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President Joe Biden reportedly shocked senior advisors by candidly admitting that he might not have chosen to run for reelection if Donald Trump had not sought to reattain the office, CNN reports.  Noting that Democrats “cannot let him win,” Biden told a group of donors outside Boston on Tuesday, “If Trump wasn’t running, I’m not sure I’d be running.”

One senior advisor who was not at the dinner responded with “Yikes,” when told of the statement.  Others, however, pointed to Biden’s statements when he entered the 2020 race, citing the divisiveness of Donald Trump as one of the primary motivators.

“President Biden said in 2020 he was running to restore the soul of our nation – he got into the race after Trump said what he did after Charlottesville – and he correctly views the former president as a unique threat to our democracy,” Delaware Sen. Chris Coons, a national co-chair of Biden’s 2024 campaign, told CNN. “President Biden beat Trump before and he will do it again.”

The special election to replace expelled fraudster George Anthony Devolder Santos for the Congressional seat representing the NY-3 district will be held February 13th, Politico reports, with Party leaders in Nassau County and Queens forgoing a primary and instead opting to appoint the nominee who will finish out the final ten months of the term.

Democrats are expected to select former Congressman Tom Suozzi as the Party nominee.  Suozzi retired from Congress to run for governor in 2022 but lost to Kathy Hochul.  Suozzi and Hochul reportedly met Monday to clear the air after a mud-filled campaign.

Republicans have no clear leader for the Party nomination, but they are sure to conduct at least one call to confirm employment for whatever candidate they select.  Cook Political rates the district at D+2.

Floribama Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville took a seat on the back bench and gave up his months-long hold on promotions for flag and executive military officers in a misguided protest about abortion that threatened US national security.  According to the Associated Press, the Senate acted immediately, pushing through more than 400 promotions after Tuberville gave up under pressure from both sides of the aisle.

“In the end, this was all pointless. Senator Tuberville, and the Republicans who stood with him, needlessly hurt hundreds of servicemembers and military families and threatened our national security — all to push a partisan agenda. I hope no one forgets what he did,” President Dark Brandon said in a statement from the White House.

What remains of moron South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mace’s team will have to switch to microwaved Orville Reddenbacher’s or some other common retail brand the next time they want to do that grating “bring the popcorn” meme in real life, as newly-departed Chief of Staff Dan Hanlon took the machine with him when he was fired last week, the Washington Examiner reports.

Hanlon was not alone in his exit, as Deputy Chief of Staff Richard Chalkey and Legislative Director Randal Meyer also left the “toxic work environment.” A source told the Examiner that Mace’s congressional office could see a complete staff turnover by January, that how badly she sucks.

Demonstrating that even Satanic forces have their price, the Fox cable propaganda network is pre-taping and likely editing the custom townhall meeting it’s sponsoring for candidate Donald Trump, according to its website, and the promotion will be aired with covert Trump advisor and primetime propagandist Sean Hannity serving as host.  Of course, with the reality of a quarter billion-dollar-plus payment for unquestionably airing Trump’s claims in the past, Fox may have found it makes for a better business model to incur the wrath of the Apricot Autocrat on a failing social media site than to go to court again.

Spandex-wearing grapple-freak Jim Jordan on Tuesday wrote another bitchy letter to Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis demanding she give him all correspondence with the House January 6th Select Committee so he can do, something, who the fuck knows. Probably just whine about it on Fox News, to be honest. It’s not like he can legislate a fix. Wrote Jordan:

“The Committee on the Judiciary continues to conduct oversight of politically motivated prosecutions by state and local officials. Although we were aware that your office had coordinated its politically motivated prosecutions with the Office of Special Counsel Jack Smith, we recently learned that your office also coordinated its investigative actions with the partisan Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol (‘January 6 Select Committee’).”

“Accordingly, we write to request documents relating to the investigative coordination between your office and the partisan January 6 Select Committee [lots of complaining about how unfair this is and that he knows they communicated, she needs to respect his authoritah] Although it is not clear what records, if any, you obtained from your coordination with the partisan January 6 Select Committee, this new information raises additional questions relevant to the Committee’s oversight of your politically motivated prosecution of a former President of the United States and several former senior federal officials. The partisan January 6 Select Committee had a troubling track record of procedural abuses and due process violations. It only solicited evidence from a select set of relevant individuals, ignored exculpatory evidence, and did not pursue witnesses with evidence that would not advance its partisan narrative. It fabricated and publicly released doctored evidence.”

Democratic former Long Island Congressman Tom Suozzi will face the winner of the Republican primary in the race to replace Cameo star George Santos on February 13, 2024, CBS News’s Scott MacFarlane reports citing the announcement by New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Tuesday.

Suozzi, who left Congress to unsuccessfully run against Hochul in the 2022 primary, was picked by the governor (after he made amends for shit-talking her during the campaign) due to New York’s system which allows her to bypass the primary and crown the nominee. The race, of course rated as a toss-up by the horserace circlejerkers, is expected to be pretty freaking expensive.

So here’s Matt Gaetz saying basically “No! Trump isn’t a fascist! That’s a horrible thing for the libs in the media to be saying! They’re putting him in danger by doing talking like this!”

The Trump cabal’s legal teams just cannot seem to stop screwing up.  On Monday, Trump’s personal lawyers missed a key filing deadline regarding his New York gag order, then Rudy Giuliani’s attempt to have the civil defamation lawsuit by Fulton County, Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss heard in a bench trial was thrown out because the case had already been decided and Rudy lost in a default judgment.

Now, according to Politico, Giuliani’s lawyer is taking the blame for his client not appearing in a DC federal courthouse even though Judge Beryl Howell had previously ordered his presence.  While Freeman and Moss watched from the plaintiffs’ table, attorney Joe Sibley was scolded by Howell after he meekly claimed he had misunderstood her order.  “How could you have missed that?” Howell asked, to which Sibley responded, “My mistake.”

The Peruvian Constitutional Court on Monday ordered former President Alberto Fujimori released from after he spent 18 years behind bars for living La Vida MAGA with all sorts of corruption scams and human rights violations during his reign from 1990 to 2000, some far right dipshit reports.

The miserable old bastard could’ve been out earlier if his daughter Ivanka Keiko Fujimori had won the 2021 presidential election, but she was edged out by lefty indigenous activist Pedro Castillo.

Castillo and Fujimori had been housed in the same special ex-presidential prison together for nearly a year. Fujimori’s release now makes room for his successor, former President Alejandro Toledo, who had been extradited from the United States to face money laundering charges back in April.

Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris has become undisputedly the most active Vice President in United States history when it comes to the official duties of the Vice President.  Besides maintaining a pulse to serve as a potential successor to the President, she’s excelled at the only other official duty of the VP:  Harris has cast more tie-breaking votes while presiding as President of the Senate than any other Vice President, according to the Associated Press.

With a vote to confirm a new federal judge Tuesday morning, Harris cast her 32nd vote to break a tie in the Senate, surpassing the 31 such votes made by John C. Calhoun during his eight-year term from 1825 to 1832; thanks to today’s political climate which is much like the antebellum period, Harris accomplished her record in less than half the time. Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville is expected to object to Calhoun’s erasure from the record book, calling it CRT gone wild.

Okay, we admit it.  We lied:  he didn’t really read from “Penthouse Forum” but after his trauma-inducing recitation of a passage from a gay teen novel a couple months ago, you have to admit it wasn’t out of the possibility that you believed perpetual Foghorn Leghorn cosplayer and Republican matron of the Senate Judiciary Committee John Kennedy of Louisiana wouldn’t try another such stunt.

Instead, the Louisiana Republican decided to badger FBI Director Christopher Wray about why the agency hasn’t acknowledged the legitimacy of “Hunter Biden’s laptop,” which according to Hunter Biden, is not his laptop but just a computer onto which someone loaded his stolen personal information.  (As we’ve reviewed here before, just because the files were Hunter’s doesn’t make the laptop Hunter’s.)  Not only can Wray not comment on a current investigation, he wouldn’t want to lie before Congress by claiming the FBI confirmed the provenance of the laptop as Kennedy described.

In a banger of a filing notifying the court of evidence he intends to introduce at disgraced former President Trump’s upcoming trial on charges stemming from his post-2020 election coup attempt, Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith says he has text messages indicating that the fat bastard and his minions tried to start a riot outside the TCF Center in Detroit – where the ballots were still being counted in the majority-Black city – on November 4th, 2020, writing:

“The indictment lists multiple examples of the defendant’s efforts, during the charged conspiracies, to pressure state officials to change election results or appoint invalid electors in spite of the election results. The Government also plans to introduce evidence of an effort undertaken by an agent (and unindicted co-conspirator) of the defendant who worked for his campaign (‘the Campaign Employee’) to, immediately following the election, obstruct the vote count. On November 4, 2020, the Campaign Employee exchanged a series of text messages with an attorney supporting the Campaign’s election day operations at the TCF Center in Detroit, where votes were being counted; in the messages, the Campaign Employee encouraged rioting and other methods of obstruction when he learned that the vote count was trending in favor of the defendant’s opponent.”

[About eight lines of redactions]

“The Government will also show that around the time of these messages, an election official at the TCF Center observed that as Biden began to take the lead, a large number of untrained individuals flooded the TCF Center and began making illegitimate and aggressive challenges to the vote count. Thereafter, Trump made repeated false claims regarding election activities at the TCF Center, when in truth his agent was seeking to cause a riot to disrupt the count. This evidence is admissible to demonstrate that the defendant, his co-conspirators, and agents had knowledge the defendant had lost the election, as well as their intent and motive to obstruct and overturn the legitimate results”

Far right Florida state Senator Blase Ingoglia on Monday introduced a resolution calling for a constitutional amendment referendum reading “Proposing an amendment to the State Constitution to prohibit the state, a county, a municipality, and any other political subdivision from paying compensation in the form of reparations to an individual who is a descendant of an enslaved individual who lived in the United States before December 6, 1865,” to appear on the 2024 ballot.

Never has the Sunshine State or any of its counties or municipalities ever proposed slavery reparations much less paid them out. Still Ingoglia tells FloridaPolitics.com you can’t be too cautious about money going to Black people these days. “Congress, as well as politicians in states like California, and others, are proposing reparations. Florida should be proactive because bad ideas in some states seem to find their way into other states. Giving the voters the option to enshrine the prohibition into our Constitution takes the prospect of vote buying in the form of ‘reparations’ off the table, in order for legislators and community leaders to talk about how to really make a difference in black and brown communities,” said Ingoglia, who called it “race-bating” in another interview.

It’s a bit of a switch for Ingoglia, who earlier this year took a different position when it came to healing the scars wrought by slavery’s horrific legacy, introducing a bill called the “Ultimate Cancel Act,” by banning all political parties that once used slavery as part of their platform from fielding candidates in any election in the state of Florida. The bill never came to a vote in the state Senate.

Former Acting House Speaker Patrick McHenry will on Tuesday announce he’s calling it quits and will not run for reelection in 2024 after serving out this term, Politico’s Olivia Beavers reports.

The pace of drop-outs in odd-numbered years is typically a barometer of how a caucus feels about how the next election is going to go: In 2017 and 2019 there were fairly large exoduses of Republicans while 2022 saw more Dems, but not nearly as many, do the same. Per Ballotpedia the current pace is at 20 Dems and ten Republicans (adding McHenry to Ballotpedia’s total). That measure isn’t all that great however and it’s more instructive to look a little deeper at it. Nine of those Dems but only two of the Republicans are running for the Senate. Eight Dems and seven Republicans are retiring outright, plus that Dean Phillips dipshit who might as well be retiring and…

Too much to sort out when the real point is that it’s more even than it looks at first glance. This also doesn’t include weakling former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who is reportedly on the ledge of not just declining to seek reelection, but quitting altogether and leaving town any day now.

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday told reporters his staff are blurring the faces out of the rioters in all 40,000+ hours of January 6th Capitol riot security camera footage “because we don’t want them to be retaliated against and be charged the DOJ,” Punchbowl’s Jake Sherman reports.

Now we’re preeeettty sure that mostly doesn’t matter that much practically because the Justice Department already downloaded all of it at like 7:00 AM on January 7th, 2021 and they’ve been combing through every second of it for nearly three years now. But that doesn’t mean that this still won’t impede prosecutions, as crowdsourced investigations by crews like Sedition Hunters led to a fair number of arrests and convictions of rioters. And that’s Johnson’s real purpose here, to stop the libs from identifying the however many insurrectionists still on the loose and tipping off the FBI.

Of course it’s hard to see any right wingers thanking him for this, since it will prevent them from “identifying” all the secret Antifa and Deep State infiltrators among the “peaceful tourists.”

Donald, everyone knows you’re weaker, unsteady and confused all the time now. You even know it too. That’s why you’re constantly talking about how you “aced” your cognitive testing. When you have to tell people you aren't senile all the time, you're senile. #TrumpIsNotWell pic.twitter.com/RHeyVrbo2B

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) December 4, 2023

“The perverts and losers at the failed and once disbanded Lincoln Project, and others, are using AI (Artificial Intelligence) in their Fake television commercials in order to make me look as bad and pathetic as Crooked Joe Biden, not an easy thing to do. FoxNews shouldn’t run these ads, just as low ratings CNN & MSDNC will not, under any circumstances, run negative ads on Biden or the Democrats. They are, after all, in-kind campaign contributors to the Dems!” wrote fat former President Trump late on Monday in response to that Lincoln Project ad. Way to Streisand effect it.

Also, how the hell does selling ad space make CNN and MSNBC “in-kind campaign contributors”?

House GOP leadership on Tuesday announced they will tee up a vote to formalize their impeachment inquiry against President Biden, CNN’s Manu Raju reports, writing “Several members from swing districts indicating they will vote YES for inquiry but not sold on backing articles of impeachment.”