“I am pleased to nominate Herschel Walker as United States Ambassador to the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. Herschel has spent decades serving as an Ambassador to our Nation’s youth, our men and women in the Military, and athletes at home and abroad” posted you know who on Tuesday.

“On Monday, December 16, 2024, at approximately 11:30 am, Troopers responded to a single vehicle crash at Exit 79 on the Turnpike in Lewiston involving a pickup truck hauling a cattle trailer. The driver was traveling southbound when the incident occurred. The initial investigation indicates that the rear doors of the cattle hauler were not properly secured, causing them to unlatch. As a result, the cattle inside the trailer shifted, leading to three animals falling from the back of the trailer onto the roadway and one cow running out of the vehicle once the trailer had stopped. One cow landed in the passing lane and suffered a broken leg, while two others sustained road rash and were located on the shoulder of the road. The fourth cow ran out of the trailer and into the woods nearby.”

“Troopers secured one of the cows by tying it to the back of his cruiser, using a buddy system to help calm the other animals and prevent further movement. Traffic was impacted, with one lane temporarily shut down as the driver, 39-year-old Dustin Bubar of Stetson, Maine worked to reload the animals into the trailer. Bubar was cited for Unsecured Load on a Vehicle. Animal Control Officers from Lewiston Police Department assisted on scene, along with passersby who stopped to help. The crash remains under investigation,” says the Maine State Police in a Facebook post.

“I’m going to tell you right now that if they try to tell us all to stay inside, stay home, shelter in place ‘FOR OUR SAFETY’ from the drones, there is no way in hell I will comply with that absolute bullshit.”

“Not doing it. No way. I’ll shoot the drones down myself along with every other red blooded freedom loving American. 🇺🇸” posted white nationalist Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene on Tuesday.

“THE GRAND JURY OF THE COUNTY OF NEW YORK, by this indictment, accuses the defendant of the crime of MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE, in violation of Penal Law §125.27(1)(a)(xiii) and (b), committed as follows: The defendant, in the County of New York, on or about December 4, 2024, being more than eighteen years old at the time of the commission of the crime, with intent to cause the death of another person, caused the death of Brian Thompson, and said person was killed in furtherance of an act of terrorism, involving a violent act and acts dangerous to human life that were in violation of the criminal laws of this state and were intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, influence the policies of a unit of government by intimidation or coercion, and affect the conduct of a unit of government by murder, assassination or kidnapping,” says the indictment from Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s office hitting Luigi Mangione with 11 counts for the assassination.

The other charges include Murder Second, Murder Second as a Crime of Terrorism, four counts of Possession of a Weapon in the Third for the gun itself, the silencer, the high capacity feeder clip, and the “Magpul,” whatever that is, Possession Fourth because it was a ghost gun, and Forged Instrument because of the fake ID. Good luck finding a nullification-free jury, Al.

Kamala uses the horrific Christian school shooting in Wisconsin yesterday to call for gun control. pic.twitter.com/ZYME4DYaOr

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) December 17, 2024

Convicted felon President-Elect Trump’s shitbag lawyers on Tuesday told Judge Juan Merchan that there was “evidence of grave juror misconduct during the trial” in which he was found guilty on 34 felony counts earlier this year, the AP reports, citing a letter to Merchan – a copy of which was not linked in the AP article – containing the court’s heavy redactions over the allegations.

Just going to go ahead and semi-baselessly speculate that this is somehow connected to the mysterious juror whom several members of the media claimed was smiling or otherwise looking approvingly at Trump, leading to a mini-news cycle in which both MSM and right wing talking heads briefly thought that the possibly MAGA juror was going to vote to acquit and cause a mistrial. That would be so on-brand for the fat fuck and his team of rats to try to argue that this was some kind of bait-and-switch where the juror purposely meant to create all that fake, empty hype.

Frequent U-Haul renting MAGA white nationalist group Patriot Front weren’t feeling particularly ambitious early Sunday morning in Albany, New York as they picked an empty industrial building soon set to be demolished to place their banner reading “REVOLUTION IS TRADITION” and “PATRIOTFRONT.US,” which ended up being taken down by cops shortly after, WRGB reports

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.

What a night!

Thank you to @MarianneFiorav1 and @jennifer3185 for joining me tonight at the launch of my new phase.

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— George Santos (@MrSantosNY) December 17, 2024

“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.