"I was surprised. It was a better number than anyone was expecting," says Harvard Professor of Economics Ken Rogoff on November inflation coming in WAY BELOW expectations.

"It was positive news — there's no other way to spin it." pic.twitter.com/ZtAIBek5z3

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) December 18, 2025

Fuck yeah! Cry more libtards! The RAPID RESPONSE to the lower-than-expected inflation numbers is just another WIN for PRESIDENT TRUMP! That’s 2 point 7 percent you Marxists! MAGA!

Prosecutors in Germany on Thursday announced attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and grievous bodily harm charges will be brought against eight suspects, at least five of them between 14 and 21 years old, after their plot to carry out arson and bomb attacks on foreign asylum-seekers’ homes and left-wing institutions was foiled by cops earlier this year, the AP reports.

The group, who call themselves the “Last Defense Wave” and regarding themselves as the “final authority” for defending the “German nation,” were not merely shitposting antisemitic and pro-Nazi memes (though they did that too, per German media), but have been implicated in a handful of largely failed attacks. An arson attack on a cultural center in Altdobern in the state of Brandenburg that resulted in no injuries was the most notable of which though the group have been connected to a series of beatings and robberies, according to prosecutors. It’s not clear if Marco Rubio will again push back at German “establishment” tyranny toward political outsiders.

In an internal email obtained by Reuters this week, a Trump Regime deputy assistant HHS secretary earlier this month suggested that the book “Donald Trump Biography for Kids: An Inspirational Story of One of America’s Most Famous Presidents” – plus another junior reader bio of murderous tyrant Andrew Jackson – should be included in a welcome packet for the children of Afrikaner refugees being granted asylum in the US from a fake genocide wrought by South Africa’s Black majority.

“I imagine these books wouldn’t be an issue?” RFK Jr minion Fred Cooper wrote in the internal email addressed to an unidentified other official. The price was not disclosed thought the book is listed for $12.95 in paperback or $23.95 hardcover on Amazon. The exact title of the Jackson book for children was not mentioned in the Reuters article so no ballpark of a price point could be made.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries was incensed, tweeting “This should be a straight yes or no answer from the White House: are taxpayers paying for copies of this book to be handed out to Afrikaners?” Oops that was actually then-House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on April 26, 2021 tweeting “This should be a straight yes or no answer from the White House: are taxpayers paying for copies of the Vice President’s book to be handed out at migrant shelters?” after the New York Post reported that then-Vice President Kamala Harris’s children’s book “Superheroes Are Everywhere” was being added to every welcome pack for unaccompanied minor Latin American asylees.

As they are wont to do, Politico Playbook tried to be gentle when reviewing convicted felon President Trump’s panicky, lie-filled Wednesday night speech, writing ” It wasn’t his best performance, the ticking clock seeming to play on the president’s mind. He rushed through it. As a result, he came across a little shouty, and the whole thing lacked the humor and the charm Trump can offer up at his best… More importantly, this was still just a concise version of the half-angry, half-triumphant message Trump has given us through the second half of this year.”

“There was little empathy that things are really hard right now for millions of Americans and no plea to stick with him through the tough times while he finishes the job. If this is the best Trump can muster, he’d better hope the economy picks up fast in 2026,” they continued.

The thing with “cringe” is that it isn’t exactly new to on-screen comedic productions in the 21st century. Social awkwardness, self-unawareness, faux pas, and so on have always been staples to getting laughs out of audiences. But like “gross-out,” “slapstick,” “frat house,” and so on, “cringe comedy” became the term for the quasi-subgenre in recent decades largely thanks to Steve Carrell’s iconic character Michael Scott from NBC’s The Office. He REALLY made scenes simply agonizingly uncomfortable to sit through, his “best” moments on par with the worst in horror films.

One might wonder if at some point over the last few days that the concept crossed the mind of actor/comedian Bill Hader following his experience at Conan O’Brien’s Christmas party on Saturday night. Separate reporting from the Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly, and the Hollywood Reporter together paint a pretty cringey picture of a 32 year-old man being dragged to the party by his parents who could not leave him home alone that night. The man, Nick Reiner, was not invited but O’Brien kindly accommodated his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner, when they asked if they could bring him. O’Brien didn’t really announce it though, and the A-listers present who noticed him were questioning whether the 6 ft 3, 320 lbs Nick had simply wandered in off the street somehow.

Then things got cringier. Nick wandered around the party, asking guests – some of whom he’d already been introduced to – their names and if they were “famous.” Yet it wasn’t cringey enough for Nick who then approached Hader as the comedian was chatting with another guest, asking him the same question. Hader then calmly told Nick that it was a private conversation he’d been interrupting, to which the deranged failson stared silently and menacingly at Hader for a cringey amount of time.

The Trump Regime has ordered USCIS to “supply Office of Immigration Litigation with 100-200 denaturalization cases per month” in 2026 as part of a test plan to fuck over immigrants at will, the New York Times reports on more of Stephen Miller’s small dick energy.

Jeffrey Epstein friend/client Alan Dershowitz tells the Wall Street Journal that on Tuesday he met with other Jeffrey Epstein friend/client Donald Trump at the White House and showed the president a draft of Dersh’s upcoming book “Could President Trump Constitutionally Serve a Third Term?” as though the fat fuck would actually have the attention span necessary to read such a tome.

“I said ‘it’s not clear if a president can become a third term president and it’s not clear if it’s permissible,’” said OJ Simpson’s former defense lawyer, adding “He found it interesting as an intellectual issue. Do I think he’s going to run for a third term? No, I don’t think he will.”

Dersh did not then elaborate on what the fucking point was of writing this stupid book, set to hit stores next year, is if it’s not just some bullshit aimed at suckering MAGA idiots for a few bucks.

TECH TRAP: Former Texas teacher Matthan Lough is charged with grooming a 17-year-old after investigators say they found an AI-generated “manipulation plan” outlining steps to control his victim.https://t.co/InuAFoBbsp

— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 17, 2025

“Raphael Warnock was on Meet the Fake Press with a one sided and very biased Kristen Welker as the Host(ess!). Warnock spent the entire show using Religion to try and divide the Country! If a Republican, in particular ME, made those statements, it would be FRONT PAGE NEWS. He ended by saying that he was going to his Church to preach now, and while I think that’s fine, I do say, ‘What ever happened to separation of Church and State?’ That would be the first thing they would use against us but, actually, it’s something that never much bothered me. Anyway, Warnock is a LIGHTWEIGHT whose wife correctly states that he tried to run her over with a car. Fortunately, she was able to get out of the way, and only almost lost her foot. Warnock is a bad guy, and NBC News, which is second only to ABC Fake News for being the worst, should be ashamed of themselves in allowing garbage ‘interviews’ with untalented and uncaring people to take place.”

“The Public airwaves, which these Networks are using at no charge, should not be allowed to get away with this any longer! They should be properly licensed, and pay significant amounts of money for using this very valuable Public space. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAGA!” posted convicted felon President Trump on Wednesday as usual fucking stupid enough to question whether a man of the cloth can hold elected office in the United States. Republicans Senator Senator James Lankford and Congressman Tim Walberg are ordained ministers so Trump should have some layman candidates primary them if the “Church and State” thing is such a dealbreaker for him.

Then there’s the “airwaves” rant, which isn’t new. Maybe he should just stop being such a cunt.

On the question of “Who do you think is more responsible for the current state of the economy: Joe Biden or Donald Trump?” 60 percent of Republican respondents to this month’s Quinnipiac University national survey said the former, 34 percent the latter. Among independents it was 58 percent Trump to 32 percent Biden, while with Dem respondents it’s 11 to 84 percent Biden/Trump.

Then a few questions later is “Would you describe the state of the nation’s economy these days as excellent, good, not so good, or poor?” to which 8 percent of GOP voters said “Excellent” and another 56 percent said “Good,” meaning somewhere between 24 and 60 percent of ostensibly Trump-voting respondents like the economy and credit former President Joe Biden for it.

There are other ways to quantify how fucking stupid these people are. Not a lot of them however.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, faced with a situation that had it happened to Nancy Pelosi the media would have declared that she’s lost control of the House, insisted to reporters on Wednesday that he has not lost control of the House. He did not offer any evidence to back up this claim.

Douchebag Assistant FBI Director Dan Bongino has told associates he’s done at the bureau and will not even be back at the Hoover Building ahead of his official exit next month, MS Now reports.

The asshole will naturally go back into podcasting but of course the question is what if anything he’s actually going to say about his time as K$H Patel’s Numero Dos as well as the Trump Administration writ large. Clearly his tenure was a failure, his exit could only have happened due to disillusionment, and that becoming an outside critic of the Trump Regime could be a problematic switch when his fanatic loyalty to the Orange Tyrant was the only reason he took the job in the first place.

Yeah there’s only so much space for the headlines here and line wraps are excruciatingly painful to a certain person, so instead of a more appropriate – and perhaps more tasteful – header like “Former Harvard Medical School morgue chief sentenced to eight years for selling body parts.”

Either way, that’s what happened, per Reuters. Cedric Lodge, who managed Harvard’s morgue for over 20 years prior his 2023 arrest, having plead guilty in May to transporting stolen goods across state lines and sentenced on Tuesday to eight years in the joint. Lodge’s wife Denise got a year in the scheme in which the two had sold leftovers from donated research cadavers to people who had been buying them for who the actual hell knows what reason. Back in the old days research WAS the reason the bodies of the deceased were stolen and sold to medical schools. One shudders to think what these people were buying parts for. Simply macabre trophies to be put in jars on shelves and then otherwise left alone in some goddamned weirdo’s basement is the best case scenario here.

That was fast. Punchbowl’s Jake Sherman reports Republican Pennsylvania Congressman Ryan Mackenzie on Wednesday became the 218th signer to a discharge petition calling for a three-year “clean” extension of Obamacare premium subsidies. No gimmicks, no bullshit, no abortion restrictions, just three more years of everything that GOP leadership does not want to vote on.

South African officials on Wednesday announced the arrests of at least seven Kenyan nationals during a raid of an office rented by the US State Department to process the asylum applications of white trash Afrikaners fleeing due to the “genocide” taking place against them, the BBC reports.

The Ministry of Home Affairs’s intelligence arm had determined that the seven Kenyans “had recently entered South Africa on tourist visas and had illegally taken up work” despite “only being in possession of tourist visas, in clear violation of their conditions of entry into the country.”

Yeah this one speaks for itself and there’s no need to editorialize it – except to note this world-class piece of shade in the statement, where the ministry noted how the raid and arrests demonstrate the commitment that South Africa “shares with the United States to combating illegal immigration and visa abuse in all its forms.” Not all heroes carry guns or badges. Some work in government press offices. The only question is which one and whether Uber Eats operates in South Africa and will deliver a box of donuts with a note long enough to specify how and why they were earned.