Which is worse, to discover there are not cats in Hell, or to discover that there are?

Guatemala’s ‘Devil-Burning’ Ritual Turns Into Political Protest as Trump Effigy Is Set on Fire
December 8, 2025

□ [“France’s Macron, UK’s Starmer and Germany’s Merz Struggle To Oppose Trump on Ukraine"]

I'm starting to get hopeful that Trump's role in the Russia/Ukraine peace talks is really about setting up Europe to overthrow their tyrants.  Even if I'm right, it probably won't happen quickly.  Europe is older and slower, they've also been infested with the *woke* mindset for much longer than the US.  I always wonder how much of that came from Russian agents from the 30s through the 80s and how much was added by Russians who were finally allowed to immigrate when the Soviet Union fell.

So it's interesting that these three - and the EU elites in general - are finding themselves in this mess.  Trump is trying to get peace.  These people don't want peace but they do want the US to do the fighting for this war.  So they can't push too hard either.  Under any normal circumstances, I'd say they're guaranteed to lose because they have no other options.  Well, if they're going to fight hitler, maybe they can turn to Russia for help.

I'd love to know what Trump is doing against them although it's probably stuff we won't hear about for a long time.  We'll probably see the results a lot sooner than what he did to get them started.  Some Europeans are openly opposed to the EU and I'd like to think a lot more agree but have stayed silent.  Cutting the financing is a big deal but otherwise I can't figure out what could be done short of a real invasion.  I'm sure it would be immediately censored but we could start pumping "Make Europe Great Again" slogans in the various languages.

Powerful Magnitude 7.6 Earthquake Strikes Japan; Tsunami As High as 10 Feet Could Hit Northeastern Coast
December 8, 2025

□ [“Ketanji Brown Jackson Argues POTUS Can't Fire Bureaucrats Running Independent Agencies"]

Basically her point is that Trump and the Republicans in Congress could set up 'independent' agencies and any future Democrat administration would be forbidden to fire any of these people.  But I don't think she realizes that's what she's saying.  She was hired for DEI, I guess you can't expect anything else.

This is based on the 1935 case of Humphrey’s Executor.  FDR had hired a conservative member of the FTC who disagreed with him.  The guy died during the lawsuit but had continued to work for the FTC.  The law did specify that the POTUS could only fire FTC commissioners for various forms of incompetence but it also said these unelected "experts" were actually part-legislative and judicial so the POTUS can't be in charge.  So it's basically an official 4th branch of government and everyone just has to obey.

I would say this is another case that looks like an easy win but I can't understand how the Supreme Court would have ruled in favor of this in the first place.  I'm guessing this is a major target to fight the 'deep state.'  This ruling has been around for 90 years so it must be quite deep in the system, probably kept hidden so more people didn't ask wtf this was for.  No idea what effect there will be to getting rid of it but it's interesting to think about.  FDR must have been pissed that his authority was limited, not all that different from his opposition to government workers forming unions.  Of course modern leftists who idolize FDR are completely opposed to his opinions here.

Female Chicago Doctor Beaten in Hospital Elevator By Black Male Repeat Offender, Arrested 19 Times Since 2024
December 8, 2025

□ [“Watchdog Discovers Almost $100 Million in Obamacare Subsidies Were Paid for Dead People"]

58000 dead people receiving subsidies, over 7000 were dead before they even got the coverage these subsidies are paying for.  Not sure how long it'll take but it looks like we'll eventually see that Obamacare was about laundering money like this and paying off the insurance and drug companies so they'd comply.  And probably trying to convince people this was "free" healthcare.

And Democrats knew they were doing this.  Or those in charge did, the ones in office just obeyed.  And that probably extends to the whole Uniparty.  It's also probably not limited to Obamacare.  Well of course it isn't, we've already heard about more of this from DOGE.  But it's still startling just how much of this has been done to taxpayers for so long and nobody is being punished for it.

So when is something going to happen?  This year has been an impressive display of exposure and accomplishment but we still haven't even uncovered the whole mess, much less seen anybody really get punished for it.  The left is just raving that everything's collapsing and we've all turned against Trump, that's just delusion to hide everything that's coming out.  And there's still three years to go.

Liberals Furious After Admiral Levine’s Portrait Reverts to His Birth Name, Richard
December 8, 2025

□ [“ICE Launches Armed Raids Across Minnesota for Illegal Somali Nationals on Federal Warrants"]

I'm sure someone will fight back but it just struck me that this sort of thing is probably happening in many places other than leftist whining, nobody is really doing anything about it.  For all the rhetoric about how eager they are to fight back, there really isn't any of it.  At best, their city or state governments file lawsuits and hope they'll get activist judges.

Then there's the fact that all of the illegals being taken probably have useful information about the larger plan, names and connections and evidence to be used.  We can ask how far up the line this will go but let's face it, we already know it'll go to the very top.  Our elites have always been pushing this and have supported the illegal invaders.

But really it doesn't sound like they ever expected this to happen.  Even in Trump's first term it wasn't a big deal, at least nothing we heard about.  But now he's actually using law enforcement and they're spinning around in confusion.  One moment he's the stone cold dictator (that nobody's afraid to criticize in public) and the next he's a babbling idiot, deteriorating in health, all his supporters have fled, Democrats are winning every poll and guaranteed to take over in the midterms.  They're trying to keep us from seeing reality - and they have a lot of experience doing this - but that does nothing about ICE, or the FBI or anybody else actually doing their job.  We're watching a massive collective mental breakdown.

Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani Appoints Convicted Armed Robber to Lead Criminal Justice Team
December 8, 2025