President Trump’s team tell CNN they’re in the early stages of planning a lengthy series of MAGA rallies to address the affordability crisis that has been steadily growing source of concern for White House officials. “You can’t convince people that their experience, what they’re feeling at home, isn’t reality,” one source said about the domestic itinerary being launched to try to convince people that high prices are what the president repeatedly called a “con job” by the Democrats.

“The president gets it. He knows this is an issue,” a senior White House official said the same week that Trump called polls with his economic approval rating in the low 30 percent range “fake” during an interview. “But he’s frustrated he’s not getting credit for what he’s doing,” the official continued, naming energy deregulations and the extension of his 2017 tax cuts as major accomplishments that voters just need to learn more about so they can feel better about the economy and job market.

Once they see him talking about how he brought $25 trillion in deals in just nine months they will know they made the right choice last year. Trump previewed this argument during a speech to wealthy investors at a conference held in an air conditioned auditorium, saying “I tell Republicans, you want to win elections, you got to talk about these facts,” on his record of economic accomplishments. “You know, it’s really easy to win elections when you talk about the facts.”

“Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel have produced to Congress a new cache of documents showing how Bill and Hillary Clinton’s foundation collected donations from foreign and domestic interests seeking influence – raising fresh concerns that such evidence was kept from federal prosecutors who tried to investigate pay-to-play allegations against the former first family a decade ago,” says the lede to a BLOCKBUSTER new report by crusading muckracker John Solomon.

Lol. There’s no real point in rehashing the why of all this stupid bullshit, the Trump Regime was always going to be resurrecting their old grievances for Solomon content this year, no matter what else happened. Worth pointing out however is that, right up front in that lede (but not in the typically clickbaity headline of “‘Clinton Corruption Files’: Bondi, Patel unleash new evidence about former first family foundation”) is the dismally sad what: The nation’s top two federal law enforcement officials gave this “new” evidence of alleged Clinton family corruption to Republicans in Congress.

Genericize that for a moment. “Gotham City District Attorney Paula Bundy and Police Chief Pat L Cash have produced to the City Council a cache of documents proving former Mayor Clint Bilton and his wife Harriet took multiple bribes from the Joker and the Penguin.” Does that sound like the DA and the cops are actually trying to put Clint and Harriet in Arkham Asylum anytime soon? Does the city council have any more investigative powers than law enforcement? Might one think that the actual point of the story is to encourage costumed vigilantes to attempt to bring them to justice?

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Wednesday told Parliament that her government will soon “compile a package of measures soon and implement them using a supplementary budget,” to provide funds for local municipalities to mitigate the ongoing threat of bear attacks that, for reasons still unknown, have massively surged this year and left 12 dead, the Japan Times reports.

An in-media-res clip from TechnicalSafetyBC’s Incident Summary #II-1919912-2025, a final determination on the investigation into a non-fatal injury incident at a carnival in Port Hardy, British Columbia on May 31st, 2025: “The two patrons were loaded into the PCU by two experienced operators and one younger attendant who was the child of the Foreman of the Zipper ride and had been helping and was described as ‘really good at cracking buckets.’ (An industry term for loading and unloading a caged style ride). The younger attendant had been trained in the specific procedures of loading and unloading the PCU but did not have the experience or assertiveness necessary to deal with situations that deviated from the normal routine. The Foreman had left the area for a brief time after repairing a component to wash up. The younger attendant, who travels with the carnival, was left around the Zipper ride where they were helping the loading and unloading of passengers, which they had done several times previously at different fair locations. Neither attendant was able to intervene or prevent loading of intoxicated passengers despite the posted rules and manufacturer and code requirements indicating intoxicated riders were not allowed.”

“The younger attendant later described the rider as ‘half asleep and half awake,'” lol. Meaning the kid was “qualified” to operate a “Zipper” but didn’t know how to identify drunk people.

As tempting as it is to say “Fucking Democrats” there wasn’t really any point in dragging the shutdown on much longer since Republicans have made it obvious that they don’t want to make healthcare more affordable for tens of millions of Americans. It was clear enough from Jesus Dork Speaker Mike Johnson and it should be even clearer now from the Senate GOP who NBC reports want to add all sorts of abortion-related restrictions on the vote to extend the ACA subsidies.

The shutdown ended stupidly and abruptly, Chuck Schumer’s a wuss, and so on and so forth. The legislative part of this was never going to wind up differently. Democrats can now campaign on having tried to prevent the massive increase in health insurance costs while Republicans can just ramble their contradictory bullshit about Obamacare being flawed from the start and that they have a new plan they’ll implement if you vote for them next year, just wait, you’ll love it…

Dems tried and failed to save Republicans from a cataclysm of their own making. Fin.

Among several batshit stupid Truth Social posts shared by the 45th and 47th President of the United States on Tuesday was one by a user – whose avatar is apparently a Muppet version of himself – who wrote “Nothing about this asshole was ever real. I want every mention of him being president to have to feature an asterix [sic] leading to a footnote which says ‘contended’ or ‘awaiting legal verification’ or something” above a meme reading “A MAN USING A DIFFERENT NAME, SWORE ON A BIBLE HE DOESN’T BELIEVE IN AND BETRAYED A COUNTRY HE WASN’T BORN IN,” depicting the 44th President of the United States taking the oath of office at one of his two inaugurations.

It’s not clear if Keir Starmer ever posts the same sort of content about Rishi Sunak.

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols on Monday declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his December 11th execution for the 1988 rape and murder of 21 year-old Chattanooga State University student Karen Pulley, the Associated Press reports.

The precise reason for Nichols’s refusal to participate in the penal system’s procedure that allowed him to select between the two methods offered was not made public, however it’s possible that it may be a personal objection to being executed, that selecting one of the options may have been seen as assent to having the punishment meted out for his crimes. Some may take the speculation even further and posit that a non-submittal of preference on his execution method could constitute an “opt-out” of the system, as though he were voting and simply left his ballot blank without selecting a candidate in a contested election, thus registering his protest over being presented with only bad choices. Since in that instance Nichols’s “vote” would be recorded but not counted, the same logic should apply to the execution method selection process: a null value has null effect.

It’s certainly a fascinating topic for legal scholars to ponder, not to mention Nichols himself, who will have 30 days to mull it over before he’s executed by lethal injection on December 11th, 2025.

It appears the line “We fired thousands of people who didn’t take care of our great veterans. They were sadists, they were sick people, they were thieves, they were everything you want to name. When Biden came in he hired them back,” was actually written into Donald’s speech and not like an ad-lib. Just in case you want an idea of how it’s been going so far. “If we die, we must die and we as men we die without complaining,” was probably a Trump original, however.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Tuesday celebrated America’s veterans by taking steps to create more of them with service in conflict, sending the USS Gerald R Ford aircraft carrier to the Carribbean in anticipation of starting a patriotic war with Venezuela, the Washington Post reports.

Police in Germany on Tuesday announced they had cuffed a far right extremist – identified only as a 49 year-old Martin S – who had plotted to assassinate a dozen left and center politicians to accelerate a return to the good old days of 1933 to November 1942, Bloomberg reports.

“Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT) is increasing support for families to help them further stretch their household budgets this holiday season. Starting this month, Target is lowering prices on 3,000 food, beverage and essential items to help consumers save on the products they rely on most. From pantry staples and baby items to household essentials, these price reductions are designed to make everyday shopping more affordable through the holiday season. And as families come together for Thanksgiving celebrations, Target’s Thanksgiving meal is back – now at its lowest price ever. Offering a complete holiday dinner for less than $5 per person, the meal features quality ingredients and trusted brands, helping consumers gather around the table without breaking the bank.”

“In addition to delivering everyday value, Target continues to extend its support beyond its shopping experience. Today, the company announced a $500,000 donation to Feeding America, the nation’s largest domestic hunger-relief organization. This donation comes as food banks nationwide brace for increased demand this holiday season. Target’s support will help Feeding America’s network of 200 food banks and 60,000 partner agencies provide five million meals to families in need and deliver emergency food boxes and expanded services to households facing hunger,” says leftist big box retailer Target in what can only be seen as a “hostile act” against the Trump Administration.

A Salt Lake City local news site called Gephardt Daily have acquired the arrest affidavit against pardoned Capitol rioter John Banuelos and found that, although the warrant was issued in September 2025, the sexual assault and kidnapping charges against him date to a June 2018 incident for which DNA evidence collected was matched to the MAGA terrorist only this year.

Sick story short, Banuelos approached a woman at a TRAX light rail station and invited her to his house for a party, and when she arrived, “there was no furniture and no party. (She) said Banuelos began touching her legs, and she told him to stop.” Banuelos then made her smoke something, which caused her to go limp and defenseless, after which he sexually assaulted her repeatedly.

Following the DNA match a warrant was issued and Banuelos was cuffed in the Chicago area nine months into his newfound freedom from pretrial custody following convicted felon President Trump’s blanket amnesty for the January 6th insurrectionists. Banuelos had fired a gun into the air outside the Capitol during the MAGA mayhem, something which he was charged with in March 2024.

During that period Banuelos fatally stabbed a guy in Salt Lake City on July 4, 2021 but the DA dropped the case on a self-defense claim. Gephardt’s article also mentions that Banuelos has “failed to appear for hearings in cases related to domestic violence, interfering with an officer and disorderly conduct” and “also has an unresolved case in Salt Lake County based on a domestic violence assault allegation. Warrants also were issued in those cases,” this latest warrant says.

Trump blames concern over prices on ‘con job’ by Democrats https://t.co/gUO60vQYQi pic.twitter.com/ra7djwRBWH

— New York Post (@nypost) November 11, 2025

“White House officials are furious with Bill Pulte, the Federal Housing Finance Agency director, who talked the president into suggesting a 50-year mortgage plan,” says the lede to a Politico story that at no point simply draws the obvious conclusion that the President of the United States of America is a mental invalid who can be “sold a bill of goods” on something so patently fucking stupid.

Pulte “just sold POTUS a bill of goods that wasn’t necessarily accurate. He said ‘FDR did it, you can do it, it’s gonna be a big thing.’ But he didn’t tell him about all the unintended consequences,” a person “familiar with the situation granted anonymity to discuss internal thinking” told Politico, as though they were talking about their irresponsible younger half-brother who should not be letting their Alzheimer’s patient dad use the stove to make soup and not a supposed billionaire real estate developer who as such should have an encyclopedic knowledge of property finance instruments.

“Bad advice” is the excuse you use when a complex military special-ops mission to eliminate a dangerous terrorist goes wrong. Or some arcane public health policy revamp unintentionally ends up misdirecting a resource critical to other programs. Or an energy credit initiative creates a loophole that unscrupulous actors exploit to loot public coffers without making any meaningful investments in electrical grid infrastructure. Some experts have a tendency to overestimate their own expertise or simply lie and that can overwhelm the judgment of an otherwise competent and lucid leader.

That’s not what happened here. Trump’s a fucking idiot and one feeling pressured by his own failures to make good on his campaign of lies, so he said yes to the monumentally stupid idea of offering 50-year mortgages without actually considering the implications of it. And the Alzheimer patient’s daughter screaming at her dipshit brother for playing Xbox when he was supposed to be watching dad only goes so far as an analogy since she’s not in denial about the old man’s condition.

Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s hands looked godawful during a public appearance over the weekend, with his vein bulging and the skin thin and wrinkly, leading the Daily Beast to compare it to his sometimes best buddy in the White House’s makeup-caked right hand covering up God knows.

Whatever it is, hopefully it’s excruciatingly painful and emotionally devastating – for both of them.

This Veterans Day, @FoldsofHonor is teaming up with @AnheuserBusch to support our heroes and their families 🇺🇸@LtColDanRooney shares how you can join the mission! pic.twitter.com/u0hKLiKvGK

— FOX & Friends (@foxandfriends) November 11, 2025

In what just might be a not great sign for the GOP’s midterms outlook, Texas MAGA Congressman Jodey Arrington, chair of the powerful House Budget Committee on Tuesday told Fox News in a statement he will not be running for reelection in 2026, claiming he has “a firm conviction, much like our founders did, that public service is a lifetime commitment, but public office is and should be a temporary stint in stewardship, not a career” (eyeroll_and_jerkoff_hand_motion.gif goes here).

Last year Arrington – privately derided by other Republicans as a mental child – won reelection to his seat in Texas’s 19th District by 70 percent. The Dems didn’t even run a candidate against him, instead Arrington beat an independent and a Libertarian who combined for less than 20 percent of the vote. And no, the Trump-ordered gerrymander of the Lone Star State’s maps did not change that picture – because it’s literally the only district of the 38 whose borders were not redrawn.

Thus, barring any scandal like an active Grindr account or a hard drive with some child porn or both, it seems that Arrington is giving up his powerful post in what’s supposed to be another two years of a Republican trifecta under the belief that it won’t actually be a trifecta anymore come 2027 and would rather not have to sit there bitching powerlessly all day as the ranking member.

Arrington’s exit brings the House GOP’s pre-2026 attrition to 16. There were 19 Republicans in the chamber who had announced they were ghosting from their 2018 bids as of November 11, 2017.