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Merry Who Gives a Fuck About Christmas Stuff And Decorations

by Darryl — Thursday, 12/25/25, 10:42 am

  • John D. Cundle: ♫ No Kings Christmas—Трамп’s Royal Holiday Special ♬
  • Mr. Newberger’s AI Funnies: ♫ Charles Dickens’ The Reverse Scrooge (Remastered) ♬
  • Ross Childs: JD Vance and Santy!
  • Puppet Regime: Protests against AI rock the North Pole
  • Knotheadusc: ♫ Up In The White House ♬
  • Stephen: How does Melanie Трамп really feel about Christmas?
  • John D. Cundle: ♫ You’re a Rotten One, Dotard Трамп ♬
  • Hitler Rants Parodies: Hitler tries to get everyone on Santa’s naughty list
  • Puppet Regime: Putin’s big holiday party mistake
  • Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп—Petty, Pervy, and Worse than Scurvy (a Christmas song) ♬
  • Mr. Newberger’s AI Funnies: ♫ Can You Hear What I Scream? ♬
  • Patrick Fitzgerald: ♫ Grandma Can No Longer Pay for Healthcare ♬:

  • The Resistance: ♫ Dear Santa (Please Bring Us Democracy) ♬
  • Mr. Newberger’s AI Funnies: ♫ The 12 Days of Epstein ♬
  • Steve Shives: Трамп isn’t Scrooge—he’s worse
  • Knotheadusc: ♫ Dim Don! Dopey, Orange Guy! ♬
  • John D. Cundle: ♫ Run, Run Donny! ♬
  • The Late Show: Colbert’s canceled Christmas—The Last Noel
  • Stella Magz: The Трамп administration sent me a Christmas Card….
  • The Daily Show: Трамп Yule Log
  • Christopher Titus: Трамп Christmas con
  • Patrick Fitzgerald: ♫ Трамп in a Box ♬
  • ScaredKetchup: ♫ Трамп in a Box ♬
  • Mr. Newberger’s AI Funnies: ♫ Blamey JD Christmas ♬:

  • ScaredKetchup: Трамп show holiday spectacular w/ Kid Rock, Justin Beaver, & Marjorie Taylor Green
  • Knotheadusc: ♫ Have a Grumpy, Трампy Christmas ♬
  • Parody Project: There Was a Chump Thought He Was King
  • Hitler Rants Parodies: Hitler calls Santa
  • SNL: Трамп Christmas address
  • John D. Cundle: ♫ O Little Town of Mar‑a‑Lago ♬
  • Mr. Newberger’s AI Funnies: ♫ I Saw Trump Release the Epstein Files ♬
  • Robert Reich reacts to “It’s a Wonderful Life”
  • Executive Odors: ‘Twas the Night Before Epstein
  • Knotheadusc: ♫ Rubber Beside the Christmas Tree ♬
  • John D. Cundle: ♫ Have Yourself a Very Merry Impeachment ♬
  • The Onion: Ho, Ho, Ho! I started dating Mrs. Claus when she was 14!
  • Mr. Newberger’s AI Funnies: ♫ Oh, Holy Hands ♬

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  1. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇲🐸🇺🇲🌊 spews:

    Thursday, 12/25/25 at 11:51 am

    Merry Christmas HA.

    Here is my gift to you all this year:

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doge-says-government-paying-11020-adobe-acrobat-licenses-zero-users-plus-more-idle-accounts

    This is MAGA propaganda organ FOX news nine months ago celebrating DOGE cutting off government access to Adobe Acrobat.

    Nine months later it was that loss of access that led to the MAGA DOJ being unable to successfully scrub the Epstein Files of the fat pedophile’s dominating presence.

  2. elmo spews:

    Thursday, 12/25/25 at 12:26 pm

    @1 don’t look at me, that was big ballz’ idea.

    Pleez babee pleez babee pleeez

    Buy my wanker panzer.

  3. Vicious Troll spews:

    Thursday, 12/25/25 at 12:45 pm

    Donald Trump’s Christmas message to Goldy:

    Donald J. Trump
    @realDonaldTrump

    Merry Christmas to all, including the Radical Left Scum that is doing everything possible to destroy our Country, but are failing badly. We no longer have Open Borders, Men in Women’s Sports, Transgender for Everyone, or Weak Law Enforcement. What we do have is a Record Stock Market and 401K’s, Lowest Crime numbers in decades, No Inflation, and yesterday, a 4.3 GDP, two points better than expected. Tariffs have given us Trillions of Dollars in Growth and Prosperity, and the strongest National Security we have ever had. We are respected again, perhaps like never before. God Bless America!!! President DJT

    6:12 PM · Dec 24, 2025

  4. Vicious Troll spews:

    Thursday, 12/25/25 at 12:52 pm

    It isn’t really Christmas without some harebrained liberal trying to ruin it for others.

    MRCTV
    @mrctv
    ·
    FLASHBACK: Kamala Harris angrily scolds “how dare we speak Merry Christmas?! How dare we?!” because illegal immigrants may not get to celebrate Christmas.

    9:34 AM · Dec 22, 2025

    Boxcheck Momala is the Christmas gift that just keeps on giving.

  5. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 12/25/25 at 2:22 pm

    @3 @4 Just stopping by to peek in, and it looks some the lonely incel has nothing better to do on Xmas Day than rant on HA. The horse must be visiting out of town relatives.

  6. Not even at all close spews:

    Thursday, 12/25/25 at 2:36 pm

    If we send enough people on the TeeVee to say the stupidest shit an economist can think of…

    Lutnick: “Donald Trump’s economy grew 4.3%. That means that Americans overall, all of us, are going to earn 4.3% more money. We’re making a raise, it’s a simple way to do it.”

  7. Pepperidge Farm Remembers spews:

    Thursday, 12/25/25 at 3:04 pm

    “Who’s going to stop you for that?”

  8. RedReformed spews:

    Thursday, 12/25/25 at 3:21 pm

    Kennedy Center Honors hosted by Trump tanks in ratings with 35% fewer viewers than last year
    You know what would get a lot of eyeballs? Releasing the trump-Epstein files. What are republicans hiding?

  9. lmao spews:

    Thursday, 12/25/25 at 5:46 pm

    kreepee dumbfuck’s been babblin’, taking silly cheap shots over black lives matter.

    Heh.. its silliness begs the question:

    Did it take the George Floyd Challenge?

    It is clearly evident that the cutoff of oxygen to its pea brain has transformed it into the magat broken record it is today.

  10. FKA Hops spews:

    Thursday, 12/25/25 at 5:49 pm

    I’m having a perfectly normal Christmas surrounded by family I love and some that I tolerate and NOT sitting alone lashing out as the walls close in around me.

    You?

    Donald J. Trump
    @realDonald Trump

    Merry Christmas to all, including the many Sleazebags who loved Jeffrey Epstein, gave him bundles of money, went to his Island, attended his parties, and thought he was the greatest guy on earth, only to “drop him like a dog” when things got too HOT, falsely claimed they had nothing to do with him, didn’t know him, said he was a disgusting person, and then blame, of course, President Donald J. Trump, who was actually the only one who did drop Epstein, and long before it became fashionable to do so. When their names get brought out in the ongoing Radical Left Witch Hunt (plus one lowlife
    “Republican,” Massie!), and it is revealed that they are Democrats all, there will be a lot of explaining to do, much like there was when it was made public that the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax was a fictitious story – a total Scam – and had nothing to do with “TRUMP.” The Failing New York Times, among many others, was forced to apologize for their bad and faulty Election “Reporting,” even to the point of losing many subscribers due to their highly inaccurate (FAKE!) coverage. Now the same losers are at it again, only this time so many of their friends, mostly innocent, will be badly hurt and reputationally tarnished. But sadly, that’s the way it is in the World of Corrupt Democrat Politics!!! Enjoy what may be your last Merry Christmas! President Donald J. Trump
    267 ReTruths 783 Likes
    Dec 25, 2025

  11. It’s funny cuz it’s true spews:

    Thursday, 12/25/25 at 7:12 pm

    All the funny people are on Bluesky

    NY Times Pitchbot
    @nytimespitchbot.bsky.social

    Breaking | Trump orders airstrikes to aid Nigerian Christians despite Stephen Miller’s frantic cries that Nigerian Christians are Black.

  12. RedReformed spews:

    Thursday, 12/25/25 at 8:52 pm

    I find it hypocritical that republicans support Trump ordering airstrikes to aid Nigerian Christians yet have no problem supporting Trump ordering ICE to disappear brown undocumented Christians in America.
    You know what would help Christians? Releasing the trump-Epstein files. What are republicans hiding?

  13. EvergreenRailfan spews:

    Thursday, 12/25/25 at 9:31 pm

    5)Have they accused Boston of Canceling Christmas yet? Only the Puritans had a problem with it there. Every year since 1971, Boston’s had the most symbolic Christmas Tree in America. A Thank You from Nova Scotia for all the relief efforts Massachusetts provided during the Halifax Explosion. A WWI Shipping Accident that at the time was the biggest non-nuclear detonation.

  14. Pepperidge Farm Remembers spews:

    Thursday, 12/25/25 at 11:13 pm

    More people watched the bootlegged 60 Minutes CECOT segment than watched Trump’s Kennedy Center Honors on CBS.

  15. Donnie spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 3:57 am

    Merry Fuckmess to you piggies. 🐷

    https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2674829511/

  16. Friend of Donnie’s spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 4:01 am

    Weeeeeeeeeee, I’m a grown up Pedophile.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/indiana-republican-chris-garten-ai-santa-wrestling-takedown_n_694dc74ce4b0d33e39fe4a3e

  17. Donnie’s business model spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 4:02 am

    It’s what I do best! It’s spectacular!

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2025/12/25/liquor-spirits-industry-bankruptcies/87914241007/

  18. Pedo Pile spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 5:56 am

    Merry Fuckmess! 👺

  19. G spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 8:24 am

    State Police Officer killed in Delaware. Something seems fishy. 3-4 days have passed and no motive, no reports on details of the dead gunmen who shot at the trooper. Maybe because of the holiday, but I find it suspicious.

  20. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 8:43 am

    @ 19

    Something seems fishy. 3-4 days have passed and no motive, no reports on details of the dead gunmen who shot at the trooper.

    It’s a Christmas miracle. Either that or the perp iswas a Biden acolyte. Hey, it’s Delaware.

  21. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 8:44 am

    This is gonna happen when too many blue state police agencies reclassify murders as jaywalking.

    Open Source Intel
    @Osint613

    The U.S. is set to record its biggest single-year decline in murders on record, according to crime statistics analyst Jeff Asher.

    7:20 AM · Dec 24, 2025

  22. America spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 8:56 am

    Other than breathing/blinking I can’t think of anything I do 200 times in a day.

    Sad.

    Pathetic actually.

    Someone should give him a phone loaded only with that early game where you just tapped as fast as possible.

  23. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 9:04 am

    271,000 fewer federal employees in 11 months of DJT47.

  24. THE NFL spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 9:09 am

    For the third consecutive year a foreign terrorist who speaks Spanish cheated all the white country artists out of the top streamed artist worldwide.

  25. PICK ME GUY HAD A THOUGHT spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 9:19 am

    @23

    Wanna talk FAA staffing?
    US Deadly play crashes
    2024 – 13
    2025 – 60 (so far)

    Wanna talk measles deaths and CDC staffing?

    How about VA staffing and services wait time?

  26. *not included in economic reports anymore spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 9:25 am

    BUT DRIVING IS CHEAPER!

    Heating Costs Expected to Rise 9.2% This Winter*

    OPEC giveth and LNG exports taketh away.

  27. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 9:42 am

    @ 14

    More people watched the bootlegged 60 Minutes CECOT segment than watched Trump’s Kennedy Center Honors on CBS.

    More voters pulled the lever for Donald Trump than for Boxcheck Momala.

    Which of these comparisons matters more?

  28. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 9:50 am

    @ 26

    Heating Costs Expected to Rise 9.2% This Winter*

    OPEC giveth and LNG exports taketh away.

    Wait a minute. I thought it was Jews who controlled the weather. You’re saying it’s the Arabs?!

  29. lmao spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 9:57 am

    @27 1.5 percent margin.. more votes for Harris than orange man got in 2020. And still it masturbates.

    Been watching Laura Poitras’ documentary about Sy Hersh. Over a half hour into it and it’s been all about Hersh’s first big story: My Lai. Totally mindblowing.

    Money quotes:

    “You know it’s murder incorporated over there. [Vietnam]”

    “I had to take some action. I had to do something. I couldn’t just rest with this knowledge for the rest of my life. I couldn’t live with myself if I did.”

    “I sent the the army a good boy and he came back a murderer.”

    “How can you shoot babies? I don’t know. It’s just one of them things.”

    Hersh is 88 years old. Sharp as a tack and still reporting. We so need more like him. A whole freaking army division of him.

    There’s a shot of his wife early in the movie with their first child. Very pretty lady and you wonder with Hersh travelling so often and not paid very well how they held it together. He married her in ’64 and they’re still married.

  30. lmao spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 10:11 am

    @29 Another little fact. The war ran on “body count”. Westmoreland needed the numbers. The brass needed numbers to broadcast to the stenographers that posed as reporters at Pentagon briefings. Hersh started out as one of them for AP.

    Hersh ventured outside the lines and prides himself on “breaking the rules”.

    Fast forward to today and our kreepee troll is one of those stenographers for maga babbling numbers here that have little to no connection to facts of daily life for the majority of people in this country.

  31. lmao spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 10:54 am

    too many blue state police agencies reclassify murders as jaywalking.

    The follow “blue state police agencies” report this:

    Baton Rouge -7.7 %
    Birmingham -49.0 %
    Charlotte -12.2%
    Cleveland -7.4%
    Columbus -31.5%
    Dallas -22.3%

    Need I go on?

    https://jasher.substack.com/p/2025-year-in-review-a-remarkable

    kreepee dumbfuck jerking off again like a monkee in a zoo.

  32. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 11:00 am

    DEI in the Washington State Patrol.

    The man goes up to the driver’s door of the patrol car and pulls it open. The officer gets out. Then the man grabs her arm, throws her to the ground, and gets in the car. The officer, a Washington State Patrol lieutenant, tries to get the door back open, but isn’t able to. Then it looked like she was reaching for her gun, but couldn’t get it out. The man then sped away in the car.

  33. G spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 12:02 pm

    Something seems fishy. 3-4 days have passed and no motive, no reports on details of the dead gunmen who shot at the trooper.

    It’s a Christmas miracle. Either that or the perp iswas a Biden acolyte. Hey, it’s Delaware.

    Nah, my guess it was the Heterosexual Neanderthal virus. Either his gay lover, or more probable that it was the husband or boyfriend of the woman he was cheating with.

    God knows if it was an
    Immigrant the Pedos would know all about it.

  34. G spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 12:06 pm

    The U.S. is set to record its biggest single-year decline in murders on record, according to crime statistics analyst Jeff Asher.

    The trend was already on the down swing from COVID, nice for Hitler to exploit it.

    Now lock up the Pedos.

  35. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 12:52 pm

    Maybe it’s because of the babymaking?

    Crémieux
    @cremieuxrecueil

    The sex split in student loan payments is interesting.

    Men immediately cut down on their loans, whereas women tend to make little progress, even more than a decade on.

    Or the abortions, perhaps.

    https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/2004089900099162600

  36. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 1:23 pm

    Doctor Dumbfuck keeps ranting that “student loans must be repaid!” but the Trump gang seems determined to make repayment financially impossible.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/26/trump-rejects-student-loan-idr-applications.html

    What’s the point here? To push as many people into poverty as possible?

  37. lmao spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 1:25 pm

    @35 yawwwn.. an anonymous “data scientist” followed by tech bros and elmo teh nazi in particular.

    I found the piece on fertility interesting.

    “Raise male incomes” – more munee, more babies.

    Ok bottom half in income of the 135 million households in the country have claim to 2.5 percent of the wealth. So this state of things should be reversed, amirite?

    yawwwn.. kreepee dumbfuck would babble that this is “coddling”.. EVEN BIGGER YAWN…

    Nice try, elmo’s favorite numbers guy.

  38. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 1:32 pm

    @ 36

    What’s the point here? To push as many people into poverty as possible?

    To push as many college administrators into poverty as possible.

    Administrative Bloat At U.S. Colleges Is Skyrocketing

    Forbes
    https://www.forbes.com › Money › Markets
    Aug 28, 2023 — Between 1976 and 2018, full-time administrators and other professionals employed by those institutions increased by 164% and 452%, respectively.

  39. lmao spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 1:45 pm

    The finish to the Hersh documentary was interesting. Hersh did a lot of reporting of the abuses at Abu Ghraib.

    Disgusting episode in recent history that no one talks about any more. Practically forgotten now.

    One of his sources was interviewed. A mom who lent her daughter her laptop before the daughter was deployed to Iraq. Daughter returns from her tour, gives the mom back her laptop.

    Thousand of gruesome pictures of “abuse”. Hold that thought.

    Mom couldn’t live with herself without talking to someone like Ron Ridenhour did regarding My Lai. (I quoted him in my previous comment.) So she contacts Sy Hersh. The daughter btw didn’t participate in the abuse. She may have not even did her tour anywhere near the Abu Ghraib prison.

    It’s just that the photos were widely shared. They freaking went viral among deployed personnel in Iraq and beyond I’d venture.

    Hersh is asked. What would the story be without the photos? Hersh says there’d be no story.

    Which is freaking amazing because Hersh had early access to the Taguba report from a lawyer representing one of the abusers. Remember General Taguba who wrote up an internal summary of the shit that went down in Abu Ghraib?

    He is interviewed. He is asked what is the difference between “abuse” and “torture”?

    He said in short “abuse” is like slapping a prisoner or withholding his food.

    “Torture” is leaving permanent bodily harm like kicking a prisoner chained to the ground while a broom handle is shoved into their rectum. Yeah Taguba gave that exact example.

  40. lmao spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 1:50 pm

    Final thought. Hersh is shown taking a call from a source. It seems to me the voice on the call was altered to prevent disclosure.

    This source had just transmitted photographs of IDF Gaza war plans to Hersh. Evidence that the IDF knew they were going to attack populated areas.

    The source said this documentation is already leading to prosecutions either in Israel or internationally and the IDF is freaking out.

    Another big story is about to happen.

  41. lmao spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 1:58 pm

    To push as many college administrators into poverty as possible.

    Hurling epithets like “deadbeats” and student graduate debt slavery will teach those “college administrators” a lesson.

    (rolls eyes).

    Or maybe the lesson is college is highly overrated and now that the “illegals” are being rounded up and warehoused in gulags on their way to deportation, young people should move into the growing opportunities of ag harvest, meat packing, poultry, hog, beef and dairy farming, landscaping and car wash. And don’t forget a renaissance in shoe making, garment and totchke manufacture will be here any day now.

    (rolls eyes)

  42. Pepperidge Farm Remembers spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 2:21 pm

    “I was forced by threat by (redacted) and Jeffrey Epstein of bodily injury or death if I did not have sex with them or anyone they sold me to.”

    ThE rEdAcTiOnS aRe To PrOtEcT tHe ViCtImS!!!!?🤪

    Sure.

  43. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 2:46 pm

    @21 This is what you get when a Trumper is frustrated by falling crime.

  44. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 2:49 pm

    @23 271,000 fewer federal employees in 11 months of DJT47.

    Which means no one’s answering the phones at Social Security, the IRS, or FEMA; veterans are waiting longer for appointments at VA hospitals; and all the watchdogs who scrutinized corrupt no-bid contracts are gone. Oh, and they fired the weathermen, too.

    In your world, this is all good.

  45. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 2:53 pm

    @27 Which of these comparisons matters more?

    It’s pretty obvious, because the one caused the other. And in your warped mind, you think it’s a good thing.

    Here’s another comparison for you: Which is better, a second-rate black female president, or a criminally insane racist and warmonger president?

    If she was only a placeholder for four years, that’s still infinitely preferable to four years of insanity, vandalism, looting, warmongering, and criminality.

    But you’re too stupid to see that.

  46. G spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 3:24 pm

    I don’t understand why Epstein went to jail (and “Died”) and Maxwell went to jail for trafficking baby girls if there isn’t anyone arrested for the fornication part of it.

    Maxwell should be free – it’s a hoax! Victims but no perps in jail? How can that be?

  47. Don your daughter’s diddler Trump spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 3:26 pm

    I TOLD YOU YOU STUPID FUCKS TO REDACT MY NAME AND ALL THE PEOPLE I GET DONATIONS FROM!

    Donald J. Trump
    @realDonald Trump

    Now 1,000,000 more pages on Epstein are found. DOJ is being forced to spend all of its time on this Democrat inspired Hoax. When do they say NO MORE, and work on Election Fraud etc. The Dems are the ones who worked with Epstein, not the Republicans. Release all of their names, embarrass them, and get back to helping our Country! The Radical Left doesn’t want people talking about TRUMP & REPUBLICAN SUCCESS, only a long ago dead Jeffrey Epstein – Just another Witch Hunt!!!

  48. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 3:31 pm

    @29 My Lai was an outlier. Calley is unrepresentative of America’s Vietnam veterans. My Lai wasn’t the only U.S. atrocity in Vietnam, just the worst, but such incidents were rare.

    Approximately 2.7 million Americans served in Vietnam. Most were drivers, cooks, mechanics, supply sergeants, combat engineers (i.e., construction personnel), air crew, artillery gunners, medical personnel, administrative staff and so on, who spent most of their time on U.S. bases and had little or no contact with Vietnamese civilians, and neither the opportunity nor motivation to mistreat them.

    The infantry, roughly 10% of all personnel, were assigned to walk around in the jungle, and up and down hills, trying to get shot at. Their job was to locate the enemy by drawing fire, then engage and destroy enemy units. The kill ratio in firefights was roughly 1:1 — one of theirs for one of ours. (Most VC and NVA were killed by bombs, artillery rounds, and other standoff fires.)

    Many of the frontline infantry troops were draftees and black solders. They had a rotten job, but they would do it, with unbelievable guts and fortitude. If you had to walk through the fires of Hell, they are the people you would want with you. They were the best of my generation, and deserve our respect.

  49. G spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 3:39 pm

    https://www.facebook.com/Delawareonline/posts/rahman-rose-from-wilmington-was-the-man-who-police-say-shot-and-killed-a-state-t/1289173649914996/

    I’m not the only one wondering what is up with this. At first they released a different name. Now it’s a new name. But yet, still no details.

  50. G spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 3:54 pm

    I also question why there is no video from the DMV of the suspect entering into the DMV, yet to be provided anyway. Days later.

  51. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 3:57 pm

    @30 The war ran on “body count”. Westmoreland needed the numbers.

    Westmoreland was an idiot, and his attrition strategy failed miserably. Making body count the measure of success (and criteria for officer promotion) invited cheating: Needless to say, the body counts were inflated, and civilian dead were counted as “VC.”

    That wasn’t the only big mistake. His “search and destroy” tactics were fucked from the start. This allowed the enemy to choose the time and place of battle, which always gave the enemy the advantages of numbers and terrain, and they usually could disengage the moment they lost the advantage.

    The Pentagon’s individual replacement system was devastating to morale. The WW2 troops enlisted, trained, fought, and came home together. In many cases, they served with other guys they’d grown up with. They were in for the duration, and their job was to win the war.

    In Vietnam, the draftees were those who couldn’t afford college, and they were sent individually over for a 12 or 13 month tour of duty (for officers it was 6 months), assigned to units where they didn’t know anybody, and nobody gave a fuck about winning the war and everybody counted the days until they went home, with the sole objective of not getting killed or injured between Day 1 and Day 365. This resulted in an army that was completely unmotivated to carry out dangerous orders or defeat the enemy.

    It was all foreseeable. McNamara, Westmoreland, and others at the top were blind to the obvious: That attrition wouldn’t work, that “search and destroy” gave the tactical advantages to the enemy, that U.S. morale would collapse in the field and one the homefront, and that the war would fail. And it played out exactly that way.

  52. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 4:02 pm

    The bottom line: The G.I.s were sheep to be sacrificed. Their officers were only interested in their own promotions. Returning veterans were vilified by the antiwar crowd for fighting the war, and blamed by the “Greatest Generation” that sent them to Vietnam and furnished the incompetent civilian and military leaders for losing the war. Vietnam veterans had the worst of all worlds. They asked for none of it. They deserve our respect.

  53. FKA Hops spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 4:03 pm

    @14

    More people watched my Christmas Dad Joke TikTok post (630k) than the Erika Kirk Bari Weiss townhall

  54. lmao spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 5:44 pm

    My Lai was an outlier. Calley is unrepresentative of America’s Vietnam veterans. My Lai wasn’t the only U.S. atrocity in Vietnam, just the worst, but such incidents were rare.

    My Lai wasn’t the only atrocity that happened THAT DAY. There was another atrocity just next door.

    There were worse things than just plain mass execution revealed in the documentary.

    Hersh wondered why? Why this descent into madness?

    Hersh says:

    “It’s appalling. Why the hell didn’t this get out? [Hersh started digging into this from one tip.] Here is the killing of 4 or 5 hundred people, witnessed by perhaps a dozen helicopters who were assigned that day for combat support. The major general in charge of the Americal Division was in the air that day. The Colonel in charge of the Brigade was there. The head of the task force was there. Within a few days, 3 or 4 hundred men, GIs knew about it and yet nobody said anything. Nobody reported it.

    There’s only two things I think to conclude from this. One is, of course, that it was such a shockingly untoward event that nobody could even begin to discuss it.

    The other one, I think, the more logical conclusion, is, ‘Well, that’s just another day in Vietnam.’

    Why did it take Sy Hersh to write a story for the Army to do a formal investigation? Interview the soldiers, take down what they witnessed and draw numbered circles in blue sharpie on aerial photographs where they saw bodies, civilians pleading for their lives, etc. It was weird to see a circle with a number and a note, “that’s where we had lunch”

    Maybe this was rare but massacres was one sure method of increasing “body count” for the higher ups.

    14 officers were charged in the cover up. One of the charges was “failure to report”.

    Hersh said he kept talking to soldiers, one right after another and for him, it just kept getting worse and worse and worse.

    The documentary is called “Cover-up”. Highly recommended.

  55. RedReformed spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 6:04 pm

    Administrative Bloat At U.S. Colleges Is Skyrocketing
    Caused by a tendency for administrations to create new positions to solve problems. Growing student bodies require more support, leading to more staff in areas like financial aid, student life, health offices. Federal funding comes with increased reporting and compliance demands, necessitating more administrative personnel to manage bureaucracy. Easy access to federal student aid reduced pressure on universities to control spending. Growing demands from regional and specialized accreditors also add to administrative roles. The shift to online education and new tech needs required new administrative support structures. Competition for students leads to spending on lavish campus amenities, funded partly by administrative expansion.
    The republicans answer to increased demand, increased federal paperwork, catering to the rich, is restrict high education to only rich Christian white straight American men who don’t have to compete.

  56. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 6:52 pm

    @54 People did discuss it. Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson, who played an instrumental role in stopping the killing (he threatened to shoot American troops), reported it that day, but his report was ignored or whitewashed by higher-ups. A discharged soldier, Ron Ridenour, wrote letters to President Nixon, several State Department and Pentagon officials, and two dozen members of Congress. Hersh learned of the Pentagon investigation and made it public.

    At a minimum, soldiers don’t get medals for reporting war crimes. (Thompson wasn’t honored until many years later.) You have to understand that for a soldier in the field who witnessed something, but didn’t participate in it, to report it — which amounts to accusing his buddies of murder — was inviting a bullet in the back the next time the unit took fire while in the field on an operation. Even if you saw something you thought was wrong, there was tremendous pressure to not rat on your buddies. And common soldiers have no investigatory authority; that’s an officer-level responsibility.

    The crucial failures were by the colonels and generals who failed to properly supervise their troops, and then swept the reports under the rug or participated in the cover-up. We had generally lousy officers in Vietnam; most of them were punching their tickets for promotion, and wouldn’t say or do anything that might jeopardize their careers (and career advancement). To a great extent it was a systemic failure, because the system’s incentives were all geared toward racking up body counts.

    All this said, there was a culture of disdain for Vietnamese lives that extended to civilians. I know; I was there, and saw it myself. That wasn’t my attitude, nor the attitude of everyone I served with, but I would say about a third to half of the fellows in my unit didn’t give a fuck about the Vietnamese. None of these guys were draftees; I was in an all-volunteer unit, most of them from southern states.

  57. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 7:10 pm

    @55 The University of Washington today has over 16,000 non-faculty employees, roughly 1 for every 4 students. SeattleJew, who was a professor in the School of Medicine and involved himself in faculty and university affairs, complained that over 500 of them are lawyers whose role (as he saw it) was ass-covering for the administration.

    He complained all the time about bloated college administrations, and he wasn’t alone; there have been stories and statistics on it. Those bloated administrations are there to serve the institution’s and top administrators’ self-interests, not serve the students. And as state support for public universities wanes, the cost of these bloated staffs is charged to students as higher tuition and adds to their student debt.

  58. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 8:21 pm

    Inevitably, Trump’s Pentagon bombed the wrong village — but made up for it by missing the village and blowing up an empty farm field.

    https://www.ft.com/content/99d23e21-1ca4-4dbc-819d-90449d0040ba

    Who knows, if Generalissmo Pants Shitter orders an airstrike against Seattle’s Capitol Hill, a notorious LGBQT+ enclave, he might hit an Idaho neo-Nazi compound instead.

  59. WTF spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 9:44 pm

    “… most of them from southern states.”

    So?

  60. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 9:49 pm

    @59 You figure it out.

  61. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 9:59 pm

    This is what jury nullification looks like.

    “Federal agents responded Aug. 15 to [a] residence to arrest 23-year-old Tatiana Mafla-Martinez,” when a tow truck driver named Bobby Nunez decided to intervene.

    “Video showed the [ICE] SUV with emergency lights activated being towed down the street” and “an agent running after the tow truck and SUV.”

    “In the criminal complaint filed Aug. 22, the officer said Nunez was laughing as he used his cellphone to record what was happening.”

    “Apparently, he thought it would be funny to interfere with our immigration enforcement operations. Now he can laugh behind bars while he faces justice. Nunez is looking at up to 10 years in federal prison if convicted,” acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said in a post on X back in September.

    https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/man-accused-of-towing-ice-suv-during-la-immigration-operation-found-not-guilty/3819043/

    He’s not, because last week a jury acquitted him. And Essayli has been booted from the acting U.S. attorney position by a judge.

    He who laughs last, laughs best. 😅🤣😂

  62. WTF spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 10:01 pm

    @60

    Okay: you’re an elitist little old fart cock-bite that has lead a meaningless life. You’ll be dead soon, however. Hopefully, your last hours will be filled with excruciating pain and regret.

  63. Ka$h Patel spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 10:51 pm

    A FLEET OF NEW BMWs AND A BRAND NEW BUILDING FOR ME. WE’RE CUTTING COSTS AND BRINGING DOWN THE DEFICIT.

  64. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 12/26/25 at 11:25 pm

    @62 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    ROFLMAO! 🐰🐰🐰

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