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Not working is somehow making this post even shorter. But, for my last open thread of the year, sadly it is exactly this short.

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  1. teh kreepfuck is gaga over Nick teh prick Shirley:

    Shirley said he did not take part in the violence [Jan 6] and filmed himself leaving without entering the building. Later that year, Shirley took a two-year hiatus from YouTube to go on a mission in Santiago, Chile, as part of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

    In late 2023, after his return to the United States, Shirley shifted from prank videos to focus on political topics, such as immigration and crime. In May 2024, he orchestrated a stunt in which he paid day laborers $20 to jump into the back of a U-Haul van, drove them to the White House, and gave them signs demanding a meeting with Biden.

    Shirley’s mother, Brooke — herself a right-wing influencer who goes by Brooker Tee Jones on TikTok, where she has more than 250,000 followers — occasionally joins her son in the videos. It was Brooke who pushed her son to start covering immigration at the southern border after his mission trip, according to an interview with Columbia Journalism Review. Early on, she’d feed him questions to ask and lines to say in the videos, she recalled. Her content has similarly focused on immigration in recent years, including other videos that accuse Somali residents in Minnesota of health care fraud without providing evidence.

    https://theintercept.com/2025/12/31/nick-shirley-videos-minnesota-somali-day-cares-fraud-claims/

    Wouldn’t you know it? A lot of Mormons today still have hangups about darker skin.

    Shirley is tailor made for teh kreepfuck of widbee.

  2. kreepfuck is crowing over government numbers that it babbled didn’t matter back in November 2024:

    “If you tell me which sectors are most affected by tariffs, I’ll tell you which sectors are going to be hit,” he said, pointing to retail and services—the sectors directly downstream of increasingly fragile consumer spending.

    “Every sector is at risk for layoffs in 2026,” said Aaron Sojourner, senior researcher at the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. “Unemployment is rising and job growth is slowing broadly across sectors. Wage growth has decelerated versus a year ago.”

    Sojourner said that, like 2025, next year will see labor demand weakened by tariffs and declining public investments in health care, as well as the loss of immigrant consumers thanks to President Donald Trump’s crackdown.

    https://www.newsweek.com/layoffs-coming-to-us-jobs-market-in-2026-11188750

    Didn’t kreepfuck just babble “gangsta” over 1 million people losing their jobs in 2025?

    The biggest dumbass: teh widbee kreepfuck

  5. Wouldn’t you know it? A lot of Mormons today still have hangups about darker skin.

    They also have a hankering for lots of pussy and unrestricted in age… essentially the younger the better.

  6. But too their credit, Mormons aren’t really violent people. Goes to show you that sex deviants aren’t that bad, they are lovers and not fighters. The Mormon ones discriminate but they just do that to make them feel better about themselves.

    Fresh Pussy!

  8. @1

    250k folowers? I’ve got double that and all I do is tell Dad jokes and livestream my hikes. I guess being mildly amusing and not hateful is what more people want.

    I make about $50/month off all the views. It gathers in a Venmo account.

  16. What a co in keee dink.

    Donnie got his fake peace prize from FIFA. Under the cover of the holidays, the most corrupt AG in American history and I lived through the Ed Meese days, made a motion to dismiss the bribery and racketeering charges against FIFA officials. The trial resulted in a guilty verdict and has been upheld by FIFA‘s appeal to the appellate court, but are now petitioning the Supreme Court and bozo. The orange bribe is now saying “in the interest of justice the case should be dropped.

    I mean it’s not like FIFA has a very long history as one of the most corrupt organizations on the planet

  19. Nothing could ever be more “Deep State” than covering up for an industrialized child sex trafficking ring that catered to the wealthy.

  20. “We had also interviewed Boris Epshteyn before these subpoenas were issued. He corroborated that they were, in fact, trying to call Senators. He dissembled and tried to imply that the President hadn’t directed him to do it, even though there was a text message saying specifically that he had.

    But he agreed that they’d tried to call these Senators, and that they had certain Senators’ numbers themselves, and so they didn’t need those numbers. And that would be — I believe it was Senator Cruz and possibly — I think he said they possibly tried to call Senator Graham as well.”

    Cruz and Graham tried to give themselves $500,000 as “compensation” for this.

    And of course, the lying troll lied about it for weeks and weeks.

  21. YLB’s scheme to scare voters about 2025 having been unsuccessful, a New Year’s resolution to pivot to something different has been set in motion.

    YLB will now scheme to scare voters about 2026 instead:

    “Every sector is at risk for layoffs in 2026,” said Aaron Sojourner, senior researcher at the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. “Unemployment is rising and job growth is slowing broadly across sectors. Wage growth has decelerated versus a year ago.”

    The thing is, YLB:

    • Every sector is at risk for layoffs every year. Every single one. Not just Trump years.

    • Wage growth may be slowing but it is still higher than the rate of inflation.

    • NPR reported within the last hour that mortgage rates are down from 6.85% at the end of 2024 to 6.15% now.

    • There are >2.5 million more employed now than a year ago.

    • Unemployment rates are lower among worker cohorts who are known for working hard.

    What makes things worse for YLB is that income tax bills are about to decrease for everyone willing to work for a living. Tax-free tip income, tax-free overtime.

  22. Now, I’ve share bad news @ 21 for YLB, but I would like to balance that with some good news for Steve.

    With the increase in the money the Big Beautiful Bill permits guys who score no higher than 2 in the physical appearance scale to give to women from abroad

    …the annual exclusion for gifts to a spouse who is not a citizen of the United States increases to $194,000 for calendar year 2026, up $4,000 from calendar year 2025.)

    https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-releases-tax-inflation-adjustments-for-tax-year-2026-including-amendments-from-the-one-big-beautiful-bill

    Steve might finally get one of those Ukrainian women to show up* for a second date. Up until now he’s been forced to cheer on Putin’s bombing campaign.

    So Happy New Year, Steve.

    [* For planning purposes, please understand that to marry you she’s gonna want that $194k every year.]

  23. • It’s got its own name: astroturfing.

    It isn’t “astroturfing”.

    It’s nothing more than Bumfights but with red MAGA hats and financial backing from Russian oligarchs.

  24. New Years, a fresh slate, a chance for personal growth, a new hope, or…

    Donald J. Trump
    @realDonald Trump

    The Democrats are a bunch of cheaters and thieves that never want to do what’s good for America. As an example, they refuse to even consider Voter Identification. Why???
    Because they want to cheat, and the Republicans should not put up with this, and many other such things, any longer!!!

    O ReTruths O Likes
    12/31/25, 2:36 PM

    Once you start hitting the a.m. radio crack pipe, you never really recover

  25. A certain failed former attorney and current useless, bloviating fool will get what he voted for. Good and hard.

    Wall Street Apes
    @WallStreetApes

    Seattle is screwed

    Democrat Katie Wilson, winner in Seattle’s mayoral race, gives her first speech

    “I do think that we will need to pursue new progressive revenue in order to fund our priorities and make sure that we’re delivering services”

    Progressive revenue = More taxation

    12:55 PM · Dec 30, 2025

  26. What are the odds?

    Upstate Federalist
    @upstatefederlst

    Wow it’s crazy that vandals would steal *checks notes* all the evidence that investigators would want.

    Ismail Royer
    @IsmailRoyer
    ·
    21h
    The Minneapolis daycare center targeted by this tweet, Nokomis Daycare Center, received telephone threats of violence & was broken into last night & vandalized, & checkbooks & parents’ documents were stolen. x.com/crimewatchmpls…

    10:27 PM · Dec 30, 2025

    Gee, bad luck for the people trying to identify fraudsters, I guess.

    Oh, and hopes and prayers for the burglary victims.
    ·

  27. Wow it’s crazy that vandals would steal *checks notes* all the evidence that investigators would want.

    Actual legitimate investigators working for, say, oh I dunno, the DOJ can easily obtain banking records directly from the regulated financial insititution.

    Idiots.

  28. @ 27

    Actual legitimate investigators working for, say, oh I dunno, the DOJ can easily obtain banking records directly from the regulated financial insititution.

    Thank you for verifying that a federal investigation using FDIC and DOJ authority will produce results that a spineless state “investigation” could not. I believe that Ms. Bondi is well on her way to doing exactly this. Godspeed.

    P.S. I bet the Somalis didn’t think of this when they trashed their own place.

  29. Thank you for verifying that a federal investigation using FDIC and DOJ authority will produce results

    Statistically most likely results are a vote of no-bill from a grand jury or a pretrial grant of dismissal.

  30. Trump angrily admits another defeat on his Truth social rant:

    “We are removing the National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland. We LOST!”

  32. scare voters about 2026 instead

    November is 11 months away and kreepfuck pretends everything is just fine..

    income tax bills are about to decrease for everyone

    LMAO.. Let’s call this “benefits ALL LEVELS” 2.0..

    While prices rise at Walmart and Target..

    https://www.jsonline.com/story/grocery/2025/12/29/how-milwaukee-area-grocery-prices-compare-to-2024/87945718007/

    Is Walmart hiring? Nope. Hiring is frozen while it plays with a toy called AI.

    willing to work for a living. Tax-free tip income,

    lmao.. if only there were customers willing to tip:

    The past year was marked mostly by a difficult operating environment, as many consumers cut back on dining, hurting sales and profitability in the process.

    Unsurprisingly, this has contributed to another year loaded with bankruptcy filings. More than 20 restaurant chains or large-scale franchisees sought court-ordered debt protection in 2025, though that is likely a significant undercount, given the large number of mostly-small filings that often escape notice.

    tax-free overtime.

    Over one million people laid off in 2025 can’t work overtime.

    Those being laid off in 2026 at Tyson Foods in NB, Fed Ex in TX and other places. They can’t work overtime either.

    Gangsta!

  34. The median family income in the U.S. has gone from $10,000 in 1970 to $106,000 today, an increase of 10x.
    However, the median cost of a house has gone from $25,000 to $445,000, an increase of 17x.
    And the median cost of a car has gone from $3,600 to $50,000, an increase of 14x.
    The median cost of college has gone from $2,900 a year to $45,000, an increase of 16x.
    And the average cost of healthcare per person has gone from $350 to $14,600, an increase of 42x.
    Unfettered Capitalism is not working. More and more people are looking at other, more equitable, systems. Cause working full time and still being homeless, carless, saddled with endless school debt and dying are not working.

  35. Steve…Steve…Steve

    I see I’m still living in the dumbfuck’s head.

    I was the one who gave him the name “Doctor Dumbfuck” Not entirely accurate but it has a better ring to it than “Dumbfuck Janitor”.

  36. Great blog post, Carl. Could very well be your best ever. It’s certainly better than anything ever posted by Darrell.

  37. I mean it’s not like FIFA has a very long history as one of the most corrupt organizations on the planet

    FIFA and its circle of friends and fans of soccer subscribe to Neanderthalism.

  38. YLB is clueless that SEIU organizes its protests in this same manner.

    Ahhh yes. What aboutism…. It’s an apple, but it’s an orange.

    Well is SEIU going around instigating fights and creating an illusion of false facts?

  39. Horsesass. The blog where nobody ever blogs anymore. Back in the day, this place had more trolls named Mark than it now has commenters of any stripe.

  40. Gas went up $.20 overnight.

    What did fat ass fucking fart?

    Was $2.65 two days ago, today it is $2.85 at the gas station I rely on to be the cheapest in my area,

  41. New Years at The Needle will be interesting if the Fog doesn’t clear up. On tge 1 Line headed to Federal Way passing Sea-Tac, Fog is pretty dense, can barely see check-in and D Concourse.

  43. “ …more equitable, systems…”

    Capitalism beats the absolute shit out of communism, socialism or fascism.

  44. Capitalism beats the absolute shit out of communism, socialism or fascism.

    See how you got fascism last. Well news for you, you have it now.

  45. This past weekend, which I may have already mentioned here, I was driving with my Dad, we saw a difference of $.48 per gallon within a one mil stretch.

    Tha higher priced station was in the wealthier part of town.

    Capitalism stealing from the rich to keep for themselves.

  48. Roger Rabbit spews:
    Friday, 1/10/25 at 8:09 pm
    The Trump bump is gone. The DJIA is more than 1,000 points below its pre-election level, and the Trump Inflation hasn’t even started yet. The Wall Street rats are jumping ship before it does.

    Well, how did THAT work out for you, Rabbit?

  50. Combined Technical and Cost score is why Edmonton’s LRV order is headed to South Korea, and not that Siemens Mobility, whose U2 cars have been running in Edmonton since 1978(also operated but now retired by San Diego, and some sold second hand to Argentina), would have built them at their US Assembly site. Only experience ETS has with Hyundai-Rotem so far are Low Floor LRVs on the soon to open Valley Line-West. The Valley line uses different rolling stock than the Capitol and Metro lines is the new line they specified low floor vehicles while the older lines are High Floor/!evel boarding. With the Valley Line, it gets even more interesting, besides being a PPP like most transit projects in Canada, it was split into to two construction packages with each consortium supplying rolling stock, The already operational Valley Line SouthEast uses Alstom Flexity Freedom LRVs. Probably a good idea for the two consortia to go separate, The version ordered for Greater Toronto had development issues.

    https://www.railwayage.com/passenger/light-rail/edmonton-shortlists-three-bidders-for-procurement-of-lrvs/

  52. Know who doesn’t worry much about gas prices?

    This guy:

    Elon Musk
    @elonmusk

    Tesla Model Y is now officially the world’s best-selling car for the third year in a row!

    12:49 PM · Dec 30, 2025
    ·

  53. G-clown, if you worry so much about a 20 cent variation in gasoline prices, perhaps you should find a career that pays better.

    Maybe get a fast food job in California, for instance.

  54. It was. bullshit at the time, and all of you knew it was bullshit.

    Jack Smith says key Jan 6 witness relied on hearsay, lacked firsthand evidence
    Former special counsel tells Congress the Jan. 6 Committee star witness offered largely secondhand hearsay

    Smith said they had deficiencies because Hutchinson did not offer firsthand information.

    Asked during the deposition how he would have approached cross-examining Hutchinson, Smith said he would have moved to prohibit a portion of her testimony from being used.

    Cross-examination? Did Pelosi’s J6 committee allow that during its hearing?

    America knew it was bullshit. America remembered in November, 2024.

    And libbies were surprised about how American’s responded the next time they had a chance to choose a president.

    You should not have been surprised.

  55. Nick Shirley now has 1,330,000 YouTube subscribers, and his Minnesota fraud video has been viewed 2,700,000 times.

  56. Confidential to a certain failed former attorney and current useless, bloviating fool: There’s a downside to “Liberals must arm.”
    ·

    Corey Walker
    @CoreyWriting

    It’s absolutely insane that South Africa has deteriorated from being a first world country to not even having stable electricity. South Africa is a cautionary tale for the impacts of DEIpitchforks.

    Quote
    African Maps
    @MapsAfrican
    ·
    Dec 29, 2025
    African Countries with Stable Electricity Through the National Grid.

    9:16 AM · Dec 30, 2025

  57. Happy New Year,, YLB!

    I found three of the seven Fed rate cuts that you said Joe Biden would need in 2024 in order to be re-elected:

    ECONOMY
    Economist Mark Zandi sees the Fed surprising with three rate cuts in first half of 2026

    It’s too bad, isn’t it, that those interest rate cuts will benefit the GOP going into the midterms, rather than Democrats.

    But the good news, YLB, is that you might be correct about the number of rate cuts. They’re just spread over three years, and two of them are Trump years.

    Although come to think of it, there’s a pretty good argument that all three years are Trump years:

    https://time.com/7200212/person-of-the-year-2024-donald-trump/

  58. Let’s recall that YLB assisted Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign by insisting that Joe Biden’s debate performance was caused by a simple case of the sniffles.

    Gullible and simple-minded liberals made Donald Trump’s pathway to the White House again a rather simple one.

  59. Let’s recall

    That kreepee dumbfuck

    babbled that amtrak was the solution to bodily freedom and autonomy for women.

    that a slight uptick in the gasoline price would make Barack Obama the next Jimmeh Carter in 2012

    that Mikie Sherrill not being a rat would cost her the NJ Governor’s office..

    A devotion in retirement to bleating “dumb cunt” and “unserious twat” at HA is a good look for its degenerate political views.

    Hmmm. It does the latter less these daze. Could it because it got tired of Mary Kay reading Virginia Giuffre’s memoir of her sexual enslavement by Epstein and popped off a “dumb cunt” when it couldn’t take it anymore?

    We know it will always be proud of voting for Eppie’s partner in slime, its fellow child rapist, the orange pants shitting dear leader..

    YAWWWWN….

  60. Economist Mark Zandi sees the Fed surprising with three rate cuts in first half of 2026

    And why? Economy could use some debt relief..

    https://lavocedinewyork.com/en/business/2025/12/28/a-dark-year-for-us-companies-2025-sees-record-number-of-bankruptcies/

    And over 60 percent of U.S companies will lay off people in 2026:

    https://www.moneytalksnews.com/of-american-companies-expect-layoffs-in-amid-economic-uncertainty/

    Just in time for November. We say Happy New Year out of habit. But there’s nothing happy about America’s fascist moment just like there was nothing happy about half of America enslaving Africans, buying and selling human beings, breaking up families, like they were cattle – for munee – the shit kreepee dumbfuck prays for every day.

    Slavery begat Abolitionism and a bloody civil war. How did fascism work out for Germany, Spain, Italy and Japan?

    Yawwwn..

  61. Nick Shirley now has 1,330,000 YouTube subscribers, and his Minnesota fraud video has been viewed 2,700,000 times.

    And Tim Pfool the tool is undoubtedly having yet another nervous breakdown. The always wrong wing influencer audience is so fickle about where they get their next dopamine fix.

  62. Asked during the deposition how he would have approached cross-examining Hutchinson, Smith said he would have moved to prohibit a portion of her testimony from being used.

    Fair enough. Any thoughts about putting the people whose words she related on the stand under oath?

    Cross-examination? Did Pelosi’s J6 committee allow that during its hearing?

    I seem to recall some first hand witnesses went to jail rather than testify under oath. Now we’re all looking at pictures of Bannon schmoozing Eppie.

    America knew it was bullshit. America remembered in November, 2024.

    1.5 percent of the voters were apparently more motivated by the price of eggs. Those whose votes were counted anyway.

    There was a lot of motivation to suppress the votes of minority voters in the battle ground states.

    So much for a “rigged” election in 2020.. Now that was some real bullshit. A gaggle of fake phony electors wrapped up in ribbon for the Holidays.

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