George Carlin on criminals in Reagan’s administration: (Not safe for work – it is George Carlin) (7 minutes). Anything sound familiar?

NPR doesn’t get a lot of money from the government anymore. Doesn’t make any difference. NPR is probably the closest thing to any kind of liberal gathering place as there is in the country and so MAGAs must destroy it and quickly. When they discover it is run mostly by donations Trumpco will probably try to get a list of names and try to charge them with some sort of crime.

Here is the story of NPR funding in a nutshell. Yes, there is still too much public money in NPR. You can expect the target to be on NPR’s back from day 1 of the Trump oligarchy. So if you are a listener like I am be prepared to pay for the radio you think is necessary to the survival of our democracy.

Why? Well when the backroom deals and the kick backs and the million dollar pardons and the bribes from foreign officials start to roll in, Trumpco wants to make sure the media is 100% behind them and more than willing to shut up and divert attention from their crimes. I hope I didn’t give away too much of the first year of Trumpco.

Kind of a loosey-goosey quiz today since it is the holiday season with another rolling quickly behind.

A) Trump promised to impose stiff tariffs on Mexico and Canada if they don’t stop the flow of drugs. What group of people is most responsible for bringing fentanyl into the US?

B) Many voters for Trump said they want Trump to do away with what federal health insurance program and it won’t hurt them because they are protected by the ACA?

C) Also, many Trump voters have been surprised that tariffs will not be paid by foreign countries but by who?

D) The European Federation of Journalists announced Friday that they will quit using what fast-becoming-irrelevant social media on January 20, 2025?

E) December brings us many holidays and solar related dates. This coming Friday is the Christian feast day for the personage who would become the season’s great gift giver?

F) The formal reopening for Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral  will be taking place when?

G) Negotiators in South Korea are coming closer to an agreement on a cap on what major source of pollution on earth?

H) The earliest sundowns of the year in Iowa occur around what date?

I) In a resurfaced interview, HHS Secretary nominee RFK jr. said that what illicit drug was a great help to him in school when he was young?

J) Proposed tariffs on Mexico and Canada will raise the average price of a new car in the US by how much according to Wells Fargo?

K) San José State’s women’s Volleyball team advanced to last night’s finals in the Mountain West Conference Volleyball tournament when Boise State forfeited due to what reason?

L) November 27, 1978 who was murdered in San Francisco whose assailant became infamous for using what became known as “the twinkie defense”?

M) Canadian provincial premiers met Wednesday to discuss what suddenly crucial issue?

N) What Christian saint day is recognized as the sun starts to set later in the evening during December?

O) Since Trump has threatened huge tariffs on Mexico and Canada. Can you remember who are the leaders of these two nations?

P) Alice Brock died last week. Why is she famous in popular culture, especially around Thanksgiving?

Q) when will Hanukka happen this year?

R) In what appears to be an attempt to make Joni Ernst relevant before an election, she has been named as the chair of what newly created caucus in the senate?

S) Silly me I almost forgot to point out that today is the first day of what Christmas preparation time?

T) Five Democratic congress members from what state were targeted by bomb threats on their homes on Thanksgiving Day?

My spidey sense tells me to make this a great Christmas because after Trump fueled inflation next Christmas could be a real bummer. 

Answers:

A) Americans

B) Obamacare. Many are panicking now that they found out Obamacare and the ACA were the same thing

C) American consumers like themselves

D) X

E) December 6th is Saint Nicholas Day

F) Next Saturday December 7th

G) plastics. They are working on a total worldwide cap (best wishes)

H) between December 1st and December 12th

I) Heroin. Uh, kids, don’t be like Bobby

J) $2,000/car

K) San Jose allegedly has a trans athlete on their volleyball squad

L) San Francisco city council member Harvey Milk was shot by fellow council member Dan White who used the “twinkie defense” to claim he was depressed.

M) tariffs threatened to be imposed by Trump

N) December 13th Santa Lucia (Saint Light) day

O) Currently Justin Trudeau leads Canada and Claudia Scheinbaum just took over in Mexico

P) Alice Brock was the owner of Alice’s Restaurant made famous in a 1960s story by Arlo Guthrie

Q) December 25 to January 2, 2025

R) the Senate government efficiency caucus

S) Advent

T) Connecticut

Sounds like a plan: In the Philippines both the president (Marcos) and the VP (Duterte) have vowed to have the other killed if something happens to them