This is exactly what I'm talking about: Twitchy's editor's post of yesterday now looks as ridiculous as I feel

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Side-by-Side Screenshots Show the Difference Between the Evil Right and Tolerant Left After Someone Dies

Sam J. | 10:20 AM on December 15, 2025

If we had a nickel for every time the Left projected their own thoughts, ideas, beliefs, and BEHAVIORS on the Right, well, we'd have a buttload of nickels. Honestly, someone smarter than us once said that if the Right were truly as evil and dangerous as the Left would have us believe we are, things would be much different and not at all good for the Left.

For example, each side reacts very differently when someone they disagree with politically dies.

When Charlie Kirk was assassinated, people on the Left celebrated. It's true. Even though he was murdered in broad daylight for his beliefs, they cheered. Hell, they're still cheering when they take breaks from harassing his widow.

And now that Rob Reiner and his wife have been killed, we once again see how very different the two sides are.

[The X post she’s referring to has now been taken down - probably because its author realized that his claim to a difference between us and them “was no longer operative”]


Very different responses to the death of people that some have disagreements with… pic.twitter.com/WHttTG18mk

— Caleb Hammer (@sircalebhammer) December 15, 2025

Now, if we're being fair (and we are all about fair), we must admit we are seeing some posts on the Right that are less than complimentary of Reiner, BUT the overall feel is one of sadness and prayer. After Kirk was assassinated, the entire vibe on the Left was one of joy.

At the heart of each party is respect or disrespect for life.

It's as simple as that.

Scott Pinsker has thoughts.

Your PR Primer on How to Behave When Someone Dies Without Being an Insensitive Jerk

Worth reading in its entirety — Pinsker’s good — but for those with short reading attention spans, here are its essentials:

Stripping away the humanity, the PR cost of Trump’s Truth Social post is that it dulled the bright line that (briefly) separated the evil, vampiric celebrations of leftists when Kirk was murdered from the rest of us. So many liberals danced in the streets when Kirk was assassinated — while everyone with a heart recoiled in horror. Had this bright line held, it would’ve become yet another branding distinction between conservatives and liberals: Conservatives don’t celebrate murder; liberals do.

With one Truth Social post, we forfeited a huge hunk of the moral high ground.

I don’t want to overstate it: This, too, will pass. Trump’s post isn’t the end of the world, nor will it be the end of his presidency. Like his 2015 comment about John McCain getting captured, it’ll quickly fade from the frontpage, tossed atop the ash-heap of Trump’s roaring id. Today, it’s the topic du jour; tomorrow, it’ll be yet another example of the president’s plainspoken, say-it-like-it-is, no-punches-pulled persona. 

This is who Trump is. When we voted for Trump we got the whole package — the good, the bad, and the ugly.

His Rob Reiner post was ugly.

Come hell or high water, Trump is gonna be Trump. We know this. (And for the most part, we love this.) The good FAR outweighs the bad and the ugly, and it’s not even close: From securing the border to stopping wars to ending the Iranian nuclear threat to retaining the tax cuts to killing DEI to lowering inflation to resurrecting the U.S. economy, it’s been an extraordinarily successful first year of his second term.

More of that, please!

But for PR purposes, it’d be better if he limited his dancing to that gorgeous new White House ballroom he’s building — and not on the graves of his political enemies.

NoPo bidding war result reported

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23 Silver Beech Road, built in 1953 and last touched by a carpenter in 2003, was listed at $1.550 million and has sold for $1,660,000. No surprise there; the market continues its torrid pace.

What is amusing, to me at least, is the fulsome property description in the listing: created by AI, or the product of the agents’ own fervid imagination, who knows?

Tucked away on a peaceful road surrounded by cul-de-sacs in the award-winning North Mianus School district, this 4-bedroom Riverside gem is a perfect blend of convenience and a tranquil, private retreat. Step into a dramatic entryway with soaring vaulted ceilings and rich natural slate tile, leading to a grand living room anchored by a stately fireplace, which flows effortlessly into a sun-drenched dining room with vaulted ceilings —perfect for everyday living and elegant entertaining. A peaceful family room features full-length windows framing serene views of the expansive, tree-lined backyard. Don't miss the lower-level bonus rooms, ideal for a playroom and home office. Schedule your showing today—this Riverside treasure won't last.

Phew! Take a break, wipe that brow, settle back, and enjoy the remainder of the verbiage, a simple phrase that undercuts and negates everything that was just said:

Agent to Agent Rmrks: Offered ''as is''.

But credit where credit’s due, treasure or not, it did not last, just as promised. So who’s laughing now?

Trump's defenders have taken all the fun out of pretending to being outraged over these things

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“Hey — he said mean things about me — he deserved to die, and so did his wife”

After a day of explaining and justifying Trump’s disgusting statement on the murder of Rob Reiner and his wife — their throats were slit, their bodies slashed to pieces —“my side” has resumed expressing faux-outrage at Democrats more outlandish gaffes. Like this, from TownHall:

Tone Deaf: Did Chuck Schumer Really Say This About the Bondi Terror Attack on Sunday?

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was about to deliver a statement on the terror attack in Australia, where two terrorists opened fire on a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, leaving15 people dead and 40 wounded.

Yet, he had to comment on the Buffalo Bills beating the New England Patriots 35-31 first. 

“Of course, I’m going to say a few words about the terrible shooting in Australia, okay? First, of course, as I always say, no matter what, go Bills! They beat the Patriots today. It’s a big deal,” he said.  

Remember — it wasn’t that long ago — when oooh, weren’t we all “shocked and dismayed” at Jay Jones being elected Attorney General of Virginia despite his calling political opponent Jay Jones and his wife, Jennifer, “evil” and “breeding little fascists”, and wishing someone would put “two bullets into his head”, that Jennifer could “watch her child die in her arms, to see how parents feel when their children are victims of gun violence”? “How could the voters of Virginia elect such a man?” we demanded, and shook our heads in sorrowful dismay.

And Charlie Kirk — does anyone else remember when conservatives expressed outrage when politicians and celebrities cheered news of his assassination and “explained” that Kirk had brought death upon himself with his hateful comments?

It was all so smugly satisfying to be the good guys, the ones upholding morality and sacred truths. Until yesterday, when the spectacle of “principled conservatives” justifying and excusing Trump’s deranged Truth Social post stripped away the moral ground we claimed to be standing on, and dropped us into the same swamp of moral relativism we’ve accused our opponents of wallowing in. We revealed that our side is just as hateful, just as unprincipled, as the haters on the left: it’s only a matter of who’s being attacked, not the attack itself. So if that’s case, and we can’t do better, then let’s just shut up.

And as for mere moments of idiocy, what, now, does it matter? Schumer looked at two horrible incidents and placed a third, trivial event — the triumph of his local football team — first in priority. Trump saw a brutal, horrific double-murder and made it all about himself, while cheering the deaths: “the country’s better off without him”. Weeell, “That’s just Chuck being Chuck”, just as it’s only “Trump being Trump”. Ya wanna say that Reiner had it coming? That dissin’ the dead is fine, so long as they’re obnoxious people with different political opinions than yours? Fine; say it, brother, feel free, because Reiner was an obnoxious, pompous shit; so is Neil Young, although he’s still annoyingly among us, last I checked. Just don’t claim to be offended when Leftists do the same thing to our guys.

The fun has gone out of this game; hypocrisy will do that.

After just twelve days on the market, this home's price was jacked up, not down

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12 Sawmill Terrace was listed December 3rd at $2.149 million and the owners increased the price today to $2.2 million. I assume that’s because a flood of offers came in and they thought they could encourage higher bids if they raised the floor, but still, it’s a curious tactic, and I might have tried a different approach.

On the other hand, it’s Ed Mortimer’s listing, and he’s got a track record showing that he knows what he’s doing, so, again, we’ll just have to wait to see how this plays out.

Speaking of disgusting people, our president is at it again

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thereby demonstrating that he is as vile and loathsome as the worst of the charlie kirk assassination celebrators

Rob Reiner drove people ‘crazy’ with ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome,’ prez says

President Trump said Monday morning that murdered actor-director Rob Reiner had “driven people CRAZY” with his opposition to the Republican chief executive in a bizarre, rambling post on Truth Social.

“A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS.

“He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before. May Rob and Michele rest in peace!” the president concluded.

He’s just an awful human being.

These are the animals American college students and their instructors idolize

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This:

Video Shows Hostages Lighting Hanukkah Candles in Hamas Tunnel Before Murder

Shocking videos recovered from Gaza show six Israeli hostages lighting Hanukkah candles in December 2024, all of whom were later murdered by Hamas terrorists.

Weak and emaciated hostages pray and sing as they light the festive candles, a video aired by Israeli TV channel Keshet 12 reveals. The footage originally recorded by Hamas for propaganda purposes showed hostages giving each other hope as they celebrated Hanukkah. Another video showed them marking New Year’s Eve 2024.

“The captives are seen lighting Hanukkah candles fashioned out of paper cups and singing the Hanukkah song ‘Ma’oz Tzur,'” The Times of Israel reported Friday. “The hostages were also filmed marking New Year’s Eve 2024 and eating a piece of fruit, as their captors attempted to show a different reality of captivity.

Months later, Hamas terrorists would murder all six of them and dump their bodies in a tunnel in southern Gaza. Israeli troops recovered their remain in August 2025 during a ground offensive in the terrorist stronghold of Rafah.

“According to intelligence assessments, the six hostages were held for most of their captivity in the same Rafah tunnel complex where they were murdered at the end of August, as Hamas terrorists guarding them realized that IDF forces were nearing the site,” Israel’s Ynetnews reported. “The army believes the footage is from the hostages’ first and only Hanukkah in captivity, recorded in December two years earlier.”

And This:

“GAZA DOCTOR” SAYS IT ALL: ‘Gaza doctor murdered Israeli hostage by injecting air into her veins… before her father received video of her dying and begging for her life.’

The father of an Israeli woman abducted on October 7 has revealed his daughter was murdered in Gaza by a civilian doctor – and that he was later sent a video showing the moment she was killed.

In the footage, Avi Marciano said a medical worker is seen injecting air into his 19-year-old daughter’s veins as she lies on a bed inside Shifa Hospital, begging for her life.

Marciano, who was speaking publicly to a small crowd for the first time, said that by the end of the clip ‘she was sweating and showing no signs of life’.

His daughter was later identified as Cpl Noa Marciano, who the IDF said had suffered injuries during heavy bombing and gunfire but none that were considered life-threatening.

As Israeli forces advanced towards where Noa was being held, her captors moved her to Gaza City, where she was later killed.

Marciano said the video was sent to him on Telegram and showed clearly how his daughter died while in Hamas captivity.

Not died, murdered — by a doctor.


Pending on Taconic

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69 Taconic Road, currently priced at $4.495 million. Purchased for $.750 million in March,. 2024 from Chase after foreclosure, the owner fixed it up (it needed it) and put it back in the market that August at $4.750 million and stuck to that price for a year, after which the listing expired. He tried again two months later,this past May at $4.550 million, and, finally , dropped it to the present $4.495. We’ll see what the final closing price is.

I’ve written about this house in the past:

Bidding wars

(March 19 2024)
69 Taconic Road, $1.595 asked, $1.750 got. Bank-owned and long vacant, the defaulting borrower paid $1.7 million for this property in 2000 and later borrowed $3 million against it from — who else? — Washington Mutual. The foreclosure began on June 20, 2016, and has dragged out until now. Connecticut’s foreclosure process is insane.

(The original foreclosure complaint can be read here)

And again last August:

No one's gonna steal MY house!

69 Taconic Road, bought out of foreclosure on March 19, 2024 for $1.750 million, was quickly renovated and put back on the market in August for $4.750. That listing expired, price unchanged, March 1st, and it’s back on today, new broker, same price, $4.750.

Photo from its foreclosure days: