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The Democrats Need to Start Panicking About the Epstein Files

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/12/22/the-democrats-need-to-start-panicking-about-the-epstein-files-n4947385

It looks like Democrats realize that the unfolding Epstein files saga is fast becoming a political nightmare — for them. For months now, they’ve been trying to turn the Epstein files into a political cudgel against Trump, but each release has been more problematic for the Democrat Party—the latest release being no exception. Newly released photos show former President Bill Clinton not only chummy with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, but also lounging in a hot tub and swimming in a pool with apparent victims.

To say it wasn’t a good look for the party is an understatement, and I think the party is panicking. Sen. Tim Kaine voiced that panic on Meet the Press on Sunday. When the conversation turned to the recently released batch of Epstein materials, Kaine, who was Hillary Clinton’s running mate in 2016, didn’t hold back.

Obviously, Kaine spent the first half of the interview blaming Donald Trump for not releasing enough documents when he had the chance. He recounted Trump’s “much-touted event” with Pam Bondi at the White House earlier this year, where he promised transparency on the Epstein materials. But Kaine fumed over how the Justice Department only released a “fraction of what’s available” and even “pulled material back” after publishing it, which has become the left’s newest favorite conspiracy theory, and which has already been addressed by the Trump administration.

But then Kristen Welker turned up the pressure with the one question I’m sure Democrats were hoping she wouldn’t ask.

“Former President Bill Clinton is featured prominently in the first batch,” she said, before noting that “simply being in the Epstein Files doesn’t imply any criminal wrongdoing.” Still, she asked the obvious: Shouldn’t Clinton explain himself?

The release of the Epstein files poses at least three big problems for the Dems:

1. The files have been released; partisan cudgel lost;

2. The large number of redactions and partially-obscured demonstrate why the release was delayed; the continual cycling of pulling back photos to protect victims and innocents by partially obscuring photos and then re-releasing them will be an ongoing reminder of why the release was delayed and the difficulty of vetting documents and photos to protect victims and innocents (see the news story in this thread's OP);

3. Among the noteworthies exposed as having ongoing personal and business relationships with Epstein after his pandering of under-age girls became known publicly are Dems and Progs that Dem leaders do not want to hypo-vehiculate (as should happen, regardless of party!).

Car bomb kills Russian general in Moscow

https://srnnews.com/russian-general-killed-by-bomb-under-his-car-in-moscow/

MOSCOW (AP) — A car bomb killed a Russian general on Monday, the third such killing of a senior military officer in just over a year. Investigators said Ukraine may be behind the attack.

Lt. Gen. Fanil Sarvarov, head of the Operational Training Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces’ General Staff, died from his injuries, said Svetlana Petrenko, the spokesperson for Russia’s Investigative Committee, the nation’s top criminal investigation agency. He was 56.

“Investigators are pursuing numerous lines of inquiry regarding the murder. One of these is that the crime was orchestrated by Ukrainian intelligence services,” Petrenko said.
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Just over a year ago, Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, the chief of the military’s nuclear, biological and chemical protection forces, was killed by a bomb hidden on an electric scooter outside his apartment building. Kirillov’s assistant also died. Ukraine’s security service claimed responsibility for the attack.

An Uzbek man was quickly arrested and charged with killing Kirillov on behalf of the Ukrainian security service.
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In April, another senior Russian military officer, Lt. Gen. Yaroslav Moskalik, a deputy head of the main operational department in the General Staff, was killed by an explosive device placed in his car parked near his apartment building just outside Moscow. A suspected perpetrator was quickly arrested.

Also, a Russian intelligence general was killed, possibly incidentally, when a Russian tanker was hit by drones recently in the Med between Greece and Sicily. Ukraine is dumbing down Putin's sounder. Using US terms, experienced army-, corps-, and division-level leadership in the Russian army has been very much hollowed out by the nearly 4 years of war. I suspect that similarly experienced senior non-coms have as well.

That's just it, though. Why do you think of yourselves as the underground?

Because - just like cat shit - it needs to be buried and can be toxic to children??? 

This website may have the word "underground" in our name, but we are not extreme fringe.

That's just it, though. Why do you think of yourselves as the underground?

Parents Decry Electric School Buses As Iceboxes in Winter

https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/12/22/parents-decry-electric-school-buses-as-iceboxes-in-winter-n4947375

New York officials mandated that all school bus purchases be electric by 2027, and parents are already thoroughly disgusted with the purchases so far. Apparently, New York officials think they are saving the planet with buses that freeze kids like popsicles.

Electric vehicles (EVs) are always a disaster from start to finish, with their short-lived, expensive, and toxic batteries, which are so dependent on slave and child labor in Africa and China, and they simply don’t work the way they are supposed to. That includes heating in the EVs during icy winter weather.

While the electric bus rule is to apply across the state of New York, parents in the Lake Shore Central School District are the ones vocally speaking out. WIVB News4 reported last week that parents are worried about their children’s health as bus drivers turn down the heat in the buses or even turn it off altogether as they try to conserve battery life. In fact, that is a recommended practice for EVs, which perform very poorly in the wintertime. And that is exactly why they should not be used to transport children to and from school in freezing temperatures.

Putting it simply, bus drivers are turning down/off heat in the bus in order to reduce the very real risk of the buses getting stranded due to battery depletion with students aboard.

At least one EV bus manufacturer went bankrupt recently, so that mandated 2027 target date may not be achievable, not that envirocrats care about practical reality.