12/10/25

Good morning! It’s Wednesday, December 10th.

National Lager Day.

Lager, I hardly know her!

And now, the news.

Shooting at KSU

-via ABC News

We start how we start here in America, with one student dead and another critically injured, after a shooting at Kentucky State University.

The shooting appears to have been motivated by personal reasons, as opposed to a random active shooter (gotta differentiate between what kind of shooting we’re talking about, here in America), and the suspect, who was not a student at the university, has been taken into custody.

Trump’s Racist Comments

-via AP News, Axios, and The Hill

And moving to Trump’s affordability message in a midterm battleground district…

Trump saying he’s “crushing” inflation as GOP faces affordability concerns…

Super interesting ways to describe a speech the president gave on Tuesday night where, yes he did cover the economy but he also said this: “Why is it we only take people from s—-hole countries, right? Why can’t we have some people from Norway, Sweden, just a few?”

He then complained about taking immigrants from “hellholes like Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia and many other countries.” Saying they “are a disaster, right? Filthy, dirty, disgusting, ridden with crime.”

This was an official White House event.

I… I don’t know how to pivot to talk about his comments about the economy.

Yes, the majority of his speech was about the economy. Apparently, according to him, affordability is a “scam” and a “hoax.” Which, to be fair, it certainly FEELS that way…

The way he meant it though is that prices are coming down.

I would not agree. Nor would most of the country. Which is why Democrats continue to win across the board. Just Tuesday night, in fact, voters in Miami flipped a mayoral seat blue for the first time in thirty years.

Three decades.

Democrats are doing very well in elections, and a lot of that stems from the fact that the economy is doing poorly and, just as vitally, the Republicans are being led by someone who is pretending like 1: it’s not and 2: it’s not his fault anyway.

Meanwhile, the Republican Party itself is imploding. What’s left of it, at least. So far, 23 House Republicans have announced retirement (or that they’re seeking another office), while four have just announced their resignations and there are rumors that more may join.

At this point, you can all but expect Speaker Johnson will not be Speaker next term but honestly – who knows if he’ll be Speaker by the end of this term.

This past summer, Johnny promised a group of Republicans that the Anti-CBDC Act, which is meant to prevent the federal reserve from creating digital currency (which the government hasn’t said they want to do, but okie doke) to the national defense authorization bill, which is a must-pass bill.

But now that act is not in the bill and those Republicans he made that promise to are furious. Adding on to the furious they already were about things like, you know, closing the House for months to protect a child sex trafficking ring.

And speaking of that must-pass defense authorization bill… It may not include “not alta vista money” but it sure is trying to include another provision: tell us about the murders that Pete Hegseth is doing.

A provision has been tucked into the bill that locks Hegseth’s travel budget until he turns over unedited footage of the strikes he’s carried out, as well as copies of the orders.

As a reminder, he’s in hot ocean water because of the September 2nd strike where, upon seeing two survivors clinging to the wreckage of a ship, another strike was launched. Quite literally murdering them.

Well since that reporting came out… Hegseth has continued to do more strikes!

In all, at least 87 people have been killed in the strikes.

So the wheels are coming off of the Republican party a bit.

And I guess all of that is news. I mean, to be honest some of it’s just political hot goss but you know – the rest of it is news.

Trump is lying about the economy. Pete Hegseth is in trouble and being investigated.

News for sure.

But at an official White House event on Tuesday, the president of the United States asked why we can’t bring more white people into this country and lamented the immigration of people from anywhere else.

“Why is it we only take people from s—-hole countries, right? Why can’t we have some people from Norway, Sweden, just a few?”

“Hellholes like Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia, and many other countries… are a disaster, right? Filthy, dirty, disgusting, ridden with crime.”

And far be it for me to question the language of a man who, just last week, was awarded FIFA’s Peace… thing, but there is not one thing better in this world that would not be improved by him not having constant access to a microphone.

And that’s it. That’s the news.

I’m proud of lagers. Beers of all types, really.

I’m told it’s also Human Rights Day but every time I tried to record it, a picture of the president pops up on my screen and just says “no no no – that’s not allowed here anymore”

Bad dude! Super bad guy!

But more than human right—no no, that’s a joke. But more than lagers! Because I certainly understand what makes you different than any other kind of beer… I’m proud of you.