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.

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— 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).

“Celebrity chef” Guy Fieri and former Van Halen lead singer Sammy Hagar’s tequila brand Santo Spirits is out nearly $1 million in product after two trucks loaded with 24,240 bottles were hijacked in Laredo, Texas on November 9th, Fox News reports on a massive failure by Gov Greg Abbott and Picasso-faced Attorney General Ken Paxton to protect American businesses from criminal gangs.

A rep for Hagar told Fox News that “it appears this was an organized crime effort where the trucks were illegally double brokered to different carriers who transferred the product to their trucks,” after crossing the border into Texas with “the Santo Blanco and Reposado as well as a specially made Extra Añejo, which was created over the course of 39 months,” is what Fox wrote verbatim, lol.

“For a growing company like Santo, it’s really a shame for something like this to happen in the middle of our strongest year to date and right before the holidays!” said Hagar, who may or may not have told the truckers they can’t drive 55 if they want to make it to Flavortown without getting jacked.

Douchebag Trump lawyer Tim Parlatore admits to the Washington Post that Fox News host and white nationalist Trump Reich Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth was kind of shitfaced and did pay off the woman who accused him of a violent sexual assault in California in 2019 but nothing actually happened and he only paid her off because he was worried Fox News would fire him, libs.

The encounter was “consensual” but the woman was also “the aggressor,” according to Parlatore and holy shit this is where they’re actually at right now. It’s worth asking at this point if Hegseth was like the feint ot something to make fucking Matt Gaetz, Robert F Kennedy Jr, and Tulsi Gabbard look relatively normal and distract attention from their distinct brands of criminality and batshittery.

Drops in pharmaceutical stock prices weighed down Dow and the S&P 500 on Friday, with Amgen down about 4.2 percent, Moderna off by 7.3 percent, Pfizer down 4 percent just to name a few – with the SPDR S&P Biotech ETF dropping more than 5 percent and posting its worst week since 2020 – a direct reaction to President-Elect Trump’s plan to nominate phone sex freak Robert F Kennedy Jr to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, CNBC reports on more winning.

The Fox and Friends weekend couch, who we guess Pete Hegseth is taking a leave from while he prepares to become the United States Secretary of Defense, defended their buddy’s tattoo that reads “Deus Vult” (“God’s will”), a Crusader battle cry asserting that God mandated the violence against the Islamic and even some of the Jewish populations of the medieval Levant which, you will not be shocked to learn, is a modern shibboleth for Neo-Nazi/white nationalist groups.

Muslim community leaders who backed convicted felon President-Elect Trump to punish Vice President Kamala Harris over the Biden Admin’s support for the war in Gaza tell Reuters they’re “deeply disappointed” with his cabinet picks, as if they expected him to nominate other Muslims.

“Trump won because of us and we’re not happy with his secretary of state pick and others,” said Philadelphia investor Rabiul Chowdhury, who chaired the Abandon Harris campaign in Pennsylvania and co-founded Muslims for Trump. “It’s like he’s going on Zionist overdrive,” said Minnesota leader Hassan Abdel Salam, co-founder of the Abandon Harris campaign, which endorsed Green Party candidate Jill Stein. “We were always extremely skeptical … Obviously we’re still waiting to see where the administration will go, but it does look like our community has been played.”

“We are very disappointed,” said Rexhinaldo Nazarko, executive director of the American Muslim Engagement and Empowerment Network, though it’s not clear from the article whether Nazarko himself is/was pro-Trump or is just providing comment on the community. “It seems like this administration has been packed entirely with neocons and extremely pro-Israel, pro-war people, which is a failure on the on the side of President Trump, to the pro-peace and anti-war movement.”

Huh. Almost like anyone thinking rationally could have seen this coming or something.

• My suggestion:  Lauren Boebert to head the National Endowment for the Arts, which she probably thinks involves a bunch of perverted guys named Arthur.  
• Do you get the feeling Trump’s naming nominees not to get the Senate’s approval, but to get the Kremlin’s?
• Alex Jones’s next media appearance really must be as a contestant on “Dancing With the Stars” to prove to us non-believers the effectiveness of his touted supplements.  Better:  “Wipeout.”
• There are a lot of junior-grade Russian intelligence analysts at the Kremlin who developed dossiers on C-level players in MAGA World who are now salivating at the likelihood those intelligence targets will get presidential appointments in January and those analysts’ careers will take off.
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Fulton County election workers Shaye Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman, finally received some surrendered property from the former lawyer who defamed them, Rudy Giuliani, one of Giuliani’s few remaining attorney’s reported to the court on Friday.   The New York Times reports Giuliani turned over his watch collection, a ring, and his vintage Mercedes-Benz that was once owned by legendary actress Lauren Bacall.  Giuliani is also supposed to turn over his Manhattan apartment and most of its contents to pay the $148 million defamation judgment.

The adjudicated rapist’s transition team is reportedly second-guessing Donald Trump’s choice of Fox host Pete Hegseth after reports emerged that he was involved in an alleged domestic violence complaint in 2017, the Washington Post reports.  One in a series of appointments of questionable merit Trump has announced, Hegseth had just divorced his second wife while the woman who would become his third wife gave birth to his child.

Officials never filed charges against Hegseth, but Monterey, California police confirmed they investigated an “alleged sexual assault” involving him that a friend of the victim reported about a week after the incident.  Hegseth’s attorney said police found nothing to base charges on, but the woman allegedly assaulted reportedly signed a non-disclosure agreement.