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SCOTUS Denies Trump Administration’s Emergency Stay in Immigration Judges
December 19, 2025

□ [“US Drives a Stake Thru Europe's Money Grab Against Russia"]

If true, this could explain a lot.  It would also require a lot more questions about what the EU has been doing.  The premise is that, to show their support for Ukraine, the EU has 'frozen' Russian assets.  They would like to 'seize' these assets which is against United Nations rules.  If they went ahead and did this, everybody else could seize any other nation's assets for any reason.  This would be chaos so it's agreed that you're not supposed to do that.

But the EU has already been acting like they have seized the assets, past-tense.  They already investments, loans, spending on these Russian assets that they have not seized because they can't.  So that's why they've suddenly been demanding the assets be seized, even threatening their own members on this, and suddenly declaring that their sons and daughters must die for Russia.  The Trump administration has included 'unfreezing' the assets in any peace deal and if that happens, the EU will be left with a giant hole that they thought had been filled with *their* money.

The only way this works for them is if Russia loses the war or it just keeps going on forever, neither of which is going to happen.  This would also explain why Zelensky and Ukrainian elites never admit they've lost, they know which side their bread is buttered on.  It might even explain why Russia hasn't just destroyed everything in front of them, giving the EU time to fall deeper and deeper into this trap of their own making.

The fact that the EU has stuck with this for so long indicates that they aren't remotely trustworthy.  Since the US sides with them - and we both keep funding Ukraine more and more - Russia has no incentive for a peace treaty at all.  There's no reason to trust us and we're clearly not doing this out of Ukraine's best interests.  That's not getting into their decades of money laundering or everything else the EU has tried to infest the world with.

Taiwan Man Smoke Bombs Train Station, Kills 3 in Stabbing Rampage Before Jumping Off Department Store
December 19, 2025

□ [“Michael Jackson Seen in Multiple Photos in the New DOJ Document Release"]

And the reason these pictures couldn't have been released five or ten years ago is...?  I don't know what Epstein files have come out at this point but there's a bunch of new pictures.  So far they seem to be centered around Bill Clinton although other celebrities are there.  Jackson, Mick Jagger, Chris Tucker are the other names I've seen so far.

It's amusing to think that this may be why Keith Richards was suddenly unwilling to have a Stones tour next year, that he just didn't want to put up with this.  Slightly more seriously, is Bill Clinton going to finally start being asked about this relationship with Epstein?  And where, oh where, was the Hillary?  She was at home, getting drunk with girls!

Attention to Michael Jackson has gone way down, although his death probably had a lot to do with that.  It's been over 16 years.  Can't remember where I heard it, but there was some comment about 'all that stuff we were told he did with kids?  Yeah, that was true.'  He'd been part of the dark life since he was quite young, there's no way he'd know any better, much less have any self-restraint.  Given all the connections with these people, he must have had a lot in common with his first wife, Lisa Marie Presley.

Anyway, we still don't know how much is being released or how much is redacted.  Can't believe we've reached a point where this is just annoying because it's taken so long and there's no reason to trust it.  I've spent as much time as anyone demanding that this be made public and now that it's happening (slightly) it just seems pointless.  As I finished writing this, one of Bill's employees did making a public statement, mostly avoiding these pics other than to mention they're really old, and trying to find some way to attack Trump.  Might as well say under oath 'I did not have sex with Epstein's young associates.'

Yet Another Chinese Graduate Student Caught Smuggling Biological Agents Into US
December 19, 2025

□ [“Today's Deep Question:  Why Are Dems Burying Their Autopsy?"]

I first saw this topic on a leftist website.  The discussion didn't last long but they were quite irritated that the party had investigated why they failed last year and when they got the report last October, hid it from the public.  It's easy to guess why, they'd have to explain how they got to that point.

I still believe Biden was always intended to be a one-termer and Harris was intended to be his replacement, although there's some obvious contradictions, like Biden clearly changing his mind.  The first presidential debate was scheduled much earlier than usual, I think they knew Biden would fail and had already passed the 'primaries' so Harris wouldn't be challenged.  But there were still other Democrats such as Gavin Newsom who thought they were entitled to the job.

Those of us who aren't Democrats know this was all a fake but the party faithful need to see evidence of leadership and they aren't getting it.  It's hidden from them by those in charge and they can't do anything about it.  That's what they voted for.

Secretary of State Rubio Confirms Ending NGO ‘Foreign Aid Industrial Complex’
December 19, 2025

□ [“'Declaration of Vengeance':  U.S. Bombing Strikes Start Against ISIS in Syria"]

I assume this was always on the table.  ISIS needs to be wiped out and Trump would get around to it when he could.  We already had Iran and Venezuela to deal with.  But the killing of two soldiers a week ago moved that higher up on the list of priorities.  Trump and Hegseth are being up front, this isn't remotely a war, it's about vengeance.

I've said this many times before, this is what our policies in Iraq and Afghanistan should have been, 'you kill one of us, we kill lots of you in response.'  Pretty straight forward.  I'm curious if we're just wiping out all/most of ISIS in this attack or just hitting them hard enough that they'll start looking for different career opportunities.  This happened in 2020, he hit ISIS in Iraq and their whole image was damaged.  But then Trump took a long vacation for some reason and they started coming back.  So now he's dealing with them again.

CENTCOM did release a statement and some footage, saying we hit over 70 targets in Syria.  Woah, that's pretty good.  I'm curious if it was about killing as many ISIS as possible or just a big show to let them know that 'yeah, we could have done this to you if we wanted to, count yourself lucky.'  Probably a bit of both.  This is why I keep saying Trump needs to have regular flashy victories.  Base them on real accomplishments but he's a showman, he should know that this wins the crowd over.

Merz Now Allows German Intelligence Services to Attack and Sabotage “Enemies of the State"
December 19, 2025