Miller’s getting a massive amount of push back on social media for this one, pointing out his own relatively recent Jewish immigrant forebears from Russia. It’s not like they came over on the Mayflower…
This Heritage American stuff is actually amusing to me. It’s DEI for people who like to style themselves as the descendants of northern Europeans, which they think makes them more entitled to be Americans. That’s just stupid on its face. Hilariously, they’re using all the woke tropes, only for themselves. Needless to say, most of them are clueless about their own ancestry and have no idea why they fled their countries to come here or understand anything about anyone else.
By the way, here’s where this is headed:
Lol.
We are awash in idiocy and it starts at the very top.
Apparently he always wanted to be Jackie O, which is weird, but ok. Unfortunately he has the taste of a elderly madame in an Atlantic City whorehouse.
Marble armrests? It’s never been done before because it’s ridiculous!
I would say it’s better for him to be spending his time doing this stuff rather than destroying the country and brutalizing human beings except that his minions are all just as bad as he is.
I do think he has the insight that there will be very little appetite for getting rid of this sort of thing once Democrats take over. Sure, they’ll take down the “wall of fame” and re-do the Oval Office. But I don’t know if they’ll have the nerve to take his name off the buildings and remove all this marble crapola and the ballroom and the “arch of Trump.” I hope so, but I don’t have any faith that Democrats will use their political capitol to symbolically purge the country of the flamboyantly monarchical tributes that Trump is building to himself.
They should. It would be a powerful statement that would reassure the public and the world that this aberration was unsanctioned and temporary. We’ll see.
In the meantime, our addled nutcase in chief is having lots of fun putting his name up and decorating everything in sight. And around 40% of our fellow Americans see this as perfectly normal behavior. The big question remains: what are we going to do about that?
Everyone who voted for Donald Trump in 2024 knew that he was planning to deport massive numbers of immigrants. Some had, after all, held up pre-printed signs at the Republican National Convention that said “Mass Deportation Now.” The problem was that many voters either didn’t think he meant it, or they assumed it would be an orderly process that booted only the so-called “worst of the worst” who were already under deportation orders.
They were wrong.
When Trump said he planned to deport 15-20 million people, which could only mean undocumented immigrants with no criminal records, he meant it. The abusive, disorderly methods of grabbing people off the streets and detaining them for weeks and months in shameful conditions were always part of the plan.
What we have witnessed over the past 11 months has been vile. The federal government has deployed masked, armed men into the streets of American cities to brutalize people with impunity. Thousands of immigrants from Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean and Asia have been detained and deported, many of them to places where they haven’t lived since they were children — and even some to countries where they have never lived. Families are being separated, communities traumatized and the country is being torn apart, all for the twisted pursuit of an America — white and Christian — that has never existed and cannot function without immigrants.
It’s become fashionable on the right to extol the virtues of “heritage Americans,” which essentially means white Americans whose ancestors emigrated from northern Europe centuries ago. There is a lot of chatter about deporting all foreign-born people, whether they are citizens or not. (As the Associated Press reported in August, the administration is reviewing the more than 55 million people who hold valid U.S. visas for any potential violation.)
“With a lot of these immigrant groups, not only is the first generation unsuccessful,” White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said on Fox News earlier this month. “Again, Somalia is a clear example here. You see persistent issues in every subsequent generation. So you see consistent high rates of welfare use, consistent high rates of criminal activity, consistent failures to assimilate.”
Miller’s claims are untrue. Just as his own immigrant forebears assimilated and their children were average, upwardly mobile, all-American citizens, so too are the more recent immigrants. But Miller speaks for people who have decided that anyone who doesn’t look like them or worship like them should be driven from the country and no more of them should be allowed to come in. The administration is making new policies every day to fulfill that agenda.
Many of these “heritage Americans,” along with every other permutation of U.S. citizens, decided to fight back on behalf of their immigrant friends, neighbors and co-workers.
But a funny thing happened on the way to the ethnic cleansing party. Many of these “heritage Americans,” along with every other permutation of U.S. citizens, decided to fight back on behalf of their immigrant friends, neighbors and co-workers.
In Los Angeles, the first city targeted by the Department of Homeland Security last summer when Immigration and Customs Enforcement started rousting people in Home Depot parking lots, people came out to protest at the detention center in downtown L.A. This provided some useful footage for Fox News to play on a loop and give the administration the excuse it was looking for to deploy the National Guard and, soon after, the Marines. Trump bragged that his actions saved the city from being sacked — but it was nothing more than a performance for the cameras. The troops marched around a bit and then quietly went home. We soon found out that the paramilitary ICE and Customs and Border Patrol were all the lethal force they needed.
But that didn’t mean people weren’t protesting; it was just a different kind of protest. Average bystanders gathered when ICE showed up at Home Depots and car washes, and used their phones to photograph and document what the masked secret police were doing. Young women in yoga gear confronted the agents, asking where they were taking people and demanding to see their warrants.
Soon, immigrant defenders were using symbolic consumer protests such as the ones in Monrovia, California, earlier this month in which dozens of activists converged at Home Depot to purchase 17 cent ice scrapers, and then immediately got back in line to return them. The protesters clogged the customer service lines for hours, trying to make the point that Home Depot is complicit in the ongoing ICE raids at their stores — unlike many smaller businesses around the country that have been active in defying ICE and CPB agents by refusing them entry to harass their customers and employees.
Across the country, citizens have created “rapid response networks” that track ICE’s movements and alert communities about immigration enforcement. Suburban moms in Illinois created neighborhood watch groups to warn neighbors and schools when masked DHS agents are spotted. Others are putting themselves in the line of fire and enduring rough arrests at protests. As CNN reported, “crowds gather — people come out of their houses, dog walkers pause on their routes, cyclists and drivers make detours — to protest what the agents are doing and remove any element of surprise.”
High school kids in Durham, North Carolina. staged walk outs in defense of their classmates and families who are living in fear. People in Seattle built whistle kits for their neighbors to use to spread the word of impending ICE raids. In Minneapolis, organizers have used the “No Sleep for ICE” tactic, gathering outside hotels where agents are housed to make noise to disrupt their sleep (and try to pressure hotels to refuse to take their business).
All these tactics, along with many others, are being used by ordinary citizens at the grassroots level throughout the country in cities, downtown metro areas and residential neighborhoods. Acknowledging that as citizens — and as white citizens for many of them — they have the unfair privilege of being treated more or less lawfully by their government while their friends and neighbors are not, they are coming into the streets and confronting these masked brutes on behalf of the vulnerable targets who are being hunted.
It’s not enough by any means, and it’s unclear how much it’s helping in the grand scheme. After all, DHS is successfully detaining and deporting tens of thousands of people. But they are not meeting the lofty goals set by the administration, and everything that gums up the process slows them down. The good news is that the protests often work, forcing the agents to stand down.
No matter what, it is important that people are engaging directly on the local level — even if their efforts don’t get much national press. Immigrants know that there are citizens in their communities who stand with them and are trying to do what they can to help, and these acts of resistance should serve as inspiration and motivation for the rest of us to take action for the same purpose.
In 2026, we should all get ourselves a whistle and start blowing it loud enough to put the people who are overseeing and enabling these policies out of office in November.
Decoding Fox News put up a reading excerpted from Donald Trump’s rally on Dec. 19 in Rocky Mount, NC. “Chart Love” is a clever bit of oppo meant for people who can’t stand to listen to Trump’s droning rambles for long the way his rally audiences can.
Trump without Trump. You won't have to listen to his voice or see his face. This quote from Rocky Mount, North Carolina on 12/19/25 is unedited and 100% accurate – Chart Love pic.twitter.com/8lSgjTHjxy
I found the transcript to check, not just the “Chart Love” section, but the entire 14,000 words. I ran it through Word’s editor feature. Not for spelling or grammar so much as for Flesch–Kincaid readability. The “Reading ease” assessment places the Trump speech at the level of a magazine ad. Word scores its Flesch–Kincaid Grade Level at grade four (age 10). Flesch’s own scoring table only goes as low as 5th.
I put up these gorgeous charts and it says, “Chart.” And I’m, you know, sort of talking about the chart.
You’re reading into a piece of glass. I got no audience. I got just people, very hostile people waiting around. And I’m reading into a piece of glass for 22 minutes, and I talk about the chart. The networks didn’t put up the charts. Only Fox put up the charts. Fox put them up in all fairness. When we get angry at Fox, we have to remember that. They put up the charts, so you could start putting them up now if you want. But we put up these beautiful charts that were very, look at that. But I very much like the chart from Butler, PA. I like that much better. That’s my all-time favorite chart. You know, that’s a great chart. They’re all great charts, but I’ll never like a chart like that chart I put up in Butler. Just take a look at the chart right here. [Laughter] That was a good chart. I love that chart so much. I sleep with that chart. [Audience members calls out “We love you, Trump.”] But this is okay. There’ll never be a great chart for me. It’s only the one. [Laughter] Compared to Butler, the, all charts s- — stink. [Laughter] But look at that chart. Look at the kind of, biden price increases and Trump price increases. Look at that. They’re all Biden. We’re bringing the prices down. Look at that chart. NBC, and CBS, and ABC fake news. The fake new-, Oops, that camera just went off. [Laughter] Sorry about that. [Laughter] Every time I mention that their camera, you know, you see the red light back there being, you see it go off. [Laughter] ABC fake news. I think ABC’s the worst. Believe it or not, George Slopodopoulos, he paid me about 16 million. [Laughter] You have George Slopodopoulos.
That’s our president. And what he lacks in maturity he makes up for in … just read the comments.
I'm sure the 22 million people whose healthcare premiums will triple in six days are delighted by this news, you inhuman fuck.
According to preliminary Nielsen data, ‘The Kennedy Center Honors’ on CBS drew its smallest audience ever on the night of December 23, 2025, averaging an estimated 2.65 million viewers,” Programming Insider reported on Wednesday. “To put that in perspective: the 2024 broadcast averaged 4.1 million.”
Normally I might quip, “don’t quit your day job” but in this case I would say, “you were brilliant and everyone loved it and the ratings were rigged! You should definitely quit the presidency to become the permanent host! Please!”
I would guess he finds those poor ratings much more enraging than his approval ratings. It explains his surely mood all weekend better than anything else.
AmericaFest has long been one of the biggest events on the right, but this year, the conference saw a record turnout of roughly 30,000. When I asked attendees why they had decided to come, they invariably told me that they were there “because of Charlie.”
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But during my four days at AmericaFest, I noticed that something else was also casting a shadow over the conference. Everyone had come to unite around Kirk, but they kept fighting about Nick Fuentes. In the opening hours on the first night, Ben Shapiro took the stage and ripped into the prominent white-supremacist influencer. Fuentes, who did not attend the conference, is a “Hitler-apologist, Nazi-loving, anti-American piece of refuse,” Shapiro said. The crowd erupted in boos. At one point, I ran into the longtime GOP operative Roger Stone, who insisted that the debates over Fuentes and his staunch criticism of Israel were being inflated by the mainstream media. “I still haven’t seen any polling showing that it’s spilled over to voters,” he told me. The early MAGA influencer Mike Cernovich told me something similar: “If you ask most people here, ‘Do you think the war in Gaza is a genocide?,’ I think most of us are like, ‘I don’t really care,’” he said.
Fuentes has tremendous sway over the young right, and his profile has risen to new heights since late October, when the former Fox News personality Tucker Carlson hosted him for a friendly podcast interview. Carlson “built Nick Fuentes up,” Shapiro said during his speech. “He ought to take responsibility for that.”
When Shapiro finished his speech, attendees lined up to ask him questions. Shapiro was immediately challenged by a student from Baylor University named Nicky Rudd. He asked about the USS Liberty, an American spy ship that the Israeli military accidentally sank in 1967. Fuentes often talks about the incident on his nightly livestreams as part of his case against Israel and the Jewish people, peddling a conspiracy that the battleship was attacked on purpose. I tracked down Rudd after he finished questioning Shapiro. Rudd doesn’t agree with everything Fuentes says, he told me. But, he said, “to deny the influence of Nick Fuentes is to deny what millions of Americans are thinking.”
JD Vance had an opportunity to disavow this but he chose instead to sell some pablum about how they have a big tent and everybody needs to get along. He knows this is the future and he wants to lead it.
I have a feeling that they aren’t going to let him …
Nick Fuentes: “J.D. Vance also has an Indian wife and a kid named Vivek. All his kids have Indian names—so it’s like, what exactly are we getting here? And that’s not a dig at him just because I’m a racist or something. But who is this guy really?” pic.twitter.com/2P7KD2k6IK
Trump spent his life pursuing wealth, not public service. As president, he reduces every question to money. He arm-twists companies into giving the government a chunk of their stock. He withholds food stamps as a bargaining chip. He calls low-income housing an offense against rich people. He muses about awarding himself $1 billion from the Treasury.
He treats international relations the same way. He slaps our allies with heavy tariffs, insisting that they “pay for the privilege of access to our market.” He bails out Argentina, meddles in its election, and then brags that his candidate’s victory “made a lot of money for the United States.” He bars immigrants from “third world countries” and sells visas to multimillionaires instead.
He also exploits war. Two months ago, in a speech to American troops in Japan, he fondly recalled the days when “they used to say, ‘To the victor belong the spoils.’” In more recent wars, he complained, “We’d win, and then we’d leave.” He made it clear that he would restore the doctrine of spoils. “Unlike past administrations, we will not be politically correct,” he told the troops.
In some parts of the world, Trump has cashed in on the use of force by other countries. In February, after Israel had leveled much of Gaza, he announced a plan to seize the territory, “own it,” and develop it into “the Riviera of the Middle East.” A reporter asked the president whether he truly meant permanent occupation. “I do see a long-term ownership position,” Trump replied.
In Ukraine, Trump has taken advantage of Russia’s invasion. By choking off Ukraine’s access to military aid and intelligence, he extracted Kiev’s agreement to give much of its mineral wealth to the United States. “I made a deal to take rare earth,” he boasted. “That’s the equivalent of much more” than the aid Joe Biden had sent to Ukraine, he said.
Trump also found a second revenue stream from the war: selling weapons to NATO—at “full price”—which NATO would then deliver to Ukraine. “We’re making money,” he told reporters. “We have the hottest company,” he added a minute later. Then, catching his slip, he corrected the last word to “country.”
Like Vladimir Putin, Trump has concocted grievances to justify aggression against other nations. In his inaugural address, he vowed to seize the Panama Canal, claiming that Panama had violated its 1977 agreement to keep the canal neutral. Then, in a bid to annex Canada, he threatened to choke off that country’s foreign trade. To rationalize his coercion, he alleged that Canada “stole” its auto industry from the United States.
Now Trump has deployed the Navy, the Coast Guard, and other forces to harass and intimidate Venezuela. Last week, he issued an ultimatum, warning that the military buildup would continue until Venezuelans “return to the United States of America all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us.”
Financial coercion backed by military power. There’s a word for this. It’s called extortion:
Extortion is the practice of obtaining benefit (e.g., money, goods, or regular payments) from an individual or group through coercion, usually by threatening them with future psychological or physical harm. In most jurisdictions it is likely to constitute a criminal offence.
He is a convicted felon, after all, so it shouldn’t surprise us.
Since President Trump was elected a second time, he and his allies have raised nearly $2 billion for his favored political causes and passion projects. That total, which was confirmed by four people involved in the fund-raising, likely eclipses the amount raised to support his 2024 campaign.
The astounding haul hints at a level of transactionalism for which it is difficult to find obvious comparisons in modern American history. The identities of the donors behind much of the cash are not legally required to be, and have not been, publicly disclosed. In some cases, Mr. Trump’s team has offered donors anonymity.
To shed light on what has been a largely opaque fund-raising apparatus, The New York Times conducted a comprehensive investigation. It relied on previously unreported documents and public campaign finance filings, as well as interviews with dozens of people who are familiar with the solicitations or are involved in the fund-raising. It traced a large portion of the funds raised — more than half a billion dollars’ worth — back to 346 donors who each gave at least $250,000. It also found that more than half of them have benefited, or are involved in an industry that has benefited, from the actions or statements of Mr. Trump, the White House or federal agencies.
It is not possible to prove that any of the donations directly led to favorable treatment from the Trump administration. And the contributions do not personally enrich Mr. Trump, unlike some of his family’s cryptocurrency ventures. But many of the deep-pocketed individuals and corporations who have given large sums have a lot riding on the administration’s actions, raising questions about conflicts of interest.
What is this “conflict of interest” you speak of?
Trump only understands using money and threats to achieve what he wants. There’s nothing more to him, he has no philosophy or understanding of politics, history, or human psychology. He truly believes it’s all people care about because he can’t imagine anyone not being willing to sell his soul for it.
It’s interesting because he is actually more complicated than that himself. He’s after money, of course, and feels small because he isn’t the richest man in the world. But he’s also motivated by a narcissistic compulsion for attention and admiration and is driven by a massive thirst for vengeance. For some reason he believes that the Palestinian people will be happy if they just get a good deal on a condo in the Egyptian desert and the Ukrainians will have no ill-feelings about giving up their country to his pal Vlad as long as somebody’s building some hotels in Kiev. It doesn’t seem to occur to him that other people might have grievances, just as he does (although their are justified and his are not.) He just assumes they can be bought off with a little cash.
And it’s pretty clear that he’s now totally convinced that he has an ability to alter reality simply by saying it repeatedly. He has convinced tens of millions of people of things he knows aren’t true, he’s beaten the rap on numerous crimes and he became president again after trying to overthrow the government. I guess you can’t really blame him?
Donald Trump is a criminal mob boss. But you knew that.
Jimmy Kimmel delivered a scathing attack Thursday on the American president as part of British broadcaster Channel 4’s annual Alternative Christmas Message.
Hi I’m Jimmy Kimmel.
I have no idea if you know who I am, but I was asked to deliver this year’s Alternative Christmas Message (which I’ve heard is a big deal) so I hope you do, but if not I host what you call a chat show (we call it a talk show) in what you call the colonies, I think? I honestly have no idea what’s going on over there.
I do know what’s going on over here though, and I can tell you that, from a fascism perspective, this has been a really great year. Tyranny is booming over here.
You may have read in your colourful newspapers my country’s President would like to shut me up because I don’t adore him in the way he likes to be adored. The American government made a threat against me and the company I work for, and all of a sudden we were off the air. But then, you know what happened? A Christmas miracle happened. Well, it was September, it was a September miracle. But the holiday does seem to come earlier and earlier every year, doesn’t it?
Millions and millions of people stood up and said: ‘No, this is not acceptable’. People who never watched my show, people who were on record saying they hate my show spoke out, they marched, they did this all to support the right to a free expression of speech and because so many people spoke out, we came back. Our show came back stronger than ever. We won, the President lost and now I’m back on the air every night givin’ the most powerful politician on earth a right and richly deserved bollocking. That’s a word, right, I used it properly?
And the reason I’m telling you this story is because maybe you’re thinking: ‘Oh a government silencing its critics is something that happens in places like Russia, or North Korea, or LA, not the UK’. Well, that’s what we thought and now we’ve got King Donny the Eighth calling for executions. It happens fast.
You know it’s funny we Americans are very proud of not having a king. It’s kind of why we left. Earlier this year tens of millions of us marched at protests called No Kings. You had some of those there. And just for the record we have nothing against your king. I mean I don’t know if you know this, but his son lives here. We just – well some of us – just have a problem with the guy who thinks he is our king.
Here in the United States right now we are both figuratively and literally tearing down the structures of our democracy. From the free press, to science, to medicine, to judicial independence, to the actual White House itself, we are a right mess. And we know this is also affecting you, and I just wanted to say sorry. And we want you to know or, at least I want you to know, that we’re not all like him. We’re not all like that.
Look I know (from the musical Hamilton) that our countries didn’t start off on the greatest note, but I also know (from seeing Love Actually) that we have a special relationship. So, if I might speak on behalf of my country – which I most certainly do not – our message to you, our friends across the pond this Christmas is: don’t give up on us. We’re going through a bit of a wobble right now, but we’ll come around. It may not seem like it, but we love you guys. We even love the things about you that you don’t like, like Simon Cowell for instance. We are not bright. We’re Americans. No one knows better than you we’re always just a little bit late to the game, but do we come through in the end? Maybe. Give us about three years. Please. Thank you for your patience, and thank you for Spider-Man. Merry Christmas, and happy holidays.
