trump administration, not always categorically but usually by affirming the broad scope of executive power envisioned by Article II of the Constitution. “The executive Power,” quoth that magisterial document, “shall be vested in a president of the United States of America.” “A president,” mind you, a single one. Not a president and hundreds of district court judges.

The rousing start to Article II of the Constitution is neatly put, isn’t it? But those judges took it as a challenge. Trump is an affront to what every right-thinking, i.e., left-leaning, person believes. He wants to make America more prosperous, freer and more secure than it has become in the hands of Democrats and other disciples of hegemonic bureaucracy.

He moved quickly to secure the border. Can you believe it? He is deporting scads of people who are here illegally. Outrageous. He outlawed the racist practice of DEI throughout the federal government and made federal funds contingent upon ending the scam. Horrible. He thinks that the military should be an institution specializing in fighting wars, not promoting “social justice.” Clearly he must be stopped.

Like many pro-Trump commentators, I have weighed in early and often on this legal-political charade. It is a legal charade because what we have witnessed since Trump took office again in January 2025 has been a mind-boggling misuse and hypertrophy of judicial power. Whoever would have thought that a lowly district court judge (there are some 700 of them) would successfully arrogate to himself the authority to tell the President what executive agencies he should pay for and which he should close?

The judiciary has substantially undermined its legitimacy in the past several years. It will not end well.

ROGER SIMON ON THE TENNESSEE SPECIAL ELECTION: “GOP leadership in Tennessee and elsewhere better not be complacent. . . . Regarding the passivity, it’s not the voters who are passive so much as the Republican leadership, starting at the top. This is true of several red states, but definitely of Tennessee. (Neighboring Georgia is worse.) The local GOP, with a few exceptions, never got in gear to seriously win this election against the target-rich Behn until the last couple of weeks. The Democrats had been going full tilt for a long while. Don’t blame the GOP voters.”

DRILL, BABY, DRILL: Responding to pressure from US, International Energy Agency forecast sees no end to oil demand.

The International Energy Agency appears to have bowed to threats from the U.S. to pull its funding if the agency didn’t realign its forecasting toward unbiased, policy-neutral projections.

In the middle of the COP30 United Nations Climate Change Conference last month, the agency released its annual “World Energy Outlook.” Unlike previous iterations, the report doesn’t base its forecasts of future oil demand on scenarios that assume nations’ commitments to net-zero emissions by 2050 will be met.

As a result of the change in forecasting, the agency no longer predicts “peak oil,” a century-old theory that the world will stop using petroleum because either it runs out or transitions to other technologies.

Cool. Now do nuclear power.

THE ENEMY WITHIN: Minneapolis mayor suggests he won’t cooperate with federal law enforcement while speaking Somali.

DON SURBER: No room for Third Worlders. “America is full up. It is closing time for Chinese spies, Somalian fraudsters, Mexican welfare queens, Haitian cat eaters, Afghanistan assassins, Muslim terrorists, European anti-Semites, Venezuelan drug-runners, Nigerian princes, Palestinian protesters and filthy French fifth columnists. This is America’s last call for alcohol. Like the bartender always says, you don’t have to go home, but you just can’t stay here.”

ABOLISH THE TSA: 12 years ago today, this column was the most popular item on the entire USA Today site.

GOOD: An anti-woke counter-revolution is sweeping through the media: From Hollywood to the newsroom, the hegemony of the ‘progressives’ is finally faltering.

ICYMI: Just When You Thought Tom Nichols Couldn’t Possibly Go Fuller Tom Nichols. “This is where your Friendly Neighborhood VodkaPundit blinked harder than Marty Feldman during a gnat infestation.”

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE:

Like many parents, my wife and I remember the early 2020s as a time when schools descended into hyperpoliticized groupthink. We also learned that the frustrating on-again-off-again COVID shutdowns offered a silver lining — they gave us the opportunity to compare school with homeschool. Or at least our first attempts at it.

Even the frustrating period of “virtual learning” came with some upside. Parents got to peer inside schools, often for the first time. When my wife and I peered inside, we didn’t like what we saw. We’ve been a homeschool family ever since.

Smart.

HOLIDAY DEAL: DEWALT 20V MAX Cordless Drill and Impact Driver. #CommissionEarned

THE GOP IS THE MULTIRACIAL PARTY OF THE WORKING CLASS. THE DEMS ARE THE PARTY OF AWFLS, BILLIONAIRES, AND DEPENDENTS.

My biggest takeaway from visiting Del Rio, TX, where I’m sure neither of these white ladies who brunch have ever been, was not how many border agents are Hispanic, but how much the local Hispanic community supports them. They should really go there. https://t.co/x99JyCGyZk

— David Marcus (@BlueBoxDave) December 2, 2025

“SAFETY”: India tells smartphone makers to put state-run cyber safety app on new devices.

India has ordered all new smartphones to come pre-loaded with a state-run cybersecurity app, sparking privacy and surveillance concerns.

Under the order – passed last week but made public on Monday – smartphone makers have 90 days to ensure all new devices come with the government’s Sanchar Saathi app, whose “functionalities cannot be disabled or restricted”.

It says this is necessary to help citizens verify the authenticity of a handset and report the suspected misuse of telecom resources.

The move – which comes in one of the world’s largest phone markets, with more than 1.2 billion mobile users – has been criticised by cyber experts, who say it breaches citizens’ right to privacy.

Under the app’s privacy policy, it can make and manage phone calls, send messages, access call and message logs, photos and files as well as the phone’s camera.

“In plain terms, this converts every smartphone sold in India into a vessel for state mandated software that the user cannot meaningfully refuse, control, or remove,” advocacy group Internet Freedom Foundation said in a statement.

That’s bad enough, but then there’s this:

Amid the growing criticism, India’s Minister of Communications Jyotiradtiya Scindia has clarified that mobile phone users will have the option to delete this app if they don’t want to use it.

“This is a completely voluntary and democratic system – users may choose to activate the app and avail its benefits, or if they do not wish to, they can easily delete it from their phone at any time,” he wrote on X.

The minister did not, however, clarify how this would be done if the app’s functions cannot be disabled or restricted.

Simple: He’s lying.

Will Delhi’s mandate crater the market for new phones, or will they figure out how to force the tracking app on existing phones, too?

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: AI is Destroying the University, and Learning Itself.

Universities were already dysfunctional and losing prestige. This is just accelerating the trend.

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU CODDLE MENTAL CONDITIONS INSTEAD OF TREATING THEM: TSA Agent Who Say’s He’s a Woman Claims ‘Civil Right’ to Grope Women.

SEDUCTIVE AI: Bride weds AI-groom she created using ChatGPT in dual real-life and virtual reality ceremony.

FROM ROSS HATHAWAY:  Rule 13.

In Ashburn, the city doesn’t sleep—it twitches.
It grinds men down, chews through their souls, and spits out what’s left with a crooked grin.
Once, Robert Tucker wore a badge polished bright with idealism. Fresh out of the academy, he thought he could make a difference in a city built on vice, velvet lies, and rain-slick corruption. But a decade under the neon hum and coal-smoke skies of Ashburn turned that badge into a paperweight and that hope into bourbon.
Now he’s a private eye working out of a one-room office with a bottle in his drawer, a secretary who files extortion notices under “routine,” and a conscience held together by the rules his dead partner left behind—Fallon’s Rules. Twelve of them. Not one guarantees survival.
The syndicate boss Vincent Crowe owns the city’s shadows, but when Crowe gets in over his head the rot only deepens. Tucker’s caught between crooked judges, dying reporters, and a government experiment that makes the fog itself lethal. Everyone’s selling something in Ashburn—even redemption.
In a city that eats its own, Tucker knows you don’t fight to win. You fight because you’re still breathing.
Rule 13 — a hardboiled descent through smoke, blood, and brass where justice is a rumor, truth burns like cheap whiskey, and the only clean thing left in Ashburn is the rain that never stops falling.