MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2025
Biden Biden Biden, Noem said: It was an exciting 6 o'clock hour on today's Morning Joe.
Good lord! This morning, MS NOW's new regime gave Morning Joe its first hour back! The new regime's substantially longer ad breaks were vastly postponed as a group of highly competent analysts discussed the report that Secretary of Bluster Pete Hegseth may have ordered a war crime, or perhaps a murder, in the case of the September 2 double bombing of the alleged narco-terrorist boat.
The first ad break came at 6:46. The participants had spoken without interruption up to then!
The first hour of Morning Joe has long been the most intelligent hour in all of American cable news—the most intelligent hour by far. (The discussions are often re-aired during the 8 o'clock hour.)
In response, the flyweights at the Fox News Channel will often subject some short clip from the show to distortion and ridicule. With apologies, the Gutfeld! gang—or was it the gang on The Five?—may even yuk it up about how awful it must be to have to sleep with Mika
This is who and what the Fox News flyweights are willing to be on TV. This morning, Joe Scarborough even referred to that channel by name as he discussed this savage essay about what Hegseth is reported to have done.
The essay was penned by legal analyst Andy McCarthy for The National Review. In a break from tradition, Scarborough was even allowed to describe McCarthy as "a [major] Fox News contributor."
The time has come for Blue America to learn how to discuss the role of the Fox News Channel in our poisoned national discourse. Concerning the monster dumbness of that discourse, consider what happened when the terminally disingenuous Kristi Noem appeared on yesterday's Meet the Press.
Kristin Welker had a question for Noem—a question she asked five times! Below, we'll paraphrase the repetitive non-answer answers Noem kept sending Welker's way.
We'll paraphrase what Noem said. But after a pair of preliminary softballs, these were the five questions which followed. Welker was asking about the alleged assailant in last week's murder of Sarah Beckstrom, the young woman from the West Virginia National Guard.
These are the questions Welker asked. For videotape, click here:
WELKER (11/30/15): I want to follow up with you. I mean, you say something very notable. You say he was radicalized here. This suspect, we should note, was a member of the CIA-trained strike force, according to former intelligence and military officials, he would've undergone extensive vetting during his tenure there. And afterwards, it is worth noting that Citizenship and Immigration Services, an agency which is a part of DHS, approved the suspect's asylum application in April of this year. Why did the Trump administration grant the suspect asylum in April? Did you know then that he was moving toward radicalization?
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WELKER: Well, but just to be very clear, I want to go back to what happened on the Trump administration's watch. He was extensively vetted in order to serve alongside U.S. service members as a part of the CIA-trained strike force. But in terms of what happened on the Trump administration's watch, just to be very clear, what vetting did the Trump administration do before giving this suspect asylum?
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WELKER: And we are going to talk about some of the steps the president's taking. But I just want to be very clear about this because his asylum was approved in April of this year, on the Trump administration's watch. So just to be very clear, was there a vetting process in place to approve that asylum request?
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WELKER: But was he vetted when he was granted asylum?
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WELKER: Are you saying he wasn't vetted when he was granted asylum?
Welker asked and asked and asked and asked. She asked her question five times in all. This is what she asked:
Was the alleged assailant actually vetted in April? At that time, he was granted asylum by agents of the Trump administration. Was he vetted back then?
As you can probably guess, Welker never got an answer to that simple question. That's because this is what Noem chose to say in response to every question:
Biden Biden Biden Biden Biden Biden Biden!
Noem spoke about Biden Biden Biden, making claims about a lack of vetting under Biden which may or may not be accurate. But no matter how many times Welker asked, Noem never answered the question—a question about whether the assailant was vetted in April, under Trump.
Personally, we think Welker should have asked one more time, directly demanding an answer. But this was Noem's non-answer answer each time Welker asked:
Biden Biden Biden Biden Biden Biden Biden!
As you've probably noted by now, this is all an official like Noem is able to say at this time. This verbal tic is also dominant on the Fox News Channel.
The same is true of President Trump, who can barely launch a simple accusation of treason without saying Biden Biden Biden Biden Biden Sleepy Joe. This is who and what these people are—and, to a large extent, it's also who our Blue elites were at one time.
You may recall our prior complaint at this site—our complaint about the cable news stars pf Blue America during the Biden years. At that time, the only thing we Blues knew how to say tended to go like this:
Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Jail!
Our cable stars said it and said it and said it and said it, ignoring almost everything else while signing on to legal complaints which were often notably shaky. In the process, we almost surely helped Candidate Trump get elected again.
Now, Noem is out there behaving this way—and the New York Times will be politely averting its gaze.
Polling suggests that the sheer inanity of the Trump regime is becoming increasingly visible to a chunk of American voters. Regarding Secretary Hegseth, it begins to sound like his serial furies have even started driving major Republican senators away.
Regarding Hegseth, this:
In the past, he has written about his return from military service—from war—in ways which suggested that he found himself battling depression and alcohol abuse. Many people are damaged in war in such ways.
Stating the obvious, that doesn't mean that they're bad people. Indeed, it may mean just the opposite. It also may mean that they need help, and we're going to say that such help is deserved and that it has been earned.
We think our Blue elites made key mistakes during the last campaign. We human beings simply aren't perfect, it has long been said.
Meanwhile, was the assailant vetted in April?
Biden Biden Biden Biden Biden Biden, she said!
The next time Noem claims to be in the "party of personal responsibility", God should shove a lightning bolt up her lying ass.
ReplyDelete"Was the alleged assailant actually vetted in April?"
ReplyDeleteOne thing I know for sure: I don't want any "member of the CIA-trained strike force" anywhere near my neighborhood. Vetted or unvetted. End of story.
"At that time, the only thing we Blues knew how to say tended to go like this:"
ReplyDeleteAnd why did "we blues" keep saying these things? As I recall, it had something to do with a president who marched a mob into the Capitol to disrupt Congress in the middle of its Constitutional duties. A president who also was caught on tape demanding that election officials in one state "find" enough votes to award him a victory and officials in other states file fraudulent paperwork with the federal government. A president who walked away from Washington with boxes full of classified documents that he kept stashed in a bathroom at his luxury club in Florida.
Why the hell wouldn't anyone talk about jail for such a person?
I know, right?
Delete"Why the hell wouldn't anyone talk about jail for such a person?"
DeleteI think Somerby's critique is not that we shouldn't have talked about jailing such a person, but instead that the monomaniacal focus on "jailing," to the near-exclusion of other topics important to voters (e.g., immigration, inflation), was not a wise choice politically, especially when the charges were difficult to explain (e.g., failure to keep accurate internal records). And Trump's victory offers some support for this theory.
IMHO, you can’t stress enough how trump tried to overthrow the government and install himself despite losing, DG. That’s a line that shouldn’t be crossed, and once crossed, it’s unacceptable.
Delete"Why the hell wouldn't anyone talk about jail for such a person?"
DeleteBecause it almost surely helped Trump get elected for a second time.
10:46,
DeleteSame reason we need to let the National Guard shooter walk.
10:46,
DeleteMakes more sense than the cost of living.
It's easy to say Trump's election victories have nothing at all to do with economics, if you don't work for the Right-wing, corporate-owned mainstream media.
Delete"Why the hell wouldn't anyone talk about jail for such a person?"
DeleteBecause it almost surely helped Trump get elected for a second time.
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From the same people who gave us a succession of 3 special prosecutors hounding President Clinton for 8 years culminating with Kenneth Starr - friend and confidant to Jeff Epstein, child rapist - leading a consensual blowjob impeachment.
Until I see some proof, I'm voting for the alleged National Guard shooter to be innocent.
DeleteBlame is not necessarily causation. Bob is right IMO to criticize the Trump Administration for blaming Biden for inadequate vetting.
ReplyDeleteBut here's a different question: Is it problematic for the US to have a large number foreign aliens living here who are from very different cultures? I'd say it is. Put another way, It's good for the immigrants for us to welcome immigrants with a great need too be here. Or to flee their home country. But, that policy may not be best for Americans.
Why is it not good? Keep in mind that most "real" Americans are too lazy or stupid to do any useful work.
DeleteRemember David bitching about that bastard Biden leaving the Afghans who sided with us behind where the Taliban will torture them and their families to death? What a silly little douchebag.
DeleteRemember David saying they wouldn't double tap those little boats and then the White House admits they double tapped. What a jerk he is.
DeleteWhy was it good to let David’s parents, or grandparents, or who ever it was, enter the United States? David’s ancestors, whether recent or remote, were foreigners, aliens. They brought a different language, a different religion, different customs. Why was that a good idea?
DeleteMake aliyah, Dave.
I agree with DiC on this one. Of course there are exceptions. I welcome with open arms any Asian whose children can raise the NEEP scores that the blacks and Hispanics among us seem so intent on pulling down. The S. African whites are among the most persecuted people on the planet and without exception should be citizens, preferably in gated communities where they will be most comfortable. And the Israelis, who have always had our backs and fought with us side by side, asking for nothing in return; of course them. But everyone else can go to hell. I stand with DiC on this one.
DeleteDiC, especially poor Jewish refugees from eastern European countries. Why the fuck did we ever let them in?
DeleteBut here's a different question:
DeleteIs it problematic that a hedge fund can buy a hospital, fire everyone who helps keep people alive, and still make a profit?
In my opinion, there is. And what's more problematic, is that if you ran a hedge fund that did exactly that, you'd be considered a successful businessperson.
I blame David. Blessed with living in beautiful California, avoiding Vietnam while getting a degree at one of the nation's premier Universities, and living an upper middle class life in the richest nation in the world; he will soon die as a paranoid, filled with hate for others and himself. Sad.
ReplyDelete“Dickhead, you got some fucking nerve talking about "proof", when King Orange Chickenshit has provided ZERO proof…”
Delete“Fuck you, Dickhead. Not only can't the idiotically deployed N. G. units engage in civilian law enforcement, now the city has to waste resources and manpower..,”
“You are full of shit, Dickhead. I live in NVA. I have a brother who commutes to DC every day. All he sees as these Guard units hanging Metro stations.”
“David in Cal,
Please accept as a gift from me, a giant bowl of "Go Fuck Yourself, Asshole."
You're welcome, in advance”
Yeah, poor David is just full of hate…
Nothing you wrote says David ain't full of hate, just shows kind people would like the fucking idiot to do better. You too, Boris.
DeleteCecelia, yes, some anonymice hate David. (Not me. I love him). But do you deny that he’s full of hate?
DeleteAnonymouse 8:21pm, no, I didn’t write that crap. Your silly arse did. If your political contrarians were on a speedboat, you’d be nuking the Gulf of America into a sand pit.
DeleteI just get filled with hate from reading Cecelia and David's hate filled bullshit. Haters gonna hate.
DeleteBut David in Cal will die filled with hate. Is it wrong it makes me happy that his soul will be tormented in hell?
DeleteAnonymouse 8:40pm, “haters gonna hate”’so quit blaming your hatred on others. My guess is that you come by it naturally.
DeleteCecilia: In case you can't discern it, David represents the banality of evil. This is why some anonymous commenters lash out at him. David's hate is politely stated and truly has the banal, trite quality to it. He fancies that he gives reasoned arguments, whereas in fact he regurgitates hateful propaganda with nary a thought given. Look at his post above. It dovetails perfectly with the latest fascist opining about remigration or whatever they call it. Is it just coincidence? Methinks not.
DeleteAmen to 11:45.
DeleteIlya - I appreciate your comment, because it represents widespread belief. But, IMO such beliefs harm black Americans. Take tech jobs for example. No doubt racism hurts black job applicants to some degree. But, being years behind educationally is a big problem. A solution based only on fighting racism is bound to be inadequate.
DeleteDemocratic are beholden to the teachers' unions and the educational establishment. These groups do not act in the best interest of black students. In particular, they oppose school choice - something that does a great deal for black students where it's available.
Putting it bluntly. Ilya is not at all a racist, but Ilya votes for politicians who enact racist policies.
Cecelia,
DeleteDavid in Cal is Osama bin Laden, without the love.
Teachers' unions represent teachers. I am in favor of supporting teachers.
DeleteI agree with Cecelia.
DeleteDavid in Cal is a gigantic piece of shit.
Ceceia,
DeleteIn your opinion, why isn't "Please accept as a gift from me, a giant bowl of "Go Fuck Yourself, Asshole" the correct response to David in Cal when he posts nonsense about Republicans only accepting facts, not opinions?
Please show your work.
What next, David?
DeleteAre you going to deny Citibank would be much better off financially, if the CEO was homeless?
The damage the Trump administration has done to the lives of thousands of STEM students in higher education by rescinding grant money makes the claim that “I like charter schools, therefore I am not racist” ring a little hollow from a MAGAt. Whatever advantage the Chinese have over us in that realm has been clearly accelerated by these troglodyte douchebags.
DeleteTo put it bluntly, David in Cal is a fucking asshole voting for fascists.
DeleteIIya, the left is lucky in that it has a clearly defined opposition. If it didn’t, you folks would be killing each other.
DeleteSure. Meanwhile the MAGAts splintered off the moderates on the right (Will, Brooks, etc.) during the first Trump regime, and are now fracturing over the Epstein files and their orange Jesus's unpopularity.
DeleteAnyone who isn't a child rapist, or isn't perfectly fine with child rape, left the Republican Party more than a decade ago.
DeleteIt's not so much hate as frustrated. No matter how stupid the President or his cabinet act (or Party) you two are always ain't this the greatest. It's the ignorance of facts. It makes people nuts. You can't even admit Trump is a lifelong cheat. That's just for starters
DeleteAnonymouse 9:04am, you think David is a hater and that Bob Somerby is a Russian agent. You’re an organized hit squad and you’re not above questioning the political allegiance of liberal commenters who defend Bob. It’s like getting a lecture on the sanctity of life from Dr. Kevorkian.
DeleteBetter yet, it's like getting a lecture on verifying sources of information from Dickhead in Cal.
DeleteIt's like getting a lecture about how the President can kill anyone if they say they're a drug-dealer, from a President who just pardoned a guy for flooding the USA with cocaine.
DeleteMao squealing, "You're the cognitive dissonance!" in 3...2...1...
DeleteAnonymouse 9:43am, exactly. It’s like anonymices waking up every morning and realizing that there are other people in the world.
DeleteIt's like getting a lecture about logic from someone who believes in God.
DeleteIt's like getting a lecture on "transparency" from a president who tells the press he doesn't know why he had an MRI.
DeleteIt's like getting a lecture on "transparency" from a president who tells the press he doesn't know why he pardoned a convicted drug smuggler.
Anonymouse flying monkey 10:01am, that would include many illustrious people throughout history. We’ve had brilliant and important atheists too.
DeleteAnonymouse flying monkey, you need some new fall-back lines.
Anonymouse 10:09am, it’s like getting a politician.
Delete9:29. Sorry, dude. I am not a Bob hater. He’s going through some stuff now and I feel sorry for him.
Delete10:17. Nice try, dude. A swing and a miss.
Delete@6:39 says "I am in favor of supporting teachers."
DeleteI say "I am in favor of supporting students."
Their interests are not the same. In fact, they're often in opposition
Here's an anecdote from many years when my cousin Gene (a Democrat) was on the City Council of Englewood NJ. Responding to pressure from the Teachers' union, a local school converted a students' playground into a parking lot for teachers. Gene was struck that the teachers' gain was the students' loss.
I still remember this, because of the surprise. It showed that students and teachers could have conflicting interests. At that time, most of us bought the canard that what's good for teachers is good for students. Today, more and more of us are also recognizing the difference between what's good for schools vs. what's good for students.
My comment was not in reference to "Black Americans" or racism. I am not sure what you were responding to, David.
DeleteOf course students' and teachers' interests are not the same, you fucking fascist freak. To support teachers is not the same as not supporting students, you fucking cretin.
DeleteYou repeatedly attack Democrats for supporting teachers unions, Dickhead. You claim that is a bad thing. You are a broken record. These unions represent millions of teachers in this country. You represent the cretins who want to do away with public schools so they can collect taxpayer dollars to turn a profit without any professional oversight. You vote for cretins who work to undermine the DoE. I like where I stand. You creep me out. Teachers are doing a tough job and are underpaid. Enough already.
DeleteEverybody except the MAGAt who spent an entire career subservient to the profit margins of an insurance company has suspect motives.
DeleteGreasy, greasy, greasy. "“In days after Alaska, a European intel agency distributed a hard-copy report in an envelope to some of the continent’s most senior national security officials, who were shocked by the contents: Inside were details of the commercial and economic plans the Trump admin had been pursuing with Russia.”
ReplyDeleteAaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) November 28, 2025
And evil.
"Gentry Beach, a college friend of Donald Trump Jr. and campaign donor to his father, has been in talks to acquire a stake in a Russian Arctic gas project if it is released from sanctions.”
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
BYW- where are the other anonymices? Are they vacationing from their long nights of writing 5000-word posts addressing what they think Bob will blog upon the next day? What’s up?
ReplyDeleteCecelia,
DeleteYou're doing it all wrong,
FIRST, you call the Left "snowflakes", THEN you whine and cry about how words hurt your feelings.
Anonymouse flying monkey 7:17pm, I recognize that you do the best you can with your limitations, but no one who has disagreed with anonymices has behaved like you describe. However, anonymices frequently launch into angry screeds and howls bemoaning the travails of having XX chromosomes, as well as having to bear the “evil” character of anyone on the planet (generally Somerby) who doesn’t see things their way. It’s an utterly transparent and juvenile pose on their part and an entertainingly ridiculous one.
DeleteI got rid of my nym when Cecelia began crying incessantly about anonymous postings.
DeleteCecelia,
DeleteHave you thought about posting your diatribes in English?
You should try it, sometime.
Anonymouse 9:07am, you get it loud and clear.
DeleteLoud and obnoxious, yes.
DeleteClear. No, since I don't have a gibberish to English translation app.
Anonymouse 9:13am, I’ll try to live with the fact that you’re simultaneously bemoaning my opinions while complaining that you dont understand what I’m saying. What’s new about that? That’s the anonymouse way of life.
DeleteTrump can do no wrong, only be wronged is your message. Sad.
DeleteYou have no opinions, other than the bigotry.
DeleteEVERYTHING else is negotiable.
Anonymouse 9:56am, no, thats the message you get from anyone and everyone who disagrees with you. It’s not a matter of your not understanding my post, it’s that I’m not your mini-me.
DeleteName one or two things you think Trump totally fucked up Cultcelia.
DeleteCecelia, we’ve been researching voter fraud. It’s real. Here’s another shocking example:
ReplyDeletehttps://heartlandsignal.com/2025/12/01/republican-mayor-in-kansas-facing-deportation-over-voter-fraud/
Now that is one dumb ass Repukelican. Getting deported for voting for the fucking racist asshole Trump. Certain amount of elegance to it.
DeleteThe USA won't be great again, until we kidnap every Right-winger, and send them to a gulag in El Salvador.
DeleteProve me wrong.
El Salvador isn’t big enough to hold them all.
DeleteWe'll never know for sure, unless we try.
DeleteAnonymouse 9:07pm, my goodness, how could it be that a non-citizen has managed to vote in an election? Why that never happens. I’m sure this has rocked your world. Go lie down, you’ll look better.
DeleteIf you compare the non-citizen voter to the number of Republican voters who aren't bigots, it looks like an epidemic.
DeleteWhy are there 100 Republican vote cheats for less than 1 Democratic cheater?
DeleteFun with math:
DeleteIf you multiply any number by the number of Republican voters who aren't bigots, the product is always zero.
...my goodness, how could it be that a non-citizen has managed to vote in an election?
DeleteThe red state of Kansas doesn't know what the fuck they're doing?
Anonymouse 9:38pm, you got that right. They freaking elected a non-citizen as their mayor.
DeleteThey elected a Republican as their mayor.
DeleteAnonymouse 9:52am, right. If the mayor had been a non-citizen Democrat that would have made those people smarter.
DeleteRepublicans commit most voter fraud, by far.
Deleteevery Republican accusation is a confession. There are no exceptions.
DeleteDavid in Cal: December 1, 2025 at 10:52 AM
ReplyDeleteAnother baseless hoax bites the dust. How many people still believe it?
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That one certainly aged well, LOL.
? Still an idiot David
DeleteSorry, confused the author and context of your post 9:56. But it gets to what gets me crazy with cultists. They will never admit they are brainwashed and clueless. Never retreat, always make another excuse to excuse the previous excuses. It's positively inexcusable.
DeleteThe interesting thing is that DiC will fight and insist that the latest atrocity from his King did not happen until he cannot deny it any longer and then he will switch on a dime to explaining why it was a good thing for King Orange Chickenshit to do. It never fails.
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