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Monday, December 08, 2025

Links - 8th December 2025 (2 - Donald Trump)

Meme - Distressed man and laptop: "I keep calling Republicans NAZIs like MSNBC told me to but Trump is still president! Why won't this work?!"

Deon Joseph on X - "If you take away the rhetoric of people seeing everything the President does through an “F Trump” filter, at his core, here is what he’s actually trying to do:
-Stop poison that has killed 100,000 Americans a year from coming into this country
- Securing the border and removing those illegally in our nation that take away resources from those here legally as well as those respecting the immigration process.
- Aggresively trying to stop or slow wars that unavoidably drain our resources
- Stop other nations from taking advantage of us from unbalanced trade deals done by former administrations who don’t understand how business works. They only knew appeasement
- Prove that effective and supported law enforcement can dramatically decrease crime in major cities. You don’t need more programs that only serve to create more of an industrial complex. You just need enforcement, accountability and justice.
- Ensure like in other nations that Americans and Americans alone, dictate what happens in our nation through a fair and honest voting process.
- Ensure no nation attacks us in our home soil or injures our interests globally
- Get Americans back in the workforce by having other nations invest back in the US and getting the able bodied off government assistance is designed for those who truly need it.
 The other side is trying to stop him from doing it because it exposes how feckless they have been. Not because what he’s doing would be bad for the country.   I get it.  He’s a flawed man.  He’s moving too quickly for some people’s tastes who are used to being strung along or watching Dems and republicans play kick the can down the road.  Yet despite all of his imperfections and character shortcomings; when I take my emotions out of it, I objectively believe his desire is to move past distractions and put Americans first at home and abroad.    Though I agree that he’s a lot of things I am not a fan of, he wants us to win.  Because if we win, he wins. And the guy loves to win."

‘I’ve never seen it this empty’: Trump chaos triggers decline of Las Vegas - "Part of the decline in visitors is because of a fall in international numbers. Canadians, for one, are increasingly steering clear of the US in the wake of Trump’s tariffs and his message that Canada should become America’s 51st state.  But international visitors make up only 12pc of Las Vegas’ visitors. Steve Hill, chief executive of the LVCVA, says this is primarily a story about Americans.   “The reduction that we’ve seen is largely domestic, and at its core is a concern that consumers have about the economy, about their financial situation and their jobs,” says Hill. The Vegas downturn is a hint of what is really going on under the surface of the wider US economy... Ominously, there have only been three years when Las Vegas has seen visitor numbers drop by more than a million, or by more than 3pc, in a single year: the financial crisis in 2008 and 2009, and the 2020 pandemic."

Ritchie Torres on X - "Donald Trump has no greater friend than the far left, which has managed to alienate historic numbers of Latinos, Blacks, Asians, and Jews from the Democratic Party with absurdities like “Defund the Police” or “From the River to the Sea” or “Latinx.” There is more to lose than there is to gain politically from pandering to a far left that is more representative of Twitter, Twitch, and TikTok than it is of the real world. The working class is not buying the ivory-towered nonsense that the far left is selling."

Dissproportionately on X - "I’m seeing moms on Facebook asking for advice how to calm down their terrified children who want to leave the country, and there’s only one good answer: parents, you need to knock this shit off. You are messing up your kids and they will never be well if you continue fear-mongering. All of their anxiety and fear is your fault and you are responsible for fixing it before it’s too late.
I rarely take a stance of “the parents are to blame for this 100%”, but if your preteen is this scared over politics, it’s 100% your fault and you should do the opposite of whatever you have been doing so far."

Collin Rugg on X - "NEW: Psychotherapist Jonathan Alpert says that 75% of the patients he sees have a deep hatred for Trump and are "hyper fixated" on him. "They can't sleep, they feel traumatized by Mr. Trump." "I had one patient who said she couldn't enjoy a vacation because anytime she saw Trump in the news or on her device, she felt triggered."  "So this is a profound pathology, and I would even go so far as to call it the defining pathology of our time."  Insane."
Literally TDS. The left wing media is harming many of their customers

Appeals court throws out massive civil fraud penalty against President Donald Trump - "The ruling spares Trump from a potential half-billion-dollar fine but bans him and his two eldest sons from serving in corporate leadership for a few years... A sharply divided panel of five judges in the state’s mid-level Appellate Division couldn't agree on many issues raised in Trump's appeal, but a majority said the monetary penalty was “excessive.”... The five-judge panel, which split on the merits of the lawsuit and Engoron’s fraud finding, dismissed the monetary penalty in its entirety... “Plainly, her ultimate goal was not ‘market hygiene' ... but political hygiene, ending with the derailment of President Trump’s political career and the destruction of his real estate business," Friedman wrote. "The voters have obviously rendered a verdict on his political career. This bench today unanimously derails the effort to destroy his business.”"

General Mike Flynn on X - "My last words to @realDonaldTrump  in the Oval Office the night I resigned as America’s National Security Advisor were a WARNING about one person.  That person was Deputy Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe. I was right then and now the world knows why.   He deserves our nation’s and history’s contempt."
Hans Mahncke on X - "This document ranks among the most disgraceful and infamous records in U.S. history. An acting FBI director launched an investigation into a sitting president based not just on zero evidence but on a lie he knew was a lie. McCabe deserves his long-overdue reckoning."

Libs of TikTok on X - "Fake News MSNBC: "I don't think any Democrat has called Trump Hitler..."
Here are two minutes straight of Democrat leaders comparing Trump to Hitler and Nazis 👇"

Libs of TikTok on X - "JB Pritzker: "I haven't suggested that Trump is Hitler." Here’s one minute straight of JB Pritzker comparing Trump and his administration to Hitler 👇🏻 .@jbpritzker is a disgusting liar"

Jack Posobiec on X - "Harry Sisson: "I dare you to name one high-ranking Democrat who compared Trump to Hitler"
Posobiec: "You mean like when Kamala Harris did in October 2024 when you were campaigning for her?""

Meme - "how to deal with terrorists"
Obama: "let's negotiate"
Terrorist: "I will blow shit up!"
Biden: "let's negotiate"
Terrorist: "I will blow shit up!"
Trump: "I will blow shit up!"
Terrorist: "let's negotiate"

Meme - Sydney Sweeney: "HI, PRESIDENT TRUMP!"
Trump: "SYDNEY? WHY ARE YOU HERE?"
Sydney: "I'M LIVING HERE RENT FREE TOO!"
Trump: "COOL."
*Deranged Donkey*

10 Telltale Signs Of Dangerous Authoritarianism | Babylon Bee - "Someone you don't like won an election because more people voted for him: This should never be allowed to happen in a democracy.
People walking around smiling and enjoying their lives: Those poor, uninformed victims of oppression.
A TV show that lost $40 million a year got canceled: What are late-night talk shows supposed to do now? Be funny?
Literal concentration camps being built in the imaginations of journalists: Few things are more terrifying than literal imaginary things.
A super-hot actress did an ad for jeans: No one wants to live in a world where they have to look at attractive people.
Police trampling on the rights of hardworking carjackers and muggers: True freedom means never being arrested.
Jews are openly welcomed on university campuses: How far the education system has fallen.
Funding for Iraqi Sesame Street cut: Who will teach the little children their Alif, Baa, Taa's?
Food stamps no longer allowed to be used for Skittles: Fascists are waging war on the rainbow in more ways than one.
People you disagree with get to say stuff: How can anyone think this is fair?"

Natalie Jean Beisner on X - "“We reached out to Biden several times for help. He ignored us.”  President Trump is currently facilitating a peace deal between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. President Tshisekedi intends to nominate President Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize for finally bringing peace to his country.   President Trump is truly the peacetime president!"

Exclusive | Blue-collar wage growth under Trump sees largest increase in nearly 60 years: Bessent - "Blue-collar workers have seen real wage growth of almost two percent in the first five months of President Donald Trump’s second term, the largest increase for any administration in nearly 60 years.   The 1.7% pay bump is in stark contrast to negative growth under Joe Biden, according to new data from the US Department of the Treasury.   Since Richard Nixon in 1969, Trump has been the only president to record positive growth for blue-collar workers in his first five months. He also achieved 1.3% in his first term...   Falling inflation has driven the significant improvement in blue-collar wages, lifting workers’ take-home pay and living standards.   Bessent says wage growth is also fueled by the president’s “emphasis on manufacturing” and commitment to remove illegal migrants from the workforce... The latest year-to-date gain in real blue-collar wage growth, from December 2024 to May 2025, is more than twice the rate of 0.8% growth in the Nixon administration... Trump’s team claims that once the “One Big Beautiful Bill” passes the Senate, as early as July, the economy will get a “double whammy” boon of lower inflation and accelerating wages, a feature of his first term."

End Wokeness on X - "The stock market is up nearly 30% since Jim Cramer's prediction in April about a market collapse…."

Madison Cawthorn on X - "Three years ago, Justice Kagan said that “it just can’t be right” that district court judges could issue nation wide injunctions against a President. Now that Trump is in office, she just voted to keep nation wide injunctions in place. TOTAL POLITICAL HACK."

Meme - *Homer Simpson in pussy hat and holding rainbow butt plug*
"PROJECT 25! PUTIN! RACIST! HITLER! RUSSIA! CONVICTED FELON! FASCIST! HOMOPHOBE! EPSTEIN! THREAT TO DEMOCRACY! ORANGE MAN! DICTATOR! MAGAT! CULTIST@! *three needles (covid vaccines)*"

Why aren't there massive protests in the US? If you're an American, don't you feel it's very warranted? I don't get why aren't there protests like when George Floyd was killed. I'm not an American, I'm just watching the news, and it feels like Americans are just letting the power grab happen. : r/stupidquestions - "I don't think they fear him so much as that they are just complicit.. The owners are billionaires on his side. The lower level employees don't get to decide."
"This is it. The owners of the media orgs are of the mind that Americans wanted this, why fave retaliation if they chose this… safer not to rock the boat as the people chose dictatorship and if that’s the case, then we’ve got to ensure the future of the company for shareholders.  Prob also a time to state that publicly owned and traded news media is a bad idea."
Left wingers are really so delusional that they think the media is on Trump's side and they need to fulminate against him even more. The depths of their delusion cannot be underestimated

Meme - barrettpall: "I did not go to an old friends wedding this weekend bc she was marrying a Trump supporter. Did this hurt her, yes. Did it hurt me, yes. 48 hours later my marriage is on the chopping block. This is why EVERYTHING IS POLITICAL & something's can't just be put to the side.
White women who did not vote for Trump but continue to partner with men who did are the tool that patriarchy relies on. The complicity is just as bad as the crime and it's uncomfortable to sit with bc in the end both are guilty of uplifting this harm."
Imagine being this unhinged. TDS ruins lives

Shemeka Michelle on X - "I went to church today. During the sermon, the pastor told the congregation, as black people, we’ll always have racism to face & hills to climb. He went on to say President Trump would implement slavery again if he could.  After church, I asked him what proof he had to support that statement. He responded, “He said it.” I replied, “He’s never said that. Where did you see that?” Then he said, “I’m not going to argue with you.” I replied, “It’s not arguing. You preached a message of oppression to keep your congregation beholden to a particular party but you won’t offer proof.” He responded, “I’m not talking about a party. I’m talking about an individual and he’s a racist!” Once again, I responded, “How do you know?” He replied, “I’m a black man. He’s racist, but if you want to keep believing what you believe, that’s on you. I’m not arguing with you.” I responded, “You’re being emotional. I’m not arguing. I simply asked for proof.” He continued to say he wasn’t going to argue with me as he walked away.   Many pastors of predominantly black churches are a bunch of charlatans, who are only there to fleece their sheep."
Time to tax black churches since they are interfering in politics?

Meme - The Lincoln Project: "Arresting officials from the opposing party is Authoritarianism 101."
The Lincoln Proj...: "Exactly. We can't hold out hope that the courts will stop Trump. You can hold your breath and hope, or you can take action in November. The only solution to Trump is the ballot box."
The Lincoln Proje...: "We are ready to go to the ends of the Earth to make sure Donald Trump lands in prison instead of the Oval Office this November. We're doubling down too. But instead of trying to drive home insane conspiracy theories, we're trying to save democracy."
The Lincoln Proj...: "Defeating Trump at the polls will be insufficient by itself to secure the future of American democracy. Trump must also be punished by the courts."
The Lincoln Project: "Donald Trump betrayed our country and its secrets. Now, the GOP and his MAGA sycophants want to re-elect him to a position of power. He doesn't belong in the oval office - he belongs behind bars."

Meme - 2023: *Trump entering courtroom*
Satisfied liberal woman in car: "Good, nobody is above the law!"
Now: *POLICE and ICE arrest people*
Upset liberal woman in car: "FASCISM!"

Meme - Greg Price @greg_price11: "Hate to break it you but the fact that you are free to wear that shirt outside the home of the President without being arrested seems to be proof that you are not in fact living under "American Fascism.""
Tom Morello @tmorello: "Stopped by the White House. Xo"
"DESTROY AMERICAN FASCISM"

Ryan Wesley Routh: Trump assassination suspect says president can execute him if he can beat him at golf - "Ryan Wesley Routh has challenged Donald Trump to a game of golf in a court filing, days before he is set to go on trial for allegedly attempting to assassinate the US president.  In a bizarre motion filed on Tuesday, Mr Routh called for a “round of golf with the racist pig”, claiming Mr Trump could “execute” him if he wins.  “I win, I get his job (sorry hillbilly Vance)”, the suspected attempted assassin wrote."

ĐⱤØ₲Ø🇺🇸 on X - "One of the uncovered social accounts owned by Thomas Matthew Crooks was operated under the “alias” of a former senior FBI agent? PayPal has pretty tight security, unlikely this was really an alias."

Frasier Payne on X - "Trump: "Showtime. Remember, just graze my ear. You're the best sniper in the world so that should be easy."
Thomas Matthew Crooks: "Walk in the park, sir."
Trump: "Oh and... you'll get your hеad blown off and be remembered as a rеtarded libеral. But, I'll know you were a patriot."
Thomas Matthew Crooks: "That's all that matters, sir.""

Breanna Morello on X - "🚨MUST SEE🚨 I have independently obtained the same source document as Tucker Carlson, which allegedly contains Thomas Crooks’ alleged full online history. Multiple DeviantArt accounts potentially associated with Thomas Crooks have been identified. One such account prominently displays “they/them” pronouns, prompting additional questions regarding Crooks’ gender identity."

Meme - Mary Katharine Ham @mkhammer: "Blue cities: We will not enforce nor help you enforce federal law, and we will make that clear as loudly and hostilely as possible. We would never partner with the likes of YOU!
Also blue cities: He does not view us as legitimate partners in governing! For, like, no reason!"
Ronald Brownstein: "As I wrote this spring, "In words and actions, Trump has shown he views blue states & cities not as legitimate partners in governing, but as hostile territory to be subdued." He governs as a war-time president, America, rather than any foreign adversary, as the enemy."
Brian Allen @allenanalysis: "BREAKING: Tom Homan just threatened to "flood the zone" in New York City with ICE raids after Zohran Mamdani vowed to block federal agents if elected mayor. "GET OUT OF THE WAY, WE'RE COMING." This is a declaration of war against local sovereignty. Homan openly admits ICE"
Cities declaring that they will not enforce immigration law, or even allow immigration law to be enforced, is not a declaration of war against federal sovereignty, of course

Donald Trump is saving Europe from itself - "Donald Trump’s critics insist that he’s wrecking the transatlantic alliance. On the contrary: he’s strengthening it.  President Trump is far more interested in the future of Europe than Joe Biden ever was, and his Eurosceptic approach towards the EU is deepening America’s ties with European nation states at the expense of Brussels.  Trump has an intense dislike of the European Union but is actually the most transatlanticist president since Ronald Reagan, with a deep-seated concern for Europe’s future.  Yet President Trump is the target of relentless attacks by the ruling elites in western European capitals. They sneer at his allegedly radical policies – policies that are making America safer – while decades of open borders and mass migration continue to bring mounting crime and disorder in Europe.  Having just returned from a conference in Austria, I was struck by the outright hostility to the Trump presidency and its ideas from many present. At times it bordered on visceral hatred, combined with a delusional refusal to accept the reality that Europe is in a state of serious economic and cultural decline, tearing apart the fabric of many of its own nations.  Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, his vice-president, were lauded by much of Europe’s media and political establishment despite doing absolutely nothing to strengthen the security of the West."

Donald Trump’s 11 life-changing lessons: Wiser than the Left will admit - "Aristotle says that happiness consists in the active exercise of the faculties in accordance with virtue. Trump employs a different vocabulary, but when he urges us to “think big” (his third lesson) and “work hard” (number four), he is traipsing about the same territory.  At the centre of Aristotle’s ethics is the concept of “phronesis”, or practical wisdom. Trump employs the more familiar term “common sense” (lesson seven), also the master concept of his second inaugural address...  Trump’s final bit of advice is familiar. “Never, ever give up”. Had he listened to the ambient static of our culture, Trump would have given up long ago. Not long ago, he was finished: facing four indictments, fined half a billion dollars, criminally convicted. Any ordinary man would have crumpled. But Trump persevered, and he triumphed. So there is plenty of reason to agree with Trump that the last lesson, never give up, is the most important. I agree that it is important, but for my money, the most acute life lesson is number 10: “be an original … have the confidence to be a little different. God only created one of you; don’t try to be someone else.”"

The real problem with London’s anti-Trump protests? They’re so embarrassing - "Few words in politics have been so degraded as “anti-fascism”. Being an anti-fascist used to mean going to Spain to fight Franco’s forces. Or chasing National Front thugs out of Asian areas. Now it means penning a puntastic placard with the girls from HIIT class and heading down to Parliament Square to scream about the democratically elected president of the United States.  Yes, Donald Trump is back in Britain, for his second state visit, and this can only mean one thing: the UK’s Daunt Books-bothering classes are mad as hell, and they’re not going to take it anymore... If you want to see how populism has tugged at the threads of the fragile, middle-class psyche, check out the video the Stop Trump Coalition put out ahead of this week.  It’s hysterical, in both senses of the word. It’s fronted by Zoe Gardner – the comically posh professional activist you might have seen introduced on the BBC as an impartial “immigration researcher”. Naturally, she thinks the man sent back to Washington, DC by America’s multiracial working class to control the borders and end woke is fuelling “fascism” on both sides of the pond.    That this is a lurid fantasy is beautifully demonstrated by the fact the video has to rely on mock, AI-enhanced news reports, about a Home Office-run “British Defence League” disappearing migrants, to make its point.  Then comes the most (unintentionally) revealing line, where Gardner laments the failures of previous, anti-Trump demos in Britain: “In 2019, we protested against Donald Trump, and we thought, if we shout loud enough, maybe he’ll go away.” There it is. Whinging, bourgeois entitlement dolled up as radicalism. Veruca Salt masquerading as Rosa Luxemburg. This isn’t a movement against “fascism”, it’s a movement against democracy. It’s a howl of polite-society rage against America’s lower orders for daring to defy their supposed betters – just as Brexit voters did over here. The cultural elite is like a giant, spoiled brat, unaccustomed to being told no. If this were about challenging tyranny, why wasn’t the conscience of middle-class Britain stirred in 2015, when Xi Jinping had his pint-swilling state visit? If this is about fighting something akin to fascism, why did Jeremy Corbyn – the grandfatherly mascot of this new generation of Leftish activists – welcome Hamas (a Jew-killing terror army that quashes all dissent in Gaza) to Parliament? It would be tempting just to laugh at these people. And of course we should. But their hysteria comes at a cost.  It dilutes the meaning of fascism and Nazism – reducing it to “Right-wingers who give privately educated bohemians the ick”, rather than a totalitarian, messianic, militaristic system, preaching a cult of racial superiority. When you use these words to attack your opponents you turn the graveyards of the 20th century into a playground in which to have out petty political spats. You might also think that, less than a week after Charlie Kirk was gunned down by someone who thought his views made him the devil, activists would be a bit more wary about throwing around the slurs. But apparently not.  It’s pathetic, in its way. A collective act of cosplay we are all being forced to indulge. These activists aren’t radicals. They’re the rent-a-mob of the technocratic establishment, raging against the populists for sending a wrecking ball into a failed “consensus”. They have to pretend they’re fighting Nazis, so they don’t have to admit they’re fighting ordinary people.  Stop Trump? Let’s stop this anti-democratic derangement that dares to call itself anti-fascism."

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