A man who thought his celebrity status as a reality show star allowed him to sexually assault women named an alumnus of arguably the original reality show to be his Secretary of Transportation, NBC News reports.  “The Apprentice” star Donald Trump named former “Real World: Season Six” character Sean Duffy, a one-time Congressman turned Fox pundit, to run the nation’s multiple air, roadway, rail and waterway systems.  When he was in Congress, Duffy did not sit on any transportation-related committees, nor has he had a job in the transportation industry.

A second woman testified before the House Ethics Committee that she was paid by former Florida Congressman and current Republican Attorney General-designate Matt Gaetz for sex, says her attorney, who also represents another woman who testified that she was not only paid by Gaetz for sex, but also witnessed Gaetz having sex with a minor, the Washington Post reports.

According to Florida attorney Joel Leppard, his first client saw Gaetz having sex with an underage girl at a “drug-fueled” 2017 party; Gaetz was sworn into Congress in January 2017.  According to the witness, Gaetz did not know the girl’s age at the time, but learned it later.

The two women testified to the House Ethics Committee that Gaetz paid them to have sex using various online financial apps and accounts to hide the payments including an account under the name of Gaetz’s alleged adopted son, Nestor, Leppard told the Post.

Without explanation, the Georgia Court of Appeals announced that it was canceling a planned December 8th date for oral arguments relating to the Fulton County conspiracy cases for adjudicated rapist and president-elect Donald Trump and eight other defendants, Politico’s Kyle Cheney reports.

The clerk of the Court released a statement stating the “oral argument scheduled to take place on December 5, 2024 at 10:30 a.m. is hereby canceled under further notice of this Court.”  The order impacts all the remaining defendants in the case, including Mark Meadows and Rudy Giuliani.

With Democrat governors threatening the upcoming Trump administration’s mandate by the American people to secure our borders and deport illegal invaders, gut and cut the federal government of corruption, waste, and stifling regulations in order to reduce inflation and build an…

— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) November 18, 2024

Conitnued: “…build an America first economy, and to stop the mentally ill and predatorial trans agenda against our kids and women’s sports, I’m still in favor of a national divorce if need be. If Democrat governors plan to commit treason against our President and the majority of Americans then let them destroy their own states. No one will want to live there. And after years of being attacked by the deranged left, most of us are so sick of their crap.”

Several Trump voters spoke with USA Today and told the paper what they how his return to power will improve their lives. First up is David Rose, a 43 year-old steelworker in Pennsylvania:

USA Today describes Rose as a guy who “enjoys deer hunting and fishing. He and his wife try to take a few vacations a year, including weeklong cruise in the Caribbean. He drives a Dodge Ram 1500 pickup truck and listens to classic rock.” They didn’t say what model year the Ram 1500 is.

No, this was simply not a good time on CNN for Oklahoma State Superintendent of Education Ryan Walters on Monday. He just looked like a fucking assclown insisting that pissing away $6 million on Trump Bibles is going to turn things around in a state that ranks 48th out of 50 in educational outcomes. But he got in like maybe a handful of clips that could be spread out to America First fans to show how he completely owned that Pamela Brown libtard on live TV. Very, very short clips.

To offset tax cuts for billionaires, convicted felon President-Elect Trump and his allies are looking to make huge cuts to Medicaid and food stamps, probably the kind of shit a lot of his voters rely upon, but hey at least transgenders in girls’ sports and stuff, the Washington Post reports.

While it’s unclear what the hell is going on after Jesus Dork House Speaker Mike Johnson commanded them to not release their completed report on now-former Congressman/current Trump Attorney General pick Matt Gaetz, Politico reports the House Ethics Committee will meet Wednesday and may vote to go ahead it release it. Maybe Johnson did an about-face and figured he might as well just try to rip the Band-Aid off instead of having to put up with a constant one-by-one of leaks like a woman testifying she saw Gaetz effing a teenage girl on an air hockey table at a party.

By authorizing long range missiles to strike inside Russia, Biden is committing an unconstitutional Act of War that endangers the lives of all U.S. citizens. This is an impeachable offense, but the reality is he’s an emasculated puppet of a deep state.
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— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) November 18, 2024

A Manhattan judge on Monday pushed back white nationalist alcoholic Steve Bannon’s trial on charges stemming from the “We Build The Wall” scam – the state case brought after Trump pardoned Bannon in 2021 – after allowing prosecutors to intro new evidence related to Bannon’s non-profit organization and his American Express card, Just Security’s Adam Klasfeld reports.

Convicted felon President-Elect Trump claims to Fox News he’s “not looking for retribution” against the media, despite his numerous failed lawsuits against multiple national outlets over the years.

The fat fuck said he feels he has “an obligation to the American public, and to our country itself, to be open and available to the press. If not treated fairly, however, that will end. The media is very important to the long-term success of the United States of America.” Guess that was a warning to Fox News to treat him “fairly” as he’s snapped at them repeatedly over the last few months.

“We’re off to a good start, and I will be open and free as to further developments as they take place, that includes media relationships,” Trump said. “And while many others are calling for meetings, I am not looking for retribution, grandstanding or to destroy people who treated me very unfairly, or even badly beyond comprehension. I am always looking to give a second and even third chance, but never willing to give a fourth chance – that is where I hold the line,” whatever the fuck that means.

UFC star hopes DOGE will 'clean things up at the state level,' wants justice for Peanut the Squirrel https://t.co/VpMrU7uefy

— Fox News (@FoxNews) November 18, 2024

Ketamine-brained billionaire edgelord Elon Musk and rapey longtime Trump legal shitbag Boris Epshteyn had a “massive blowup” and a “huge explosion,” at a dinner table at Mar-a-Lago last week, sources tell Axios about a rivalry for the affections of the Orange God Emperor, with Musk accusing Epshteyn of leaking to the media the extent of the Tesla founder’s involvement in Trump’s transition picks and the two of them disagreeing on which was actually more qualified to be calling the shots.

Epshteyn, who faces his charges in Arizona for the post-2020 election coup attempt in the Grand Canyon State, has been around since the beginning and – like the other longtime minions – views Musk as a malign influence on King Donald and that he’s overstepping his role.

Shitty discount carrier Spirit Airlines filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy on Monday, the Wall Street Journal reports on a sure sign that they don’t believe they can survive another four years of MAGAnomics… Or something like that. We’ve gotta fine-tune the whole “jam every picayune little extrinsic occurrence into a political context to make it part of a larger narrative about the failure of the Trump Administration the same way the other guys did with the Biden Administration.”

Like there’s a whole other larger story about how Spirit tried to sell itself to JetBlue to shake off all the debt it accumulated over the years, that a model of charging people for the pettiest, tiniest fucking things they take for granted with other airlines – like $4 for a bottle of water – is pretty freaking obviously not indicative of healthy operating margins capable of absorbing any significant challenges and all that, but who cares when we’ve got an incoming president to radicalize people against? Plus Trump already said his poll numbers were having a positive effect on the stock market before the election, so now he can own this too, 63 days before he actually takes office again.

Convicted felon President-Elect Trump is not screwing around when it comes to his “Day One Dictator” line, as Politico reports he’s planning “to begin the process of deporting hundreds of thousands of people. He is expected to end parole for people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela,” which includes the Haitians of Springfield, Ohio he tormented.

“GOOD NEWS: Reports are the incoming @RealDonaldTrump administration prepared to declare a national emergency and will use military assets to reverse the Biden invasion through a mass deportation program,” posted meathead “judicial activist” Tom Fitton on Truth Social earlier this month, to which Trump replied “TRUE!” at 4:03 AM Monday morning.

Republican politicians these days are fearing for their physical safety if they dare to defy their Holy Orange God Emperor’s agenda, Vanity Fair’s Gabe Sherman reports, adding that a “high level MAGA person” told him “They should be afraid. They didn’t win the election. Trump did.”

Multiple videos on Twitter show Trump voters on Saturday celebrating his victory by marching and screaming “BOW DOWN [N-WORD]!” in Columbus, Ohio, the Columbus Dispatch reports.

President Joe Biden has authorized the Ukrainians the use of long-range missiles against targets inside Russia, a policy change brought about by the fact that it’s kind of now or never to kicks some ass and make gains against Putin’s war machine before convicted felon President-Elect Trump takes office again and forces a capitulation or worse for Kyiv, the Associated Press reports.

Every once in a while there’s one of these stories where the adults were right all along about horseplaying in the street or in a pool or shooting bottle rockets at each other or whatever that makes the parents who constantly warn over that kind of shit feel like they have a new one in their rotation like “That man and his friend were screwing around on sidewalk and he fell into the street with his head right in front of the wheel of a box truck! It squashed him like a watermelon!”

Yeah, that’s this story, via the New York Daily News. Witness Xochitl Mejia told the paper that the two men were drinking on the sidewalk on 60th Street in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn on Friday afternoon and started play-fighting. “He pushed his friend just as the truck was coming, as he fell, his friend tried to grab him and pull him back,” said Mejia, adding “The wheels went right over his head. It was smashed. There was blood coming from his mouth and nose. It was just horrible.”

So now, for probably at least the next five years that every kid in that neighborhood, and in lots of places elsewhere, has to hear about a 30 year-old man who got his head squashed by a truck if they so much as look at each other funny on the sidewalk, all because of these two jackasses.

You can tell over the course of this interview that Oklahoma Senator Makrwayne Mullin is getting increasingly frustrated over having to admit that he’s not so sure he wants to vote to confirm either credibly suspected statutory rapist Matt Gaetz and credibly accused rapist white nationalist Pete Hegseth to lead the Departments of Justice and Defense, respectively, causing him to start complaining that the Senate in 2021 confirmed trans woman Rachel Levine, non-binary Sam Brinton, and gay man Pete Buttgieg like their sexuality was somehow a character flaw and an impediment to their ability to do the job (though Brinton is a jackass who was fired for randomly stealing other people’s luggage off of an airport carousel, that would seem separate and apart from his identity).