Here’s white nationalist Arizona Republican Congressman Andy Biggs telling a reporter he’s sure convicted felon President-Elect Trump “was just being humorous” when he again insisted he wants to annex Canada to the United States in a Truth Social post at 3:23 AM on Wednesday.

Noting correctly that “America’s political divide is likely to get even wider” in the lede, the Guardian reports that a new app called Oyssey (holy shit that name is awful) allows those in the markert for a new home to see, among other social metrics, the political affiliations of their potential new neighbors as a criteria on whether they want to move into an area full of MAGA chuds or libtards.

“We’re the advantage platform for homebuyers at a time when buyers have never needed an advantage more,” Oyessy CEO Huw Nierenberg said of the new self-sorting advantage.

The House Ethics Committee secretly voted to release the report on former Congressbro Matt Gaetz’s staturtoy rapey and drug-fueled party lifestyle and will be made public in days, CNN reports.

For those keeping score at home, Matt Gaetz, now apparently an OANN on-screen personality, talked convicted felon President-Elect Trump into nominating him to be US Attorney General and abruptly resigned in a bid to avoid letting the committee release the report due to him no longer being under their jurisdiction, only to back out eight days later and pass on returning for the 119th Congress in January as he very well could have because he won reelection last month, just to avoid the likely outcome that the Ethics Committee would resume moving toward releasing it.

Now they’re just going to release it anyway, so he might as well quit stupid OAN and come back, lol.

This bill should not pass https://t.co/eccQ6COZJ4

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2024

Ghana’s Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed challenges to a bill currently moving through the small West African country’s legislature criminalizing being LGBTQ and failing to report an LGBTQ friend or family member to the anti-gay authorities, Bloomberg reports.

In a letter to the editor of the Tennesseean printed Wednesday, property owner William Scarbro of Bethpage, Tennessee writes “Just a comment, about all these drone sightings. The pundits say, do not shoot them down. Really? Personally, if i spotted a drone flying around my house or property, it would not be flying very long, since i would shoot it out of the air. Then, I would lay what might be left of it in the ditch of my front yard, hoping whatever person it belonged to would stop and collect their intrusive device. Then, we would be having a rather terse conversation. Keep your drones at home is my suggestion if you want to keep them. My home and property lines are my airspace. Not yours.” Copied verbatim from the Tennessean, who also appear to have copied verbatim the two occurrences of lowercase i that Mr Scarbro used to refer to himself in the first person.

You hear that Venezuela/Soros/NSA/World Economic Forum? Keep your surveillance drones the fuck out of the airspace over Willian Scarbro’s property in rural north central Tennessee or your foot soldiers will be forced to have a very terse and awkward conversation with him when they attempt to retrieve the remains of your precious flying terror. He already made it clear in the headline: “My Tennessee property is a drone-free zone.” This is non-negotiable. He’s not listening to your pundits pleading with him not to shoot them down. Drone-free zone or live fire zone. Your choice, commies.

“No one can answer why we subsidize Canada to the tune of over $100,000,000 a year? Makes no sense! Many Canadians want Canada to become the 51st State. They would save massively on taxes and military protection. I think it is a great idea. 51st State!!!” posted convicted felon President-Elect Trump at 3:23 AM on Wednesday, still trollishly agitating for annexing Canada.

Trump was apparently citing a poll from last week finding actually pretty weak support for the entire nation of Canada to become the 51st state, with just 13 percent in favor. Maybe there might be more in favor if, rather than lumping more than 41 million people and all 3,511,023 square miles of the second largest country geographically into a single state, that at least 10 individual states for each province were admitted to the union, plus three more for each of Canada’s northern territories.

Perhaps then it’d be closer to like 20 or 25 percent support. Either way, it’s worth asking how much Republicans would want this even if a large majority of Canadians were interested in giving up their national sovereignty – and their monarchy under King Charles. They’d need like 55 seats in the House – and 57 Electoral College votes which would be very tough to win for the GOP as a single state. As 13 states it’d be a freaking nightmare for MAGA in the Senate – probably a whole bunch of independents caucusing with the Dems if not actual Dems. There could be reliably red seats in Alberta, maybe Saskatchewan, Yukon, and Manitoba, but on net it’d be suicidal for Republicans in the long term. Lucky for them their Orange Allah is just shitposting his imperial fantasy.

The orange slob also posted “Liz Cheney could be in a lot of trouble based on the evidence obtained by the subcommittee, which states that ‘numerous federal laws were likely broken by Liz Cheney, and these violations should be investigated by the FBI.’ Thank you to Congressman Barry Loudermilk on a job well done,” just further ensuring Joe Biden will pardon her before leaving office next month.

Indiana corrections officials on Wednesday crossed 49 year-old Joseph Corcoran off the state’s naughty list just after midnight, putting him to death for the 1997 quadruple homicide in which the victims included his own brother and his sister’s fiancee, the New York Post reports.

We had to say dickety because the Kaiser had stolen our word “eighty”… A cartoon series even better than Steamboat Scratchy by Chester Lampwick debuted on the Fox Network on this very cold evening and its impression will last far longer than four years of McKinleynomics. Even if you’ve aged since Simpsons Roasting On An Open Fire debuted on December 17th, 1989 and now look more like the Bart above than the Bart of every other episode since the late 80s, the humor is timeless.

Mostly. That variety show skit from the mid-90s was pretty dated to those of us who were barely older than Maggie after the characters originally debuted on the Tracey Ullman show in 1987.

“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.