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🚨 LMFAO! President Trump making everyone crack up right now as he DUNKS on the Fake News 🤣
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 2, 2025
"I sit here and do 4 news conferences, I ask questions from VERY intelligent LUNATICS - you people." 😭
"You always find something new! Like, 'Is he in good health? BIDEN was great,… pic.twitter.com/YBv5If4Qwl
Ed: The latest narrative from the same media that gave us Sharp As A Tack™ and Cheap Fakes® is – Trump's slowing down! I like to call them the Protection Racket Media, but only because it's tough to keep typing out The Micturating On Our Heads And Calling It Precipitation Media. Either one works; both are accurate.
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Ace of Spades: The old op was this: Trump's boundless energy was not a sign of good health, but proof that this famous teetotaler was an amphetamine addict.
I actually was open to the idea he was popping uppers. How else to explain the constant energy? (It also made me feel better about being Low Energy Ace.)
Now that op's usefulness is expired, so the new op: Trump is so tired you guys, seriously you guys, he may work 12-hour days but you can see that sometimes he gets fatigued.
You don't say. You don't say.
Ed: Frankly, the speed demon narrative is easier to believe. I typically work ten to twelve hours a day too, but I'm just banging on a keypad or videotaping conversations with my friends, and I don't have Trump's energy at the end of the day. And I'm seventeen years younger than him.
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CUE THE MELTDOWNS: @SecWar says they've "only just begun striking narco-boats and putting narco-terrorists at the bottom of the ocean." pic.twitter.com/Dro2i6Cpkw
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) December 2, 2025
Ed: I don't think this narrative will work either, especially given Barack Obama's record on drone attacks and a full-bore regime change operation in Libya fourteen years ago. However, at some point, the US risks hitting the wrong seacraft and generating the kind of collateral damage that can create more legal issues than what we're seeing now.
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Daily Wire: The self-described most transparent administration in history once again threw its doors open to the public with a three-hour live-streamed Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, one in which the president once again made it clear that he stands by his Secretary of War.
The meeting, at times meandering and broad in its focus, nevertheless allowed the White House to firmly and publicly defend its most recent moves: in Venezuela, on the southern border, and with regard to domestic policy priorities. But the highlight of the meeting came when the president and Pete Hegseth addressed news reporting about the September 2 strikes on drug cartel boats in the Caribbean.
Ed: Again, this is more interesting for the contrast between this administration and the Biden Regency. Or any other administration, for that matter. Usually, Cabinet meetings only get a press spray at the start and then reporters get shown the door. Trump has made these unusually transparent, or at least historically accessible.
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Wait - this was you?
— Blue State Snooze (@BlueSnoozeBlue) December 1, 2025
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA pic.twitter.com/GQeIbnJK6r
Ed: Yeah, nice try, Ms. Bunny. Let's not forget that this intervention took place in April 2022. They lied at least ever since about Biden, and now they're lying about Trump.
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Jason Riley at City Journal: Today, black support for Democrats has weakened in ways that make the Right giddy and the Left sweat. The Democratic Party is in no danger of losing the black vote outright to Republicans anytime soon, but Donald Trump’s political success is evidence that Democrats can no longer count on black voters to back the Democratic candidate reflexively on Election Day. The Trump era has also demonstrated that other minority voters who have trended Democratic in recent decades, including Asians and Hispanics, are increasingly open to GOP appeals in numbers large enough to swing elections.
Between 2020 and 2024, Trump nearly doubled his support among black voters, from 8 percent to 15 percent, according to the Pew Research Center. Over the same period, his support among Asian voters rose from 30 percent to 40 percent, and his share of the Hispanic vote increased from 36 percent to 48 percent. That Trump was able to make these dramatic inroads among blacks and Asians while running against Kamala Harris, a woman of black and Asian descent, is even more remarkable.
Ed: I regret to inform everyone that the movement on this was largely motivated by the economic damage done during the Biden Regency. If Trump and the GOP can't get real results that lift up these voters by next summer, they will disappear again. It's still the economy, stupid.
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🚨Life comes at you fast! https://t.co/z7I9LTrk3V
— Jon Justice (@JonJustice) December 2, 2025
Ed: I think Tim Walz is about to have a very difficult final year in office. And hopefully so will Keith Ellison.
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Jerusalem Post: The movie stars 96-year-old June Squibb, who plays the best friend of a Holocaust survivor and who finds an unusual way to honor the memory of her friend’s family: Stumbling into a Holocaust survivor’s group, Eleanor pretends that the survival story is hers. In an interview with The Telegraph done at the Cannes Film Festival, where the film had its world premiere, and published ahead of the film’s UK premiere, Johansson said that with just weeks to go before filming began, a backer demanded that the Holocaust references be cut, or they would pull their funds.
The article quotes Johansson as saying, “I mean, if they’d said, ‘I’ll only back this if you shoot in New Jersey,’ or ‘We need to get this done by the spring’, then that would have been one thing. But they were objecting to what the film actually was. It had to be about what happens when someone gets caught in the worst lie imaginable; if not the Holocaust, then what could it be? They offered no alternative. It was just, ‘This is an issue.’”
Ed: Kudos to Scarlett Johansson for refusing to back down. And kudos to Sony Pictures for providing the funding after this unnamed backer attempted to manipulate the Holocaust out of this film. Christian and I discuss this toward the end of our Off The Beaten Path episode today.
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BOOM! @ScottJenningsKY just SHUT DOWN the narrative CNN is trying to create about Trump allegedly being unwell.
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) December 2, 2025
"I honestly think this is an attempt to create a narrative about this guy that just doesn't exist."
The Demonrats have NOTHING but their Stage 5 TDS. https://t.co/MfJgUkHppc pic.twitter.com/gdOKsPMahW
Ed: The Journ-O-List Signal has gone out! All of the morons who couldn't see the obvious signs of Joe Biden's senility for four years are suddenly experts on gerontology in 2025.
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Daily Mail: Earlier in the interview, McCain said she thought Dylan 'should not have been booked on a show with you because it's like bringing a knife to a gun fight, quite frankly.'
She then went on to say that the entire segment on November 10 made her feel 'so uncomfortable,' as she referred to herself as the 'queen of nepo babies' thanks to her father, the late Senator John McCain.
'I have been put on TV way too early as a nepo baby,' she said. 'And of all people, Paul Begala schooled the living s**t out of me the one and only time I went on Bill Maher,' McCain said of a former adviser to then-president Bill Clinton.
'I have been Dylan Douglas,' McCain continued. 'But what didn't happen is my parents didn't have a meltdown. My dad was like, "Buck up and move on."'
Ed: Harry Truman said it best: "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen." The outraged-parents act over Dylan Douglas makes him look even more infantile than showing up unprepared to debate someone with a lot more experience and knowledge. Meghan McCain's right, though; I watched it yesterday before adding it to the Final Word, and I cringed all the way through it. Kudos to her for her empathy, as well as her common sense.
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Isn’t she a little old for the unfunded college scene? Maybe she’s on the 10 year plan? 🤷♀️ https://t.co/FFyqJOJtRE
— TheMorningSpew2 (@TheMorningSpew2) December 3, 2025
Ed: This almost sounds like satire. It also sounds a little old. In case it's for real, she can tell her son that if he wants to go to college, he can pay for it himself.
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Jonathan Turley: California Governor Gavin Newsom is pushing the retroactive billionaire tax targeting the roughly 220 billionaires residing in California in 2025. It signals not just desperation in the face of crippling debt and overspending but a recognition that California is chasing its highest earners out of the state.
The “2026 Billionaires Tax Act” would impose a one-time 5% tax on individual wealth exceeding $1 billion. While technically using 2026 wealth figures, it would apply to billionaires who resided in California in 2025. So you cannot hope to flee… at least with your wealth intact. It is a penalty for those who stayed too long hoping that rational minds would prevail in California.
The tax is a familiar tactic of many in politics who attack the wealthiest citizens as somehow ripping off the poor. If states can do this for billionaires, it is likely to do it for those in lower tax brackets as they face the choice between financial discipline and tax increases.
Ed: It's not just likely; it will become necessary when those billionaires leave the state. Even if Newsom manages to steal 5% of their already-taxed wealth, he's not going to stop with one wealth levy. And they know it. California will have the same problem that France has, only worse.
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This is just the new screaming at black people who become police officers in 2020. They learned nothing from the past election, and I encourage them to lean into and elevate these women. https://t.co/geV69iX5G0
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) December 2, 2025
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