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Right wing propaganda website and now sort of lifestyle brand The Daily Wire on Monday launched “Bentkey,” a new subscription streaming service meant to provide a “non-woke” alternative to Disney. Per Axios, the service costs $99 a year and carries “over 150 episodes across 18 different shows, four of which are original. The rest of the content is licensed,” which we guess means there was no creative input from dickheads like Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, or Candace Owens.

The Daily Wire still plans to invest $100 million into creating this whole entertainment ecosystem which, the last we checked in, centered on some weird superhero B-movie starring Cary Elwes.

We just joined Truth Social, mostly because we thought it would be very funny.

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— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) October 16, 2023

“Today’s decision is an absolute abomination and another partisan knife stuck in the heart of our Democracy by Crooked Joe Biden, who was granted the right to muzzle his political opponent, the leading candidate for the Presidency in 2024, and the most popular political leader in America, President Donald J Trump. President Trump will continue to fight for our Constitution, the American people’s right to support him, and to keep our country free of the chains of weaponized and targeted law enforcement,” says a press release attributed only to a “Trump Spokesperson.”

Note that the statement only mentions Biden (as if he was the one sitting in the goddamned courtroom and issued the order), and not Jack Smith or Judge Tanya Chutkan, even obliquely.

Trump himself responded with the typical all-caps screaming on Truth Social, writing “A TERRIBLE THING HAPPENED TO DEMOCRACY TODAY – GAG ORDER!” and “WILL APPEAL THE GAG ORDER RULING. WITCH HUNT!” but again without any direct mentions of Smith or Chutkan.

Tim Scott’s super PAC which has a super stupid name of “Trust in the Mission” is super out of money before their candidate has even had a chance to reveal his super secret girlfriend’s identity and is canceling their TV ad buys in a sign that the end is coming super soon, Politico reports.

“We are doing what would be obvious in the business world but will mystify politicos – we aren’t going to waste our money when the electorate isn’t focused or ready for a Trump alternative,” wrote super dipshit “Trust in the Mission” co-chair Rob Collins in a memo to donors. “Money spent on mass media isn’t going to change minds until we get a lot closer to voting.” Super sad!

DC Circuit Judge Tanya Chutkan on Monday slapped disgraced former President Trump with a gag order prohibiting Donald from issuing any statements about herself, her staff, special counsel Jack Smith, and any potential witnesses in the post-2020 election coup attempt case against him, saying that running for president again does not allow him to conduct a “public smear campaign.”

Trump is free to rip on DC and the Biden Administration (and Mike Pence because he’s supposedly running a presidential primary campaign against Trump), but that’s going to be cold comfort to him and his deranged fanboys who are going to absolutely lose their shit over this order. Chutkan did not mention any possible sanctions on Trump if he violates the order before ending the hearing.

The dominoes are falling for spandex-wearing grapple-freak Congressman Jim Jordan’s speakership bid and he tells CNN’s Manu Raju that he’s taking it to the floor at noon on Tuesday.

Gym had previously told Raju he wanted to make sure he had 217 locked down first, but he’s doing it anyway now. “I do think that’s, that’s ideal, but… I don’t know if there’s any way to ever get that in the room. I would love that. But I think the only way to do this the way the Founders intended.”

It’s too difficult to write a real article summarizing the shitshow that was Monday’s hearing in DC Judge Tanya Chutkan’s courtroom as she weighed a motion from Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s team to slap disgraced former President Trump with a gag order ahead of his trial in the district for his post-2020 election coup attempt conspiracy, so let’s just try to go in a straight line as sourced from top talent present in the courtroom such as CBS’s Scott MacFarlane and Politico’s Kyle Cheney. It’s already going pretty badly for the fat bastard:

Trump Defense lawyer John Lauro started off by arguing his client is “entitled to speak truth to oppression.. he’s even allowed to say things insulting to these prosecutors..as difficult as it may be for them to hear,” before mentioning something about “tyranny and the Biden Administration,” to which Chutkan cut Lauro off, saying she doesn’t want to hear “campaign rhetoric.”

Chutkan then told Lauro “Mr Trump is a criminal defendant. He is facing four felony charges. He is under the supervision of the criminal justice sytem and he must comply with the conditions of release. He does not have the right to say and do exactly as he pleases,” and that she’s not moving the trial start date. March 4, 2024 stands, deal with it loser.

Lauro then complained that any gag order would be “asymmetrical” and wouldn’t apply to Joe Biden. Chutkan then reminded him that “Joe Biden isn’t a party to this case… And he’s not under release conditions.” She then checked his whining with “Mr Lauro, let’s tone this down a bit.”

A group supporting Democratic candidates in next month’s big Virginia legislative elections is making a six-figure ad buy to capitalize on the House GOP’s dysfunction, Politico reports on more potential windfall for Old Dominion Dems still keeping an eye on Capitol Hill for material.

🚨BREAKING🚨

We are investigating whether classified documents President Biden was caught mishandling included sensitive information related to specific countries involved in his family’s foreign business schemes that brought in millions for the Bidens.@RepJamesComer is… pic.twitter.com/9m6f4u1kwg

— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) October 16, 2023

House Oversight Chairbilly James Comer’s got nothing better to do these days, so he might as well just pretend there’s some connection between Joe Biden’s vice presidential classified documents fuckup and his son Hunter’s fake business selling access to foreign scumbags. Why not, right?

“Tomorrow is a big day for Democracy. A Leaking, Crooked and Deranged Prosecutor, Jack Smith, who has a terrible record of failure, is asking a highly partisan Obama appointed Judge, Tanya Chutkan, who should recuse herself based on the horrible things she has said, to silence me, through the use of a powerful GAG ORDER, making it impossible for me to criticize those who are doing the silencing, namely Crooked Joe Biden, and his corrupt and weaponized DOJ & FBI. They want to take away my First Amendment rights, and my ability to both campaign and defend myself.”

“In other words, they want to cheat and interfere in the 2024 Presidential Election. Nothing like this has ever happened in our Country before. It is strictly Banana Republic kind of ‘stuff.’ These political Hacks and Thugs are destroying our Country. Let’s see what happens on Monday in Judge Chutkan’s courtroom. Will America survive, or not? I’ll be campaigning in the Great State of Iowa, where I am leading by 50 Points!!!” wrote fat former President Trump in a Sunday night Truth Social post, spewing exactly the kind of shit that prompted Jack Smith to a gag order in the first place.

The hearing starts at 10 AM EDT. White nationalist Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is reportedly in attendance, in case it wasn’t already obvious that this is a big deal in MAGA world.

Florida MAGA activist and donor Steve Alembik, famous for his 2018 “FUCK THAT MUSLIM [N-WORD]!” tweet about Barack Obama that caused headaches for Ron DeSantis and Rick Scott during their campaigns, is dead after he shot his wife in the parking lot of a Delray Beach, Florida BurgerFi location and then turned the gun on himself last week, Boca News Now reports.

Alembik’s wife, name withheld from the article, was shot in the arm and back before she ran into the BurgerFi for help as she bled profusely. She remains in critical condition at a local hospital.

“Steve Alembik was a wonderful, and kind hearted man, and I was very sad and shocked to learn of his death today. I wrote about him in my book, as he was the person who gave me the first initial push to run for US Congress in 2020. I made the decision to run for Congress when we had a meeting in his office in Boca Raton, and he worked hard to support me every step of the way… Sadly, those of us who knew Steve understood that he struggled with his mental health at times, which he ultimately succumbed to when he died this week, but he always put on a smile for those around him and never complained,” tweeted fellow racist MAGA scumbag Laura Loomer in a lengthy response to Alembik’s self-cancelation. She didn’t mention the Obama n-word tweet.

“NBC News announced today that it will host the Republican National Committee’s third presidential primary debate at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County from 8 to 10 pm ET on Wednesday, Nov 8. NBC News will produce the debate and it will be widely shown on its television, streaming and digital platforms. The RNC also selected as debate partners Salem Radio Network and the Republican Jewish Coalition, as well as RNC streaming partner Rumble to live stream the debate. The RNC will announce the candidates who qualify to participate in the debate in the coming weeks,” says NBC News in a statement, which also amounts to a bargain for national advertisers looking for cheap commercial space during a weeknight primetime broadcast.

Now that the day and time have been set, within the next day or two disgraced former President Trump will announce his stupid “counter-programming” event, whatever that might end up being.

The White House on Monday postponed President Biden’s trip to high school dropout Lauren Boebert’s Colorado district so he can stay in DC “to participate in national security meetings.”

In very related news, Politico reports that Boebert’s finance reports reveal she spent more than $300 at the drag-friendly Aspen bar owned by the dude she fondled at the Beetlejuice show.

Liberty University President Dr Dondi E Costin tells Fox News in an “exclusive” that the Biden Administration tried to “poison the well” purposely by leaking a report finding that the shitty Evangelical school covered up numerous instances of sexual assault on campus after the Washington Post earlier this month obtained a copy and published numerous damning details.

“The most damaging element of this whole process is the fact that for the first time that any of us are aware, the Department of Education leaked a preliminary report while we are in the process of negotiating with the department about all the advancements that we’ve made. And so that’s the biggest issue,” said Costin, adding “The leak is intentionally aimed at laying the groundwork for an unprecedented fine and the report is filled with factual errors that the Department has admitted to Liberty in their negotiations.” Always the victims, those far right MAGA Christians.

“I think if you look in the Department of Education report, what you will see are a number of unsupported assertions of bad faith. It’s as if they are mind-reading the university,” said Costin.

Israeli Defense Force statement: “As part of extensive IDF strikes targeting senior operatives and terrorist infrastructure in the Gaza Strip, the IDF and ISA neutralized the southern Khan Yunis Nukhba commander (Hamas commando forces), who was responsible for the Kibbutz Nirim massacre. Following ISA intelligence, IDF fighter jets operated in Gaza and neutralized Billal Al Kedra last night, the commander of the southern Khan Yunis Nukhba forces, who was responsible for the Kibbutz Nirim massacre. Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorist operatives were also neutralized.”

“The IDF also struck over one hundred military targets located in Zaytun, Khan Yunis, and west Jabaliya. These strikes impacted the capabilities of the Hamas terrorist organization, by targeting its operational command centers, military compounds, dozens of launchers, anti-tank missile launch posts and observation posts. Furthermore, operational command centers belonging to the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization were struck.”

Spandex-wearing grapple-freak Jim Jordan is still short by “at least 10 to 20” votes of the 217 threshold required to become Speaker of the House ahead of the supposed Tuesday afternoon vote on the full floor where he faces a Dem caucus united behind Hakeem Jeffries, CBS News reports.

A 71-year-old white Illinois man has been arrested after attacking a Muslim woman and her six-year-old son, stabbing both of them repeatedly, resulting in the boy dying from more than a dozen wounds, Politico reports.  Expected to survive despite being stabbed multiple times herself, the mother was able to call 9-1-1 to report her landlord was threatening the family with a knife because he was angry about the Hamas attack on Israel.

According to a statement by Democratic Illinois Governor J.D. Pritzker, the child, identified as Wadea Al-Fayoume, was stabbed 26 times.  Police arrested 71-year-old Joseph M. Czuba of Plainfield, who was charged with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, two counts of hate crimes and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.

Officials said there has been a sharp increase in threats against both Jewish and Muslim populations since Hamas’s attack on Israel last week.  Pritzker condemned the attack, calling it “a hate crime,” although he did not say if his administration would pursue hate crime enhancements for Czuba’s charges.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Sunday told NBC’s Kristen Welker that there have been “informal conversations” with Republicans about setting up a bipartisan coalition in the chamber and that on Monday they’ll start work on making it formal, which is actually a pretty big deal.

Asked what the conditions will be for entering an agreement, Jeffries said first and foremost he wants to ensure that “votes are taken on bills that have substantial Democratic support and substantial Republican support, so that extremists aren’t able to dictate the agenda.”

Lindsey sure fucked up this time. Almost as bad was later in the interview when he said “That was a huge mistake” and “That was not helpful” about Trump’s meltdown over Netanyahu and Israel.

Former Vice President Mike Pence’s campaign is getting absolutely asphyxiated by debt, with $620,000 owed hanging heavily on $1.2 million cash on hand vs $3.3 million roped in from donors, a troubling sign that the near-lynching victim is getting ready to hang it up, NBC Noose reports.

NBC sees a parallel with former Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s 2016 presidential primary campaign at this point eight years ago, writing that reporting debt means the end is nigh.