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In what probably wouldn’t have hurt to have mentioned it during either his or Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaigns, President Joe Biden on Tuesday told an interviewer he’s in favor of a ban on congressional stock trading, saying “Nobody in the Congress should be able to make money in the stock market while they’re in the Congress,” the Associated Press reports.

“I don’t know how you look your constituents in the eye and know, because the job they gave you, gave you an inside track to make more money,” Biden said. “I think we should be changing the law.”

Urrrghhhh… Now neither he nor Kamala Harris would’ve won or lost on this issue specifically but at the same time there’s a whole universe of similar common-sense reforms with wide appeal that could have been worked on the campaign trail. There weren’t enough simpler appeals to the simpler voters out there who bought into all that “OPEN BORDERS” and “LOWER PRICES” horseshit.

Outgoing Ohio Dem Senator Sherrod Brown on Tuesday made it pretty clear to NBC News he’s looking to run to return to the Senate in a 2026 special election to take on whoever gets appointed to replace JD Vance, though he did not say outright that he’ll seek the nomination.

It is inconceivable that the federal government has no answers nor has taken any action to get to the bottom of the unidentified drones. The fecklessness of this administration was on display last year when a Chinese surveillance balloon was allowed to fly over the entire… pic.twitter.com/qWqyH3dnkI

— Senator Doug Mastriano (@SenMastriano) December 16, 2024

We’d prefer to let this speak for itself but there might be some readers who forgot who Q-pilled loser 2022 Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano is. There’s also that the rest of his tweet was cut off in the embed. “The fecklessness of this administration was on display last year when a Chinese surveillance balloon was allowed to fly over the entire continental United States before being shot down. Such should be viewed as a threat to our nation and citizens and action is long overdue. We have recourses and assets in our arsenal to get answers, but I suppose Ukraine is more important to the White House. January 20th can’t come soon enough,” Mastriano wrote, certain in the knowledge that President Trump will order America’s X-Wings to the skies to defeat the Imperial TIE fighters and Star Destroyers that threaten everyday Americans.

House Republicans on Monday fed the final report on their investigation into the House January 6th Select Committee’s investigation, all 128 pages of single-spaced whataboutery and horseshit, to far right propagandist John Solomon’s lame website, pointing Solomon to the part where lead counter-investigator Georgia MAGA Congressman Barry Loudermilk, himself a credibly suspected fifth columnist, recommended Vice Chair Liz Cheney face federal charges for witness tampering.

“Evidence uncovered by the Subcommittee revealed that former Congresswoman Liz Cheney tampered with at least one witness, Cassidy Hutchinson, by secretly communicating with Hutchinson without Hutchinson’s attorney’s knowledge. This secret communication with a witness is improper and likely violates 18 USC 1512. Such action is outside the due functioning of the legislative process and therefore not protected by the Speech and Debate clause,” wrote one of Loudermilk’s lackeys in a section highlighted by the former Hill opinion columnist’s current disinfo operation.

At no point in Solomon’s article does the name “Stefan Passantino” appear, because identifying him as that attorney whom Cheney was going around to communicate with Hutchinson would spoil the whole reason for it because that douchebag was the former Trump White House “ethics” attorney and was being paid to “represent” Hutchinson by Trump’s PAC. And the fucker definitely coached Hutchinson to avoid saying how the convicted felon president-elect had behaved the day of the insurrection he incited. Passantino is unavoidable for Loudermilk however, who introduces him by writing “Hutchinson could not afford an attorney, so she contacted two close allies of President Trump, Eric Herschmann and Alex Cannon, who secured attorney Stefan Passantino (‘Passantino’) to represent Hutchinson at no cost to her,” without mentioning then to whom that cost was.

Convicted felon President Elect Trump on Tuesday made good on his promise to file a lawsuit against the Des Moines Register and pollster J Ann Selzer for putting out a really freaking off survey result finding Vice President Kamala Harris leading the fat fuck 47 to 44 percent in Iowa just days before the election, a margin that ended up underestimating Trump by 17 percent, CNN reports.

“Defendants and their cohorts in the Democrat Party hoped that the Harris Poll would create a false narrative of inevitability for Harris in the final week of the 2024 Presidential Election. Instead, the November 5 Election was a monumental victory for President Trump in both the Electoral College and the Popular Vote, an overwhelming mandate for his America First principles, and the consignment of the radical socialist agenda to the dustbin of history,” wrote Donald’s shitbag lawyers in the complaint, filed Monday night in a state court in Polk County, Iowa.

In a sequel to our pickup of CNN’s Monday article “Why you shouldn’t try to shoot down a suspected drone,” quoting experts on why shooting down unmanned aircraft, some that can weigh hundreds of pounds, could pose a lethal hazard, WTVR reports why you also shouldn’t try to shoot down a bear.

Or if you do, at least make sure your hunting buddies are standing far enough away from the tree the bear is trying to hide in. Otherwise the dead/dying bear could fall down and crush him, and he could linger in the hospital for about four days before finally dying of his injuries from the bear.

Anyway that’s apparently what happened to 58 year-old Lester C Harvey Jr, of Phenix, Virginia who state Department of Wildlife Resources say was standing about 10 feet away from the tree when the shot black bear tumbled down from the upper branches during the group hunt. Intriguingly, a parsing of what little quotations from VDWR investigators are included in the article leaves open a possibility that it was Harvey himself who shot the bear from directly underneath and didn’t get out of the way fast enough. Whatever happened, it’s easy enough to extrapolate the lesson here to government officials’ pleas to not try to shoot down drones, even if you think they’re from Iran or Venezuela: You and/or your drone-hunting buddies might not get out of your falling quarry’s way fast enough.

Russian Lt General Igor Kirillov, accused by Kyiv of using chemical and biological agents against Ukrainian troops, was canceled along with an assistant by a bomb hidden in an electric scooter Tuesday morning local time, courtesy of the SBU wetwork team, Reuters reports.

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“A San Bernardino County man was sentenced today to 41 months in federal prison for operating a ‘birth tourism’ scheme that charged Chinese clients tens of thousands of dollars to help them give birth in the United States to obtain birthright US citizenship for their children. Michael Wei Yueh Liu (刘维岳), 59, of Rancho Cucamonga, was sentenced by United States District Judge Gary Klausner.”

“At the conclusion of a four-day trial, a jury on September 13 found Liu and Jing Dong, (董晶), 47, of Rancho Cucamonga, guilty of one count of conspiracy and 10 counts of international money laundering. Dong is expected to be sentenced in the coming weeks. From at least January 2012 to March 2015, Liu and Dong ran a maternity house in Rancho Cucamonga. Liu and Dong rented apartments in Southern California to provide short-term housing and provided other services to pregnant women from China who traveled to the United States to give birth so their children would acquire US citizenship. Typically, within one or two months after giving birth, the women returned to China. Among the services Liu and Dong provided were assistance on how to obtain visas to enter the United States, customs entry guidance, housing, and transportation in the United States, as well as assistance applying for US legal documents for the children of their customers. Liu and Dong advised their customers on how to hide their pregnancies from the immigration authorities.”

“Liu and Dong also knew – or deliberately avoided learning – that their customers lied on their visa applications submitted to immigration authorities to enter the US. Generally, their customers’ visa applications falsely stated that the purpose of the trip to the United States was for tourism, when it was to give birth, and the length of the stay was days or weeks, when it was in fact months. The visas also misstated the location where the customers intended to stay, which was defendants’ maternity hotel,” says a Justice Department press release on the birthwrong citizenship ring.

Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan on Monday tossed convicted felon President Trump’s claim that he’s immune from prosecution of on crimes he’s already guilty of, dismissing the fat fuck’s claim that since some of the testimony involved the White House during his first term, the whole conviction was void, it was “entirely to unofficial conduct entitled to no immunity protections.”

Dem Virginia Congressman Gerry Connolly on Monday defeated New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 34 to 27 in a caucus steering committee vote for the top Oversight Committee spot to replace ranking member Jamie Raskin, who’s headed to constantly torment spandex-wearing grapple freak Jim Jordan on the Judiciary Committee, Politico’s Nick Wu reports.

“Dinosaurs have a powerful place in pop culture, including museums, books, and movies. But the American people’s fondness for the Mesozoic animals is far from universal. Overall, 13 percent of US adult citizens say they ‘love’ dinosaurs. Another 31 percent say they merely ‘like’ dinosaurs. And while only 5 percent say they ‘dislike’ or even ‘hate’ dinosaurs, 47 percent have a striking opinion about the creatures who dominated the Earth for the better part of 200 million years: indifference.”

“Likewise, 41 percent of US adult citizens say they don’t have a favorite dinosaur, while 55 percent have a favorite dinosaur and 5 percent aren’t sure. The group that doesn’t have a favorite dinosaur is larger than those naming any particular type of dinosaur. That includes tyrannosaurus rex, the favorite of 19 percent of Americans and the only type of dinosaur picked by more than 10 percent of the population,” says YouGov in the write-up for their national favorite dinosaur survey conducted Nov 26 to Dec 3 among 1,122 US adult citizens. The margin for error in the sample was 4 percent.

“It’s your patriotic duty to support the President’s policies. He’s trying to strengthen our economic position in the world, and reduce our reliance on foreign countries who hate us for everything from essential medicines to car parts. Right now, the threat of tariffs is a bargaining chip for leverage, he may not even have to do it. If you were willing to go along with Bidenomics which raised prices on everything 25-50 percent, and you got nothing in return, this should not phase you” – The current top comment on the New York Post article titled “Costco executive warns of price hikes because of Trump tariffs: ‘When it rains, it rains on everybody’,” posted Monday afternoon.

Yeah, this is basically the same exact thing some other assclown wrote on Fox Business News’s website in the last “MAGA Land” comment we featured, only this guy is being even more explicit in his calls to pre-excuse all the inflation because it’s the price worth paying for America First.

Of course it’s possible this is some lib troll unsubtly mocking the New York Post’s reader base but either way they’re still upvoting him in agreement with this “higher prices are cool now” line.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, whose position is precarious after his top economic deputy called it quits on Monday, is considering resigning over the threats of tariffs from convicted felon US President-Elect Trump’s incoming maladministration, CTV News reports.

“People can’t afford their groceries,” said New Democratic Party Leader Jagmeet Singh during a session of Parliament in Ottawa before he was stifled by Tories screaming with joy. “Canadians literally cannot afford the groceries they need,” Singh continued. “Trump is threatening hundreds of thousands of jobs in this country… The prime minister cannot remain in that position. Will he resign?”

Dem Florida Congressman Jared Moskowitz is in the mix to serve as FEMA director in convicted felon President-Elect Trump’s administration, CNN’s Steve Cotorno reports on what maybe is some kind of Trump snub to James Comer since Moskowitz annoys the shit out of him.

At least four people are dead, a juvenile shooter included, and several are injured after a shooting at the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin on Monday, ABC News reports.

Amid convicted felon President-Elect’s Trump’s lengthy rant to reporters on Monday, the fat bastard variously said he’s opposed to the polio vaccine mandate, called Chinese communist dictator Xi Jingping an “amazing guy,” vaguely implied he believes the drone sightings are alien spacecraft, and wouldn’t answer questions about whether he’ll blanket pardon all of the Capitol rioters and what he’s going to do to Gaza if the hostages aren’t released before January 20th.

Conceding that yeah, things definitely got out of hand sometime thousands of years ago at a site in southwest England where the bones of dozens of individuals were found with human bite marks on them, researchers at Cambridge University allowed that maybe the bites were more of a ritual exercise than straight up consumption of human flesh for sustenance. The hefty benefit of the doubt from people not at all unlikely to have descended from these murderous savages takes up a considerable amount of space in a new report published by the Cambridge team on Monday.

“It is difficult to understand the human remains from [dig site] Horizon 2 in anything other than a context of extreme violence and systematic corporeal insult seemingly including anthropophagy.”

“While there are occasional examples of cutmarks on British and Irish Neolithic human remains, these are usually rationalised as the result of actions to hasten the transition to a fully skeletonised state and thus ‘ancestral’ status. There is no tradition of ritual dismemberment of the deceased for the British Early Bronze Age, nor would this explain the prevalence of cranial blunt-force injuries indicating that these individuals were killed beforehand. Differential mortuary treatment within the community, perhaps for those dying violent deaths, is also difficult to reconcile with estimates for the relatively short duration of deposition for Horizon 2. This does raise a question concerning the scale of the event, given the number of humans and animals represented,” says the research.

“Consumption of all individuals represented in the human and faunal assemblages from Horizon 2 in a single episode implies a substantial gathering and the complicity of potentially many hundreds of people. Whether some element of selection was involved, and its basis if so, is unknown. It is possible that the act of butchery was more important than the actual consumption, which may have been token. This requires further research and integration of faunal analyses,” the very blatantly wishcast-y report continued. Good luck finding more proof it was just locker room cannibalism.

German Chancellor Olaf Schulz took an absolute beating in a confidence vote on Monday – 207 to 394, with 116 no-shows among the Bundestag members – setting Europe’s largest economy up for snap elections to build a new governing coalition in February, Deutsche Welle reports