What Happened Today - 8 Dec 2025
What Happened Today – 8 December 2025
Biden Blame Game…it’s getting pretty old
Tim Waltz….the R Word
Trump’s made up FIFA award
Ukraine/Russia Update
Trump’s Recent and “on-repeat” lies…
Entertainment Mergers and why you should pay attention
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Biden Blame Game…it’s getting pretty old
MAGA throws everything at Biden like he’s the root of all evil, but a lot of their favorite talking points are just flat-out nonsense dressed up as outrage fuel. They’ve had Trump back in the White House for almost a year now and the receipts on what they actually did with power—Epstein files, health care, immigration, Afghanistan vetting—tell you exactly who’s serious and who’s just marinating in propaganda. The people still riding for this circus at this point are choosing to be lied to, and that choice is on them, full stop.
Things MAGA wrongly blames Biden for
They act like Biden “opened the borders” and personally invited every migrant here, when Trump’s second term is the one that just froze asylum decisions and slapped blanket pauses on visas from 19 countries, including Afghanistan and Somalia, after the DC National Guard shooting. Biden oversaw a messy but still lawful system with screenings and backlogs; Trump is the one openly turning legal immigration into a political weapon and punishing people who already followed the rules.
They scream that Biden “caused” Afghanistan to fall, when the actual story is Trump cut the Doha deal with the Taliban in 2020, locked in a withdrawal timeline and weakened the Afghan government, and Biden inherited a boxed-in, deteriorating situation and pulled the plug. You can absolutely criticize how Biden executed the exit, but pretending he woke up and randomly “gave Afghanistan to the Taliban” ignores years of policy Trump set up and bragged about.
They frame inflation and gas prices as if Biden invented inflation from scratch, even though inflation was 1.4% when he took office, spiked globally because of supply shocks and COVID fallout, then dropped back under 3% by mid‑2024 as the Fed crushed it. That’s not “Biden inflation ruining America,” that’s basic macro reality that hit every advanced economy, and by 2024 the rate here was lower than in several peer countries.
They whine that Biden “destroyed energy independence,” while U.S. oil production hit record highs under him and exports of crude and LNG surged. Energy markets whiplashed because of OPEC decisions and Russia’s war in Ukraine, not because Biden whispered something mean about a pipeline at a podium.
They blame him alone for crime and “Democrat carnage,” even though violent crime spiked in 2020 under Trump and then started easing back down across many cities during Biden’s term. Crime trends track economics, policing policy, guns, and COVID disruption, not which octogenarian is mumbling in the Oval on a given day.
On Afghanistan evacuees, they spin that Biden just “dumped unvetted terrorists” into the U.S., when in reality evacuees went through multiple biometric and biographic checks with DHS, DOD, and intelligence databases. Were there gaps? Yes. Was it “no vetting”? No—MAGA just uses dehumanizing language for brown refugees because it plays.
What Trump world actually did with power
Epstein files
Trump finally signed a bill in November 2025 forcing DOJ to release its Epstein case files, but only after months of stalling and pressure from both parties and right‑wing media that realized the base wanted blood. The law still lets DOJ hold back material tied to victims and ongoing investigations, and officials are already signaling they’ll use every carve‑out they can, so this is not some noble full transparency moment—it’s a late, grudging move with loopholes baked in.
Health care and the ACA
Instead of “fixing” medical coverage, Trump’s crew went back to their old sabotage playbook on the Affordable Care Act. The big budget bill (H.R. 1) and new CMS regulations are designed to jack up premiums, strip away special enrollment options, and literally kick up to 1.8 million people off coverage, including yanking Marketplace access from DACA recipients by redefining them as not “lawfully present.” None of this is about better care or lower costs; it’s a slow-motion demolition of Obamacare to satisfy an ideological grudge while real people lose chemotherapy, insulin, and basic doctor visits.
Immigration and asylum
Trump’s response to the DC National Guard shooting was not some targeted “better vetting”; it was a political panic button that punished everyone in the pipeline.
USCIS was ordered to pause all asylum decisions across the board “until we can guarantee” maximal vetting, which is bureaucratic code for indefinite limbo for people who already cleared interviews, security checks, and years of waiting.
The administration halted immigration applications and visa processing from 19 “travel‑ban” countries, including Afghanistan, Somalia, Iran, Sudan, Haiti, and others, slamming the door on students, spouses, workers, and refugees who had already been playing by the rules.
Officials are openly reviewing green card and past approvals from those countries, threatening to retroactively blow up lawful status and citizenship based on a political list, not individualized wrongdoing.
And here’s the kicker that exposes the fake “we care about vetting” line: the Afghan man accused in the DC shooting entered in 2021 during Biden’s term but was granted asylum this spring, in 2025, under Trump’s second administration. If he truly believed the process was broken, Trump had months to stop approvals, re‑screen everyone, and tighten criteria before signing off on that case—but he didn’t. Only after a tragedy he’s now using as a pretext did he slam the brakes on everyone else, including people who had nothing to do with it and were already through the pipeline.
Afghanistan evacuees and vetting
Trump world is now promising a “full scale, rigorous reexamination” of asylum and green card cases tied to those 19 countries—a thinly veiled mass suspicion campaign against Afghans who came through Operation Allies Welcome and others. But again, he waited until a high-profile crime to weaponize this; those same systems were running on his watch, approving people in 2025, while he was busy ranting online instead of fixing the process he now claims to distrust.
What they did not fix
They did not pass a serious, durable immigration overhaul—no path for Dreamers, no realistic legal channels expansion, just more bans and pauses to score Fox News hits.
They did not make ACA coverage cheaper or more stable; they actively pushed policies expected to shrink Marketplace enrollment by more than half and spike premiums double digits for 2026.
They did not lead with Epstein transparency from day one; they resisted, then tried to use the files as a partisan cudgel while retaining power to hide anything that makes their own crew look bad.
About the brainwashing
At this point, anyone still supporting Trump and this clown show is making an active choice to ignore facts that are sitting right in their face. There’s a documented pattern: blame Biden for everything from global inflation to a war-torn country Trump himself negotiated with, then turn around and use fear and racism to justify crushing legal immigration, shredding health coverage, and playing games with Epstein’s record.
People aren’t being hypnotized against their will; they are choosing media that feeds their hate, their misogyny, their xenophobia, and their need to feel superior to someone else. That refusal to step out of the bubble and ask, “What has this guy actually done with power?” is 100% on them, and there’s no sugarcoating that.
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Tim Waltz….the R Word
It is absolutely not ok to drive by Walz’s house and scream the R‑word at him, and it’s just as disgusting when people splash it all over social media like it’s entertainment. What they’re doing isn’t “free speech bravado”; it’s harassment, it’s ableist, and it targets an entire community of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, not just one politician. Not to mention the toll it’s taking on his son who has special needs.
Why this crosses the line
Rolling up to someone’s home and yelling slurs is straight-up targeted harassment, not normal political criticism. That’s a person’s house, where their family lives, and turning it into a drive‑by insult zone is meant to intimidate and dehumanize, not argue policy. When this starts because a president uses that same slur publicly, it sends a signal that this kind of garbage is acceptable, and of course some people take that as a green light to act even worse.
The R‑word is not “just a word”
The R‑word is an ableist slur with a long, ugly history of being used to degrade people with intellectual disabilities, and disability advocates have been begging people to stop using it for years. Groups like Special Olympics have shown how often that word shows up online specifically to mock and demean disabled people, which means every time someone casually throws it at Walz, it lands on millions of others who’ve had that word weaponized against them their whole lives.
Social media posts are just as awful
Blasting that slur on social media doesn’t make it edgy or brave; it just spreads the same hate to a much bigger audience. Studies of social platforms show that slurs like the R‑word are everywhere online and most of those posts are negative toward people with intellectual disabilities, which helps normalize cruelty and pile on stigma. And once it’s online, it sticks around as “receipts” of bias and harassment, which can follow people into workplaces, schools, and communities.
People should be ashamed
Anyone who thinks it’s funny or justified to echo a president’s slur by screaming it past someone’s house or posting it for likes should be embarrassed. It’s not “tough,” it’s not “owning the libs,” it’s childish, cruel, and cowardly, and it drags disabled people into the line of fire just so some troll can feel powerful for five seconds.
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Trump’s made up FIFA award
Donald’s “FIFA prize” is basically a custom-made ego trophy dressed up as a peace award, whipped up by Gianni Infantino so Trump could pretend he finally got his big, shiny “peace” moment after getting snubbed by the Nobels.
What the prize actually is
FIFA rolled out this brand‑new “FIFA Peace Prize” at the 2026 World Cup draw in D.C., a prize that didn’t exist a few weeks ago and was never run through any normal, transparent process inside FIFA. Infantino basically invented it on the fly, blindsiding parts of his own council, just so he could hand Trump a medal and a massive trophy on stage at the Kennedy Center.
Trump, who’s been begging for a Nobel for years, immediately started hyping this thing as one of the “great honors” of his life and used the moment to brag that he’d supposedly ended multiple wars and “saved millions and millions of lives,” with zero clarification of what conflicts he’s even talking about. The whole thing played like a participation trophy ceremony built around his ego, not any real, verifiable peacemaking.
Why people are calling it fake
Inside FIFA, this was not some respected, long‑standing award; council members found out about it from press releases, and human‑rights groups couldn’t even get basic answers about criteria, judges, or nominees because there basically weren’t any. Civil liberties and rights organizations blasted FIFA for turning itself into a stage prop for an authoritarian‑leaning leader, handing him a “peace” halo while his administration is under fire for aggressive military actions and hard‑line immigration crackdowns.
Media and fans instantly started dragging it as a fake, made‑up prize, with commentators openly saying it exists purely to flatter Trump and memes mocking it as the ultimate participation medal. The narrative is simple: nobody seriously believes FIFA suddenly discovered a burning passion for global peace; they discovered a burning passion for staying on Trump’s good side while the U.S. hosts most of the 2026 World Cup.
How Trump is spinning it
Trump is treating this like vindication, framing himself as a global peacemaker on the back of a prize essentially cooked up by a friendly sports bureaucrat who’s already renting space in Trump properties and cozying up to his White House. On stage he grabbed the medal and trophy like a kid snatching candy, then went straight into his usual self‑mythologizing about historic peace, endless lives saved, and everyone finally recognizing his greatness.
Meanwhile, critics are pointing out the brutal contrast between that feel‑good “peace” branding and the reality: controversial military operations at sea, ICE crackdowns, and dehumanizing rhetoric toward immigrants all continuing while he dances to “YMCA” at the Kennedy Center with a soccer prize around his neck. So yeah, “made up FIFA prize” is exactly the right read: not some earned honor, just another stage‑managed prop to feed Donald’s need for applause.
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Ukraine/Russia Update
Ukraine is getting hammered on the battlefield while Trump is out here trying to sell a lopsided “peace” plan by acting like Zelensky is too lazy to read it and Ukrainians somehow “love” it, which is not what Kyiv is saying at all.
Where the war stands
Russia is pressing hard in eastern Ukraine, slowly grinding forward and using massive missile and drone barrages to wreck rail lines and energy infrastructure, especially over the last week. Ukraine is holding on in key areas like around Pokrovsk and other contested towns but is under serious pressure as Russian forces try to cut supply lines and exploit manpower and ammo shortages.
What Trump’s “peace deal” really is
Trump’s so‑called peace proposal is a 28‑point plan that leans heavily toward Russian demands: Ukraine would have to give up territory, cap the size of its military, accept no NATO membership, rush elections under war conditions, and help bring Russia back into the global economic fold. Analysts have pointed out this basically mirrors what the Kremlin wanted back in 2022, giving Putin most of his wish list while locking Ukraine into a weaker, more vulnerable position long‑term.
Trump’s claim about Zelensky and “his people love it”
At the Kennedy Center event, Trump told reporters he was “a little bit disappointed” Zelensky “hasn’t yet read” the peace proposal and then tossed in the line that “his people love it” and that “Russia is fine with it.” He’s using that line to paint Zelensky as the obstacle to peace, like everyone else is on board and only Zelensky’s ego or stubbornness is keeping the war going, which is pure spin with zero evidence from Ukraine to back it up.
How Zelensky and Ukraine are actually reacting
Zelensky has said the pressure around this plan is “unprecedented” and that it basically forces Ukraine to choose between keeping its dignity and territory or losing critical U.S. support, not that he hasn’t bothered to read it. He’s been clear Ukraine will work with the U.S. and allies “in good faith” toward peace, but he is not going to sign a deal that hands Putin huge concessions and lets Russia off the hook for the invasion and daily attacks.
Why Trump’s narrative is so off
Trump keeps insisting “Russia is fine with it” and Ukrainians “love it” because that makes his plan sound reasonable, when in reality Putin has already publicly trashed parts of the proposal as unworkable and Kyiv clearly sees it as a humiliating, high‑pressure deal. Framing Zelensky as some stubborn guy who won’t even read a popular peace plan is classic Trump move: ignore the actual content, ignore that it mostly favors Moscow, and just blame the Ukrainian president for not rolling over fast enough while his country is getting bombed.
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Trump’s Recent and “on-repeat” lies…
Trump spent the last few days just lying his way through that Cabinet meeting and the weekend, bouncing from made‑up numbers to fantasy economics to Ukraine spin. Here’s a rundown of the big ones, what he said, why it’s garbage, and why it matters.
Cabinet meeting lies
• Lie: “We’ve secured more than $18 trillion in new investment in the United States.”
• When: Televised Cabinet meeting on December 2.
• Why it’s a lie: His own White House numbers are roughly half that, and even those are padded with vague “pledges” and MOUs, not real money actually committed or spent.
• Why it matters: He’s inflating fake trillions to sell himself as a once‑in‑history economic genius while hiding that a lot of what’s happening is just normal investment cycles plus carryover from the Biden-era laws he keeps trashing.
• Lie: “Biden gave away $350 billion to Ukraine.”
• When: Same Cabinet meeting, ranting about aid to Kyiv.
• Why it’s a lie: Actual disbursed U.S. assistance is in the tens of billions, not hundreds; watchdogs and independent trackers put total aid well under half of what he claimed.
• Why it matters: He’s bloating the number to make Biden look reckless and to justify his own Russia‑tilted “peace” plan, while poisoning public support for Ukraine with bogus sticker shock.
• Lie: Prescription drug prices have been cut “200, 300, 400… up to 900%.”
• When: Cabinet meeting segment on health care and “affordability.”
• Why it’s a lie: You literally cannot cut prices more than 100%; and no data set shows anything remotely close to what he’s saying for overall drug costs.
• Why it matters: He’s using cartoon math to pretend people’s costs are way down while folks at home are still getting slammed at the pharmacy, which lets him dodge any real policy fixes.
• Lie: “China doesn’t have gasoline; we do.”
• When: Same meeting, while bragging about “energy dominance.”
• Why it’s a lie: China produces millions of barrels of oil a day and obviously has gasoline; U.S. output is higher, but that’s a totally different claim from “they don’t have any.”
• Why it matters: It’s dumb, but it feeds his bigger fantasy that America is untouchable and can throw tariffs and threats around without real global blowback.
• Lie: “There are no murders in Washington, D.C. now.”
• When: Cabinet meeting, talking about sending in the Guard.
• Why it’s a lie: Homicides are still happening in D.C.; the city hasn’t magically hit zero, including after the Guard was deployed.
• Why it matters: He’s using fake crime numbers to paint himself as the law‑and‑order savior and to justify heavy‑handed federal crackdowns in blue cities.
• Lie: The 2020 election was “a fake, rigged election.”
• When: Repeated again in the Cabinet room when he veered back into grievance mode.
• Why it’s a lie: Dozens of court cases, Republican state officials, and his own DOJ shot this down; there’s no evidence of the kind of fraud he keeps alleging.
• Why it matters: He’s still using the Big Lie from 2020 as the foundation for every power grab, every attack on institutions, and every excuse to go after enemies inside the government.
Tariffs and taxes lie
• Lie: “We can get rid of the federal income tax and just run the country on tariffs.”
• When: Follow‑up media hits after the Cabinet meeting, repeated Friday and into the weekend.
• Why it’s a lie: Tariffs currently bring in a tiny fraction of what income taxes do; even jacking them way up wouldn’t come close to replacing that revenue without blowing up prices for consumers.
• Why it matters: It sounds like populist magic (“no income tax!”) but in practice it would mean a massive hidden tax on working people through higher prices, while the rich skate.
Ukraine/Zelensky lies over the weekend
• Lie: “Zelensky hasn’t even read the peace proposal.”
• When: Sunday, December 7, talking to reporters before the Kennedy Center Honors.
• Why it’s a lie: Zelensky publicly said he had a substantive call with the U.S. team working the talks and had been briefed on the proposal; he’s clearly engaged with the details.
• Why it matters: Trump’s trying to frame Zelensky as unserious or negligent so that, if Ukraine rejects this Russia‑tilted plan, he can blame Zelensky for “refusing peace” instead of owning that the deal is bad for Ukraine.
• Lie: “His people love it. Russia is fine with it.”
• When: Same gaggle, same topic.
• Why it’s a lie: There’s no evidence Ukrainian public opinion “loves” this proposal; Ukrainian officials have been careful and skeptical in public, and basic polling shows people don’t want to give up territory to Russia. Claims that “Russia is fine with it” are also unverified, and Moscow has already signaled problems with parts of the plan.
• Why it matters: He’s manufacturing consent out of thin air to make it sound like only Zelensky is blocking peace, setting the stage to cut support if Kyiv doesn’t roll over.
Immigration and fear‑mongering
• Lie: Painting Somalis and other immigrant groups as uniquely dangerous and “ruining” communities.
• When: Late‑week and into the weekend, in private and public settings, reported out on Thursday and Friday.
• Why it’s a lie: Crime data do not support the idea that these communities are more dangerous than native‑born Americans; his own first‑term DHS reports undercut that rhetoric.
• Why it matters: He’s recycling the same racist, dehumanizing language to justify harsher crackdowns and to keep his base in a constant state of panic about immigrants who are just living their lives.
From the Cabinet table to the Ukraine “peace” spin, he spent the whole weekend building policy on numbers he made up and stories that collapse the second you look at actual data, all so he can keep feeding the grievance machine and selling himself as the only one who can fix the chaos he keeps stoking.
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Entertainment Mergers and why you should pay attention
Massive mergers between Netflix, Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount, and the rest should set off every alarm bell in people’s heads, because you’re watching control of what the country sees, hears, and talks about get concentrated into the hands of a tiny club of billionaires and politicians who absolutely have an agenda. When that kind of power lines up with Trump’s MAGA project to bully, reward, and reshape media in his image, you’re not just talking about “business moves” anymore—you’re talking about building a propaganda machine with fewer and fewer off-ramps.
Why these mergers are dangerous
The Netflix–Warner Bros. Discovery deal would combine one of the biggest global streamers with a giant studio plus HBO, CNN, and a massive library, giving a single company staggering leverage over what content gets made, how it’s distributed, and who can afford to compete. On top of that, Paramount is simultaneously pushing a hostile bid for Warner, which analysts say would create a combined operation controlling well over 30% of the domestic box office and a huge chunk of linear TV, instantly raising classic antitrust red flags about higher prices, fewer choices, and squeezed-out rivals.
The more these giants fuse together, the easier it becomes to quietly kill risky stories, sideline creators who don’t fit the political mood, and ram homogenized, advertiser- and politician-safe content down everyone’s throat. Regulators and consumer advocates are already warning that this wave of consolidation means people will likely pay more for fewer services, with less genuine competition and less space for independent journalism or weird, critical, subversive art to survive.
How MAGA is trying to grab media power
Trump isn’t some neutral referee raising antitrust concerns out of civic virtue—he’s selectively leaning on deals to reward friends and punish enemies while building a media ecosystem that treats him like the sun in the sky. He’s publicly flagged the Netflix–Warner deal as “a problem” while being personally close to Paramount’s David Ellison, whose rival bid would keep Warner in the hands of a friendlier camp, and whose earlier Skydance–Paramount merger sailed through federal approval after regulators leaned on the company over diversity policies and even extracted a cash settlement tied to a Kamala Harris interview fight.
On the broader media landscape, MAGA is running a two-track strategy: on one side, Trump and his allies relentlessly bash “fake news,” pressure regulators like the FCC and FTC, and threaten investigations into outlets like Comcast/NBC to scare big corporations into tilting coverage or dropping anything too hostile. On the other side, conservative power brokers are lobbying to change ownership caps and rules so friendly broadcasters and right-wing networks can grow even bigger, while Trump-world influencers and aligned tech executives tighten their grip on platforms like X and push other major tech and media companies to shift right to avoid punishment.
When fewer companies own more of the content pipelines—and those companies know their profits and licenses depend on staying in good standing with a vindictive president and his movement—you’re setting up a media environment where self-censorship, sycophancy, and partisan filtering become the default. That’s exactly why people should be deeply, loudly concerned: the endgame is fewer independent voices, more coordinated narratives, and a right-wing political machine that can shape reality for tens of millions of people with almost no meaningful competition.
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This week is basically going to be a mix of MAGA chaos, corporate power grabs, and more cruelty dressed up as “policy.”
Expect more noise and maneuvering around the Netflix–Warner Bros monster merger and Paramount’s hostile bid for Warner, with Trump loudly hinting he wants a say while Congress and regulators line up antitrust scrutiny that could shape who controls half your streaming diet.
The White House is rolling out that $12 billion bailout for farmers screwed by Trump’s own tariff games, so you’ll hear a lot of spin about “helping America’s heartland” instead of admitting his trade war helped tank their markets in the first place.
Immigration-wise, fallout continues from Trump’s pause on all asylum decisions and the freeze on applications from 19 “travel‑ban” countries, so families and refugees already in the system are going to stay stuck in limbo while he milks the DC shooting for more nativist talking points.
On top of that, watch for more legal and foreign‑policy drama: the Supreme Court is weighing Trump’s power to fire independent agency heads, and his messy attempts at brokering “peace” abroad—from Ukraine talks to sanctions fights—will keep throwing off headlines without much real stability behind them.
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