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A Sarasota County School Board member will present a motion calling on Moms for Liberty founder Bridget Ziegler to resign her seat on the board, for which she is chair, Florida Politics reports.  The leader of a national movement to remove material from school libraries that she believes promotes behavior she disapproves of, Ziegler is mired in a scandal concerning a long-term throuple relationship she and her husband had with another woman, who accused her husband of rape after she withdrew from a scheduled threesome, presumably going through all this to become an example for children of what not to do in your life.

Mainstream Media Embraces Taylor Swift's Ability to Sway 2024 Election https://t.co/SUEWwkERKZ

— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) December 5, 2023

Pointing to some lame opinion piece at The Hill titled “Miss Americana: How Taylor Swift could save Joe Biden” and her own shitty “reporting” on a very stupid, convoluted conspiracy theory in which the 2023 National Zero Person of The Year George Soros is supposedly coercing the 2023 Time Magazine Person of The Year into an endorsement that is almost certainly coming anyway given that Swift publicly backed Biden in 2020, deranged MAGA influencer Laura Loomer on Tuesday further slammed the panic button that Swift could intervene to Trump’s disadvantage in the 2024 election.

Loomer explained this “op” with “The uniparty loves using mainstream media outlets like The Hill to send a preview of their plans to the American public. Expect Taylor Swift to do exactly what The Hill writes. It gets even odder as Vivid Seats shows Swift is selling discounted tickets for her last show in Indianapolis. This is a strong indication that Democrat political figures will join Swift at her last show before the 2024 election” which actually speaks volumes about The Hill’s suckery.

After all, if someone as utterly incompetent and unhinged as Loomer can see what a piece of shit operation they are then there’s hope yet that The Hill will eventually meet its well-deserved end.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Tuesday endorsed endorsed Republican Texas state House 2nd District candidate Brent Money in a January 30 special election runoff against state House Speaker Dade Phelan-backed Republican Jill Dutton, despite Money having opposed Abbott in his 2022 primary, calling him “weak and spineless” in a since-deleted tweet, the Texas Tribune reports.

Calling Abbott “spineless” is grossly inaccurate as the governor certainly still anatomically possesses a spine even if it was partially destroyed by a falling tree decades ago rendering him a paraplegic for the rest of his life. Nice of Abbott to let that slide and endorse a guy running to replace the far right secessionist former Baptist minister who resigned in May – and then was still expelled – after getting caught basically trying to date rape a 19 year-old legislative intern.

After all, it’s a game of inches in Texas Republican politics these days while Abbott and Lt Governor Dan Patrick are trying to get some insane school vouchers bill passed while the marginally less extreme day-drinker Phelan is resisting. Money (such a douchey name) is also supported by the Defend Texas Liberty PAC, whose leader chilled with Neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes a few months ago.

Robert Rivernider Jr, The Villages, Florida Trump fanboy who was caught forging his recently departed father Robert Rivernider Sr’s ballot for the disgraced former president in October 2020, mailing it in days after the old man died of COVID-19, a deadly virus whose spread was the only reason Rivernider Jr wasn’t still in federal prison at the time as he had been released seven years into his 12 year sentence on a real estate scam for which he had still owed his victims $20 million in restitution and thus was ineligible to vote in Florida, was convicted Monday of felony counts of forgery to alter public records, fraud in connection with casting a vote, and pass counterfeit instrument, for which he faces at least a few years in the clink, ClickOrlando.com reports.

That run-on sentence could’ve been longer as there are a few more details we left out: Rivernider Jr had claimed after his arrest that the Sumpter County Elections Office director and sheriff were the tips on the spear of a pro-DeSantis conspiracy against vocal Trump supporters, which is hilarious because Sheriff Bill Farmer actually did endorse DeSantis just days after Rivernider Jr was arrested for the fraud three years after the election. Those two sets of facts can coexist quite easily.

Then there’s Rivernider Jr’s defense counsel: Famous assclown former Florida State Representative Anthony Sabatini, a notoriously demented Trump fanboy and failed 2022 FL-7th District GOP primary Congressional candidate. This year Sabatini set up shop in Florida’s 11th District to mount a challenge to GOP incumbent Dan Webster – who in 2022 easily fended off a similarly brash young MAGA carpetbagger in far right ghoul Laura Loomer. On Monday, the same day Sabatini’s client went down for three felonies Webster tweeted he was “thrilled to have approval of @realDonaldTrump! We need President Trump back in the White House to Make America Great Again!” which we guess means Trump had officially endorsed him over Crazy Tony. So Sabatini had a pretty rough Monday.

Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford on Wednesday announced his office had secured indictments of all six of the Trump fanboys – including state GOP Party Chair Michael McDonald and Clark County GOP Chair Jesse Law – who signed fraudulent electoral college votes for the disgraced now-former president in 2020. “When the efforts to undermine faith in our democracy began after the 2020 election, I made it clear that I would do everything in my power to defend the institutions of our nation and our state. We cannot allow attacks on democracy to go unchallenged. Today’s indictments are the product of a long and thorough investigation, and as we pursue this prosecution, I am confident that our judicial system will see justice done,” said Ford in a statement.

CNN’s Zachary Cohen reports that cooperation from Kenny Chesebro, the Trump lawyer who quarterbacked the scam and reached a plea deal in Georgia last month, had sealed the deal.

All six of the assholes were charged with offering a false instrument for filing and uttering a forged instrument and face at least several years if convicted on both counts. The MAGA Nevadans join 16 of their buddies in Michigan and three in Georgia to face criminal charges for their attempt to overthrow American democracy three years ago this month. Arizona AG Kris Mayes is reportedly closing in on the scumbags in her state, while the 10 Wisconsin fake electors just agreed to a civil settlement in which they confessed to the crime, though it’s unclear if they’ll face any criminal liability afterward. The fake Trump slates from Pennsylvania and New Mexico, who had explicitly stated their votes to be “contingent,” have thus avoided prosecution for their effort.

The ten MAGAts who served as the GOP’s fake electors from Wisconsin publicly acknowledged that Joe Biden won the state in the 2020 election and was rightfully awarded the state’s electors and that Biden is the rightful President of the United States as part of a settlement of a civil lawsuit brought by two of the authentic electors from the state’s 2020 delegation, the Associated Press reports.

As part of the deal, the ten agree to not serve as electors in any future election Donald Trump is a part of, and in exchange, the two defendants have dropped their damage claims amounting to $200,000 against each fake elector.  There was no admission of guilt, and there has been no announced investigation into the legality of their actions because in their document, they specified they would be the slate if a court overturned the election results in the future, a caveat that likely saved their asses from going to prison.

Enjoy this tale of MAGA white trash depravity from a law enforcement source that we will not reveal until the end. Honestly, we would have picked up this story anyway if we had known about it otherwise, but the actual source revealing the perpetrator’s identity is some fine icing for this cake:

“On November 23, 2023, the defendant was arrested in Asheville, North Carolina, by local law enforcement authorities for assaulting two people. According to local police paperwork, at approximately 9:43 pm, police were called to the 27 Club, a bar located in Asheville, for a report of assault. Upon arriving at the bar, police spoke with Victim-1, who reported that she had been in the bar with Victim-2 and a third person. Victim-1 reported that she observed the defendant harassing another woman in the bar. When the woman denied the defendant’s advances, the defendant walked up to Victim-1 and Victim-2 and asked Victim-1 to make a bet on ‘who would fuck her first.’ Victim- 1 responded that the defendant needed to stop harassing the woman. The defendant then picked up an ashtray and threw it at Victim-1, striking her in the chest. Victim-1 threw a cup of water at the defendant, who then punched Victim-1 in the throat, causing scratch marks, bleeding, and bruising to her throat. Victim-2 then intervened and told the defendant to leave Victim-1 alone.”

“The defendant pushed Victim-2 to the ground and then began to kick him and stomp on his chest. Witness-1 called the police, told the defendant that he had done so, and instructed the defendant, ‘If you believe that you are in the right, you’ll wait for the police.’ The defendant then fled the scene in his vehicle. According to a criminal history records check, as the defendant was fleeing the scene, he was pulled over by police and arrested for driving under the influence. Back at the 27 Club, police were able to identify the defendant as Victim-1’s and 2’s assailant because, prior to leaving the bar, he paid his tab with a credit card bearing his name and presented an identification card with a matching name.” Emphasis ours for the extra fucking stupidity.

“On November 8, 2023, we issued subpoenas to your client, Robert Hunter Biden, for a deposition on December 13, 2023. We received your letters dated November 28, 2023, and December 6, 2023, concerning the deposition subpoenas. Contrary to the assertions in your letter, there is no ‘choice’ for Mr Biden to make; the subpoenas compel him to appear for a deposition on December 13. If Mr Biden does not appear for his deposition on December 13, 2023, the Committees will initiate contempt of Congress proceedings,” write Jim Jordan and James Comer to Hunter Biden’s lawyer Abbe Lowell, responding to his pointing out that Comer verbally offered a public hearing to Hunter.

OH NOES! CONTEMPT! This will ruin Hunter’s reputation! It-it-it will be a stain on him forever! He won’t be able to, um, look anyone in the eye and say “I complied with a subpoena issued by multiple investigative committees by the United States House of Representatives”! That’s horrible!

Hoping to find a long-term partner to back Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in his spat with Manic Marigold Donald Trump, the Super PAC that for the moment supports his campaign has named Phil Cox, a long-time Republican strategist whose name would elicit parental challenges at school board meetings across the state, to be its senior advisor.

Per Politico, Cox will fill the void left after multiple previous DeSantis favorites backed out of the position at the Never Back Down PAC, with as many as two people in three days filling the gap… not that there’s anything wrong with that.  The hope is that the injection of Cox as the man on top of a DeSantis push during these final weeks before the Iowa caucuses–which are so, so close–may get their man over the finish line ahead of the others, with Nikki Haley likely finishing unsatisfyingly behind the hard-charging men.

Well..

Now in 2024, we will have a 1 seat majority in the House of Representatives.

Congratulations Freedom Caucus for one and 105 Rep who expel our own for the other.

I can assure you Republican voters didn’t give us the majority to crash the ship.

Hopefully no one dies.

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) December 6, 2023

In a Wednesday Wall Street Journal op-ed, Loser former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy confirmed the rumors that he’s packing it in early and making the rest of the Republican caucus’s life with a thin majority even worse by resigning his seat effective at the end of this month.

This is the kind of development we should’ve done a pre-write for as it was becoming inevitable over recent weeks despite Kev shooting down rumors in the immediate aftermath of his ouster that he was headed for a near-term exit – actually fucking saying that he was even probably going to run for reelection in 2024. We’ll have plenty to say in at least one post-mortem, but for now the practical implication of McCarthy leaving is just lol. A two-seat GOP majority after that guy in Ohio leaves.

You know how on Tuesday we reported (twice, actually) that New York Governor Kathy Hochul set the special election to replace George Santos for February 13th? We’re not so sure her counterpart in California, Gavin Newsom, is going to be as alacritous with the same task given McCarthy’s district. He might just end up taking a page out of his frenemy Ron DeSantis’s playbook here.

“South Carolina State Treasurer Curtis Loftis has removed The Walt Disney Company from its approved investment list. The State Treasurer’s Office portfolio contains $105 million dollars of Disney debt instruments that will mature as scheduled and will not be replaced.”

“The Treasurer will focus on the equity portfolio in the coming weeks. In speaking to his staff, Treasurer Loftis expressed concerns that ‘Disney has abandoned its fiduciary responsibilities to its investors and customers by joining far-left activist in boycotting legal, taxpaying, employment-creating corporations to further Disney’s political agenda.’ Treasurer Loftis stated that ‘multi-billion-dollar corporations should not engage in boycotts designed to silence legitimate debate. Since America’s founding, freedom of speech has been one of its core principles, and Disney should not engage in nefarious practices aimed at silencing those with less power and money,'” said the South Carolina State Treasurer’s office in a statement on Tuesday, sticking it to Disney.

Not sure what we can add to this. The complete void of irony speaks more than enough for itself, and other than noting that the part about Disney “silencing those with less power and money” is technically accurate. Like Disney almost certainly does have more money than Twitter, Tesla, SpaceX, and Elon Musk personally. “Power” certainly applies here too, like there isn’t really anything that Musk or his companies can do to retaliate against Disney for not buying ad space. That’s why Elon publicly told CEO Bob Iger to go fuck himself at that big conference last week.

“Dear Chairman Comer: We write again to communicate the choice we made following your October 31, 2023, statement on The Benny Show: ‘We’re in the downhill phase of this investigation now because we have so many documents, and we can bring these people in for depositions or committee hearings, whichever they choose…’ This choice also reflects your September 13, 2023, statement on Newsmax: ‘Hunter Biden is more than welcome to come in front of the committee… he’s invited today. We will drop everything.’ And your November 8, 2023, statement in your cover letter addressed to me: ‘Given your client’s willingness to address this investigation publicly up to this point, we would expect him to be willing to testify before Congress.'”

“Contrary to your recent public statements, Mr Biden is not seeking special treatment. That other witnesses have opted for different choices in how they provided the Committee with testimony is simply a different choice than Mr Biden is making. As indicated in my November 28, 2023, letter, Mr Biden has offered to appear at a hearing on the December 13, 2023, date you have reserved, or another date this month, to answer any question pertinent and relevant to the subject matter stated in your November 8, 2023, letter. He is making this choice because the Committee has demonstrated time and again it uses closed-door sessions to manipulate, even distort, the facts and misinform the American public – a hearing would ensure transparency and truth in these proceedings. We look forward to working out the schedule,” writes Hunter Biden’s attorney Abbe Lowell to House Oversight Chairbilly James Comer, bringing extra pain with Comer’s own words.

In a Reuters article containing a number of plot elements outright copied from bigger-name political dramas, former Congolese President Martin Fayulu says he’s running in the big December 20th contest to avenge a 2018 election loss he says incumbent President Felix Tshisekedi stole from him.

“Is there a single Congolese who can tell me that he lives better than in 2018? Mr Tshisekedi has done absolutely nothing,” Fayulu told Reuters and Christ why not just call him “Crooked Felix”?

Fayulu claimed he won the 2018 election with 62 percent of the vote, but courts didn’t agree and god-freaking-dammit can someone come up with an original idea here? “The perceived injustice has fuelled Fayulu’s campaign for Democratic Republic of Congo’s Dec 20 presidential election, which follows what he describes as five years of corruption, incompetence and insecurity under Tshisekedi,” Reuters writes in the article and okay it’s not their fault the source material gave them such an unoriginal character but seriously this is so lame and lazy. Fayulu might as well be the star of one of the “Asylum” straight-to-DVD movies like Transmorphers or Atlantic Rim. What a dick.

Disgraced former President Trump on Wednesday lost out on Time’s Person of The Year to pop megastar Taylor Swift. It’s unclear yet if the 2020 election loser’s fanboys will photoshop his orange head onto the body of Swift like they did four years ago when he lost to Greta Thunberg.

In less than a week after he was expelled from the House for his myriad of scams and general scumbaggery, Republican now-former Long Island Congressman George Santos has earned a shit ton of money cranking out Cameo video greetings at now $200 to $300 each, Semafor reports. The wording of their story is slightly dicey but it appears he’s already just in the last few days earned more than the $174,000 annual salary he would’ve made had he survived a full year in Congress, according to screenshots Santos sent to Semafor that were then verified by Cameo’s CEO.

The videos take less than a minute to crank out and if Santos did a few thousand that’s a pretty realistic sum. The demand is obviously there too, as Georgie boy definitely seemed a little fatigued when Senator John Fetterman used Santos to troll scumbag colleague “Bobby from Jersey.”

And yes, be outraged that Santos makes this much while doctors and firefighters and teachers make blah blah blah. It’s a novelty that people are into right now because Santos just got expelled that will fade and then probably spike again when he goes on trial in the spring. It’s the same story as Tom DeLay going on stupid Dancing with the Stars before he just barely avoided going to prison and Rod Blagojevich doing that stupid California pistachios commercial before he did not avoid it… at least partially since Trump fucking commuted his sentence after eight years for God knows what reason.

In an unfortunately politically smart move, President Joe Biden will delay a long-expected ban on menthol cigarettes as the risks of pissing off a potentially large segment of Black voters during an already fraught election year are too great to ignore, the Washington Post reports.

“The timing matters,” said one official acknowledging the delicate politics. It isn’t all about winning or losing however, since getting the process started in early 2024 would take years of legal challenges that would leave the effort vulnerable to being reversed if disgraced former President Trump – who declined to enact a ban while in office – or heels-wearing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis – who has specifically pledged to undo any menthol ban – end up taking over. So Biden could screw himself by pushing for a ban only to see it erased by Trump or – far less likely – DeSantis.

It was almost four years ago that Axios reported Trump had raged at his HHS Secretary Alex Azar during a call in the Oval Office over the ban on flavored vape pods enacted in 2019. “I should never have done that fucking vaping thing,” said Donald, worried that his administration had cost him politically with the move. This reporter wasn’t going to vote for Donald anyway, and didn’t, but cucumber Juul pods being banned felt like just one extra “fuck you” from the Trump regime.

Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis wants former Vice President Mike Pence to swing by and testify for the prosecution against disgraced former President Trump and his 14 remaining co-defendants in the upcoming trial for his failed post-2020 election coup attempt, CNN reports.

Pence had previously told CNN he would comply with any requests to testify, specifically in Georgia, despite what he believes are “profound” First Amendment issues in the case and blah blah blah.

A woman in Ohio who threw her burrito bowl into the face of a Chipotle store manager because she was enraged that her order wasn’t made correctly will get 60 days off her 90-day jail sentence if she works at a fast food restaurant for 20 hours per week over two months, the WJW Fox 8 in Cleveland reports.

Thirty-nine-year-old Rosemary Hayne was found guilty of one count of assault for the September incident, and she was fined and sentenced to 180 days in jail, with 90 days suspended.  Judge Timothy Gilligan of Parma Municipal Court then made her an offer:  get a job at a fast food restaurant for 60 days for 20 hours per week so she could experience the other end of customers’ ire and he would take 60 days off the jail sentence.

Of course, various customers took video of the assault, which went viral.  Saying she “didn’t get a slap on the wrist,” Gilligan justified the deal by saying, “So I thought, why should the city taxpayers pay for her and feed her for 90 days in the jail if I can teach her a sense of empathy? I also hope this deters others from this type of behavior.”