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New Gallup Poll: Trump Is at 36% Approval
One swallow does not a summer (or winter) make and all that, but a new Gallup poll puts Donald Trump's approval at 36% and his disapproval at 60%. This is a terrible sign for the Republicans, who have hitched their wagon to him. If more polls from other reputable pollsters confirm an approval rating in the mid-thirties, the House is lost next year and maybe the Senate. But first we want to see more polls confirm this.
The drop since October is largely due to independents and Republicans. With independents, Trump is down from 33% approval to 25%. With Republicans he is down from 91% to 84%. Among Democrats, there isn't much to lose since they all hate him already.
By way of comparison, in 2017, Trump's job approval averaged 38%. In the 2018 midterms, Democrats flipped 41 House seats. That is less likely now due to the even more extensive gerrymandering, but who knows? Some of the gerrymanders could be based on unrealistic models of how Black voters, Latino voters and young voters will vote. In that case, they could turn out to be dummymanders.
An approval of 36% is not the all-time low for Trump. That was 34%, after the attempted coup on Jan. 6, 2021. However, it is a record for Trump v2.0, which started with an approval of 48%.
Here are his approval numbers on specific issues:
His best issue is crime. Republicans always do well on crime, so this is not surprising. Doing well on foreign affairs? What does that mean? He is doing very poorly on the Middle East (33%) and even worse on Ukraine (31%). What is it that voters really like? Relations with Saudi Arabia? We doubt it and question whether this question is actually measuring anything. Two issues Trump cares about a lot, immigration and the economy, are in the mid-30s. Health care is at 30%. Not much good news here. All Trump can hope for is that this poll used a bad model of the electorate and is not a good representation. (V)
Trump Is Canceling All XOs He Claims Joe Biden Signed by Autopen
Donald Trump seems to have forgotten that he, not Joe Biden, is president now, as he continues to attack Biden all the time. Maybe this is an attempt to distract people from Epstein Mobilier. His latest attempt is to announce that he is canceling all of Joe Biden's XOs that were signed with an autopen. Trump claims that 92% of them were signed with an autopen. He is making all this up out of thin air. It is all performative.
To start with, an XO is not a law. It is a directive to the bureaucracy of how members should interpret some law or instructions about what their priorities should be. For example, Trump could instruct the IRS to focus on auditing people making under $100K and not audit anyone making over $10M because he believes they are all honest (or are his cronies).
The problem with governing by XO is that the next president can issue new XOs that instruct departments and agencies to do the exact opposite of what the previous president ordered them to do. It makes no difference whether the previous XO was signed by hand or by autopen. The new one overrides it in all cases. This talk about autopens is just noise to somehow convince people that Biden wasn't really president and Edith Wilson (or someone else) was.
Interestingly, the Office of Legal Counsel in George W. Bush's White House conducted a thorough review of the use of autopens and concluded that the president has the authority to instruct the bureaucracy to follow his interpretations of the law and exactly how this is conveyed to them doesn't matter.
Trump has made a special case about pardons Biden signed with an autopen. He somehow thinks that autopen-signed pardons aren't valid. However, a 1929 memo from the solicitor general noted that the Constitution doesn't specify how pardons are to be granted. So if the president tells his secretary to call Peter Pardonee and inform him that he is henceforth pardoned, it is a done deal. However, as a practical matter the person pardoned might want it in writing to show his warden or judge.
Trump has said that Biden wasn't mentally competent, so the pardons he issued don't count. Trump should be REAL careful about that because once that precedent has been set, a future Democratic president might declare that Trump was mentally incompetent his entire second term, so every person he pardoned is now officially unpardoned. The only case where that could be an issue is if the Twenty-Fifth Amendment is formally invoked and the veep and majority of the cabinet have declared that POTUS is non compos mentis. Then, that Democratic president might have a case. But maybe not, since the Constitution does not place "the president must be mentally whole" as a condition for granting pardons. (V)
Trump Is Now Blaming Insurance Companies for Rising Health Insurance Costs
One of the basic principles of Trumpism is that nothing bad is ever his fault, no matter what. He promised to lower prices on day 1 and didn't, so he needs one or more scapegoats. Health insurance is a particular problem because the insurance companies are assuming the Democrats will not be able to get all the subsidies restored, so they are raising premiums so they can stay in business.
Trump doesn't want to admit that requiring insurance companies to accept sick people works only if the government subsidizes them, which he opposes. So now he has taken to blaming the insurance companies for being greedy and ripping people off. On his terribly unhealthy social media site he posted: "The only healthcare I will support or approve is sending the money directly back to the people, with nothing going to the big, fat, rich insurance companies, who have made $trillions, and ripped off America long enough."
That is not really true. Once insurance companies were required to accept seriously sick people and not charge them extra for being sick, the only ways to cover their costs were to charge everyone very high premiums (which would cause healthy people to drop insurance) or get government subsidies (which Trump opposes). Sending money to people directly does not change this unless he accepts the idea that premiums will be sky-high and people can use the money he sends them to pay the sky-high premiums. That is just a government subsidy done in a complicated way.
The political question is whether people believe him. Some might. Insurance companies are no angels, but the money coming in has to match or exceed the money going out, or the whole system collapses. If the Democrats can explain that the only way to have the insurance companies insure sick people with a premium that is affordable is to subsidize them somehow, voters might be able to understand it. (V)
Electricity Is the New Price of Eggs
Last year, the price of eggs was a hot item for many people in the election. Now, the villain seems to be shifting. The new culprit is the price of electricity, which keeps going up and up. Many people believe it is due to the AI data centers, which are slurping up every watt they can find, causing shortages and driving prices up.
People don't like this. There was a lot of reporting that on Election Day this year Democrats flipped two seats on the Georgia Public Service Commission, but there was little reporting about why. Everyone was too excited about Democrats winning the governorships of New Jersey and Virginia by large margins and Zohran Mamdani being elected mayor of NYC. But The New York Times was curious about the Georgia PSC elections and sent a reporter down there to talk to the voters about them. Here is what he found.
No Democrat has served on the Georgia PSC in almost 20 years, but two Democrats won landslide victories this year. In the village of Hogansville (Pop. 3,000), local voters were very angry about their escalating utility bills, plus an extra $50/mo. levy to cover a new nuclear power plant 200 miles away. They blamed the higher costs on Republicans, who they see as far too receptive to the wishes of the AI industry, as opposed to their own constituents. The two Democrats won in some of the reddest counties in Georgia on this issue.
The connection between data centers and utility bills kept coming up over and over in the gubernatorial election in Virginia, as well. It is not that people are against data centers, per se. They just want the tech companies to pay the full cost of all the electricity they use and not have ratepayers foot the bill for them. They are also against (hidden) subsidies for tech companies since data centers are totally automated and create almost no local jobs except during the construction phase. In most cases, they are monitored and operated remotely, with only a handful of people on site to swap out defective disks and the like. AI data centers and electricity prices could well be a sleeper issue in the midterms. (V)
Court Orders Trump to Pay Up
Donald Trump has a longstanding practice of bringing totally made-up lawsuits to punish people by forcing them to spend money defending themselves. Up until now, he has generally gotten away with it. However, his winning streak may be over. In March 2022, he instructed his then-personal lawyer, Alina Habba, to file a completely bogus lawsuit against Hillary Clinton for racketeering. In Jan. 2023, U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks threw it out and slammed Trump for trying to use the courts for revenge against political adversaries. He wrote: "This case should never have been brought. Its inadequacy as a legal claim was evident from the start. No reasonable lawyer would have filed it. Intended for a political purpose, none of the counts of the amended complaint stated a cognizable legal claim." He ordered Trump and Habba together to come up with $937,989.39 in compensation.
Trump appealed. Now a three-judge panel has unanimously upheld Middlebrooks' ruling. The three judges were appointed by George W. Bush, Joe Biden, and Trump, respectively.
We don't know what Trump will do. Presumably, he will appeal to the Supreme Court. With a bit of luck, it might rule that not only are presidents immune to being criminally indicted, but they are also immune to civil suits and finally are immune to having to pay settlements courts order them to pay. They are truly kings and above the law in every way. That would come in handy for Trump, because the $88 million in judgments against him resulting from the lawsuits E. Jean Carroll brought against him are also on appeal. Of course, there is absolutely nothing in the Constitution putting presidents above either the criminal law or civil law. (V)
Trump's Special Envoy Coached Russia about Ukraine
Many people have been wondering why Donald Trump's plan to end the war in Ukraine looks like it was written by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Maybe it was. Now there is evidence that Trump's special envoy to Russia, Steve Witkoff, has not only worked with Russia in concocting the plan, but has also coached Russia on how to sell it. He is anything but a neutral third party trying to make a fair deal. He is toting water for Russia.
In particular, a phone call between Witkoff and top Russian official Yuri Ushakov has leaked. Bloomberg News first reported it but has not explained how it got it. In the call, Witkoff tells the Russian how to sell the plan to Trump. It makes it look like Witkoff is in cahoots with the Russians.
Witkoff has known and idolized Trump for 40 years. Witkoff once said: "I wanted to be him. Everybody wanted to be him. He'd come to 101 Park Avenue, where I was a lawyer. He had this swashbuckling style. I used to see him come in and I used to say, 'God, I want to be him.'" Sounds like the kind of person Trump would want to run errands for him. Especially after Witkoff went on Tucker Carlson's podcast earlier this year and said that Putin is "not a bad guy." Maybe Witkoff wants to be like Putin, too. Except that Putin is not terribly swashbuckling, except maybe when riding a horse shirtless (both Putin and the horse were shirtless).
Aaron Miller, who has negotiated for both Democratic and Republican administrations, said: "Deals are cut when there is urgency. And urgency is a function of two things: How much pain the parties are under and what are the prospects for gain right now." If Miller is right, Putin is not going to make a deal now unless he can dictate the terms because he is not experiencing enough pain. Witkoff probably senses this and since he is desperate to please his idol (Trump, not Putin), the only way he can cut a deal and make Trump happy is to offer Trump what Putin wants and then help the Russians convince Trump that it is the only possible deal. So that is what he is doing.
A spokesperson for the Kremlin reacted to the leaked phone call by saying it was an attempt to disrupt the peace process. He also said that it was premature to say that a deal was close by. Ushakov, the guy on the other end of the Witkoff phone call, said that "some of these leaks are fake," but didn't specifically address the call in which Witkoff told him how Putin should sell the plan to Trump. (V)
Who Likes the Current Economy and Who Does Not?
Many people are having a tough time with the current economy. Poll after poll shows that many people are struggling (and blaming Donald Trump for not lowering prices on Day 1, as he promised). It wasn't a foolish promise, since it got him elected, but on Nov. 3, 2026, he and his party may pay the price. Nevertheless, not everyone is barely keeping eggs on the table, even though they are down from $8/dozen last year. In fact, some people are doing just fine, or are at least optimistic.
According to the widely watched University of Michigan survey of consumer sentiment and data from the nonprofit Conference Board, some demographic groups are not unhappy at all with the economy. Who might these Pollyannas be? Take a look:
First, Republicans are much happier than Democrats. This is subject to rapid change. If a Democrat is inaugurated as president on Jan. 20, 2029, and the poll is conducted again, we predict that public opinion will switch instantly, with Republicans saying the economy sucks and Democrats praising it. It is always like this. The Black Plague of 1348 could come back and kill a third of all Americans and if a Republican is president Republicans would say the president's brilliant policies kept deaths down to only a third of the population, not half. And vice versa.
Second, people who own stocks (about 60% of adults, in some cases in 401k accounts) like how the stock market is treating them. This correlates with education and also race, since 70% of white adults own stocks vs. 53% of Black adults and 38% of Latino adults. Of course, if there is a recession and market crash, which some economists are expecting, this could flip quickly, especially for people who got into the market after the Dow Jones passed 40,000. What the stock market giveth, the stock market can taketh away.
Third, and not surprisingly, households with higher incomes are not feeling so pinched. So maybe vacation this year will be Disneyland instead of Paris, but Disneyland is also nice. People with higher incomes often have money left over every month to save or invest and if there is less of it for a while, that is not a disaster.
Finally, fourth, and very surprising, is that young people are far more optimistic than older people. This really wasn't expected. Younger people on the whole have lower-paying jobs, don't own a paid-off home, and don't have a lot in savings or stock. Yet people under 35 are far more hopeful than seniors. There is no clear explanation other than young people are often idealistic and hopeful. Also, some young people may be living with their parents and are being spared some of the brunt of rising costs, but that can't be a large fraction of the under 35s.
All in all, despite these groups, consumer sentiment is down, although the four groups together are a majority of the population. Of course, the Republicans don't really mean it when they say they are happy with the economy. Also, people with a retirement account can't spend their stock at the supermarket. Still, as always, there are almost always winners and losers in any economy. (V)
Upcoming Elections, Part I: 2025
Our core business around here is elections. At first thought, you might think: "Rats, no action until Nov. 3, 2026." Fortunately, that isn't so. There are numerous scattered elections before then. Many of them will be taken as bellwethers for the midterms, even in deeply red or blue districts. If the Democrats go from D+15 to D+30 in some deep-blue district or from R+30 to R+15 in some deep-red district, that is an encouraging sign for the Party. Conversely, if there is no change since 2024, that is a different sign. Also, the exit polls about how specific demographic groups are voting are often very interesting.
So what is on the menu? Last week we had a long item about tomorrow's special election for Mark Green's vacant House seat in a deep red district west of Nashville, TN. Both parties are pouring money into it. Early voting was high, with 84,356 votes cast early (vs. 322,656 total votes in 2024).
Then what? Actually, there are more elections tomorrow. In Atlanta, runoffs for the city council will say something about whom Democrats want. Mayor Andre Dickens is backing moderates Thomas Worthy and Wayne Martin in two seats. They are running against candidates Thad Flowers and Nate Jester, who are supported by the Democratic Socialists of America. Also in Atlanta tomorrow, there are two school board runoffs with Dickens-endorsed moderates against DSA-endorsed lefties. If the lefties sweep all the elections, that will certainly show where the momentum is and that could affect how Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) campaigns.
Elsewhere in Georgia tomorrow, there are three runoffs for mayor. In Roswell, GA, Mayor Kurt Wilson (R) is running against Mary Robichaux (D). In the first round, they were within a point of each other. In Sandy Springs, GA, in the once-conservative Atlanta suburbs, Mayor Rusty Paul (R) is running against Dontaye Carter (D), a self-described progressive who has stressed housing affordability and wants to stand up to ICE. Four years ago, it was the same runoff and Paul won 68 to 32. A big change would be noteworthy, even if Paul prevails again. Predominantly Black South Fulton, GA, also has a runoff for mayor, but the two Democrats are mostly talking about local issues.
Up north in Jersey City, former governor Jim McGreevey (D), who resigned in a sex scandal, is trying for a comeback. We vaguely recall some other thing about some former governor who resigned in a sex scandal somewhere else running for mayor, but we forget where. Maybe some small city, and not one of those big apples. As we recall, it didn't work, but who knows. McGreevey is running against a progressive Democrat who has been endorsed by the Working Families Party. It somehow seems like déjà vu all over again (sorry, Yogi). There are six runoffs for the Jersey City council, also with moderate Democrats vs. lefties. Lefty sweeps in Georgia and New Jersey would definitely change the picture for 2026. There is also a mayoral race in Hoboken, NJ, but both Democrats are arguing about local issues like the city budget, so this one does not have any clear-cut national implications.
A week later, Dec. 9, there are races for mayor in Miami and Albuquerque. In Miami, the current (Republican) mayor is not running. It is Eileen Higgins (D) vs. Emilio Gonzalez (R). ICE is a big issue in a city with many Latinos. Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) has endorsed here. We will let you guess which candidate he backs. A big win or a big loss for DeSantis' endorsee could have implications for DeSantis in 2028.
Albuquerque is only 225 miles from the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juárez. Mayor Tim Keller (D) is facing a runoff against a former sheriff, Darren White (R). Immigration and cooperation with ICE is a big issue. Earlier this year, Keller issued an XO limiting city cooperation with ICE (apparently even mayors can issue XOs; who knew?). White is pro-ICE. A blowout either way would say something about immigration enforcement.
A Houston city council election on Dec. 13 has a generational change aspect. Former council member Dwight Boykins (61) wants his old job back. However, a young progressive lesbian Latina, Alejandra Salinas (30), has other ideas about who should sit in that council seat. However, it is not a pure generational play, as Boykins used AI to build his website and plagiarized his platform from Salinas. Races where a clean, young progressive beats a sleazeball old guy don't really say so much. What we need as a control is one in which a smarmy, young progressive runs against an upstanding old-timer.
Finally, there are four contested state legislative elections in December of note (and nine more that are not being contested). On Dec. 9, Florida's HD-90 (Palm Beach County, where Donald Trump lives) has an election between incumbent Rob Long (D) and far-right Trumpist Maria Zack (R). Zack has spread false conspiracy theories that Italy helped steal the 2020 election for Biden. A whopping victory for the Democrat in Trump's backyard would be a black eye for him.
Also on Dec. 9 there is a race in Georgia's HD-121. It went for Trump by 22 points in 2024. But this is where the two Georgia candidates won big margins for the utility commission in November. If Democrat Eric Gisler flips the seat, that will show that the utility commission races were not flukes. The Republican is Dutch Guest. This is actually his name, not a description of a visitor from the Netherlands.
Another week later, on Dec. 16, Kentucky's SD-37, around Louisville, has an election. Kamala Harris carried it by 5 points. How will state Senate Whip David Yates do in this competitive district in a red state but bluish area?
Iowa Republicans lost their supermajority in August when Democrats flipped a red district in Woodbury County. Gubernatorial nominee appointments need a supermajority, which means Democrats can now block them. If Republicans win the open-seat race in SD-16, they will get back the supermajority. National Democrats are actively helping Renee Hardman (D) against Lucas Loftin (R). The election is Dec. 30 so turnout might not be heavy. Harris won the district by 17 points, so Democrats are optimistic.
Tomorrow, we will preview some of the elections that will take place early in 2026. (V)
Progressives Are Eyeing New York City House Seats
As we note in several places above, young progressive Democrats are running for various offices around the country, often against older Democrats. The resounding victory of Zohran Mamdani in NYC has not escaped progressive New York Democrats. All of a sudden, young progressives in NYC are thinking about challenging liberal House Democrats in safe districts.
Two targets are House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY). Their districts are D+24 and D+32, respectively. The potential challengers, Chi Ossé and Alexa Avilés, respectively, are seeking the support of the city's DSA chapter. Both challengers are extreme long shots. As minority leader, Jeffries (55) will have the entire Democratic establishment going for him.
Goldman (49) doesn't need institutional support. He is an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune and, with a net worth north of a quarter billion dollars, is the eighth richest member of Congress. He has a J.D. from Stanford and was also the lead counsel in Donald Trump's first impeachment. For many Democrats, his having been the actual prosecutor in both Trump's impeachment (in the House) and his trial (in the Senate) establishes his anti-Trump credentials a lot better than any challenger can hope to do. He won his 2024 primary with 66% of the vote. He is also a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Knocking off a rich progressive Democratic idol will not be so easy.
Other Democratic representatives being targeted are Ritchie Torres, Adriano Espaillat, and Grace Meng. Torres is gay and the other two are members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. They won't fall so easily, either. Beating a sleazeball like Andrew Cuomo is one thing, but beating card-carrying progressives is something quite different. Their challengers are going to have to move very far left to put daylight between themselves and the incumbents. That is probably going to force them way out on the fringe. The challengers have their work cut out for them running against incumbents who are themselves progressives. (V)
Byron Donalds Will Have to Earn the Florida Gubernatorial Nomination on His Own
Donald loves Donalds. Donalds thought all he needed was Donald. It's not working. The ultra-Trumpy Florida representative has a problem. The term-limited governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, does not want Donalds to succeed him and is trying to figure out how to stop that from happening.
The obvious way is to find someone who can take Donalds down in the primary. One possible savior is James Fishback, a wealthy 30-year-old investor who lobbied Trump to be on the Fed board and didn't get the job. So, he is interested in being governor of Florida as a consolation prize. He is very Trumpy. So what's the difference between him and Donalds? Well, he's white and Donalds is Black. That could matter. He can also jumpstart his campaign with his own money.
Florida state House Speaker Paul Renner is in. Lt. Gov. Jay Collins (R-FL) seems poised to jump in. It is a natural step for him and he might get DeSantis' endorsement. His go/no-go decision might depend on getting an ironclad promise of an endorsement from DeSantis. If Trump endorses one candidate and DeSantis endorses a different one, expect a wild and woolly gubernatorial primary. (V)
WaPo Congratulates Switzerland
The Washington Post, which used to be sort of moderately lefty, is now owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos. It congratulated Swiss voters for yesterday rejecting a measure imposing a 50% inheritance tax on assets above about $62 million. The money would have been used to fight climate change. Is there a connection between approval of letting large inheritances escape taxation and having a billionaire running the Post? We don't know. We're just reporting what the Post had to say.
The editorial said: "The Swiss understood that taking that away would hurt even those without huge inheritances." How, pray tell? Ok, one potential problem is rich people moving to Dubai, Abu Dhabi, or Singapore, but an exit tax equal to the inheritance tax would fix that. For the record, the U.S. has an exit tax but it covers only unrealized capital gains.
The editorial also said evaluating fine art would be complicated. Guess what? In the U.S., fine art in someone's estate is most definitely part of the estate and taxed if the estate exceeds the threshold. It has been like that since, well, forever. How can it be valued? Well, call in a couple of art auction houses and have them estimate what it would bring, then average them.
The editorial ends by saying voters need to ask the 2028 presidential candidates whether they want the estate tax to go up or down or stay the same. We would have phrased it more like: "Do the voters want to allow the spoiled children of billionaires to become billionaires themselves because they lucked into the right parents?" Of all the taxes around, one of the easiest to defend is the estate tax or inheritance tax. Taxing incomes is somewhat unfair because the person being taxed earned the money himself or herself. But taxing very large estates or inheritances prevents people who may never have earned a cent on their own from becoming billionaires by dint of having rich parents and nothing more. (V)
Twelve Days of Christmas... Games, Part I: Ugly Sweaters
We asked readers if we should commemorate the holiday season by putting together some games, much like the one we put together for Thanksgiving. The response was a resounding "yes," so away we go.
As you can probably guess from the headline, we'll do 12 games, with 12 sets of answers. We aren't 100% sure how we'll spread them across the month, but at very least, we know that today is December 1, which means that we need to run the first entry today.
Our plan and goal is to develop 12 different concepts. We'll see how well that works out. Also, we recognize that not everyone celebrates Christmas, and so while we used the obvious headline for this series, we are considering all December holidays, and anything winter-related, to be fair game in terms of raw material.
And that brings us to today's game. Because we did not plan this out in advance, we'll be starting with something fairly simple, and something that reminds us that Christmas isn't the only game in town. One of the most notable holiday traditions to emerge in the 21st century is... ugly sweaters. So, in case you want to get on top of your ugly sweater game, we've got 12 of them below, each honoring a different December holiday or occasion. The game is to guess which holiday or occasion is being celebrated. Some are easy. Others, less so. We're going to give you the correct date to wear the sweater (sometimes, that date is just the first day of the multi-day occasion being celebrated), the sweater (or, sometimes, sweatshirt) itself, and four possible occasions. And with that said:
1. December 5:
a. Sinterklaas
b. St. Swithin's Day
c. Lek Gifting Day (Albania)
d. Unification Day (Germany)
2. December 14:
a. Simchat Torah
b. Hanukkah
c. World Dreidel Championships (Final Round)
d. Rabbi Appreciation Day
3. December 15:
a. Founders' Day (Democratic Socialists of America)
b. Bill of Rights Day
c. Public Defenders' Appreciation Day
d. Sen. Bernie Sanders' (I-VT) Birthday
4. December 17:
a. Wright Brothers Day
b. International Aviation Week
c. North Carolina Heritage Day
d. Pilot Appreciation Day
5. December 21:
a. Birthday of Anton LaVey (Founder of the Satanic Church)
b. Winter Solstice
c. Samhain (Druids)
d. International Heavy Metal Day
6. December 21, Also:
a. International Dalek Remembrance Day
b. Giving Tuesday
c. Ashura
d. Little Yule
7. December 22:
a. Founders' Day (M.I.T.)
b. Nerd Appreciation Day
c. National Mathematics Day (U.S.)
d. Albert Einstein's Birthday
8. December 25:
a. National Mental Health Awareness Week (Canada)
b. International Save the Reindeer Day
c. Christmas
d. Techno Day
9. December 26:
a. Kwanzaa
b. Umoja (Saudi Arabia and parts of Syria)
c. Klöpfleinsnächte (Knocking Nights)
d. Cat Appreciation Day (Egypt)
10. December 26, Also:
a. International Speech Impediment Awareness Day
b. Mike Tyson's Birthday
c. Procrastinators Day
d. Boxing Day
11. December 28:
a. International Farmers Day
b. Eat Vegetarian Day
c. Veg Out After the Holidays Day
d. Ōmisoka (Japanese New Year)
12. December 30:
a. Surgeon Appreciation Day
b. Jurassic Park Week (the first film in the franchise was released on December 30, 1995)
c. Bacon Day
d. Roadkill Appreciation Day
If you want to register your best guesses, the link is here. You'll have until at least tomorrow night at 11:59 p.m. PT. (Z)
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