Following a lengthy meeting of his panel, House Ethics Committee chair Michael Guest on Wednesday told reporters simply there was “not an agreement” on whether to release all the filthy stories about now-former Congressman and the second Trump Reich’s would-be Attorney General Matt Gaetz for public consumption, CBS’s Scott MacFarlane reports on more GOP bitchassery.

The Republicans on the committee all voted no, CNN’s Sarah Ferris reports, writing they all “voted to protect Gaetz.” So whatever you might hear about “process” and “rules” that the committee is bound by its own proscriptions and jurisdiction is a convenient pretext for playing politics and appeasing the Orange God Emperor. There are only ten members, five in each party, a small enough group that Trump could’ve turned his rage on all five if the report were released in full. So expect some leaks.

November 20, 2024

“This is what the Radical Left Lunatics do to people. They dirty them up, they destroy them, and then they spit them out. They are trying that right now with some great American Patriots who are only trying to fix the mess that the Democrats have made of our Country. WE WILL WIN!!!” posted convicted felon President-Elect Trump on Wednesday, evidently annoyed that people don’t want rapists and miscreants in charge of major responsibilities within the federal government.

Marco Rubio is a fucking weasel and he sucks but nobody doubts that he’s mentally fit to serve as Secretary of State. If Trump had just followed up and picked Tom Cotton for Defense and Josh Hawley as Attorney General and so on then the libs would be pissed off that he chose fascists for the jobs but nobody would be doubting whether they could get confirmed. This is on him.

A jury in Georgia on Wednesday found Venezuelan migrant Jose Ibarra guilty on all 10 counts in the trial over the February murder of white 22 year-old nursing student Laken Riley, Fox News reports.

This is the top story on the propaganda network’s home page, but horrible crimes are kind of their bread and butter, politically salient or not. The real question is whether we’ll see any sort of acknowledgement from convicted felon President-Elect Trump or any of his minions like Marjorie Taylor Greene and the rest of them who seized upon the murder of a white girl to vilify all migrants. In that way Riley’s already served her purpose and can be forgotten by the MAGA machine.

“I am pleased to announce that former Acting Attorney General, Matthew G Whitaker, from the Great State of lowa, will be the United States Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Matt is a strong warrior and loyal Patriot, who will ensure the United States’ interests are advanced and defended. Matt will strengthen relationships with our NATO Allies, and stand firm in the face of threats to Peace and Stability – He will put AMERICA FIRST. I have full confidence in Matt’s ability to represent the United States with Strength, Integrity, and unwavering Dedication.”

“I look forward to working closely with him as we continue to promote PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH, Freedom, and Prosperity around the World. Matt is also the former US Attorney for the Southern District of lowa, and is a graduate of the University of lowa with a BA, MBA and JD, where he played football, and received the Big Ten Medal of Honor,” said convicted felon President-Elect Trump in a statement on Wednesday, putting Whitaker in charge of breaking up the North Atlantic Treaty Organization for Vladimir Putin, Viktor Orban, and other corrupt foreign dictators.

Whitaker’s other claim to fame is the “Big Dick Toilet Salesman” where he was on the board of a company that sold specially designed toilets for well endowed men who didn’t want their schlongs to touch the porcelain or water of a normal toilet while shitting, among other products in a line that was considered simply a patent scam mill. There was some hot tub type piece of shit in the lineup too. Can’t remember because his reign as top law enforcement officer in the US was pretty short.

I had a very good meeting with President Trump’s nominee for Attorney General, Matt Gaetz, and Vice President-elect JD Vance. I am committed to allowing the process to go forward in a manner consistent with past practices and fundamental fairness. This process will not be a…

— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) November 20, 2024

Continued after the cutoff: “This process will not be a rubber stamp nor will it be driven by a lynch mob. My record is clear. I tend to defer to presidential cabinet choices unless the evidence suggests disqualification. I fear the process surrounding the Gaetz nomination is turning into an angry mob, and unverified allegations are being treated as if they are true. I have seen this movie before.”

“I would urge all of my Senate colleagues, particularly Republicans, not to join the lynch mob and give the process a chance to move forward. After years of being investigated by the Department of Justice, no charges were brought against Matt Gaetz. This is something we should all remember. I would also urge my colleagues to go back to a time-tested process, receive relevant information, and give the nominee a chance to make their case as to why they should be confirmed. This standard – which I have long adhered to – has served the Senate and country well.”

Weird how Little Poodle Lindsey rather than Sort-of-Principled Lindsey we’ve seen with Ukraine funding comes out here. Maybe it’s just he thinks Gaetz is going to implode no matter what and there’s nothing to lose with this bullshit, especially if Lindsey’s angling to be the next choice.

“In his latest act of defiance of court orders, and continued defamation of Plaintiffs, Defendant Rudolph W Giuliani has clearly violated a permanent injunction – an injunction to which he consented to less than one year ago – prohibiting him from repeating his false and defamatory lies about Plaintiffs. Accordingly, the Court should hold him in contempt and enter civil contempt sanctions.”

“Mr Giuliani is now brazenly violating that Consent Injunction. In two recent broadcasts of his nightly show, Mr Giuliani claimed – unambiguously referring to Plaintiffs – that “they never let me show the tapes that show them quadruple counting the the the ballots,’ that his tapes showed Plaintiffs ‘passing these little uh little hard drives that we maintain were used to fix the machines right and they say it was candy. Well you look at it looks like a hard drive to me and they told me it was a hard drive and there’s no proof that it was candy,’ and that ‘you can see if you want uh in living color her quadruple counting votes and the people uh thrown out of the Arena.’ These statements repeat the exact same lies for which Mr Giuliani has already been held liable, and which he agreed to be bound by court order to stop repeating. They constitute unambiguous violations of the Consent Injunction.”

“The Court should hold Mr Giuliani in civil contempt and – following a hearing, if necessary – impose sanctions calculated to ensure Mr Giuliani’s compliance with the Consent Injunction,” write lawyers for former Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shae Moss asking a federal judge to increase Rudy’s suffering as he clarly hasn’t learned his lesson even after losing all his personal shit to them.

Vice President-Elect JD Vance has been given the terrible, thankless job of walking credibly accused statutory rapist Matt Gaetz around the Senate side of the Capitol on Wednesday, introducing Big Forehead and selling Vance’s current colleagues on supporting him, the Washington Post reports.

The Post noting that, given it comes as House Ethics weighs whether to release the report on Gaetz, it’s something “even the best, most experienced hand would struggle to handle. But for Vance, it’s the latest of what is likely to be many difficult tasks imposed by Trump throughout his term.”

New story the mainstream media is running with: “RFK Jr. Said the Government May Have Planned COVID.”

What RFK actually said: “Many people argue that this pandemic was a plandemic, that it was planned from the outset, and it's part of a sinister scheme. I can't tell you the… pic.twitter.com/kC9FtRR9g6

— End Tribalism in Politics (@EndTribalism) November 19, 2024

You will not be shocked to learn that COVID vax truther and HHS Secretary nominee Robert F Kennedy Jr bought into the “plandemic” bullshit in 2020, according to video unearthed by the Bulwark in which Bobby told fans “Many people argue that this pandemic was a ‘plandemic,’ that it was planned from the outset, it’s part of a sinister scheme. I can’t tell you the answer to that. I don’t have enough evidence. A lot of it feels very planned to me,” Kennedy said in an address to mark a newly formed European chapter of his group, Children’s Health Defense. “I don’t know. I will tell you this: If you create these mechanisms for control, they become weapons of obedience for authoritarian regimes no matter how beneficial or innocent the people who created them.”

Walmart CFO John Rainey tells CNBC in an interview that the retail giant is getting ready to jack up prices the second convicted felon President-Elect Trump returns to power and hits them with massive tariffs on imported goods. “We never want to raise prices,” said Rainey. “Our model is everyday low prices. But there probably will be cases where prices will go up for consumers,” he continued, adding that it’s too early however to tell which products they’re going to have to jack up.

Lowe’s CEO Marvin Ellison said they’re pretty concerned about the risk of higher costs and are already having conversations with suppliers about the “what ifs of tariffs,” as they wait to see what Trump’s fucking stupid plan is going to look like. “We’re not waiting to act. We’ve got plans in place, we’ve got scenarios in place, and we’re trying to understand the implications,” said Ellison.

Now maybe the most likely scenario is that Trump gets talked out of the promised maximal version of his tariff plan and isolates it to a single sector like, say, socks. The cost of socks going up would of course be annoying as shit but it’s just socks and doubling the price of a pack of Fruit of the Loom no-shows obviously won’t be a grievous burden on the average consumer. That way Trump can claim he’s on-shored the manufacturing of socks because this one factory in Arkansas is booming and the photo-op gets hours of Fox News coverage, America wins, MAGA, suck it libs, end of story.

“The US Embassy in Kyiv has received specific information of a potential significant air attack on November 20. Out of an abundance of caution, the Embassy will be closed, and Embassy employees are being instructed to shelter in place. The US Embassy recommends US citizens be prepared to immediately shelter in the event an air alert is announced,” says a bulletin from the Embassy.

Matt Gaetz, Dr. Frankenstein’s discarded first attempt, reported paid not enough money to two women who had sex with him according to records obtained by the House Ethics Committee which showed 27 separate payments totaling more than $10,000, ABC News reports.

Made over the Venmo app, Gaetz made various payments of between $100 and $700 to the two women for sex, they testified.  The payments were made from May 2018 to January 2019, with various notations including “Love you,” “Travel,” and “Joy!”  Gaetz entered Congress in January 2017.

Linda McMahon, the former head of the Small Business Administration during the Past Dark Period, will head the Department of Education in the coming Dark Period, the elected felon reported on his social media dalliance.  Previously known for leading a professional wrestling organization, McMahon is still married to her husband, Vince, a long-time friend of Trump’s who has faced a laundry list of sexual misconduct allegations of his own.

“By advocating government support of the traditional family unit, a return of the acceptability of the ‘homemaker’ vocation, freedom from oppressive government oversight, moral responsibility, and the revival of religious faith, conservatives provide a working blueprint for a free and prosperous future,” thrice-married Fox host and wannabe Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth once wrote in the Princeton Tory, a conservative college publication he led for a year while he was a student.

Besides advocating for every woman on campus to switch her major to pre-wed, Hegseth also approved the publication of an op/ed that legitimized raping an unconscious woman.  It should be noted that while an officer in the National Guard, Hegseth allegedly cheated on his wife, impregnated another woman, and was accused of assault.  Hegseth now claims he paid off sexual assault accuser to keep his job at the Fox cable propaganda network, where he hosts the weekend morning show.

With convict felon President-Elect Trump watching from the launch site in Texas on Tuesday, ketamine brained billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship rocket splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico rather than attempt to dock with its “catch” harness structure, the Washington Post reports.

“We accept no compromises when it comes to ensuring the safety of the public and our team, and the return will only take place if conditions are right,” SpaceX said in statement on the failure to impress the fat fuck, though he probably didn’t even understand what was actually happening.

The US Senate on Tuesday approved a bill giving DC’s local government control of the RFK Memorial Stadium site, potentially clearing the way for the Commanders to move back to the District, DC News Now reports on what’s probably the least controversial Kennedy-related decision the chamber has to make in the near term. Or hopefully the fucker drops out of the process and it’s the only one.

“I am very pleased to nominate Dr Mehmet Oz to serve as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator. America is facing a Healthcare Crisis, and there may be no Physician more qualified and capable than Dr Oz to Make America Healthy Again. He is an eminent Physician, Heart Surgeon, Inventor, and World-Class Communicator, who has been at the forefront of healthy living for decades. Dr Oz will work closely with Robert F Kennedy Jr to take on the illness industrial complex, and all the horrible chronic diseases left in its wake,” announced convicted felon President-Elect Trump on Tuesday, hiring the TV doctor from New Jersey who lost the 2022 Pennsylvania Senate election to John Fetterman as his go-to guy on public health spending.

Men don't belong in our private spaces. It's deeply disturbing that they want to be. https://t.co/mlqXd1Oq4n

— Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace) November 19, 2024

“The Democrats are trying to stack the Courts with Radical Left Judges on their way out the door. Republican Senators need to Show Up and Hold the Line – No more Judges confirmed before Inauguration Day!” posted convicted felon President-Elect Trump on Tuesday, impotently.

It’s not just the hypocrisy that sticks out here – shitbag Aileen Cannon was famously confirmed during Donald’s lame duck period in late 2020, among others – it’s also that there simply aren’t/will not be a whole lot of open spots. Trump will have just 36 open bench seats to confirm judges for in late January. Of course more could retire, but the whole point during his first term was to pick 30 or 40-something-year-old far right psychopaths to fill open seats for lifetime terms.

“As a result of the election held on November 5, 2024, Defendant’s inauguration as President will occur on January 20, 2025. In light of that development, Defendant asked the District Attorney by letter dated November 8 to dismiss this prosecution and consent to a stay of these proceedings pending consideration of his dismissal request. The People requested a brief adjournment to evaluate this request, which the Court granted on November 10. In doing so, the Court ordered the People to provide, by 10:00 am on November 19, 2024, our view of the appropriate steps going forward. For the reasons more fully explained below, the People believe that the Court should set a motion schedule for Defendant’s forthcoming motion to dismiss, which the People intend to oppose.”

“Assuming Defendant is permitted by the Court to file a motion to dismiss and does so promptly, the People ask that their response to Defendant’s motion be due on Monday, December 9. The People believe that further proceedings before this Court should be adjourned to permit litigation of Defendant’s forthcoming motion to dismiss and, therefore, the People would not oppose a defense motion for a stay of further proceedings before this Court while Defendant’s motion is adjudicated.”

“The People have carefully considered the arguments in Defendant’s correspondence. Defendant’s letter argues that: (1) this criminal proceeding must be immediately dismissed because Defendant has legal immunity from criminal prosecution based on his current status as President-elect; and (2) his appeal to the Second Circuit from the district court’s denial of leave to file a second notice of removal supports a stay before this Court. We believe these arguments are incorrect,” writes Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg in a motion to Judge Juan Merchan about the next steps in convicted felon President-Elect Trump’s still-delayed sentencing. What’s not clear is why Merchan can’t just suspend it until 2029 and finally lock the fat fuck up then, 13 years after the crime.