December 8, 2025
TO BE FAIR, WHICH GRANNIES WERE WE SUPPOSED TO PULL OUT OF THEIR HOMES?
Charlie was killed almost 3 months ago. No Antifa raids. No major network arrests. No financial takedowns. But we have seen a lot more left-wing violence.
Dems were dragging grannies out of their homes almost immediately after J6 and going full CSI: Capitol Hill on anyone who… https://t.co/b0qqBJAN78
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) December 8, 2025
Snark aside, the Right does need to punch back — but I’m not sure what role Congress has to play here.
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: DC squatter takes over woman’s property after refusing to check out of Airbnb—police let them stay. “A homeowner in Washington, DC is now fighting to have her home back after a squatter took over the property she had rented as an Airbnb for 32 days, but has yet to leave after months. The alleged squatter, Shadija Romero, has been living in the home since February and police have said there is nothing they can do. The squatter allegedly tried to push the homeowner off a ladder.”
EVERYTHING IS ABSURD: FIFA ‘Pride Match’ Will Feature Two Countries That Ban Homosexuality.
TREAT THE PAIN: Shoulder-Heating-Pad-Heated-Wrap. #CommissionEarned
A GUT-CHECK FOR LEFTIST BIGOTRY: Lefties Can Now Wrestle With the Horror of Discovering Their Friends Own Guns in the Safety of a Chicago Theater.
IAN MCCOLLUM: ‘Why The M7 And 6.8x51mm Are Bad Ideas.’ “I’m not enough of an expert to know whether the new M7 U.S. battle rifle chambered in 6.8x51mm is a good idea or not. But I’m pretty sure Ian McCollum is such an expert, and he says it’s a bad idea.”
WELL, GOOD: Supreme Court seems likely to give Trump more power over agencies. Under the Constitution, there’s no such thing as an “Independent Agency.”
TO BE FAIR, THAT’S WHAT COMMIES DO: Commie Mamdani Defies Feds, Lies About Illegal Aliens.
STOCKING STUFFER: Toenail Clippers for Thick Toenails. #CommissionEarned
JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS: GLOCK Announces Three New Gen6 Pistols.
Having never written a review of any of the GLOCK pistols, this is a first for me. Not because I haven’t owned, shot or tried GLOCKs, but because I always considered it pretty much like evaluating a hammer. Whether you wanted a tack hammer, a claw hammer or a heavier framing hammer, they are, after all, hammers. They work if you swing them correctly.
That was always my impression of a GLOCK pistol. It was first, last and foremost, a fighting pistol. Like a Bic pen (Google it), it worked…first time, every time. And like a hammer, it offered functionality, but lacked the appeal that would get me queued up in a media line to get a turn running one of their guns.
After spending a day with the people of GLOCK, including their most senior leadership from the U.S. and Austria, I have a new respect for the company and found their new Gen6 pistols to be, for lack of a better word, appealing.
Heh.
I’ve owned Glocks for years, but “appealing” was a word that never once came to mind.
OUT TOMORROW: Kurt Schlichter’s latest Kelly Turnbull novel, Panama Red.
WE WILL ALL BENEFIT AS NEW TREATMENTS SPREAD: The billionaire war against death: What happens to the rest of us when the rich stop planning to die?
It may be bad news for estate-planning lawyers.
T. BECKET ADAMS: Have media forgotten what it means to be ‘sympathetic?’
The New York Times recently published what is clearly meant to be a tear-jerker, highlighting the supposed human cost of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement efforts. Except that the paper of record tried to portray as a sympathetic character an illegal immigrant who killed a man. Amazingly, it doesn’t end there. Romeo Perez-Bravo has additional victims, including those who’ve suffered the consequences of his theft, drunk driving, and repeated illegal border crossings.
One such victim is American-born Dan Kluver, whose identity Perez-Bravo stole around 2009. Since then, the real Kluver has had to pay thousands of dollars in mistakenly assigned IRS fees. His wages have been garnished. Kluver has spent hundreds of hours trying to convince the IRS that the man they really want is the illegal immigrant who stole his identity. It gets worse. False charges of tax evasion are just the beginning.
The real Dan Kluver has also been sued in a wrongful-death lawsuit after Perez-Bravo struck and killed a 68-year-old American-born man in a vehicle accident. Perez-Bravo was “cleared of any wrongdoing” in the man’s death, according to the New York Times, but that’s no comfort for Kluver, whose name and identity are now forever linked to an accidental death in which he had no part.
If you need more proof that Perez-Bravo is a bad person, beyond the episode in which he refused to give up his stolen identity even after he killed a man, it’s worth noting that since first crossing illegally into the United States as a teenager, he has accumulated a “string of DUI convictions.” He was also deported in 2005, 2008, and 2009. Each time, he illegally crossed back into the U.S. and stole a different citizen’s identity. Perez-Bravo has since been arrested and charged with aggravated identity theft and false representation of a Social Security number. He faces a mandatory minimum sentence of two years in prison to be followed by deportation (again) to Guatemala.
Perez-Bravo is not a good person. He’s the antonym of “sympathetic.”
Yet, in its coverage of Kluver and the man who has made his life a living hell, this is what the Times chose as its headline: “Two Men. One Identity. They Both Paid the Price.”
The subhead is even worse: “Thousands of undocumented workers rely on fraudulent Social Security numbers. One of them belonged to Dan Kluver.” The story itself refers to identity theft as “a survival tactic used to pass background checks and get jobs.”
Surely, the New York Times is aware that identity theft isn’t like cancer or a wildfire caused by lightning, or some other random event. It involves agency, free will, and premeditated criminal intent. Yet its writers and editors seem to think you can slip on a banana peel and, by pure chance, end up using someone else’s Social Security number. Even more ridiculous is that Times staffers evidently believe that identity theft is a victimless crime, just a little bit of harmless truth-bending. Tell that to Kluver.
As the classic Babylon Bee headline from 2019 noted:
I assume this sort of moral equivalence is designed to keep the Grady Lady’s subscriber base happy (and thus not reaching for their pitchforks), which speaks volumes about the left’s collective mindset in 2025.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Hey, Guess What the Experts Were Wrong About This Time! “Experts: ‘Trump said weaker gas mileage rules will mean cheaper cars. Experts say don’t bet on it.’ Carmakers: ‘Hold my kei.'”
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: F-35 fighter now armed with the ‘no escape’ Mach 4 ramjet Meteor missile.
QUESTION ASKED: Why in the World Is Bari Hiring This Guy?
CBS News remained in the headlines last week vis-à-vis comings and goings as editor-in-chief Bari Weiss further having a look under the proverbial hood. This time, we saw a date for the expected departure of CBS Evening News co-anchor Maurice DuBois and a reported desire to sign CBS Mornings co-host Tony Dokoupil to the PM chair, but most notable was a questionable decision to bring over longtime ABC correspondent Matt Gutman.
Yes, the same Gutman who said the texts between the suspect in Charlie Kirk’s assassination and his transgender lover were “heartbreaking,” “intimate” and “touching” (which he was forced to offer a mea culpa one day later):
DISGUSTING: ABC’s Matt Gutman says he’s not sure “if we have seen an alleged murder with such specific text messages” that were “very touching, in a way, that I think many of us didn’t expect — a very intimate portrait into this relationship between the suspect’s roommate and the… pic.twitter.com/ulPcxoOwM3
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) September 16, 2025
Earlier this year, he whined about the actions of Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) in California, defended Los Angeles rioters, and carried water for Harvard in its fight against the Trump administration.
Exit question: “Thus, it has to be asked: What in the world is Bari thinking?”
VITAMIN D UPDATE: The #1 Mistake You’re Making When You Take Vitamin D. Spoiler: It’s taking D2 instead of D3.
ED MORRISSEY: Hold the Phones and Pass the Popcorn: Ellison Launches Hostile Bid for Warner, CNN.
This morning, Ellison’s Paramount launched a hostile takeover offer for Warner Discovery, going directly to the shareholders with a better share price bid. Ellison also wants all of Warner Discovery:
Paramount, run by David Ellison, is arguing that its all-cash $30 a share offer for all of Warner, owner of networks such as CNN, TBS and HGTV as well as the HBO Max streaming service, is a better deal for shareholders and more likely to pass regulatory muster. Paramount said its offer “provides shareholders $18 billion more in cash than the Netflix consideration.”
The offer, “provides superior value, and a more certain and quicker path to completion,” Ellison said in a statement.
Netflix agreed to pay $72 billion, or $27.75 a share, for Warner’s studio and HBO Max streaming business after the entertainment company splits itself in two, in a cash-and-stock deal the companies announced Friday.
That’s not the only consideration that WBD shareholders will have to consider. Any acquisition of WBD will raise regulatory concerns and will have to pass muster with the FTC. Donald Trump warned last night that he planned to take a role in the approval process, although he praised Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos as well:
President Trump says he would have a role in whether a proposed merger between Netflix and Warner Brothers should go forward, telling reporters the market share of a combined entity could raise concerns https://t.co/bIqw9EKC72 pic.twitter.com/F4bw7d6TUp
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 8, 2025
Axios notes that “Affinity Partners, the private equity firm led by Jared Kushner, is part of Paramount’s hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros Discovery, according to a regulatory filing…Paramount is telling WBD shareholders that it has a smoother path to regulatory approval than does Netflix, and Kushner’s involvement only strengthens that case.”
Stay tuned.
IT WOULD TAKE A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH: Democrats Find Themselves Stuck in the Immigration Mire of Their Own Making.
THAT’S DIFFERENT, BECAUSE SHUT UP:
Matt Taibbi was talking on his podcast about how no one flinched during Obama’s presidency when they’d carry out the ‘double tap’ drone strikes:
They’d drop a bomb on some ostensible terrorists.
And then they’d wait and drop another bomb on the first responders: maybe some more…
— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) December 7, 2025
SCREEN TIME: Bad for the brain: Kids are learning less in high-tech schools. “He agrees with those who argue that children’s mental health has been harmed by smartphones, social media and overprotective parenting. But that doesn’t explain the ‘cognitive collapse,’ Horvath writes. ‘Why are so many kids learning less?'”
