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Talk about the law of unintended consequences. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is being targeted as follows by Democrats. Here’s a sample headline, this one from Politico: “Lawmakers warn Hegseth may have committed war crimes following second-strike report,” with the subtitle, “Democrats and even some Republicans said Hegseth’s orders may have been illegal if a report on his commands to kill survivors of a boat attack are true.” The story reports: Lawmakers from both parties raised alarms Sunday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth may have committed a war crime following a report that he ordered a follow-on attack to kill survivors of a boat strike in September. The Washington Post reported last week that Hegseth authorized a highly unusual strike to kill all survivors of one of the Trump administration’s attacks in recent months on boats allegedly carrying drugs in international waters. POLITICO has not independently verified the Post’s reporting. Sens. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Tim Kaine (D-Va.) — both of whom sit on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — said Sunday that, if accurate, such orders would rise to the level of war crimes. “If that reporting is true, it’s a clear violation of the DOD’s own laws of war, as well as international laws about the way you treat people who are in that circumstance. And so this rises to the level of a war crime if it’s true,” Kaine said in an interview with CBS’ Nancy Cordes on “Face the Nation.” Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) also said in a Sunday morning interview with CNN’s “State of the Union” that the order, if true, is “clearly not lawful.” And Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) responded to the article by writing on social media Saturday evening: “Pete Hegseth is a war criminal and should be fired immediately.” Well now. Talk about a lack of self-awareness. Not to mention historical ignorance. Again, the essence here is that as Secretary of War, Hegseth ordered a follow-up strike against enemies of the United States who were smuggling drugs into the U.S. (RELATED: Trump and Hegseth Defending America From Drug Traffickers) Drugs that kill Americans. Got that? Follow-up attacks on enemies conducting a war against the United States are “clearly not lawful,” and the person who orders such an attack “is a war criminal.” (RELATED: We Should Declare War on the Cancerous Cartel in Caracas) So. One of the first to understand the decided double standard on this issue was House Speaker Mike Johnson. The Hill headlined: “Johnson raises Obama drone strikes in response to Hegseth controversy.” The story reported: “I will say that, you know, it’s not an unprecedented thing,” Johnson said. “One of the things I was reminded of this morning is that under Barack Obama, President Obama, he had — I think there were 550 drone strikes on people who were targeted as enemies of the country, and nobody ever questioned it.” “Secondary strikes are not unusual,” Johnson said. “It has to happen if a mission is going to be completed.” The Harvard Political Review reported this in the day: These drone strikes make a strong case for categorizing Obama as an international war criminal. The 1949 Geneva Conventions, ratified by the United Nations, explicitly provides protections for not only the wounded, but also for medical and religious personnel, medical units, and medical transports. Article 8 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court states that “Intentionally directing attacks against personnel, installations, material, units or vehicles involved in a humanitarian assistance or peacekeeping mission in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations” is classified as a war crime. The law also states “intentionally launching an attack in the knowledge that such attack will cause incidental loss of life or injury to civilians” also constitutes war crimes for the guilty party. Through the drone strike program and double-tap attacks, there is no question that former President Obama and his administration violated international humanitarian law. Obama’s symbolic significance cannot outshine his relationship with the imperial endeavors of the American Empire. Notably, nothing — nothing! — happened to President Obama for having “violated international humanitarian law” and committed “war crimes.” And oh yes. History records a seriously famous double-attack on an American enemy at the order of a U.S. president. History recalls that on August 6, 1945, with World War II against the Japanese still raging, President Harry Truman ordered the dropping of the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, on Aug. 9, Truman ordered a second attack, this one on Nagasaki, Japan. Finally, the Japanese surrendered. So the obvious question? When will Senators Kelly, Kaine, and Markey demand — however late — the prosecution of former President Obama for the “war crime” of “the drone strike program and double-tap attacks…” as instituted by President Obama? And when will they sponsor a Senate resolution condemning the Truman attack on the Japanese survivors of the first attack? I’ll take a wild guess. The fact that these three Democrat Senators — with Kelly having a serious and honorable military record of his own — are silent as church mice about raising war crime charges against former President Obama for doing a bigger version of what Hegseth has done but are raising un-shirted H-E-double “L” about Secretary Hegseth tells you everything you need to know. The fact that they are silent as well about a Senate resolution condemning former President Truman for his second atomic attack on Japan, in the fashion of Hegseth’s second attack on the drug smugglers, tells observers everything you need to know. Which is to say these three Democrat Senators are playing games with the United States armed forces. Whether it is with the relatively recent Obama attacks or the long-ago history of the Truman second attack on Japan, what they are about is playing a partisan game. With Hegseth as the target. Do they care? Based on their Obama/Truman silence, the answer is obviously no. To them, the United States military is a political toy. Shocking. Not. And definitely shameful. READ MORE from Jeffrey Lord: Trump and Hegseth Defending America From Drug Traffickers Thanksgiving Is More Than Turkey Democrats for Sedition

Like an Ivy League university professor, Alexander Stubb, the president of Finland, takes to the pages of Foreign Affairs to lecture the United States about his preferred new world order. He calls it “values-based realism,” and describes it as a “new symmetry of power among the global West, East and South” where countries would cooperate in tackling the “most pressing global challenges,” like climate change, under the auspices of a reformed United Nations. The professor-president of Finland wants his country and other “small states” to have an outsized role in this new world order. Judging by his Foreign Affairs essay, the professor-president could use a “new” education on realism. President Stubb’s first sentence foreshadows the nonsense that follows. “The world,” he writes, “has changed more in the past four years than in the previous 30.” His evidence for that claim: “Our news feeds brim with strife and tragedy. Russia bombards Ukraine, the Middle East seethes, and wars rage in Africa.” Did he miss the Global War on Terror, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Russia’s invasion of Crimea, the so-called Arab Spring chaos, tribal fighting in Africa (Rwanda, Yemen, Ethiopia)? Strife and tragedy were not absent before 2021. (RELATED: How Sweden’s Demographic Winter Turned It Into Europe’s Rape Capital) “We live in a new world of disorder,” he writes. Like many professors and readers of Foreign Affairs, President Stubb believes that since the end of World War II, the world has been living under a “rules-based international order.” That “rules-based international order” witnessed wars in Korea and Vietnam; crises in the South China Sea, Suez, Lebanon, Berlin, and Cuba; Arab-Israeli wars; Sino-Indian conflicts; Khmer Rouge genocide; Vietnamese boat people; Islamic terrorism; and many other instances of strife, tragedy, and disorder. Perhaps I can recommend additions to the professor-president’s reading list: Robert Kaplan’s Waste Land and The Tragic Mind might help here. The professor-president predicts that “the next five to ten years will determine the world order for decades to come.” Or, more likely, strife, tragedy, and disorder will continue to occur. Kaplan in Waste Land describes the current state of world affairs as a “global Weimar.” We do not live in “a world governed by a rules-based order, as polite gatherings of the global elite like to define it,” Kaplan writes. It is, instead, Kaplan continues, “a world of broad, overlapping areas of tension, raw intimidation, and military standoffs.” And as for President Stubb’s cherished United Nations, Kaplan calls it a “talk shop more important to the global elite itself than to the world at large.” (RELATED: From Orwell to Brussels: The EU’s ‘Ministry of Truth’ Arrives) In world affairs, nations pursue interests, which may or may not be consistent with their values. The professor-president also suffers from the Ivy Leaguers’ tendency for self-flagellation. “After the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001,” he writes, “the West turned its back on the values that it claimed to uphold. Its commitment to international law was questioned.” One can acknowledge that the nature and extent of the interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq were the result of failed policies, but where did the West violate international law? By striking back at the terrorists and their allies who attacked New York and Washington, D.C., killing more than two thousand Americans? By enforcing the professor-president’s cherished United Nations resolutions in Iraq? President Stubb writes that “values-based realism” is not a contradiction in terms. But it is. In world affairs, nations pursue interests, which may or may not be consistent with their values. In a clash between interests and values, interests should always prevail — not “interests” defined by a reformed United Nations, but interests based on a country’s geography, customs, traditions, and economic and political needs. President Stubb’s proposed new world order envisions a situation where “countries could deal with the most pressing global challenges through cooperation and dialogue among equals.” Unsurprisingly, he is critical of America’s withdrawal from the World Health Organization and the Paris climate agreement, while deriding President Trump’s “mercantilist approach to cross-border trade.” (RELATED: The Hedge-Fund Arsonist Now Campaigning as California’s Savior) President Stubb is a globalist — part of that global elite that Robert Kaplan describes in Waste Land. Globalism and a reformed U.N. would heighten Finland’s importance and role in the world. “Small states such as mine are not bystanders in the story,” he writes. But, judging by President Stubb’s Foreign Affairs essay, the world is much better off when Finland’s role equals its size and population. And President Stubb is a better fit for an Ivy League professor than the political leader of a country. READ MORE from Francis P. 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Tuesday, December 2 marked 10 years since Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik shot dead Robert Adams, Isaac Amianos, Bennetta Betbadal, Harry Bowman, Sierra Clayborn, Juan Espinoza, Aurora Godoy, Shannon Johnson, Larry Daniel Kaufman, Damien Meins, Tin Nguyen, Nicholas Thalasinos, Yvette Velasco, and Michael Wetzel, Farook’s co-workers at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California. Farook and Malik wounded more than 20 others before local police took them down after a car chase. The deadly anniversary had journalist Beau Yarbrough wondering, “Why did the San Bernardino Mass Shooting Happen?” The 3,332-word article comes subtitled “childhood abuse, terrorism, workplace conflict and semi-automatic weapons combined in the murders of 14 people.” The order invites a closer look. “The attack was committed by a man who had grown up in an abusive home,” writes Yarbrough, alluding to “mental health concerns such as depression, anxiety, and paranoia” on the part of Farook. He engaged in “workplace disputes,” but as the author notes, some months earlier, Farook’s co-workers held a baby shower for the couple’s newborn daughter. Co-workers also said Farook was a “typical” employee who did not stand out in any way. The disputes could not have amounted to much, but Yarborough says the attack was “both a terrorist act and a workplace shooting.” That recalls President Obama’s branding of “soldier of Allah” Nidal Hasan’s murder of 13 soldiers at Ford Hood on Nov. 5, 2009, as “workplace violence,” not terrorism or even “gun violence.” (RELATED: What Is an American?) Yarbrough profiles Syed Farook as a devout Muslim who “fantasized about committing violence of his own, inspired by terrorist groups that claimed they fought on behalf of Islam.” He read al Qaeda magazines with instructions about building radio-controlled pipe bombs. Farook and Muslim convert Enrique Marquez talked about tossing bombs into the library at Riverside City College, or onto the 91 freeway, all designed to maximize the number of casualties. Yarbrough cites testimony from then-FBI director James Comey that Farook and Malik were “speaking about jihad and martyrdom before they became engaged.” Marquez procured semi-automatic rifles for the pair, and Farook’s mother, Rafia, shredded the “attack plans” the terrorists had drawn up. (RELATED: Trivializing Religion Left Us Unprepared for Political Islam) Despite the careful planning and dedication to jihadism, Yarbrough concludes: “Childhood trauma. Online radicalization. Problems at work. None of these, alone or together, fully explains why Farook and his wife committed mass murder.” Missing in this account is the response of Kamala Harris, California’s attorney general at the time. In a Dec. 17, 2015, statement, Harris mentioned “those who lost their lives in the recent attacks in Paris and San Bernardino,” but named not a single victim. They included blacks, Hispanics, and Asians, but no mention of a hate crime. The former San Francisco district attorney also failed to name Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik and did not openly condemn their actions. Harris repeated that performance in a statement one year later, and the attorney general failed to attend a single victim’s funeral. At this writing, on the 10th anniversary, Kamala Harris has yet to issue a statement. In 2015, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom issued no statement, and on Dec. 2, 2025, the governor’s website contained nothing on the mass murder in San Bernardino. As Yarbrough notes, the FBI called it a terrorist attack, but that was after the fact. The FBI failed to prevent the terrorist attacks of 9/11, Fort Hood, the Boston Marathon, San Bernardino, and Orlando, all with massive loss of life, and the bureau played no role in the takedown of the terrorists. If families and friends of the San Bernardino 14 can be forgiven for believing that Farook and Malik were full-on Islamic jihadists out to maximize the number of casualties by any means necessary. If the families thought that government agencies, establishment politicians, and legacy media show little respect for the victims of terrorism, it would be hard to blame them. READ MORE from Lloyd Billingsley: State of Denial NIH Announces New Pandemic Playbook China’s New Hongqi Bridge Collapses — Could California’s Chinese Bridge Be Far Behind? Lloyd Billingsley is a policy fellow at the Independent Institute in Oakland, Calif.

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It’s All Sorta Confusing… Here are my granddaughters Maxine on the bike and Olivia wondering WTF over? Hey, Bikernet will never be radical and neither will Easyriders Magazine. I’m faced with censored challenges weekly. Don’t talk about anything. You might upset someone. Just be lovely and polish chrome. You’ll come across an Edmund Brooke quote in the news. It basically says if good people don’t step up the radicals win. Later you can say, “Well I shoulda done something.” Puts me in a tough position. We’re supposed to pretend everything is peachy, just ignore the shit and party. So, here’s a list of considerations: We have around 200,000 members of motorcycle rights groups in the country. Are they standing up to the politics. Many try to avoid politics. Seems weird, but it’s true. We have the hip chopper crowd. We have all the bike builders in the country, some are trying to make a living. There are touring riders, sportbike riders, racers, dirtbike and the list goes on. Some folks try to put them into political groups, like the young are all liberal. I don’t believe that’s true. Any group who are forced to believe a particular code will rebel. So, you see it’s nuts. But if you’re afraid you might lose a customer or a subscriber if you share the facts, where are you? Do you care about the future of the country or how much you’re going to profit next month. Interesting. And then there’s money… What does it stand for? What does it mean? Think about this for a second. We started as grubby bikers. All we cared about was our motorcycle, a garage, and a six-pack. You rode wherever the fuck you wanted to go, whenever. Maybe you paid the rent, maybe not. A couple of decades pass and you own a business, have five bikes, two cars, a boat, an ATV, a home and, and… You can’t hang out with anyone, no time. You have shit to do constantly. You have enough money that you can wine and dine your secretary and blow up your family. Wow, look where all the money got you. In between the two extremes is the family guy. Sure, he has a bike, a home and a car or two. He stayed with his wife and kids through thick and thin. They learned the true meaning of life, love, and the way it should be. They watch their pals crash and burn. Here’s the deal. A 100 years ago everyone struggled. We now have everthing at our fingertips, and complain ’cause we don’t get it fast enough. Confusing… Let’s hit the news: The News was provided by the Bikernet Team including: Wayfarer, the Redhead, Bob T. Sam Burns, Rogue, Laura, Barry Green, El Waggs, J.J. Solari, Amy White, Jenn and the rest of the crew. The Bikernet Weekly News is sponsored in part by companies who also dig Freedom including: Easyriders Magazine, Cycle Source Magazine, the MRF, Iron Trader News, ChopperTown, BorntoRide.com and the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum. Hey, NEW FROM THE LOWBROW GANG–Want cool handlebars? We’ve got em… T-Bars in 12″, 10″ and 8″ rise that bolt right on… You can be riding in style by the weekend. It can be an easy swap, we even made a video about it… It shows, step-by-step, how to swap stock handlebars on a stock Harley Sportster for a set of Lowbrow T-Bars. Scroll down to watch. T-bars look killer on Harley Sportsters and Dynas (among others!). They completely change the look of a stock bike. Excellent for riding fast and slaying miles. All you have to do is CHOOSE YOUR STYLE PS – to check out what else is out there, browse all handlebars here. BIPARTISAN BILL CALLS– for Motorcycle Awareness in Driver Education A new bipartisan effort in the U.S. Senate aims to elevate motorcycle awareness within America’s driver-training systems. Senators Gary Peters of Michigan and Joni Ernst of Iowa, co-chairs of the Senate Motorcycle Caucus, have introduced the Motorcycle Safety Awareness Act of 2025, legislation that would tie certain federal highway safety funds to states including motorcycle safety and awareness materials in their driver education and licensing processes. The proposal focuses on improving how new drivers are taught to identify and safely interact with motorcycles on the roadway. The Motorcycle Industry Council and Motorcycle Safety Foundation have endorsed the bill. –MIC THE SOLARI MEME–The more I look at what J.J. suggested, the less I like it. How about we create the meme opposite. We are still working on this. Needs to be more upbeat. Easyriders Magazine Returning to it’s Roots at the request of Freedom Fighters and Open-Road Adventurers Worldwide. Bada Bing! –Bandit THE MASTER ADDRESSES US FROM THE BASE OF THE MOUNTAIN ABOUT– “Time = Life.Therefore, waste your time and waste your life, or master your time and master your life.”— Alan Lakein Yesterday I went to a Celebration of Life for my friend Aggy. She was only 56—vibrant, full of energy, living fully—and yet her life ended far too soon. We were supposed to meet for dinner a couple of months ago, but schedules, busyness, and life got in the way. I never made the time… and now that moment is gone. Time is the most precious commodity we have. It asks us to be awake, present, and intentional. It asks us to treat it as the sacred gift it truly is. When we were young, summer seemed to last forever. As we age, time accelerates. Proportionately, it makes sense: when you’re two, a year is half your life; at ten, it’s a tenth; at fifty, a fiftieth. No wonder the years glide by more quickly—each one is a smaller slice of our lived experience. One saying that has always resonated with me is: “Most people have time to do it over again, but not time to do it right the first time.” When I reflect on my own life, I see so many moments where time was spent repeating what could have been done right the first time—from self-care, to relationships, to work, to commitments. Another truth I’ve embraced is this: “The lessons of life are repeated until they are learned.” Time gives us the space to learn, grow, realign, and choose differently. How often do we waste this gift being angry, stressed, resentful, or holding grudges? Is that really how we want to spend the limited time we’re given? Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. Let us decide—today—to use it well. Even in chaotic times, we still have a choice in how we spend the moments of our lives. Choose to cherish them. Choose to capitalize on them. Choose to be grateful for the gift of time, because we never truly know how much we have. So, pause and smell the roses. Call that friend. Watch your grandchild play. Read the book. Take the walk. Look at the sky. Whisper “thank you.” And above all—don’t waste even a single minute. Today’s Affirmation Today I recognize the precious gift of time. I do things right the first time and enjoy the blessing that follows. I take the time to recognize the Divine Presence within me and I live fully in the now. I release anything and anyone that does not support me on my path. I let go of fear, doubt, guilt, shame, and negativity. I give thanks for the gift of time and I live my Truth from this moment forward. And so it is. Namaste. Contemplative Questions Where in my life am I spending time on things that do not enrich, uplift, or expand me? What is one meaningful thing I can make time for today that I’ve been putting off? How can I use the gift of time more consciously, lovingly, and purposefully? “If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”— Bruce Lee Namasta –Yale WORDMONGER– A letter from a potential reader. I wish somebody would come out with a rag man like Easyriders or In the Wind again. You know, show the real biker lifestyle: people camping, people partying, people going out in the woods on their bikes hanging out with a bonfire for the weekend. You know just living life free not old as b******* biker b******* everybody’s got to have a brand new bike, everybody’s got to dress up better than the next guy, everybody’s got to have a nicer, faster bike than the next guy. It’s not what it’s all about, man! It’s about Good Times, memories, laughs, being free and enjoying life. I don’t want to see this s*** on the internet all the time. I want to pick up a magazine! 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Troels Madsen from Denmark is on the cover of new issue 106 with his ’47 Knuck and inside you’re treated to bitchin’ exotica ranging from a vintage flathead drag bike to a survivor New Jersey pre-unit Triumph! You still have time to get gifts delivered for Christmas, so check out our collector’s cupboard and don’t forget to pick up a new Greasy Kulture 2026 dropdown calendar. This new issue is published in memory of our dear friend and mentor, Rich ‘Dr Sprocket’ Ostrander. Peace and good times to you all. VICTOR DAVIS HANSON PROCLAIMS– the “end of climate change” –from CFACT Decades of consensus around so-called climate catastrophe are now running into new economic, technological, and geopolitical realities. Mix in AI and its unprecedented demand for large-scale electricity generation, and we have a global climate conversation that demands to be reckoned with. Victor Davis Hanson breaks down how the foundations of decades of “green orthodoxy” are shifting on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.” “The people who have been the avatars of climate change, never suffer the consequences of their own ideology. Barack Obama said the planet would be inundated pretty soon, if we didn’t address global climate change. Why would he buy a seaside estate at Martha’s Vineyard or one on the beach of Hawaii if he really did believe that the oceans would rise and flood his multimillion-dollar investment? “The inconsistency of the global warming narrative, the self-interest in the people who promote it, and the logic that they have not presented, empirically, the evidence that would convince us that we have to radically transform our economies on the wishes of a few elites that do not have the evidence, but do have a lot of hypocrisy in the process.” From The Daily Signal Today Mark Moreno announced that a major Climate Doom University report was trashed. They couldn’t correct the errors. The whole puppy was so dishonest it had to be eliminated in it’s entirety. –Bandit FIND OUT ABOUT–Buell Sales & Service We’re continuing to grow our sales & service center network, as well as international distribution. Have your own shop and want to service Buell models? 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This is also especially true in Minnesota, where local officials are concocting yet another illegal scheme to defy the state’s firearm preemption statute. This has sadly become the norm, as defying preemption is a recognized way for municipal politicians to signal to their anti-gun supporters and donors that if the Second Amendment is no impediment to their plans, neither is a state statute. This contempt is now playing out in Minnesota, where mass noncompliance and legal fairytales are the order of the day. The city of Saint Paul, Minnesota, recently declared that their city council “stands ready to act on day one when the state lifts preemption” to establish the complete ban on possession of semi-automatic firearms, “large capacity” magazines, binary triggers, “ghost guns,” as well as to create even more “gun-free zones.” It admits, however, that none of their new gun control is actually enforceable under the law as it presently stands. Current Minnesota law, Minn. Stat. § 471.633, states: The legislature preempts all authority of a home rule charter or statutory city of the first class, county, town, municipal corporation, or other governmental subdivision, or any of their instrumentalities, to regulate firearms, ammunition, or their respective components to the complete exclusion of any order, ordinance or regulation by them except that: (a)   A governmental subdivision may regulate the discharge of firearms and (b)   A governmental subdivision may adopt regulations identical to state law Local regulation inconsistent with this section is void. State law speaks clearly on the matter, and no parts of the adopted or proposed ordinances qualify under the exceptions. Meanwhile, passing illegal legislation on the pretext that the law may someday change does not remedy the violation. Try withholding presently owed taxes in the hope of future amendments to a state’s revenue laws to see where that gets you. Yet even while acknowledging these efforts as unconstitutional in Minnesota due to the existing firearm preemption law, the Saint Paul City Council unanimously passed the ordinance and became the first city among a coalition of 17 cities that have pledged to do the same. The city of Edina, Minnesota, attempted a similar effort last week which is now reportedly on hold. Edina Mayor James Hovland noted he wants residents to be able to weigh in at a public hearing first before the city council takes a vote while seemingly ignoring Edina City Attorney David Kendall’s legal input that the city cannot put an effective date on a gun ban until state law is changed and that he doesn’t, “think that the council is in a good position to direct police to enforce [such] an ordinance.” Without any enforcement ability, these actions are transparently performative political theatre. However, a deeper dive at the continued audacity of jurisdictions to ignore the superior authority of the state illustrates the ongoing danger posed to the rule of law. Fundamental to the principle of law is clarity, and while these local politicians may feel empowered, their actions continue to create confusion and fear for residents and law enforcement officers. Of course, lawsuits that should not have to be filed have and will be to defend gun owner rights. Judicial ping-pong on an already established legal principle will further contribute to havoc as gun control advocates perceive a dual benefit of virtual signaling and depleting the coffers of their adversaries, who are forced to defend settled law against frivolous attacks.  Taxpayer money will also be spent to defend these “contingent ordinances,” with no material benefit to anyone. The best that can be hoped for, from the gun prohibition point of view, is pure symbolism. Nevertheless, it is imperative to hold the line on all laws that protect citizens from officials wanting to create a confusing patchwork of gun control, a long-fought battle for the Second Amendment community as a whole. Preemption vindicates the principles that laws should be consistent, understandable, and fairly applied. The alternative is a regime in which compliance, if it is practical at all, inevitably involves forfeiting one’s own rights. A Minnesotan could travel from one end of the state to another, or he could exercise the full measure of the right to keep and bear arms recognized by state. But he could not do both at the same time. The enactment of a law is often the beginning of the legal battles, not the end. NRA-ILA’s work involves not only making it easier for law-abiding citizens to carry firearms for self- protection but also providing a protective framework to ensure the law works as intended. The infringement on display in Minnesota is merely one example of many. That’s why state preemption laws, and national efforts like H.R. 38, remain among ILA’s highest priorities. A LETTER DIRECT FROM THE VA TO OUR SENIOR EDITOR, ROGUE– Dear John, The President signed S. 2392, the Veterans’ Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2025, into law on November 25, 2025. The law authorizes a 2.8% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for veterans receiving VA disability compensation and clothing allowance and for survivors receiving dependency indemnity compensation (DIC) payments. The adjustment, based on the yearly change in the cost of living as determined by the Social Security Administration (SSA), will take effect on Dec. 1, 2025, and will be reflected in veterans’ and survivors’ Jan. 1, 2026, compensation payments. The COLA adjustment is intended to help cover rising costs of living, such as groceries, housing and health care. Click here to view Public Law 119-42. WORDMONGER–Letters from readers. Bring back the titties and bush There were nights I’d come home from chemo, climb off my bike, and sit in the garage long after the engine stopped rumbling. It was the only place I felt like myself. No hospital smell. No pitying stares. No “you look tired” comments. Just me, the concrete floor, and the bike that never asked me to be anything other than alive. Some people pray in church. I prayed between handlebars. And LOVED HAVING an Easyriders Magazine! Wish I still had them today. House was taken by a fire back then. –HelKat Reflections LLC Hang on. We’re coming back. –Bandit BEELINE MOTO II NAVIGATION– Still looking for the perfect gift for the rambler in your life? The Beeline Moto II is just the thing for you! Elevate your motorcycling adventures with the redesigned interface, featuring a 2x larger screen, advanced turn-by-turn navigation, and intuitive RockerTop 2 glove-friendly buttons. Waterproof, shockproof, and boasting a 14-hour battery life, Moto II is engineered for durability and ease. Experience effortless route planning via the Beeline app with options for Fast, Fun*, or your own GPX routes. Moto II adapts to every journey with three modes: Route Mode for guided paths, Tracking Mode for capturing ride stats without a set end, and Compass Mode for direct navigation. Plus, it doubles as a speedo, odometer, and clock, keeping you updated with ETAs HARLEY-DAVIDSON REVEALS 2026 RACE SEASON CONTINGENCY PROGRAMS Harley-Davidson Offers More Than $600,000 to Harley-Davidson Racers in MotoAmerica® Mission Foods King of the Baggers and Super Hooligan Series and Progressive American Flat Track Mission AFT SuperTwins and AFT AdventureTrackers Classes MILWAUKEE (Dec. 2, 2026) –Harley-Davidson has announced a 2026 race season contingency program supporting road racing and flat track competitors with cash awards totaling more than $600,000. These funds will be available for qualified H-D racers competing in select classes in the MotoAmerica® AMA/FIM North American Road Racing Championship and the Progressive American Flat Track series. The Harley-Davidson® x Dynojet Factory Race Team returns to the track in 2026 to defend its championship in the MotoAmerica Mission Foods King of the Baggers road racing series, won in 2025 by Factory Race Team rider Kyle Wyman. The team will field race-prepared Harley-Davidson® Road Glide® motorcycles powered by modified Screamin’ Eagle® Milwaukee-Eight 131 Performance Crate Engines. In addition, privateer teams racing Harley-Davidson motorcycles in the King of the Baggers series can benefit from racing contingency and available racing parts for purchase. Mission Foods King of the Baggers Contingency The Mission Foods King of The Baggers series offers exciting competition between American V-Twin touring motorcycles prepared for competition and equipped with stock frames and a fairing/windscreen and saddlebags. The 2026 King of The Baggers series features 14 races over seven doubleheader weekends held in conjunction with the MotoAmerica Superbike series. The series opens on the high banks of Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida, March 5-7. Harley-Davidson will offer a $224,500 cash contingency program for qualified Harley-Davidson racers competing in the Mission Foods King of the Baggers series, with a contingency payout from first to 10th place and a $25,000 championship bonus. Terms and conditions apply; please email contingencyracing@harley-davidson.com for full details, eligibility requirements and deadlines. Mission Foods Super Hooligan Contingency Harley-Davidson will offer contingency opportunities for racers competing in the Mission Foods Super Hooligan National Championship Brought To You By Roland Sands Design. KWR Harley-Davidson rider James Rispoli captured the 2025 Mission Super Hooligan National Championship aboard a race-prepared Harley-Davidson Pan America® 1250 ST motorcycle. The road racing series features 750cc-and-up high-bar race-prepared street bikes. Held in conjunction with the MotoAmerica Superbike series, the 2026 Super Hooligan Championship includes 12 races over six double-header weekends, beginning with two races at Daytona International Speedway March 5-7. Harley-Davidson will offer a $144,200 cash contingency program for qualified Harley-Davidson racers competing in the Mission Foods Super Hooligan series, with a contingency payout from first to 10th place and a $20,000 championship bonus. Terms and conditions apply; please email contingencyracing@harley-davidson.com for full details, eligibility requirements and deadlines. Mission AFT SuperTwins Contingency Harley-Davidson will offer contingency opportunities for racers competing on Harley-Davidson XG750R motorcycles in the premiere Mission AFT SuperTwins class on the 16-event 2026 Progressive American Flat Track series, the most prestigious and competitive form of dirt track motorcycle racing in the world. Harley-Davidson has committed $188,000 in contingency funds for qualified SuperTwins class riders. Harley-Davidson contingency will pay first to fifth place and a $20,000 championship bonus. The season opens March 5-6 with the Daytona Short Track double-header at Daytona International Speedway. Terms and conditions apply; please email contingencyracing@harley-davidson.com for full details, eligibility requirements and deadlines. AFT AdventureTrackers Harley-Davidson will offer contingency opportunities for racers competing on eligible Harley-Davidson Pan America 1250 models in the 2026 AFT AdventureTrackers series, a professional class for production-based adventure touring motorcycles with engine displacement over 1,000cc. Harley-Davidson has committed $46,000 in contingency funds for qualified AdventureTrackers class riders. Payouts will be awarded for first through fifth place in each race, with a championship bonus of $10,000 for the season champion. In its third season the 2026 AdventureTracker series will expand to six events held in conjunction with Progressive American Flat Track series. The season opens March 5-6 at the Daytona Short Track double-header atDaytona International Speedway. Terms and conditions apply; please email contingencyracing@harley-davidson.com for full details, eligibility requirements and deadlines. Motul Renews Global Partnership with MotoGP Cypress CA – December 1, 2025– Motul North America today heralded the announcement from its global headquarters regarding the five-year renewal of its partnership with the MotoGP World Championship, solidifying the collaboration until 2030. The renewal includes sponsorship of the global championship as well as the title sponsorship of the Motul Japan Grand Prix and the Motul Valencia Grand Prix. Motul North America General Manager Amber Bates, expressed enthusiasm for the prolonged collaboration: “This extended global partnership with MotoGP is fantastic news for our brand and for Motul’s North American fans and riders. It underscores Motul’s commitment to the pinnacle series of motorcycle racing and reinforces our status as a leader in the powersport sector worldwide.” This sponsorship complements Motul’s existing partnership with two of the MotoGP series’ top teams, Red Bull KTM Tech3 and Prima Pramac Racing. Motul is planning consumer activations at the Grand Prix of the Americas in Austin, TX in March, the only North American stop on the MotoGP circuit in 2026. A copy of the announcement from Motul HQ and MotoGP is attached. THE 100-WORD FICTION CONTEST IS BACK– We just left the hospital from seeing our friend TJ. He barely recovered from hitting a deer on the Canby grade. We crossed over into Oregon to ride into Klamath Falls. TJ broke external parts on his Harley. They needed replacing, and I would do that for a downed brother. My wife and I rode through a valley draw and up the low side of a mountain range. A big mule deer buck with a set of antlers that would make any hunter happy stepped onto the asphalt highway and hesitated. He had 10 to 14 spikes on his antlers. A true iconic beast, but I needed to dodge him to survive. The images of the brother bandaged in the hospital drove me to slide and glide… We fortunately survived. –Gearhead   BLUES SONG OF THE WEEK–Eddie Shaw wrote a song: Dunken Donuts Woman He’s had the blues. –Bandit A Freddie Cuba Classic… ECHOS OF THE PAST— I ran across this in the ABATE of South Dakota newsletter which was recently redesigned and much easier to read. I was inspired by this piece, but I will share just one portion by Darrel Killion. After my first term as Coordinator, I was contacted by some riding friends in Madison. They wanted to start a patch club and they invited me to join in the effort. There were eight or ten folks as that meeting. They were upset because they did not get any respect from the police and the residents of Madison. They felt if they organized, they may be able to turn the problem in their favor. I encouraged them to consider forming an ABATE chapter which would ultimately put them in a much better position that a patch club. By the end of the evening, they voted to become an ABATE chapter. Brad LengKeek was elected the chapter President, and I was elected to be their state Representative, thereby requiring me to take the necessary steps to make them an official chapter of ABATE of South Dakota. By the time the next State Meeting ended, Lake ABATE was officially a chapter. I ran across a quote at the end of the ZZen Chapter News by Bowdrie. I’ve heard it before, but it says it all in today’s political climate. Edmond Burke [1729-1797] wrote: “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing…” Go to www.ABATESD.com to join and get involved. –Bandit EU Council: ‘No mandatory inspections for motorcycles’ A great victory for European motorcyclists: European transport ministers set the Council’s position on the roadworthiness package, which puts forward an update of EU standards with regards to periodic roadworthiness tests, technical roadside inspections and registration of vehicle data. Thomas Danielsen, Danish Minister for Transport said: “I am pleased that we have reached a positive outcome and that we now have a general approach on both proposals in the package. With this agreement we are securing a modernisation of the rules for roadside and periodic testing and registration of vehicle data while minimising administrative burden.” Denmark currently holds the EU presidency. The package consists of two proposals focusing on the update of three directives: one on the periodic roadworthiness testing for motor vehicles, one on roadside inspections of commercial vehicles and one on registration documents for vehicles and one on roadside inspections of commercial vehicles. The Council’s position on technical inspections: the scope of tests and minimum frequencies are maintained as currently is the case. This means that the proposed switch to annual instead of biannual testing after 10 years is not followed. The current exception to exclude motor bikes from the scope of tests is also maintained. Following today’s approval of the Council position, the Council can start negotiations with the European Parliament to reach a final agreement, as soon as the latter adopts its final position. Over the past months, the European riders’ advocacy groups FEMA and FIM have submitted formal position papers and technical briefs to the European Parliament, the Council, and the European Commission. These documents highlight a consistent finding across EU and national studies: technical defects cause only a very small fraction of motorcycle accidents. “Europe’s motorcyclists maintain their bikes because their lives depend on it,” said FEMA’s Wim Taal. “The data show that education, infrastructure, and driver awareness make far greater contributions to safety than blanket inspection schemes. A large part of our efforts is to highlight more effective safety measures, including better rider training, road maintenance, and technology adaptation.” Wim is on the left. Bikers never fit in suits. In the past weeks, European riders’ representatives were in Brussels regularly, speaking to several Members of the European Parliament and to Permanent Representations of a number of Member States. Rather than oppose safety efforts outright, both organisations continue to promote targeted, evidence-based measures that actually save lives, such as focused inspections only where national data show a risk, improved training and awareness for all road users, and infrastructure design and maintenance that consider motorcyclists’ needs. European motorcyclists stress that they remain committed to constructive dialogue with EU institutions. “We support effective road safety policies,” FEMA’s Wim Taal said, “but Europe must avoid symbolic measures that burden riders without improving safety outcomes.” The two organisations will continue to coordinate their efforts in Brussels and across Europe as the Roadworthiness Package moves through the European legislative process. –FEMA Solar Bankruptcy: Pine Gate Renewables (boom to bust continues) From MasterResourceBy Robert Bradley Jr.     “What about the triple-digit number of creditors who banked on a loser? What about taxpayers who funded around 30 percent of the solar investment? … Ben Catt is just another rent-seeker, a political crony, like Sunnova’s John Berger, benefitting at the expense of just about everyone else.” MasterResource has chronicled the rise and fall of major U.S. solar firms this year. The rooftop solar business is in shambles, with leaders such as Sunnova becoming worthless and defaulting on their long-term projects. And more recently, utility-scale solar developers are in trouble despite the last-minute deal to continue major tax subsidies until next year. Add this to the list. As reported in Solar Power World, (November 7, 2025):     National solar developer Pine Gate Renewables is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and selling its solar and energy storage project portfolio and independent power producer business. This will include completed and under-development projects, of which the company stated there is 10 GWDC in progress. Founded nine years ago, Pine Gate has commercial and utility solar business in 32 states. With 500 MW of development in 2022, the company made the 2023 Top Solar Contractors List. No less than 119 creditors are left in the lurch. The company’s press release–“Pine Gate Renewables Announces Comprehensive Agreements to Facilitate Strategic and Value-Maximizing Sales Process“–did not explain why the company failed despite receiving a raft of special government favors. Instead, CEO Ben Catt stated:     “Since our founding almost 10 years ago, Pine Gate has grown tremendously, deploying innovative solar and energy storage projects at scale that enable us to deliver renewable, reliable, and affordable energy. To ensure that our projects continue generating renewable energy, we made the strategic decision to commence this court-supervised sales process. With significant financial support from certain of our current lenders, we’re confident that we will successfully conduct a competitive sales process that reflects the inherent value of our nationwide portfolio of solar and energy storage projects. Catt continues: I’m grateful for the hard work and dedication of the Pine Gate team who has been key to helping us drive the renewable energy transition. As we move through this process, we remain committed to supporting our valued project partners across our more than 100 operational solar facilities and forging ahead with our projects in development and under construction. This is winner talk, not loser talk. What about the triple-digit number of creditors who banked on a loser? What about taxpayers who funded around 30 percent of the solar investment? What if these projects had been sustainable from consumer demand (such as natural-gas-fired plants)? Ben Catt is just another rent-seeker, a political crony, like Sunnova’s John Berger, benefitting at the expense of just about everyone else. –from WUWT EASYRIDER YOUTUBE CHANNEL CONTRIBUTOR– Hey, I’m a world touring outlaw country artist that loves Harley’s and bike culture who has built and ridden them all over the USA to 46 states so far with plans to cross out the remaining by the time I hit 50 in three years. I’ve two wheeled both on and off tour and played in various 1% clubhouses, biker bars and events in 15 countries! I’m a former member of the David Allan Coe Band. My primary fan base are bikers and I’ve played Sturgis rally for the last 17 years. I’m building a chopper powered by a genny shovel and have a lot of travels planned on it and my bagger in 2026. My grandpa rode, my dad rides, my mom rides, my uncles and aunts ride, my brother rides, my wife rides and our 3 boys ride their own and our daughter rides with her old man. I’ve ridden more than a half million miles on mostly FXRS starting out, but also road kings, Electra glides and chopped up junk. I grew up on Easyriders! Would the magazine be interested in any build up articles on my shovelhead chopper or in any travel articles about my trips? The last few years we have been documenting the tours a little better and investing in video and photo gear to capture it all. I have been doing Two Wheels Across America Tours since 2014 and I have recent videos of rides on where my music video “Harley-Davidson” just crossed 100,000 views since its drop in August at the beginning of Sturgis rally this year. Let me know if you would be interested in knowing more? I think we can put you some ready to edit stuff together and it would appeal to your readers. Anyway I’d love to work with Easyriders! My website is www.cecilallenmoore.com Of course we are interested and will start to work with Cecil immediately. –Bandit WATCH OUT FOR AUTOMATED ENFORCEMENT– For the past several weeks, motorists across the country have been following our Drive Free. Drive Fair. campaign as we expose the rapid spread of automated enforcement and roadway surveillance. And the response has been clear. Drivers understand the risks, the overreach, and the consequences of letting these systems expand without scrutiny. They are ready to push back. At the National Motorists Association, we have been preparing for this moment for years. Automated enforcement is not a new issue. We have defeated these systems before, and we will do so again, but only with the support of drivers who know what is at stake. What We Have Learned Together Through this campaign, you have seen what the public rarely hears: • Speed cameras that cannot demonstrate real safety improvements. • Red-light cameras that increase certain crash types. • License plate readers that track millions of innocent drivers. • Appeals processes designed to discourage valid challenges. • Vendor contracts that prioritize revenue, not safety. • Mis-calibrated equipment that issues invalid citations without accountability. These are not isolated incidents. They are symptoms of a policy trend in which government agencies partner with private companies to shift the burden of proof onto drivers and turn routine travel into a data point. And We Know These Systems Can Be Stopped We have seen what happens when motorists demand fairness and transparency. In Los Angeles, NMA’s current Executive Director of Policy, Jay Beeber, led the data-driven effort that convinced the City Council to end its red-light camera program after exposing its lack of safety benefits and legal weaknesses. In New Jersey, long-time NMA member and Assemblyman Declan O’Scanlon, supported by our state legislative affairs team, helped uncover statewide timing and certification violations. The entire program collapsed under public pressure, and millions of dollars in fines were refunded. In Houston, NMA advocates worked directly with the citizens who forced a referendum on red-light cameras. Voters demanded fairness, and the program was abolished. These victories were possible because motorists refused to accept flawed systems. And that resolve is exactly what we need now. –National Motorists Association EASYRIDERS MANTRA— We look out for you. Fight for your freedoms, fight for our rights, fight for safe riding roads. We’re there for your history, for the ability and knowledge to build whatever you want to ride from a stripped-down chopper to a high-tech touring machine. Plus the headquarters will be located on Main in Sturgis, SD. What could be better? It’s nuts, but the truth is surfacing. A brother said I would be saved if I added this shit to my protein shakes. Who the fuck knows if it works, but it keeps all the other remedies for being old at bay for now. It started to snow the other day and didn’t stop for three days. Still the deer crept and dug for something to eat. I cut up bread slices and tossed them onto the icy driveway. They started fighting over the chunks. In between Easyriders projects I escape to the shop to work on the King Chopper. It threw rusty oil all over my 5-Ball leather vest, so I built a goofy chain guard. I’m a stickler for chain guards on choppers. This puppy didn’t have an oil filter, so I went on Ebay until I found a complete one. Gotta watch out. There are cheap deals, but the bastards aren’t complete. I’m going to align and bolt in the engine. I’m waiting on some Paughco pipe pieces and then I’ll run the oil lines. I need to rewired it with circuit breakers and a new Cycle Visions ignition switch. I’m getting close. The pipes are key. The front Hawg Halters caliper leaked. I bought a rebuild kit through Deadwood Custom Cycles and then decided to let them put it together, but they couldn’t complete the task. I fixed it my modifying the spring clip. Then it all went together with a metric socket and spacing to make sure the caliper rested in the center over the disc. Just need to bleed this puppy now. I won’t be riding soon. This was taken before the latest storm. When the sun comes out, it could be 20 degrees out, but it’s amazing. I need to fire a couple of bikes in the shop, just to feel the vibe. Hang in there. The first issue of ER under the 5-Ball team just went to print. This is getting super exciting. Ride Fast and Free Forever, –Bandit The post THE RADICAL BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS for December 4th, 2025 appeared first on Bikernet.com - Online Biker Magazine.

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