“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.

Old man Charles Grassley on Tuesday told CNN’s Manu Raju the Senate Judiciary Committee can move faster on voting up or down on Matt Gaetz as Attorney General if and when the House Ethics Committee releases the report on their investigation into the credibly suspected statutory rapist.

“I think that if they want a speedy consideration of this nomination, there’s- we’ve got to have as much transparency as we can have,” Grassley said. “I would suggest, if they want a speedy consideration of this – because you’ve heard my colleagues, especially on the Republican side, say that they have some questions, not only considering what you’re asking me about, but it goes beyond that to the FBI – and I think it would help faster consideration, the extent to which they would make as much available as they can.” Doesn’t sound too eager to approve Gaetz though.

Jesus Dork Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Tuesday refused to address whether transgender Delaware Congresswoman-Elect Sarah McBride is a man or a woman after batshit idiot Nancy Mace moved to block McBride from using the ladies’ room in the Capitol. Like why can’t he just come out and say McBride’s a man and should have to use the mens’ room if that’s what he really believes? Isn’t that an important tenet of his Christian faith, that transgender folks are abominations in the eyes of God and should suffer needless humiliations?

The Haitian community of Springfield, Ohio, already terrorized for months after convicted felon now-President-Elect Trump and his Mike Pence replacement knowingly spread lies about their predation of animals, are in a state of despair and panic as they await the fat fuck’s return to power, with some making plans to flee to bluer cities and states or even Canada as they expect him to revoke the temporary protected status that allows members of the community to live and work legally.

“He is coming for us,” one man with a family told Rolling Stone. “We don’t want to leave. We love this place… It is home.” Some had even left town before the election, fearing the racist stormtroopers whose bomb threats and other harassment Trump and Vance gleefully unleashed upon them.

The fear is a feature, not a bug, as sources in the Orange God Emperor’s court tell Rolling Stone part of the plan is to make the intended victims do the actual work for them by fleeing the country rather than being rounded up and tossed in camps, perhaps indefinitely, since many of the countries of origin will be unwilling or unable to actually accept deportees. But avoiding the work and the footage of innocent people – especially those who were actually here legally until Trump will have cruelly and capriciously revoked their status based on some made up bullshit – will probably be the better outcome politically for the GOP going forward. The MAGA base are used to rationalizing and making excuses for unfulfilled promises, they’re not going anywhere. Trump can simply lie to them and say he deported 10 million the first month, they’ll gleefully drink that cup of piss. Start ripping families apart and that’s going to draw attention from the dipshit low-infos who thought they were only voting for cheaper gas and to remove the anti-shoplifting barriers from the shelves at Walgreens.

Four Brazilian military officers and one federal cop are under arrest and accused of having plotted to assassinate President Luiz Lula following his defeat of corrupt dictator Jair Bolsonaro in the heated aftermath of the closely-contested 2022 national election, the Associated Press reports.

“The objective was to prevent the inauguration of the legitimately elected government and undermine the free exercise of democracy and the authority of Brazil’s judiciary,” wrote Supreme Court Justice Alexandre De Moraes in the order approving the arrest warrant. “These actions, peaking between November and December 2022, were part of a broader plan to carry out a coup d’état,” he added. Bolsonaro had tried to enlist other military officials in the plot, some of whom warned him they would arrest him immediately if he kept moving forward with it.

Who wants to waste their time watching this? Cartoons for adults that are meant to look real….AI in film is awful. https://t.co/fSwBgazX8A

— Lara Logan (@laralogan) November 19, 2024

Famed Russian ballet dancer Vladimir Shklyarov died of a gravity overdose in Saint Petersburg over the weekend after what state media claims was a fall from a 5th floor balcony while Shklyarov was stoned on painkillers he was taking before undergoing back surgery, CBS News reports.

Shklyarov’s “loss is deeply felt by the entire Mariinsky family and the wider ballet world,” his employers at the Mariinsky theater said Monday in a statement that did not address the circumstances of Shklyarov’s death. You will not be shocked to learn that Shklyarov had publicly criticized Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s regime during the run-up to the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine in a social media post that he later deleted. Other top performers, like prima ballerina Olga Smirnova, a former headliner at Moscow’s famed Bolshoi who left the country in protest, Shklyarov stuck around in Russia to continue performing with the Mariinsky under its pro-Kremlin leadership.

In related news, the Ukrainians on Tuesday began firing US-supplied long-range ATACMS missiles into Russian territory for the first time since President Joe Biden gave them the go-ahead to do so this week, prompting the Kremlin to revise its nuclear doctrine with Putin signing a declaration that a conventional attack on Russia by any nation that is supported by a nuclear power will be considered a joint attack on his country. Kind of funny how this asshole is just pushing paper around as if there are any such doctrinaire constraints on his “presidency,” rather than just retaliating.

Sources tell the New York Times that convicted felon President-Elect Trump is privately telling his minions that credibly suspected statutory rapist Matt Gaetz is unlikely to get the support necessary to be confirmed as US Attorney General but that on the flip side, rejecting him makes it likelier that other criminally insane freaks Robert F Kennedy Jr, Tulsi Gabbard, and Pete Hegseth will end up making it through the process to the respective posts they’ve been nominated for.

There are a lot of layers to this:  a Brooklyn parish priest who previously made headlines for allowing a pop singer to use the church’s altar as the set for a racy music video, has now been relieved of administrative duties after an audit found he gave $1.9 million of parish funds to indicted New York Mayor Eric Adams’ former chief of staff.

Between 2019 and 2021, according to the Associated Press, Monsignor Jamie Gigantiello sent the money to funds controlled by former Adams’ aide Frank Carone, who has since returned more than $1 million of the funds plus interest.  The diocese had previously suspended Gigantiello after the monsignor gave pop singer Sabrina Carpenter permission to use the church in the video for her song “Feathers.”  In both cases, the diocese said the monsignor was suspended for not using official channels to get permission, which makes one wonder what paperwork one needs to fill out to properly writhe at an altar?

Asked if convicted felon Donald Trump’s first choice for Attorney General failing to get Republican support will temper him, Chuck Rocha, a Democratic strategist really trying to differentiate himself from James Carville, responded, “I don’t think so.  And I also don’t think Gaetz doesn’t get it because of a sex scandal.  I think Gaetz specifically doesn’t get this because he’s an as**ole to people, and people in the Senate don’t like him.”

Two drummers for one of the iconic bands of the disco era, the Bee Gees, died within four days of one another, though none apparently as bizarrely as the Spinal Tap carousel.  According to the New York Times, 78-year-old Colin “Smiley” Petersen, the drummer when the Bee Gees first went professional, died from a fall on November 18th, four days after one of his successors, 76-year-old Dennis Byron, died of unspecified causes.

Byron was one of seven tour drummers who worked with Bee Gees on tours during the years, but he may have benefited the most because he worked with the Gibb Brothers during the disco’s peak in the 1970s and early ’80s.  Five other former Bee Gees drummers can still keep the beat.

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