MONDAY: Twenty-five years and two days later...

MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2025

...look where it has us now: President Trump has blamed Rob Reiner for Rob Reiner's brutal death.

In our view, Colby Hall's reaction to this is well worth considering. But for today, we return to an event which was, as of Saturday, exactly 25 years old.

We were skillfully napping, with C-Span strategically on, when we heard a voice orating in the manner shown below. But why was C-Span running that?

Groggily, we posed that question. Within the oration C-Span ran, we include a final ironic remark:

As heard on C-Span this Saturday: 
I've seen America in this campaign, and I like what I see. It's worth fighting for, and that's a fight I'll never stop. As for the battle that ends tonight, I do believe, as my father once said, that "No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shape the soul and let the glory out."

[...]

Now the political struggle is over and we turn again to the unending struggle for the common good of all Americans and for those multitudes around the world who look to us for leadership in the cause of freedom.

In the words of our great hymn, "America, America": "Let us crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea."

And now, my friends, in a phrase I once addressed to others, it's time for me to go.

Thank you, and good night, and God bless America.

Say what? "Defeat might serve as well as victory to let the glory out?" But also, the initial bit of irony:

"It's time for me to go?"

Plainly, the words were those of Candidate Gore, in his December 2000 concession speech, bringing Campaign 2000 to its fateful end. And sure enough:

It had been 25 years, to the day, since that concession came. It came on December 13, 2000, a day we remember fairly well.

As happenstance happened to have it, we ended up spending some time with the former candidate—along with several other college friends—on that very night. We did an early show at the D.C. Improv, then hurried over, in response to a mid-afternoon telephone call, to a prescheduled, large-scale Christmas reception at the vice president's residence.

We shared a joke with the former candidate when that group of college friends huddled for a stretch of time in a private salon. Through the miracle of trans-Atlantic telephone communication, he then shared the joke with President Clinton, who was flying home from Europe and had given him a call. 

One week later, in a receiving line at another massive Christmas reception, President Clinton stopped the proceedings and repeated the joke for all to hear as we paraded by with the friend who had insisted that we go through the receiving line.

"There's a great deal of truth to that joke," President Clinton convincingly said—and sure enough! The president included the joke in his lengthy memoir, My Life, with its language slightly altered. 

And that's not all! Roger Simon's history of that campaign, Divided We Stand: How Al Gore Beat George Bush and Lost the Presidency, ends with an anecdote from Air Force 1 on that very night:

In Simon's book, President Clinton emerges from his private quarters on Air Force 1 and repeats the joke to the travelling press. It was the shot heard round the world!

That joke rang a bell for Clinton and for Gore. To enjoy the joke as President Clinton memorialized it, you can turn to page 934 of My Life (chapter 55) and see how it works for you!

(In that book, President Clinton had words for the Supreme Court decision which, delivered that very day, may have signaled the start of the modern era. "It was an appalling decision," he writes, correctly or otherwise, right there on page 933. "Bush v. Gore will go down in history as one of the worst decisions the Supreme Court ever made...")

We'll let you judge that for yourselves. President Clinton went to law school. We ourselves never did.

At any rate, it had been exactly 25 years since that small group of college friends gathered with Brother Gore on that fateful night. For the record:

At the start of his concession speech, he had offered another self-deprecating bit of irony. As you can see by consulting this link, this is what he said:

Al Gore 2000 Presidential Concession Speech
delivered 13 December 2000

Good evening.

Just moments ago, I spoke with George W. Bush and congratulated him on becoming the 43rd president of the United States. And I promised him that I wouldn't call him back this time.

I offered to meet with him as soon as possible so that we can start to heal the divisions of the campaign and the contest through which we've just passed.

Maybe you remember the reference there. Also, maybe you don't.

Chris Matthews had a hard time reacting to the graciousness of that concession speech. To this day, some 25 years and two days later, no one has ever asked Chris (a very bright person) to explain his bizarre behavior during that campaign, when he turned on a dime and joined his colleagues in twenty solid months of what never came to be known as "The War Against Gore."

No one has ever asked Chris to explain why he said and did the things he said and did. Also, no one ever will! Admittedly brilliant as we all are, those of us in Blue America have never quite come to understand the way our high-end Blue journalists work, including the way they're trying to whistle past the graveyard with respect to the current president, the one in the White House right now.

In some quarters, Candidate Gore was criticized for conceding that day. Was he supposed to form an army and march on the Supreme Court building? Admittedly brilliant though we Blues are, no one ever quite explained.

At any rate, you see an older culture at work in that concession speech. The candidate who got more votes was willing to say that he had lost, given the rules of the game Today, the candidate who got fewer votes five years ago is still insisting he won!

We especially recall two surprising things the feller said that night. Since we never discuss our conversations with former presidential candidates, those remarks have never gone into anyone's book.

At any rate, the two main fellers swapped a joke over the trans-Atlantic phone that night. Full disclosure:

Brother Gore always had a developed sense of the ironic and the absurd.

He went on to star in an Oscar-winning documentary and to win a Nobel peace prize. Today, a little mutt who calls climate change "a major hoax" is driving the engine at the Fox News Channel, and none of the mutts who gather the dollars from Blue America's corporate orgs are willing to say a single word about that assault on "our democracy."

You can read the full concession speech here. You can watch the videotape simply by clicking this.

As for letting the glory out, here is the candidate's funeral oration when his father, Senator Albert Gore Sr., died in 1998. We read through it again this weekend. We were especially struck by the two highlighted points:

REMARKS BY THE VICE PRESIDENT AT THE FUNERAL OF HIS FATHER, FORMER SENATOR ALBERT GORE, SR.

President and Mrs. Clinton; so many honored guests from our nation and our state. The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.

My father was the greatest man I ever knew in my life. Most of you know him for his public service and it could be said of him, in the words of Paul, that this man walked worthy of the vocation wherewith he was called.

[...]

Of all the lessons he taught me as a father, perhaps the most powerful was the way he loved my mother. He respected her as an equal, if not more. He was proud of her. But it went way beyond that...

"Perhaps the most powerful was the way he loved my mother?" Young men taught such lessons are extremely fortunate. 

(That same "cable news" star overtly insults women, night after night, on the Fox News Channel. At this point, we Blues aren't even willing to pretend that we object or care about such poison as that.)

The War Against Gore was the next campaign derived from the pointless anger directed at President Clinton. Our major journalists acted in concert for years. Our major historians know what happened, but they damn straight aren't going to tell.

With respect to the younger Gore, we were together on Cape Cod, with a pair of lady friends, when we discovered a wonderful new TV show in June 1969—the new syndicated TV program, Hee Haw! Minnie Pearl was right there on TV! Feller knew all about her.

In response, they said he grew up in a fancy hotel, even at the Ritz! They kept it up for two straight years. On Saturday, we turned to the analysts and barked the command:

Just look where it has us now!

For extra credit only: In his concession speech, feller borrowed from Lincoln's second inaugural!  

We wouldn't have noticed that at the time. We did notice it now!

AMERICAN REVOLUTION(S): We interrupt our planned report...

MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2025

...to describe a cognitive breakdown: We interrupt our planned report to describe a cognitive breakdown.

You won't read about it in the New York Times. You'll read about it only here.

This latest incident strikes us as unmistakable. It occurred early yesterday afternoon, as the president hosted a Christmas reception right there at the White House.

As we've noted, cognitive declines of this type are human tragedies. They can also be quite dangerous, depending on who is in decline.

In this instance, even the folks at Mediaite apparently didn't know what to do with what had seemed to occur:

They published this one report about the president's standard delusional claim that he actually won the 2020 election. Also, they published a second report about an odd remark the president made about his eldest son.

In doing so, these folk were taking a dive—were refusing to discuss the elephant there in the room. And so, when we finally clicked to this report by The Independent, we were surprised when we read the highlighted claim:

Trump offers condolences after Brown, Bondi Beach and Syria killings before rambling White House speech

President Donald Trump offered his condolences following shootings at Brown University, Bondi Beach and in Syria before his unscripted remarks at a Christmas reception at the White House.

The president addressed a room full of supporters for more than 40 minutes Sunday as First Lady Melania Trump stood by his side.

[...]

After addressing the three incidents, the president delved into a lengthy, off-the-cuff rant, and at one [point] discussed venomous snakes for roughly 10 minutes.

Say what? As part of his speech at a Christmas reception, the president "at one [point] discussed venomous snakes for roughly ten minutes?"

That seemed a bit hard to believe. Continuing directly, the Independent offered this summary of the satrap's remarks:

[Continuing directly]
He told the story of a White House physician, Dr. James Jones, who was bitten by a viper while hiking in Peru with former President Barack Obama’s daughters. Jones lost consciousness several times but eventually recovered after months of rehabilitation.

“It’s known for being a rather rough place in terms of physical creatures crawling around,” the 79-year-old president said of the South American nation.

“It’s funny when you talk about snakes and things like that, people find it interesting,” Trump said to a hushed room. “Would anybody like to go to Peru and walk around the forest? No thank you, I’ll say no thank you.”

He acknowledged the snake anecdote was “a terrible Christmas story, but it’s a hell of story.”

Puzzled, we watched C-Span's tape of the 40-minute "off the cuff rant." To watch the full forty minutes, click here. Our assessment would be this:

You won't read about in the Times. Also, Mediaite took a dive on what happened.

But it's hard to believe that anyone can watch what the president did without seeing that a serious problem seems to exist. Let us clue you about some of the peculiar things the sitting president weirdly said.

(We start with a minor warning. The Independent summarized, but didn't fact check, the president's weird remarks.)

It's true! Twenty minutes into his 40-minute address, the president began to discuss Dr. James Jones, who was present at the reception and who is or was part of the White House medical staff. Rather, he began to discuss a self-published book Dr. Jones has written. 

As described by Barnes and Noble, the book in question is this:

Venom and Valor: A White House Physician Assistant's Battle for Survival in the Amazon

Overview
This book is a memoir of a life marked by resilience, hard work, and the strength of family bonds. It tells the story of a man who, despite a difficult childhood filled with poverty, an alcoholic father, and early independence, was shaped by adversity into a dedicated husband, father, and grandfather. Through the love and support of an extraordinary wife, he overcame the odds, finding purpose in service and sacrifice. This journey is a testament to the enduring power of resilience and the values of hard work and commitment.

The book is 132 pages long. It was self-published in November 2024. 

For the record, we would assume that Dr. Jones is a superb physician. As you can see by clicking this link, he was recently named "Physician Associate of the Year" during the annual meeting of a relevant professional association.

Dr. Jones was present at yesterday's event, and the sitting president took it from there. His rumination lasted almost ten minutes. It seems to us that a cognitive problem became unmistakably clear.

The president went on, and then on and on, about a trip Dr. Jones made to Peru in the company of one of the Obamas' daughters. It was on that trip that Dr. Jones was bitten by a venomous snake.

How dangerous was this medical event? We can't tell you that. But this is the way the event was described back in 2018:

PA LTC Jones Practices Protective Medicine at the White House
December 11, 2018

The tables were turned on PA James Jones in Peru’s Amazon jungle in October 2016.

Jones, a U.S. Army lieutenant colonel working in the White House Medical Unit, was on the detail assigned to President Obama’s daughter Malia during a post-high school program in Peru. Forty-five minutes into a hike, he fell into a bush. Jones became unconscious – twice. The team’s Secret Service agents treating him telephoned White House physician Ronny Jackson, M.D., who determined that a pit viper, apparently lying in the bush, bit Jones.

Jones was transported to a hospital in the city of Cusco, where anti-venom serum was administered. He soon recovered.

Was that an accurate account of what happened? We can't tell you that. But as the sitting president rambled on at yesterday's Christmas event, he told an increasingly puzzled audience that Dr. Jones had been unconscious for weeks; that it took him two years to recover; that attending physicians thought he was dead three times; and that he was read his last rites.

"Look how quiet everybody is," the president eventually said as his ghoulish tale kept unspooling. Finally, after endless side trips, he revealed "the purpose of the story:"

Why did the sitting president devote almost ten minutes to this tale? Rather plainly, the purpose was this:

According to the sitting president, Dr. Jones had written the book three years ago. "It was OK," the president said. "It sold about two copies."

How proud Dr. Jones must have been when the president offered that comment! But lordy! The sitting president now said that he himself had mentioned the book, one day earlier, right there on his Truth Social site!

What had happened as a result? We'll let the commander speak:

PRESIDENT TRUMP (12/14/25): I put it out—Ba ba ba ba. ... And his publisher calls him, says, "Doctor, what happened? What's going on?"

The publisher. who doesn't seem to exist, was baffled nonetheless! According to the sitting president, this is the reason why:

PRESIDENT TRUMP: They sold one hundred thousand books! It's the number one best-seller! Can you believe it?

It's the number one best-selling book. Can you believe that?

[To Dr. Jones] So now you're a best-selling author. Now he can quit the White House!

AUDIENCE: [Applause]

Politely, some in the gathering applauded. Even at this extremely late date, some of them may been able to "believe that!"

On this campus, we had our doubts. And when we checked the best-seller records at Amazon, this is what we found for the book by Dr. Jones, late yesterday afternoon:

Best Sellers Rank: #1,241,174 in Books...#8,809 in Memoirs

As of late yesterday, it was actually the #1.24 million best-seller! Close enough for the purposes of the American discourse, an entity which has long qualified as an imitation of life.

For the record, we ourselves have long suspected that the president may actually believe the fantastical claims he makes. The press has agreed that they will never seek opinion concerning such matters from experienced and qualified medical specialists.

That said:

At yesterday's Christmas event, the president discussed the little girl and the dreadful snake for roughly ten minutes. After that, he proceeded to his more familiar fantasies, claiming (for example) that if California's elections weren't rigged, he would easily win that state.

As for the president's ten-minute jaunt, "the purpose of the story" had now become clear. He told the story to display his mastery of the cosmos. If he so much as mentions a book which originally sold two copies, that book will become the nation's number one best-seller by the very next day!

In her actual best-selling book, the president's doctorate-wielding psychologist niece described the way the president had been trained, aa a child and then as a youth and a young adult, to think such grandiose thoughts about himself. 

She also listed his many probable "psychopathologies," and she noted that the president's father, her own paternal grandfather, had descended into dementia in the last years of his life.

When she did that, American journalists worked to look the other way. They ignored his niece's troubling assessments, reinventing her as a political pundit instead.

In recent weeks, at least one respected physician and one respected psychologist have been speaking openly about this apparent decline on the part of the sitting president. Yesterday, it seemed to us that the cognitive issue stood up and hollered as the president spoke.

Such decline is always a human tragedy. People don't actually choose to experience such a decline.

That said, the New York Times will avert its gaze from yesterday's bizarre performance. So did Mediaite, and so will everyone else.

As a replacement, the Times will offer this substitute piffle from one of its columnists. Parents are told that this brilliance helps explains the very high tuition fees they're shelling out to Duke!

Thid afternoon: Exactly 25 years ago...

Tomorrow: American Revolution(s)! When General Washington fought!

SUNDAY: There the New York Times goes again!

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2025

Front-page article AWOL: If you're reading the print edition of today's New York Times, it's right there on the front page.

The report was written by Carol Rosenberg. Right there on page A1, the headline on the piece says this:

To Resurrect 'Fort Lee' Name,
Army Enlists Forgotten Soldier

It's sitting right there on page A1. But if you read the Times online, the report is missing from the "Today's Paper" site. You will think you've seen a list of all the front-page reports—but this report had fallen through the cracks, and it has disappeared.

Full disclosure:

There are only five (5) reports on the front page of today's print edition. You'd think a paper like the Times would be able to link to all five on its "Today's Paper" site.

If you thought something like that, you were very wrong. As we noted again just last week, the Times "loses" articles in this way, from its print edition front page, on an amazingly regular basis.

It seems like a very dumb thing to do! To put that dumbness into a larger context, just consider the truly spectacular dumbness Rosenberg is writing about.

We've shown you the headline from today's print editions. Online, Rosenberg's report starts like this, dual headline included:

The Mysterious Life and Afterlife of Private Fitz Lee
For more than a century, this Black soldier from Virginia was remembered by nearly no one. Then this year, someone at the Pentagon found a use for him.

Pvt. Fitz Lee’s life descended into misfortune and misery after he helped rescue fellow American soldiers in Cuba in the late 1800s.

[...]

For more than a century, he was remembered by nearly no one. Private Lee, this Black U.S. Army veteran, was buried beneath a magnolia tree at the military cemetery at Fort Leavenworth in northeast Kansas.

Then this year, someone at the Pentagon found a use for him.

For decades, an Army base in Virginia was named for Robert E. Lee, the defeated Civil War general who had owned slaves. In 2021, a new law mandated the removal of Confederate names from military assets. The base was renamed Fort Gregg-Adams to honor two pioneering Black Army officers who had overcome segregation in the military.

But after returning to office, the Trump administration was determined to rewind history. A law prevented the restoration of Confederate names, so it did it in a most unusual way. The base is now called Fort Lee again and named—officially, anyway—for Fitz Lee.

And yes, that's what they actually did!

The sheer stupidity of this MAGA behavior may seem hard to comprehend. As with Fort Bragg, so too here—they wanted to restore "Fort Lee" as the name of the base, but under terms of a 2021 law, it couldn't be Robert E. Lee.

Solution! They found a different person named Lee, and they've now named the base after him. Adherents of the original name get their preferred name back—but what is supposed to be the reason for this restoration? Have we somehow Made the Name of the Base Great Again?

We humans are built for fantasy realms. As we've noted for the past 27 years, we're built for the stories, and now for the names, we dumbly choose to prefer. 

We also seem to be built for the practice of losing front-page reports in the manner we've described. There are five such reports on today's front page. On the site it calls "Today's Paper," the Times kept track of just four!

(This peculiar practice is quite common. Weirdly, the Times does this all the time!)

AMERICA(S) THE BEAUTIFUL: The focus shifted this morning on Fox!

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2025

"Tampon," the flyweight said: America(s) the Beautiful are in a world of hurt. Just consider what happened, this very morning, in the first ten minutes of Fox & Friends Weekend.

For starters, it's just as we told you. The sprawling Minnesota fraud event was the first topic the friends discussed. As we told you, this event will be pushed within Silo Red. 

Inside our own Silo Blue, the event will be disappeared.

In such ways, two groups of American citizens emerge—dueling group with different ideas of what is happening in the countr(ies) they inhabit. But this morning, what a change!

As the friends discussed this mountain of fraud, the Somali connection was almost completely disappeared. They now tied the whole thing to Governor Walz—to the man who's simply known as "Tampon" on this channel's most-watched "news" programs.

The Somali connection was gone today; Rep. Omar was barely mentioned. That said, the topic stays hot within Silo Red. It was the very first topic the trio of friends chose to discuss this morning. They did so in an exchange which consumed the program's first ten minutes.

So it will continue to go as our giant sprawling nation is transitioned into a pair of warring tribes. Concerning the actual facts which may exist, we'll direct you in two ways:

Now for the rest of the story:

Last Sunday, Rep. Omar appeared on Face the Nation, where she discussed this topic with the program's host, Margaret Brennan. Rep. Omar's appearance followed a stumblebum performance by Scott Bessent, who embarrassed himself with such clownage as this:

BRENNAN (12/7/25): Before I let you go, I want to ask you about this massive fraud out in Minnesota, and the state welfare program has been under federal investigation since all the way back in 2022.

The president told you, though, this week, to look into Somalis who—quote–"ripped off that state for billions of dollars." He said they contribute nothing. What exactly are you investigating?

BESSENT: Well, Margaret, to be clear, the initial fraud that was discovered by the IRS, for which I'm the acting commissioner, it was discovered by IRS Criminal Investigations Unit. This was not an endogenous thing that the state of Minnesota decided. We had to go in and clean up the mess for them, and this is part of the continued cleanup.

A lot of money has been transferred from the individuals who committed this fraud, including those who donated to the governor, donated to Representative Omar and donated to A.G. Ellison.

[...]

BRENNAN: OK, but you have no evidence of that money being used to fuel terrorism, which is what some conservative writers are alleging?

BESSENT: Well, that's why–that's why it's an investigation. We started it last week. We'll see where it goes. But I can tell you that, you know, it's terrible. You know, Representative Omar tried to downplay it, said, oh, it was very - - the – it was very tough to know how this money should – should be used.

She was gaslighting the American people. But, you know, when you come to this country, you got to learn which side of the road to drive on, you got to learn to stop at stop signs, and you got to learn the – not to defraud the American people.

As a spokesperson inside Silo Red, he was still working the Somali / Omar / foreigner / money to terrorists beat. Rep. Omar needs to learn to stop at stop signs, he thoughtfully said, and to stop defrauding the public.

In fact, Bessent himself had been floating the notion that there was some sort of Somali terrorist link to this mountain of fraud. You can see him doing so here.

 Brennan was perhaps too polite to mention that particular fact. But when asked about the general notion, Bessent had nothing but a speculation to offer.

At any rate, as of today, on Fox & Friends Weekend, the Somali framework was gone. Last Sunday, Brennan finally got Bessent to leave, then spoke with Rep. Omar. In this, the initial Q-and-A, Rep. Omar made a statement which was never going to be repeated on the Fox News Channel:

BRENNAN: We have a lot to get to with you, but I want to pick up on where the Treasury Secretary just left off. He alleged that people who were tied to you or your campaign were involved in this broad, brazen scheme to rip off the Minnesota state welfare system. 

Do you want to respond to that? Do you know what he is referring to?

OMAR: I really don't, and I don't think the Secretary himself understands what he's referring to. 

We obviously had people who were able to donate to our campaign that were involved. We sent that money back a couple years ago. And, actually, I was one of the first members of Congress to send a letter to the Secretary of [Agriculture], asking them to look into what I thought was a reprehensible fraud that was occurring within the program.

[...]

BRENNAN: So, do you think, though, that there was a failure by the Democratic state government to police itself? This is a brazen fraudulent activity here.

OMAR: Yes. And that is what I alluded to in my letter that I had sent to the Secretary of Ag, was to see where things were going wrong. How can this amount of money disappear fraudulently without there being alarms being set off?

According to Rep. Omar, she had long since returned those campaign donations. Also, she said she had played an early role in having this fraud investigated. 

Brennan herself had mentioned another fact—these prosecutions had started within the Biden era DOJ. That's another fact which was never going to be mentioned by the messaging agents inside Silo Red. 

Additional information was involved in the New York Times' front-page report about this newly red-hot scandal. In the end, what sorts of facts may emerge from this ongoing event? 

We can't tell you that, but we can tell you this:

Whatever facts may emerge, Red and Blue Americans will be exposed to sifted versions of those facts. That's the way the game is currently played within the "beautiful, for spacious skies" of our own America(s) the Possibly Less Than Beautiful.

This morning, the friends were changing the focus of this topic, with Walz as their new target. This may be a way for Silo Red to steer away from the astounding recent behavior by President Trump, who wants immigrants from places like Sweden and Denmark, not from the "shithole countries" which have sent us "garbage" like Rep. Omar and "her friends."

So he has said, and said and said! With this morning's shifted focus, Silo Red may be trying to avoid future discussion of such behavior by the president. 

Meanwhile, for reasons we haven't seen explained, large parts of Silo Blue have also agreed to pretend that those "shocking" outbursts by President Trump never occurred.

Along the way, we'll also always have the flyweight Watters. 

We know you think we're just making it up when we discuss the way this 47-year-old stumblebum child conducts himself on the air. 

We know that's what a sane person would think. But there he was, just last night, hosting the second most-watched "cable news" program in all of our realm's "cable news."

There he was, and here's what he said. We actually don't make this up:

WATTERS (12/12/25): Granny wants [ICE] agents to quit—and Noem deported! No wonder they're so mad. "Tampon" lit the fuse.

When this flyweight goes on the air, Governor Walz is "Tampon Tim"—or he may simply be "Tampon!" 

Also, citizens of Blue America may be referred to as "Granny." To see what this corporate flyweight was talking about, you can just click here.

That's the way the game is played inside the stunningly low-IQ Silo Red. Inside our famously brilliant Silo Blue, our journalists avert their gaze from this assault on the discourse. 

Over here, inside Silo Blue, our multimillion-dollar stars don't seem to be able to care. We're living now in Silo(es) America—in America(s) Red and Blue!

FRIDAY: "Greasy Savior," the chyron said!

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2025

No Shedding of Cells Left Behind: It fell to Jesse Watters to open the show. It was 5 p.m. sharp in the East. 

Watters is 47 years old. An imitation of life was about to begin. 

We were struck by the way this program started. Yesterday, the most-watched program in American "cable news" started exactly as shown:

WATTERS (12/11/25): Hi, everybody. I'm Jesse Watters, along with Kennedy, Harold Ford Jr., Dana Perino and Lawrence Jones. It's 5 o'clock in New York City, and this is The Five.

Looks like the Democrats' greasy savior has risen to the top of the pack. The New York Times anointing California governor Gavin Newsom as the party's 2028 front-runner...

For the interview piece to which Watters referred, you can just click here. As Watters spoke, the Fox News Channel chyron beneath him was thoughtfully saying this:

GREASY SAVIOR
NYT: NEWSON BECAME THE DEMS' 2028 FRONT-RUNNER

Watters was speaking about Governor Newsom, the Democrats' "Greasy Savior." Before long, Dana Perino was referring to Newsom as "Governor U-Haul." 

At any rate, that was the opening statement of our nation's most-watched "cable news" show. It's a show which frequently traffics in the use of disparaging nicknames. 

As we've long noted, Watters refers to Governor Tim Walz (D-Minn.) as "Tampon Tim," or simply as "Tampon." On this, our most-watched "cable news" show, few brain cells ever get left behind.

BREAKING: "Greasy Savior," the silly boy said!

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2025

On the nation's top "cable news" program: What is Red America being told about Minnesota's sprawling fraud scandal?

It's an ongoing topic within Silo Red, even addressed by the president. Over here, within Silo Blue, the topic is being disappeared.

This one of the ways we're being transformed into dueling America(s). That said, what are the facts about this matter, to the extent that the facts may be known?

You're asking an excellent question! But we're headed off for a whirl at the medical mission, and we expect to be off campus for the bulk of the day.

Our rumination on those questions will continue, either tomorrow or Monday. For now, we thought you might like to get a glimpse of the state of our failing nation's failing culture—a glimpse of our flailing nation's institutional IQ.

Yesterday afternoon, we settled in to watch the nation's most-watched "cable news" program. It was 5 p.m. here in the east—time for the start of The Five!

On came a familiar figure. When we return this afternoon, we'll show you the very first thing this silly, sad boy sadly said. 

We'll even report what the chyron said! If you want to check for yourself, you can just click here.

Can a very large modern nation expect to survive the effects of this influential, low-IQ regime? As Springsteen said in "My Hometown," go ahead:

"Take a good look around."

Try to ignore the president's sliding polls. In addition to the ongoing state of play, what sorts of additional decisions / disasters may perhaps / possibly come? 

THURSDAY: What did Senator McCaskill mean?

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2025

And when did she possibly mean it? In yesterday morning's report, we quoted Claire McCaskill saying this about President Trump's endless speech in the Poconos:

"That speech—he's not well. He's not well."

Due in part to our own pre-existing frame of reference, we connected that to the fairly obvious possibility that President Trump is afflicted by some form of (what used to be known as a) "mental illness." 

Yesterday afternoon, as she appeared on Deadline: White House, it seemed that McCaskill might instead be thinking of some sort of cognitive decline—some form of a "mental cognitive problem."

MacCaskill is routinely astute. She spoke as part of a three-way discussion with Nicolle Wallace and John Heilemann. They staged an important discussion, one which should be pursued, with great care, within the pages of the New York Times. 

That said, no such discussion will appear at that location. Blue America's high-end press corps continues to agree that no such discussion—not about possible "mental illness," not about possible cognitive decline—can be permitted with respect to the capabilities, or the afflictions, of high political figures.

According to the rules of the game, you can't discuss the monarch that way. For better or worse, so it goes within Silo Blue even after our recent "No Kings" day!

The Times did publish this recent, mush-mouthed report in which they claimed to quantify something resembling the president's energy level. To our eye, the president has looked extremely unwell in recent weeks, but the Times methodology struck us as unconvincing. That's especially true with respect to what was once conventional wisdom—until quite recently, it seems:

Conventional wisdom until recently:
President Trump did nothing but sit around watching TV during his first term. But ever since the start of his current term, he's been aggressively flooding the zone with revamped dogmas and destructive policy moves.

Is cognitive decline considered a form of "mental illness?" Some sources flatly say no, some others seem to say yes. Presumably, the worst combination of afflictions would saddle a person who was suffering from a serious "personality disorder" with a substantial cognitive decline.

(We're forced to speculate about such possibilities because the journalists upon whom we rely won't conduct careful interviews with experienced medical specialists.)

The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but our Blue elites have agreed to abide by a bromide from another day:

Don't ask, don't tell.

A few medical specialists have recently started breaking the rule. Thanks to the weak cognition of the people we're told we should trust, their efforts are likely to gain little purchase.

AMERICA(S) THE BEAUTIFUL: When the president said she was garbage...

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2025

...Blue stars barely said a word: "And so it did happen like it could have been foreseen / The timeless explosion of fantasy's dream..."

The star of the program was back this morning, with a weak aside from his wife, the program's co-host. 

Where had he been for the past four days? "Glad you're feeling better," the spousal co-host weakly said.

The longer ad breaks remain in place, an apparent artefact of the new corporate structure. Not that any of this actually matters, but the longer discussions which were engineered under the MSNBC regime are apparently a thing of the past under MS NOW.

They were the smartest discussions in all of cable news. Now they'll be tightened and corporatized. 

As noted, those discussions were never going to save the failing discourse of our flailing nation(s). But at this site, the idealistic young analysts have wept and stared off into air as they've seen the imposition of these new restrictions on discourse.

By 7:05 a.m. today, the Morning Joe gang was involved in a bit of a dodge. They were talking about what the president said when he shlepped to the Poconos for an endless rally-style event this past Tuesday night.

Thanks to the invaluable Rev, a full transcript now exists of the president's endless remarks on Tuesday night. Full disclosure:

As we suggested yesterday, it seems the New York Times made a mistake when it said the president had described Rep. Omar as "garbage" once again.

There seems to be no record of President Trump referring to Rep. Omar (and "her friends") as "garbage" this past Tuesday night. He did insult her in every other possible way, engaging in the dangerous conduct of an extremely unusual person.

Rep. Omar (and "her friends") are "garbage," the president said on two occasions last week. As far as we know, those astounding insults from two (2) successive Oval Office pressers were never reported or discussed on Morning Joe.

This morning, the Morning Joe panel chose to discuss a different part of the president's Tuesday evening tirade. This is the part of his breakdown the panel briefly discussed:

PRESIDENT TRUMP (12/9/25): I've also announced a permanent pause on third world migration, including from hellholes like Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia and many other countries.

AUDIENCE MEMBER: Shithole.

PRESIDENT TRUMP: I didn't say "shithole," you did.

Remember I said that to the senators, they came in, the Democrats, they wanted to be bipartisan. So they came in and they said, "This is totally off the record. Nothing mentioned here. We want to be honest." Because our country was going to hell.

And we had a meeting. And I said, "Why is it we only take people from shithole countries," right? Why can't we have some people from Norway, Sweden—just a few. Let us have a few.

From Denmark, do you mind sending us a few people? Send us some nice people. Do you mind? But we always take people from Somalia, places that are a disaster, right? Filthy, dirty, disgusting, ridden with crime.

In real time, back in 2018, the president swore that he'd said no such thing. This Tuesday, in an apparent bungle, he boasted that he actually had.

Those remarks are the obvious fruit of an American tragedy. A few weeks ago, the Ken Burns PBS film, The American Revolution, reminded us of where this tragedy started, though also perhaps of how far we have slowly managed to come:

NARRATOR: The Second Continental Congress had been meeting since May, and it was obvious from the first that 43-year-old George Washington would command its new army. He had led troops during the French and Indian War, and he was from Virginia, the wealthiest and most populated colony.

New England delegates, eager to ensure that colony's support for the war, favored naming a Virginian.

Washington was also one of America's richest men, the beneficiary of the work of scores of indentured servants and more than 100 enslaved people at his plantation on the Potomac River, Mount Vernon.

[...]

JANE KAMENSKY, HISTORIAN: I think we have to understand Washington as the figurehead without whom American liberty would not have survived. At the same time, he's an enslaver of 317 men, women, and children. He acted as an enslaver in the ways that enslavers did.

He bought and sold people. He broke up families. Do not look for gilded statues of marble men. They were not that, and neither are we and neither is anybody at all.

"Do not look for gilded statues," not even of us ourselves! Kamensky was giving good advice. We always tell the analysts this:

Just thank the gods that you weren't alive at that earlier time. Thank the gods that you weren't forced to see how you would have reacted to the moral norms, understandings and frameworks of that earlier age.

On Tuesday, the current president spoke about "shithole countries" when he went to the Poconos. On two successive days last week, he ranted about Rep. Omar, right there in the Oval Office.

On each occasion, he referred to her as "garbage." According to the sitting president, "her friends" are "garbage" too.

As the New York Times reported, he also said this:

Somalia “stinks and we don’t want them in our country...We could go one way or the other, and we’re going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country."

So the sitting president said, right there in the Oval Office and right there on videotape.. 

Now for the rest of the story:

Viewers of the Fox News Channel haven't seen those comments discussed on its "cable news" TV shows. Comments like those are disappeared by that channel, as part of the sanitization which has helped create the America(s) in which we all currently live.

That said, viewers of the Fox News Channel have seen a certain topic discussed. In our view, the New York Times was doing its journalistic duty when it brought that topic to the front page of its print editions on Sunday, November 30:

How Fraud Swamped Minnesota’s Social Services System on Tim Walz’s Watch
Prosecutors say members of the Somali diaspora, a group with growing political power, were largely responsible. President Trump has drawn national attention to the scandal amid his crackdown on immigration.

Rightly or wrongly, Governor Walz appeared in the headlines of that front-page Sunday report. Within the precincts of Red America, viewers keep hearing about that massive fraud.

Viewers hear that topic cited on the Fox News Channel. Over here in Blue America, that topic has largely been disappeared. 

We Blues aren't going to hear much about it. Nor are we hearing much about the way the president ranted about Ilhan Omar. right there in the Oval Office.

Yesterday, former senator Claire McCaskill said this about our sitting president:

"That speech. He's not well. He's not well."

What did she mean by that remark? On yesterday's Deadline: White House, she elaborated a bit. This afternoon, we'll show you what she said. But with respect to Minnesota's giant fraud, the overpaid stars of MS NOW are taking a pass on that topic.

As a general matter, they serve us the product which makes us feel glad. Inside Silo Red, on the Fox News Channel, their counterparts play the same game,

When we continue—it might not be until Saturday—we'll show you what Rep. Omar said about that giant fraud when she appeared on Face the Nation. We'll show you what that front-page New York Times report actually said.

We'll also show you what Jesse Watters said about this same topic, right there on The Five. 

The Blue American stars of Morning Joe don't discuss what happens on those Fox News Channel programs. In that way, they keep refusing to serve. 

They and their predecessors have been playing the game in similar ways for three or four decades now. It's easy to be pleased by the things they say, harder to be aware of the topics they chose to disappear.

Concerning our Blue American stars, know this:

They don't know how to talk about "mental illness." They don't know how to talk about so-called race in a way that's likely to help.

They don't want to tell you about the massive amount of fraud which did take shape with Governor Walz in the State House. They're taking a total pass on that topic as the Fox News Channel—and the president himself—rant and rail about it.

The president ranted about that fraud when he went to the Poconos. In Silo Red, it's widely cited. In Silo Blue, it's disappeared.

More than anything else on earth, Blue America cable's corporate owners don't seem to want a tussle with Fox.  Joe and Mika and the rest of the toys are willing to let them rave on.

Tomorrow or Saturday: It emerged from Silo Red

WEDNESDAY: Fox News star forms Bible group!

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2025

Then batters "effeminate weasels:" We were surprised by the revelation in this report from Mediaite:

Jesse Watters Reveals He Created a Daily Bible Study Group With Greg Gutfeld and Harold Ford...

Fox News stars Jesse Watters, Greg Gutfeld, and Harold Ford Jr. were inspired to create a daily Bible study group after the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, Watters said on Tuesday.

Watters shared that he and his work buddies have been reading The Good Book on The Five; his announcement coincided with Erika Kirk, the wife of the slain Turning Point USA founder, joining the show.

“Harold, Jesse, and Greg are in a Bible study group together, because of Charlie Kirk,” Watters told the panel, while referring to himself in the third person.

[...]

“Every morning we wake up and we read a passage, and then we text about it,” Watters explained. “And it is because of Charlie.”

Assuming the statement is true, there's plainly nothing "wrong" with it. Regarding the study group's three members, we're puzzled by some (not all) of the stances Ford adopts on The Five, though we admire his obvious political skills.

Regarding Messrs. Watters and Gutfeld, we think of the early line from sacred Thoreau's most famous volume:

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience. Moreover, I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what he has heard of other men’s lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sincerely, it must have been in a distant land to me.

"A distant land from me!" At this site, we've occasionally used the term "Unrecognizables" to describe many of the Fox News Channel's leading TV stars.

We had attained an adult age without knowing that you could get people to go on TV and behave in some of the ways they do. They're living in a distant land. We'd like that sincere account.

We believe we saw Watters mention his newly enhanced religious interest on a different Fox News Channel show within the past few weeks. We'll also expose you to this:

On Monday's edition of The Five, he offered this rumination about the September 2 drug boat strike:

WATTERS (12/8/25): This is the most popular foreign policy action of Trump's second term--killing narco-terrorists. You know what the second one is--bombing the Iran nuclear program. So the Democrats are now coming out against the two most popular things Trump has done abroad this year. Dumb! 

People love these videos! They get your feed, they're like, "Yes! Let's go!" And if you're against it, you sound like a whiny, effeminate weasel...

As we recently noted, Watters often philosophizes about the various ways a real man can look or sound effeminate—and he can name a thousand ways in which that disaster can occur. In a somewhat similar vein, Gutfeld opened Monday night's Gutfeld! show with a quick string of nine jokes.

As usual, these were the themes he explored:

Gutfeld! program: Monday, Dec. 8, 2025
Joke 1: Sidney Sweeney has very large breasts
Joke 2: Nancy Pelosi is built from the body parts of dead people
Joke 3: Hillary Clinton murders lots of people
Joke 4: Joy Behar is a crocodile-sized dinosaur
Joke 5: Oddly pointless Kwanzaa joke
Joke 6: U.S. high school students are dumb
Joke 7: Rosie O'Donnell's therapist hates her
Joke 8: Lena Dunham is so huge she could be an NFL tackle
Joke 9: Don Lemon is gay gay gay gay gay

Liberal women are too fat or too old. Don Lemon is way too gay. Sweeney has very large breasts. So it routinely goes

The gentleman's typical list of topics is a bit of "a distant land to me." In fairness, the ultimate question must be posed, not to Brother Gutfeld himself, but to the corporate types who have decided to put him on the air.

We believe that people are doing their best. We've also advised you to pity the child. Sometimes, a gentleman's best may involve what looks like the loathing of women. (See Hitchcock's Notorious, 1946.) 

We regard that as a loss for the world. Text messages notwithstanding, this product is common on Fox.

AMERICA(S) THE BEAUTIFUL: "He's not well," McCaskill said!

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2025

So too with our dueling America(s): With Joe Scarborough MIA for the fourth straight morning, it fell to former senator Claire McCaskill to make the obvious statement.

Morning Joe's remarkably lengthy new ad breaks continued in the first hour of this morning's program. Even before the first ad break, Senator McCaskill issued her statement in guarded form. She was offering the most a Blue American analyst is currently permitted to say:

"This speech—he's not well. He's not well."

So said the former senator (D-Mo.), speaking about President Trump at 6:07 a.m. Stating the obvious, she was offering a guarded pronouncement about what used to be known as "mental illness."

Today, that term is said to be giving way to "mental disorder," a kinder and gentler locution. That said, we Blues don't know how to talk about this sort of thing, and we don't know how to understand this type of human situation.

Meanwhile, over there in Red America, the former cheerleaders, VJs, "wrestlers" and sideline reporters come tumbling onto the field of play, hailing the president's greatness. (These are the "jugglers and clowns" the prophet described long ago.)

We live in (two) America(s) now, as everyone already knows. As citizens, we tend to receive our (dueling) view(s) of the world from Silo Red or from Silo Blue, but under current arrangements, rarely the twain shall meet.

For her part, Senator McCaskill was saying that President Trump seems to be (what used to be called) mentally ill. She was referring to the rally-style speech he delivered last night way up in the Poconos—a speech in which, or so says this news report in the New York Times, he in part said such things as this:

Trump’s Speech on Economy Veers Into an Anti-Immigrant Tirade

Facing criticism for rising costs for American consumers under his administration, President Trump stoked fear of immigrants from poor countries to rally a crowd of his supporters at a Pennsylvania casino on Tuesday.

[...]

Throughout the speech, Mr. Trump doubled down on a barrage of incendiary attacks that he has unleashed against immigrants since the shooting of two National Guard members near the White House last month. The day after the shooting, Mr. Trump floated the possibility of stripping naturalized American citizens of their citizenship (which is only done in rare cases) and vowed to deport all immigrants that he saw as “non-compatible with Western civilization.”

During his xenophobic tirade, Mr. Trump made little distinction between unauthorized migrants and those who followed all the correct procedures to enter the country and eventually become American citizens. He described Somali immigrants as lazy, murderous and “garbage,” and said the home countries of many immigrants were “filthy, dirty, disgusting.”

He singled out Representative Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, referring to her hijab as “the little turban.” He again called for her to be deported, and the crowd responded by chanting, “Send her back.”

According to that news report, there he's gone once again! And the crowd did respond by chanting, "Send her back!" We'll link you to the videotape below.

We offer one word of caution:

We haven't been able to verify the claim that President Trump referred to Rep. Omar as "garbage" again. That assertion may be a mistake, although we can't yet be certain.

We can tell you this. The presence of the tragic condition once known as "mental illness" seems apparent to us today, just as it did yesterday—and early in Morning Joe's 6 o'clock hour, McCaskill said what little is permitted. 

Under current rules of the game. she said what little is allowed. But with respect to Rep. Omar, the president also said such things as this last night:

PRESIDENT TRUMP (12/9/25): Prisons are emptied into our country, right? Where we have people from all over the world being dumped into our country, the people that aren't wanted in their countries. By the way, I think that's a great. Like Somalia, welcome.

Do we have any individuals from Somalia in the group? Please raise your hand. That's from Minnesota. You know that's called the great big Minnesota scam, with one of the dumbest governors ever in history.

I love this Ilhan Omar, whatever the hell her name is, with the little, the little turban. I love her. She comes in, does nothing but bitch. She's always complaining. She comes from a country where I mean, it's considered about the worst country in the world, right? They have no military. They have no nothing. They have no parliament. They don't know what the hell the word "parliament" means. 

They have nothing. They have no police. They police themselves. They kill each other all the time.

I love it. She comes to our country and she's always complaining about, "The Constitution allows me to do this." The Constitution. We ought to get her the hell out. She married her brother in order to get in, right? She married her brother. Can you imagine if Donald Trump married his sister? Beautiful, she's a beautiful person. If I married my sister to get my citizenship, do you think I'd last for about two hours, or would it be something less than that?

She married her brother to get in. Therefore, she's here illegally. She should get the hell out, throw her the hell out. She does nothing but complain. 

So now, and we have our savior in this room. His name is Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent. Because that very handsome man, that man, by the way, if you're picking the Secretary of the Treasury, is he like the perfect guy for a movie? He's made for the movies.

Stand up, Scott! Look at him! No, he's central casting. He's central casting, but you don't under that beautiful exterior is a killer. And here's what happened:

He is in charge of the investigation of Somalia and the billions of dollars they have robbed from Minnesota, right? I hope you do your job. I hope you're not one of these Republicans where something comes up and they don't do what they should do because they're nicer people.

You know, they're much nicer people than the Democrats, but Scott's actually not a nice person at all. So Scott, you're in charge of that investigation. OK, I'm not interfering at all. I'm just saying please do a good job, honest and fair, right?

Honest and oh, if he's honest and fair, you know what he's going to find. It's great. I'd love to have that job. They may switch jobs with you. I'd love to have that job.

They ought to get them the hell out of here. They hate our country and she hates our country and her friends hate our country and AOC hates our country. They all do. And we have a new candidate in the great state of Texas, where I won Texas by more votes than anybody. 

And you have to understand, I'm being judged by these bad people back there, the fake news.

The animatronic Secretary Bessent was physically present last night. Along the way, the sitting president—the person to whom McCaskill referred—had also offered such words as these:

PRESIDENT TRUMP: I've also announced a permanent pause on third world migration, including from hellholes like Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia, and many other countries.

AUDIENCE MEMBER: Shithole countries!

PRESIDENT TRUMP: I didn't say "shithole." You did!

Remember I said that to the senators? They came in, the Democrats. They wanted to be bipartisan, so they came in and they said, "his is totally off the record. Nothing mentioned here. We want to be honest because our country was going to hell." 

And we had a meeting and I said, "Why is it we only take people from shithole countries, right? Why can't we have some people from Norway, Sweden, just a few. 

"Let's have a few from Denmark. Do you mind sending us a few people? Send us some nice people. Do you mind?"

But we always take people from Somalia, places that are a disaster, right? Filthy, dirty, disgusting, ridden with crime. The only thing they're good at is going after ships. But they don't go after our ships, you know why? Because that same missile that knocks the crap out of them, with the drug dealers from Venezuela and others. That same missile, think of it from hundreds of miles away. They launch. We have the greatest military. We have the greatest equipment. We make the greatest equipment in the world. I bought more equipment. I had what we rebuilt the military in the first term. Then Stupid Joe gave a lot of it to Afghanistan, but it was still, it was a lot, but relatively little. But we're still adding to it a lot. 

But I'll tell you what, that same, I'm looking at this big tough guy with the red hat on. I like that guy, but stand up. Let me just see what you look like. I don't. Nobody's going to mess with him. OK, he's central casting. Thank you very much. Very good. I see he's enjoying it. I like people that enjoy things because you've got to smile about this whole thing...

And so on, world without end amen, as he offered more product like that. 

We can't verify the claim that he called Rep. Omar "garbage" again. But according to President Trump, Rep. Omar hates our country, and AOC hates it too.

(To see the chants of "Send her back," you can just click here.)

The speech ran roughly an hour and a half. The attempts to talk about the economy kept veering off into hellhole regions like those.

But also, and for whatever reason, this was the sixth straight day on Morning Joe in which no attempt was made to report or to discuss the endless slanders of Minnesota's Somali residents and of Omar herself.--the claim that they're "garbage" from "a shithole country," to which they should all be sent back.

Meanwhile, Denmark and Norway and Sweden oh my! That too went unmentioned on today's Morning Joe, perhaps by decree of the new set of corporate bosses (or not). But so it has gone every step of the way, with McCaskill finally offering the one tiny comment which is allowed, at this time, under the rules of the game

"He's not well," the former senator said—and then, nothing more was offered.

What was once called (serious) "mental illness" is a human tragedy. It's also a dangerous state of affairs if the world's most powerful person is so afflicted and is so impaired.

That said, all along the watchtower, Blue elites continue to agree—they must never report or discuss this fairly obvious state of affairs. And let us now mention the claim which was made about Rep. Omar's past marital status.

The claim has been made a million times. No fact-checker has ever authenticated it.

That said, the president bruited it all over again several times last night. At the garbage can known as the Fox News Channel, the slitherer known as Jesse Watters keeps reciting this slime-point too.

We'll link you to Watters most recent recitation as the week proceeds. For today, we'll tell you this:

The millionaire stars of our own Blue America's corporate press don't report or discuss what happens on the Fox News Channel. They don't report or discuss the conduct of Watters or Gutfeld or Perino, or of any of the other messenger children on that corporate messaging channel.

In trade for their multimillion-dollar checks—and this involves the silence of Rachel Maddow more than the silence of anyone else—they've agreed to let Red America be subjected to the onslaught of the mutts like Watters, with his repeated unsupported claims about Rep. Omar's past marital status. All the other messenger children—Perino and Ford and Tyrus—seem to know that they're being paid to sit there and let the claim pass.

In the past week, our Blues have avoided reporting the president's claims of "garbage" too. For whatever the reason might be, they keep refusing to go there—and in such ways, we get locked into a world of dueling America(s).

At present, our sibling nation(s) are caught in a swirl of topics. Involved are such topics as these:

The current swirl of topics:
The military strikes on the alleged drug boats
The massive fraud in Minnesota, which was first prosecuted by the Biden administration
The multifaceted question of affordability
The tragic (but dangerous) question of "mental illness"

These topics swirl, then double back. The sitting president "isn't well" is all we're permitted to hear.

Blue America's "journalists" agree not to say what they know and believe. The very large checks keep rolling in, and they agree to keep you in the dark in exchange for their own adherence to the corporate company line.

You'll hear the truth at this site alone. As the late Kevin Drum's work also proved, there's no such thing as information flow within our American system(s).

Tomorrow: What Rep. Omar said on Face the Nation. What the New York Times reported on Sunday, November 30

Friday or Saturday: What the corporate mutt Watters said on The Five, our most-watched "cable news" program

Access to videotape: C-Span offers videotape of the full ninety minutes. You can just click here, though there's no current way to search.

Needless to say, The Fox News Channel aired last night's oration in its entirety. For the start of the foofaw, just click here. 

For the rest of last evening's bingbong, you can just click this.