What Happened Today - 15 Dec 2025

What Happened Today – 15 December 2025

Patel….yet again, wrong person

MAGA’s weekend

Epstein Files – due to us Friday

Rob Reiner and his wife’s death…Trump Response

Bondi Beach shooting and the hero

U.S. deaths in Syria

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Patel….yet again, wrong person

Kash and his little fan club stepped in it again on Brown, just like clockwork. They all rushed online to spike the football the second that “person of interest” got picked up in the Brown University shooting, acting like the case was closed and the FBI under Patel had heroically nailed the gunman in record time.  Within hours, that guy was quietly released because there wasn’t enough evidence tying him to the shooting, which left two people dead and multiple others wounded, and suddenly all that chest‑thumping from Patel and the right‑wing blue checks aged like milk.

 

What makes this extra pathetic is that this isn’t even a one‑off; this is a pattern with Patel. He already embarrassed himself on the Charlie Kirk shooting by blasting out a premature “the subject is in custody” post that had to be walked back when it turned out the real killer was still on the loose and the person they grabbed was released after questioning.  Now he’s basically replayed the same script at Brown: overhype a shaky lead, oversell it to the base, let MAGA media run wild naming and framing a “shooter,” and then disappear when the facts don’t back it up.

 

The end result is the same every time: some random person gets turned into “the shooter” in MAGA world for clicks and clout, the actual investigation gets muddied, and public trust takes another hit because the country’s top law enforcement guy is operating like a Twitter influencer instead of a serious investigator.  And instead of learning from the last fiasco, Patel and company just keep hitting copy‑paste on the same reckless playbook, proving yet again they’re a lot more invested in the narrative than in getting it right.

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MAGA’s weekend

Magaland spent the weekend doing exactly what it does best: rage‑posting, eating its own, and pretending everything is “winning” while the walls quietly close in. Trump himself mostly played Commander‑in‑Chief on TV, using the Syria ambush that killed two U.S. soldiers and an American civilian to promise “very serious retaliation,” wrapping it in his usual tough‑guy talk at the Army–Navy game and then again at a White House Christmas reception where he lumped Syria, Australia, and the Brown University shooting into one big “we’re under attack” narrative.  At the same time, his approval numbers are still stuck in the low 40s nationally with a slight downtick in a couple of new polls, so the base is yelling “historic strength” while the numbers say “this is bad but not total collapse.”

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Epstein Files – due to us Friday

Legal clock ticking for Friday and something almost certainly drops, but it may be partial, heavily redacted, and dribbled out instead of one big “all the Epstein files” dump.

 

What’s actually required by Friday

Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act, and Trump signed it in November, which forces DOJ to release Epstein‑related investigative materials within 30 days — that deadline is this Friday, December 19.  The law specifically covers things like grand jury records, flight logs, investigative documents, and materials tied to both Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

 

What’s already been ordered unsealed

Federal judges in New York have now signed off on unsealing grand jury materials from Epstein’s 2019 sex‑trafficking case and a separate batch tied to Maxwell, explicitly tying those rulings to this transparency law.  Those rulings mean DOJ is legally cleared to put out grand jury transcripts, exhibits, and related discovery material, with victim names and identifying details blacked out.

 

What’s already been released so far

Earlier this year DOJ put out a “first phase” of Epstein files and has been slow‑walking or outright resisting broader disclosure, at one point saying it wouldn’t release more beyond a limited batch.  On top of that, House Democrats just dumped a small sample of photos from Epstein’s estate — 19 out of tens of thousands — showing Trump, Clinton and others, which is clearly meant as a warning shot before the larger document deadline.

 

How much we’re actually likely to see

The law has carve‑outs that let DOJ hold back anything tied to ongoing investigations, national security, explicit child‑abuse imagery, or details that could out victims, so there’s a lot of room to redact and delay.  Reporting right now says even with the December 19 mandate, it’s unclear whether DOJ will dump everything at once, trickle it out, or push the line with “rolling releases” that technically meet the deadline but leave key material still hidden.

 

Bottom line for Friday

There’s way more pressure now than in past “Epstein files” hype cycles because there’s an actual statute and multiple court orders attached to a hard date, not just FOIA requests and political noise.  So yes, something is going to hit by Friday — but expect a mix of grand jury transcripts and investigative docs with big black bars everywhere, not some clean, complete list of every powerful name and every detail people have been fantasizing about.

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Rob Reiner and his wife’s death…Trump Response
Trump used Rob Reiner’s murder as yet another excuse to smear a critic and stroke his own ego, and it was grotesque even by his standards. And on top of that, the hypocrisy is wild, because when anyone talked about Kirk in anything close to this tone, the right lost its mind and came down on them instantly.

 

Instead of offering normal condolences after Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were found stabbed to death in their Los Angeles home, Trump jumped on Truth Social and basically blamed their deaths on “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” He painted Reiner as some crazed, obsessed hater whose supposed “condition” drove people around him insane, then folded in his usual bragging about how his administration “exceeded all expectations,” as if a double homicide was just another prop in his self‑promotion routine.

 

He did the whole fake “very sad” setup, then immediately pivoted to mocking Reiner’s politics and mental health instead of focusing on the fact that two people were brutally killed in their own home. The post wrapped with a perfunctory “rest in peace,” but the entire thing was framed as a cautionary tale about hating Trump too much, not about an actual human tragedy.

 

And this is where the irony just smacks you in the face: when Kirk died, anyone who so much as questioned his politics, his rhetoric, or the damage he helped fuel was immediately swarmed, shamed, and labeled a monster for “disrespecting the dead.” Meanwhile, Trump’s over here turning a fresh double homicide into a cheap “TDS” bit and the same people either cheer it on or shrug it off like it’s no big deal.

 

That’s the core of the problem with him and his cult: there is no consistent standard, only “rules for thee, not for me.” A man and his wife end up dead under horrific circumstances, and Trump’s first move isn’t basic decency—it’s to turn their deaths into a meme about how dangerous it supposedly is to not worship him, while his followers pretend to be the guardians of civility whenever it’s one of their own.

 

Here are the key movies he directed that people actually reference when they talk about his legacy:

                  •               This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

                  •               The Sure Thing (1985)

                  •               Stand by Me (1986)

                  •               The Princess Bride (1987)

                  •               When Harry Met Sally (1989)

                  •               Misery (1990)

                  •               A Few Good Men (1992)

                  •               North (1994)

                  •               The American President (1995)

                  •               Ghosts of Mississippi (1996)

                  •               The Story of Us (1999)

                  •               Alex & Emma (2003)

                  •               Rumor Has It… (2005)

                  •               The Bucket List (2007)

                  •               Flipped (2010)

                  •               The Magic of Belle Isle (2012)

                  •               And So It Goes (2014)

                  •               Being Charlie (2015)

                  •               LBJ (2016)

                  •               Shock and Awe (2017)

                  •               Albert Brooks: Defending My Life (2023, documentary)

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Bondi Beach shooting and the hero

The shooting at Bondi Beach hit a Hanukkah event and turned into Australia’s deadliest mass shooting in decades, with more than a dozen people killed and many others wounded as two gunmen opened fire on a Jewish crowd near the water.  Australian officials are calling it a terror attack driven by extremist hate, and footage from the scene shows panicked people running while shots crack across what should have been a peaceful holiday celebration.

 

Out of that chaos you’ve got this one guy, identified by relatives and local media as 43‑year‑old fruit shop owner and father of two, Ahmed al‑Ahmed, who basically decided he wasn’t going to run.  Video shows him crouched behind a car, then exploding forward, tackling a gunman from behind, wrestling the rifle away, and then calmly laying the weapon down by a tree even as a second shooter fires at him from a bridge; he was reportedly shot multiple times and is still in the hospital, and people from local community leaders to Trump and even big‑name donors are publicly calling him a flat‑out hero.

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U.S. deaths in Syria

Over in Syria, the weekend brought a brutal reminder that the U.S. is still very much in the line of fire there: two American soldiers and one U.S. civilian interpreter were killed in an ambush near Palmyra by what officials say was a lone ISIS‑linked gunman.  Three more U.S. service members were wounded, along with Syrian security personnel, and everyone who survived was airlifted out to the al‑Tanf garrison near the Iraq–Jordan border for treatment.

 

This is the first deadly attack on U.S. forces in Syria since Assad fell and the new government lined up more closely with Washington, which is why it’s such a big deal inside the Pentagon and the region.  Central Command says U.S. troops are still there “advise and assist” style on counter‑ISIS missions, but the fact that a single gunman could walk up on a key‑leader engagement and kill Americans has Trump on Truth Social promising “very serious retaliation,” which risks dragging us deeper right as people back home barely realize there’s still a war zone with U.S. boots on the ground.

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It’s going to be another week of chaos, hang in there everyone. 

 

Speak Truth!  Keep speaking TRUTH! 

Don’t Give up the Ship!

 

Go Cause Good Trouble, with Your Elbows Up!

 

These are facts that I researched and verified – AI helped put together some sentence structure, but the words and tone are mine. These are my views based upon facts, research and thoughtful consideration using logic. I own the copyright to any images used.  I’m comfortable to stand alone to uphold truth.  Feel free to check me, but do not attack me. I am only causing good trouble.