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(1) Majorie Taylor Greene is retiring from Congress in January. No great loss, IMHO.

(2) Say what you will about Caroline Kennedy’s politics, she has had a very tragic life. There was her father’s assassination when she was a child, and then the loss of her mother when relatively young, and her brother – leaving Caroline the sole survivor of her nuclear family. One child, her son, seems to be highly troubled. And now her daughter, 35, has been given a terminal cancer diagnosis; terrible news. Caroline’s daughter has two very young children.

(3) All Epsteins look alike to Jasmine Crockett.

(4) The Somalis of Minnesota seem to specialize in fraud.

(5) Megyn Kelly versus Mark Levin, if you care to read about it. Did he call her a Nazi or did he call her a grifter?

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Roundup — 38 Comments

  1. The Somalis in MN are doing good work for their tribes. That they can so easily sucker the host is an opportunity that cannot be passed up.

  2. 3) Oh, the difference two characters strokes can make. ‘A’ Jeffrey Epstein, versus Jeffery Epstein. And those who want new leadership in the Dem party hold Jasmine up as an example of the courageous and energetic new people they want. Lordie!

  3. Megyn seems to be taking Tucker’s side, which is a mistake IMO. I’ll have to unsubscribe from Tucker’s site. He’s now promoting Fuentes, instead of warning about him. Fuentes admires Hitler and Stalin, making him a marxist. In addition to being an antisemite and a misogynist.

    I no longer consider Tucker to be on the right. He is concerned with Gaza, but not the Christian persecution in Nigeria.

  5. Fuentes has some strange effects on people. Michelle Malkin’s departure from public life occurred subsequent to an appearance on a public platform with Fuentes.
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    My sympathies to Caroline Kennedy. What makes it more poignant is that of her three children, Tatiana was the one who wasn’t peculiar in some obtrusive way.
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    NB, Caroline is the granddaughter of Janet Lee (Mrs. Bouvier, then Mrs. Auchincloss).
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    Janet Lee had four children. The first was placed in a position of exceptional prominence she might have preferred to avoid, married two men (one of whom had a troublesome family and gross personal shortcomings the other of whom had a daughter from hell), was widowed at age 34 and again at age 46, lost two of her four children (one stillborn, the other dying after two days), and died of lymphoma in early old age. The second ran through three marriages (her first was a hopeless drunk), outlived one of her two children (testicular cancer), and died without any grandchildren. The third appears to have had a passable domestic life, but died at 39 of lung cancer and never lived to see her grandchildren (five in number). The fourth proved to be an all around embarrassment (homosexuality, drug use, criminal prosecution, and feeding family dirt to Kitty Kelley).
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    Of the grandchildren of Janet Lee, one was stillborn, one died in infancy; one died childless in a plane crash at age 38 along with his wife and sister-in-law; one (a journalist) was rendered infertile from treatments for the cancer which eventually killed him anyway (at age 40); one (occupation unclear) is childless and was married for only a brief run of years (ages 39 to 45); one (occupation unclear) married and produced three children but was eventually given the gate by his wife in late middle age; his brother (occupation unclear) married and produced two children then gave his wife the gate as they approached middle age; and one (a school psychologist) married too late in life to have any children. Of her eight grandchildren (or nine if you count the stillbirth), only three had children and, of the three, Caroline was the only one who stayed married.
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    The great-grandchildren number eight and are between the ages of 19 and 38. Four of the eight are over the age of 25. One of these four is married with children. She is dying of leukemia.

  6. I read the New Yorker piece by Tatiana Schlossberg about her AML diagnosis, with a prognosis of maybe a year. It’s written with a matter-of-fact grace that makes it all the more heartbreaking. Whatever her politics may be, she writes like a solid person, like someone with roots. She writes about having spent her life trying to protect her mother, Caroline, from any more tragedy than she’d already experienced. Yet now she finds herself presenting her still-living mother — only a few years younger than I am — with yet another huge grief, that she cannot help or prevent.

    I remember being her age, with a newborn and two small older children. I remember how fiercely I knew that I had to stay alive for them. I got the chance. She won’t.

    The Kennedy curse seems to be a real thing.

  8. Scott Pinsker, at PJ Media, had an interesting take on Greene’s resignation announcement. She’s been very media-savvy, and yet she dropped this in the evening on a Friday before a holiday week, the best time to bury news. He thinks she’s done with running for office. Apparently Ocasio-Cortez made some comment about insider trading for MTG, which may or may not be true, or maybe Greene has a lucrative TV contract in mind.

    https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2025/11/22/why-would-media-savvy-mtg-announce-her-resignation-late-friday-night-right-before-thanksgiving-n4946292

  9. Have you noticed Nam is not in the news. Was wall to wall then seemingly overnight disappeared.

  10. I would only wish God’s mercy on Tatiana. May what sins she has be forgiven and the Lord be gracious unto her.

  12. Barry Meislin:

    It’s been clear for a long time that a lot of them were either bots or people paid to do it. The only question was, what percentage. Seems it was probably a very large percentage.

  15. Clear?…
    To all the global network organs and clowns?
    To all the “River to the sea”-ers?

    To Madmani, et al.?

    Well, perhaps. After all, they have a country (or several) to erase.
    (And to erase a country ya’ gotta break some eggs…)

  16. …I mean, what does “Globalize the Intifada” mean, anyways?

    “Website reportedly puts $100K bounties on heads of hundreds of Israeli academics worldwide — including US…”—
    https://nypost.com/2025/11/22/world-news/website-reportedly-puts-100k-bounties-on-the-heads-of-hundreds-of-israeli-academics-around-the-world-including-the-us/

    Related (for all the “Trump is Adolf” geniuses out there…)

    “Bill Maher hits back at Larry David’s ‘dumb’ NYT op-ed criticizing his dinner with Trump”—
    https://nypost.com/2025/11/23/media/bill-maher-hits-back-at-larry-david-trump-spoof-op-ed-my-dinner-with-adolf/

    + Bonus (VDH):
    “The left’s Pavlovian hatreds are blinding them to their politically suicidal choices”—
    https://nypost.com/2025/11/23/opinion/the-lefts-hatreds-are-blinding-them-to-their-politically-suicidal-choices/

  17. I have an acquaintance who was dx’d with AML. She went through a grueling treatment of chemo and a bone marrow transplant and had to move from her home in Marin County with her husband to be near Stanford for many months, away from her son and cat. She also for months had to wear a serious respiratory mask when going outside, not these jokes that were forced on everybody during C19. She’s doing well now and hopefully will stay that way. It’s not necessarily a death sentence.

  19. I can’t help but notice the relatively muted coverage of the 28-point Ukraine-Russia peace plan.

    I have plenty of serious reservations about it, but it has not ignited the screaming hair-on-fire reaction one would predict from any Trump-authored proposal. NPR for example is hardly mentioning it. Wonder why? Spoiler alert…

    Putin. Needs. Out.

  20. It’s been clear for a long time that a lot of them were either bots or people paid to do it. The only question was, what percentage. Seems it was probably a very large percentage.

    We Won’t Get Fooled Again!.

    Just kidding. Of course we will.

  21. She’s doing well now and hopefully will stay that way. It’s not necessarily a death sentence.
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    They’ve made considerable improvements in outcomes, but it’s still usually lethal. Survival is age-related, IIRC. A decade ago, those under 40 at diagnosis had about a 50% shot at survival, those over 60 about a 12% chance. That refers to the generic case. From her description, hers has some feature which renders it resistant to treatment.
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    Most people survive the other coarse types of leukemia (~75%), non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (~75%), and Hodgkin’s (~90%). If I understand correctly, multiple myeloma will get you if something else doesn’t first, but they’re improving attrition rates and people are living a longer – a median of 7 or 8 years rather than the two years which you might have expected a generation ago. Kevin Drum lasted ten years with it.

  22. Marisa; Art Deco:

    Caroline’s daughter has already had all available treatments. They failed. That’s when she got the diagnosis of terminal.

  23. Further to: “I can’t help but notice the relatively muted coverage of the 28-point Ukraine-Russia peace plan.”

    According to Copilot, the full text of the plan has not been produced in either the NYT or the WAPO. All the old media coverage I have read or heard is about reaction to the plan, with the territorial concessions covered almost exclusively.

    Notably missing is any mention of the 100 $Billion in Russian funds held abroad being redirected to the reconstruction of Ukraine, under U.S. supervision no less!

    I guess we know why Putin is busy jailing and shaking down all his cronies… it’s gonna be THEIR cash that disappears folks, not his!

    Oh, and some YouTuber suffered the vapors about the reference to Nazi activities being prohibited in Ukraine. Read the “Art of the Deal”, Dude.

  24. Jasmine Crockett ; another winner.

    A loud mouth, exceedingly obnoxious individual who ventures in and out of ghetto speak when it suits (in her mind) the occasion.

    How individuals like her receive the necessary votes to attain office is beyond my comprehension. The democrat party seems to attract people of her ilk.

  25. If it wouldn’t be committing fraud those Somalis would be pirates on the Great lakes capturing boats for ransom.

  26. Ray Van Dune: “Putin. Needs. Out.”

    I’m no fan of Vlad but are we sure things would get better instead of worse? Russia’s track record of governance is not good – centuries of Tsars followed by the Soviets. I have long suspected that while Russians may not be in love with Putin they are OK with him compared to what they had in the past. Allegedly some of them are still nostalgic for Uncle Joe Stalin.

    More broadly, what happens when Putin is gone which is going to happen sooner or later anyway, he’s in his 70s. It matters because they have nukes. Too bad we don’t have intelligence agencies actually gathering intelligence instead of playing domestic politics.

  27. The national tour that Charlie Kirk was starting when he was killed ended last night in Glendale, AZ. As with all the stops after UVU, prominent conservatives stepped in to Charlie’s place to debate the questioners.

    Megyn Kelly headlined along with Charlie’s widow Erica. I gave two couples rides afterwards. The couple from Arkansas said it was worth every penny to fly in and stay at a nearby hotel. The other couple were unhappy. They said their seats were uncomfortable, but I’m guessing there was another issue, as they barely spoke during the 40-minute ride to their home.

    I was told that one couple flew in from Canada, and another drove from Minnesota.

    Turning Point is more influential than anyone realizes. Never mind the student chapters. There are many, many professional adults, and they are motivated. We had a recall for a city council seat here in Mesa–my ward. TPUSA got behind the challenger.

    People flew in from all over. They called, knocked on doors and did lit drops. I was called at least 4 times and they knocked on my door at least three times. They knew the issues and knew who had been mailed ballots. At the polling place there were at least 75 workers plus the challenger, who talked to me for five minutes.

    My mom was a volunteer who ran at least a dozen campaigns. She would have been impressed by how TPUSA got their votes out.

    I think this was a learning exercise. They’re developing a model of how to operate a campaign outside of the party. I expect to see them identify races where they can make a difference, and then do just that.

  28. From August 1999 to February 2022, you could say that Putin managed to foster an economic and social revival in Russia. He could certainly be critiqued, but that period was one of continuous improvement. You could say that of the period in Russia extending from 1855 to 1914, most notably the Stolypin ministry. There’s something observers did not quite realize until he attempted a decapitation strike on the Ukrainian government in February 2022 and the foreign minister demanded that every country which entered NATO after 1997 leave it. The Putin regime aspired to reconstruct the Soviet Union and it’s portfolio of vassal states in Eastern Europe. Perhaps he’d have elected to forego swallowing up some of the former Union Republics and left them as clients. The Ukraine was to be step one. White Russia and the Baltics were next.
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    Some time ago I was a lurker on a blog where the moderator and most of the participants were Russian nationalists chuffering in English. Well, the standard viewpoint in that set was that Ukrainian nationality and the Ukrainian language was ‘fake and gay’ – the manufacture of lunkheaded Soviet authorities – and that Ukrainians were too stupid to run their own affairs. Seemed like an outlandish viewpoint, but it indubitably animates policy in Russia.

  30. Yeah, I’m not sure of anything in Russia. I just don’t like having the news precooked and predigested for me. Just give me the whole story.

  31. Another “winner”:

    “Zohran Mamdani’s dad compares Israel to apartheid-era, calls Holocaust survivors ‘today’s perpetrators’ in resurfaced video”—
    https://nypost.com/2025/11/23/us-news/mahmood-mamdani-compares-israel-to-apartheid-era-calls-holocaust-survivors-todays-perpetrators-in-resurfaced-video/

    To be compared/contrasted with…

    “Zohran Mamdani says Trump is still a ‘fascist, despot’ — but claims they agree on most important issue facing NYC”—
    https://nypost.com/2025/11/23/us-news/zohran-mamdani-says-trump-is-still-a-fascist-despot-but-claims-they-agree-on-most-important-issue-facing-nyc/

  32. “Just give me the whole story”

    Ray, we’re lucky to get even 10% of the story in Russia. And not just because of media failure though they’re certainly not helping. Russia has long been a closed society, difficult to penetrate. We could be in for some rude surprises when Putin passes from the scene whether by natural causes or otherwise.

  33. “Will Mark Levin Denounce Trump for Refusing to Condemn Tucker Carlson?”

    [Megyn]Kelly would add, “And if you watch that interview that he did with him, I personally am convinced it was about Tucker trying to reach Fuentes, not Tucker trying to launch Fuentes in a bigger and more profound way onto the national scale.”

    That’s certainly what I saw. Kelly noted that Carlson treated his interviews with controversial macho-man Andrew Tate and Iran’s president in the same way, in his own style.

    The independent journalist Glenn Greenwald had a similar take, “The claim that Tucker didn’t ‘push back’ on any of Fuentes’ views is the byproduct either of not having watched the interview and/or extreme dishonesty. Most of it was about their differing views and argumentation.”

    The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh was also criticized for not denouncing Carlson. After Trump also refused to do so, he posted on X, “So will Trump also be denounced as a ‘coward’ and ‘woke right’ by all of the people who called me and Megyn Kelly that for refusing to disavow Tucker?”

    https://www.theamericanconservative.com/will-mark-levin-denounce-trump-for-refusing-to-condemn-tucker-carlson/

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/media/article-15274169/fox-news-host-mark-levin-tucker-carlson-nazi.html

  34. Selfy:

    Have you read any of Glenn Greenwald’s stuff on Israel, post 10/7? He is pretty much on the same page as Carlson on Israel – very very negative, it’s committing genocide in Gaza, etc.. He may be an independent journalist in the sense that he doesn’t belong to any one media outlet, but he’s hardly objective on Israel. This attitude of Greenwald’s predates Carlson’s anti-Israel viciousness. See, for example, this as well as this for some of Greenwald’s older views, and see this for Greenwald’s “genocide” accusations against Israel.

    And American Conservative was started by Pat Buchanan and has continued in that vein, so it also would be expected to be on Carlson’s side and against Levin.

    By the way, Levin did not call Carlson a Nazi. He said this, according to your Daily Mail link:

    ‘”I want nothing to do with you, what you’ve become — your vile libels against my faith, millions of Christians, and in my view, what you seek do to our country,”‘ Levin said he wrote back.

    ‘”There’s nothing to debate. You’re a Nazi promoter.

    ‘”You’re the modern day David Duke,”‘ he added, referring to a Klu Klux Klan leader who was a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives in the nineties who parroted anti-Semitic conspiracies.

    The only thing there with which I would disagree is the comparison to David Duke. The proper comparison, IMHO, is more like Father Coughlin, who was basically a media personality (and priest, but Tucker doesn’t resemble that aspect of him) who spread conspiracy theories about Jews.

    For example – sound familiar?:

    In the days and weeks after Kristallnacht, Coughlin defended the state-sponsored violence of the Nazi regime. He argued that Kristallnacht was justified as retaliation for Jewish persecution of Christians. He explained to his listeners on November 20, 1938, that the “communistic government of Russia,” “the Lenins and Trotskys…atheistic Jews and Gentiles,” had murdered more than 20 million Christians and had stolen “40 billion [dollars]…of Christian property.”

    For years Coughlin publicly derided “international bankers,” a phrase that most of his listeners understood to mean Jewish bankers. Such antisemitic views were expressed on the pages of Social Justice. In a series of articles published in 1938, Coughlin lambasted “Jewish” financiers and their control over world politics. These articles culminated with a story recounting his own version of the infamous Protocols of the Elders of Zion. This antisemitic publication falsely purported to be minutes from meetings of Jewish leaders who were plotting to take over the world.

  35. @FOAF

    Agreed, the is also something I think is seriously undervalued. I think I have made my stance on Putin, his regime, his wars, and the wider dysfunctions of Russia clear. I hate Putin. But that being said, by historic standards he has been a shockingly mild despot, and a relatively decentralized or “weak” strong man compared to the supposedly absolute power of the Princes of Vladimir and Tsars of Moscow and St Petersburg. Moreover he has been under fire in part for things like his corruption, repression, shakedowns, wars, and creeping Islmaicization from the “Chechen Lobby”, but also from many that view him as too soft or indecisive. I would hesitate to say he is too mild or soft for most Russians, as he mostly represents a hardened anti-Western cadre of former organs members and assorted oligarchs in what we might call the old Soviet “deep state” and has taken pains to clamp down on civil society (even the wooing of removing pro-regimes pro-war demonstrations if he cannot control them). Several of his most stalwart critics in that ecosystem are worse than he is.

    I hate the man and consider him a mass murderer, a tyrant, and someone who has treated his country and people as expendable with a willingness to abandon their future for his late life creature comforts. But he might be better than many of those that could replace him.

    That does not mean j believe we can get around the ultimate destruction of him or his regime, dirty a term as “regime change” may be. But we have to try and pre-empt the sort of ecosystem he emerged from or other bad actors like the Duginifes, Kadyrovsty, Neo-Bolsheviks, and so on from taking power after him.

  36. Most of Putin’s cabinet consists of people born after 1970, and only a few are his contemporaries. I’d leave open the possibility that he might be succeeded by people reconciled to the idea of Russia as a national state and ready to close the books on neo-Soviet projects.

  37. Marjorie who?

    Megyn who?

    Jasmine who?

    Tucker who?

    Those people are less than nothing to me. I despise them all equally.

    I also despise the political leanings of nearly all of the Kennedy clan but wouldn’t wish leukemia on anyone.

    Those who invited the Somali grifting cult into our country need a brain transplant. Or perhaps they’ve already had one from a donor named Abby Normal.

  38. I don’t know where this is going. I don’t know where this Jew hatred from the Marxists, the Islamists, the neo-Nazis, the grifters, I don’t know where they’re pulling us and pushing us. What do they want to do with American Jews? What do they want to do? Where are they taking this country? They’re destroying it. Carlson, Owens, Kelly, Bannon, the rest of them and others.

    To be completely fair, it is possible (although it’s perhaps a bit of a reach) to interperate that as Levin accusing Kelly of being a Nazi. Levin grouped together these categorizations (Marxists, the Islamists, neo-Nazis, and grifters) and connected those to another group (Carlson, Owens, Kelly, Bannon, the rest of them and others) by asking-then-answering “They’re destroying it” followed by the defining of group B. So it’s a bit ambigious since its left to the listener/viewer to infer how any one or more of the categorizations (group A) may be assigned to any of the the people (group B) I guess. But this ain’t a court of law. Rather this is an almost entirely extemporaneous rant of a talk who host.

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