The incoming administration is reportedly planning to purge the ranks of the military leadership of any officers they perceive to be loyal to Trump’s former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who called the incoming former president “fascist to the core,” Reuters reports.

The Defense Secretary-designate, Fox News weekend bro Pete Hegseth, believes his mandate to overhaul the military includes removing any “woke” officers and presumably any officers who may have been appointed due to “DEI” requirements, making the military white and male.  One source said the Joint Chiefs–made up of the heads of each branch of the military–is too crowded and needs to be thinned.

The real reason, of course, is a loyalty test:  the incoming cabal wants to get rid of any officer who has anything but unabiding loyalty to Trump, so if your loyalty lies in with former chairman Mark Milley or with, say, the Constitution, you’ll be gone.

Evidently hell-bent on counting his underage chicks before they hatch and grow into chickens legally capable of giving consent, Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz is now former Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz, Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters on Wednesday.

Just throwing this out there that, irrespective of whether Gaetz will actually get confirmed as attorney general by the Senate or if his Orange God Emperor will jam him in through that “recess appointment” loophole, this resignation’s probably some end-run around the ongoing House Ethics Committee probe into Gaetz over the whole underage sex trafficking thing. What exactly, we don’t know. Maybe they automatically have to end once a member quits and/or all the files get purged at the end of the current Congress. Otherwise why not just continue collecting a paycheck for doing nothing for the next 2-to-3 months instead of doing nothing for free?

UPDATE 11/13/2024 7:45 PM EST: Shocker. House Ethics on Friday was to vote on whether to release a “highly damaging” report on Gaetz’s conduct, Punchbowl’s Jake Sherman reports.

FBI agents on Wednesday executed a search warrant on the New York City apartment of Shayne Coplan, the founder and CEO of scam political betting site Polymarket, Axios reports.

“This is obvious political retribution by the outgoing administration against Polymarket for providing a market that correctly called the 2024 presidential election,” a Polymarket spokesperson told Axios in a statement, lol. “Polymarket is a fully transparent prediction market that helps everyday people better understand the events that matter most to them, including elections.”

Owasso [Oklahoma] Public Schools reached a settlement with the US Department of Education for failing to protect, Nex Benedict, a non-binary gendered 16-year-old student, committed suicide following frequent, intensive bullying the school system failed to address, USA Today reports.

And this, gentle readers, is why we have a federal Department of Education.  It’s not to have a federal dictate of what is taught in classrooms to indoctrinate children to go down to the nurse’s office to get gender reassignment surgery.  It’s to make sure all children, regardless of their sex, ethnicity or religion, get safe access to an education, and to make sure that that education helps those students become productive members of society.  Not that they get bullied by wannabe MAGA voters until they kill themselves.

“It is my Great Honor to announce that Congressman Matt Gaetz, of Florida, is hereby nominated to be The Attorney General of the United States. Matt is a deeply gifted and tenacious attorney, trained at the William and Mary College of Law, who has distinguished himself in Congress through his focus on achieving desperately needed reform at the Department of Justice. Few issues in America are more important than ending the partisan Weaponization of our Justice System. Matt will end Weaponized Government, protect our Borders, dismantle Criminal Organizations and restore Americans’ badly-shattered Faith and Confidence in the Justice Department” and blah blah blah posted convicted felon President-Elect Trump on Wednesday and holy shit, lol.

“Safe to say that GOP senators are stunned – not in a good way – on Matt Gaetz for Attorney General,” tweeted Punchbowl News founder John Bresnahan immediately after the announcement.

We can’t ever know if the 2024 election was won or lost because of Israel’s genocidally depraved indifference to civilian lives in its neighboring warzones, but probably not, even if it would definitely have been closer. Still, it’s interesting to see this fucker trying to appeal to Joe Biden on “legacy” when he knows full well that it’s just going to get far, far worse for people there now.

Future Secretary of State Marco Rubio is seen by the ChiComs as soft, weak, low energy, and the kind of guy they can push around, the Wall Street Journal reports, writing that “Beijing is relieved.”

“The cabinet choices are viewed as bad by China,” said DC think tanker Yun Sun, adding “But for now, there appears to be still room for dialogue,” meaning Rubio is not seen as a threat to them.

South Dakota Senator John Thune on Wednesday was elected to succeed Mitch McConnell as the leader of the GOP conference and soon the chamber, defeating other McConnell lieutenant John Cornyn for the post on the second ballot. White collar criminal Rick Scott lost in the first round.

Wednesday’s an action-packed and darkly weird in DC, as House Oversight Chairbilly James Comer’s crew will hold a hearing titled “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth.”

Addressing the House Republican caucus at the Capitol on Wednesday, convicted felon President-Elect Trump told members “I suspect I won’t be running again unless you say he’s so good we got to figure something else out,” the AP’s Farnoush Amiri reports on “trial balloon”-ing by the fat fuck.

Sources tell CNN that Third Lady Melania Trump is unlikely to actually move in to the White House in January, leaving her elderly and mentally frail husband free rein to murder prostitutes in the presidential mansion’s residential area without her interfering or witnessing the crimes.

A Republican Ohio state House representative is working to deliver on the mandate handed to her majority by voters last week and pushing for an end to the suffocating “wokeness” that plagues higher education in the Buckeye State by introducing a bill to ban public colleges from asking would-be students to list their preferred pronouns on applications, the Columbus Dispatch reports.

“With the funding of public education, I just feel that there should be no bias involved in that. I just felt that being able to eliminate the pronouns really took away any bias off of somebody’s application whether it be for employment or for acceptance at the college,” said Representative Gail Pavliga, who apparently believes that those who select “they/them” or some other non-binary pronoun secretly boosts them with preferential consideration in the application process.

Thirteen of Ohio’s public universities use a platform called the Common App, which allows admissions staffs to make adjustments to individual questions and add their own to an applicant’s bid to be accepted to multiple institutions. A few of these colleges have added their own questions about sexuality and gender identity to their process. Bowling Green State University – site of an infamous, yet fictional massacre – and the University of Akron made these questions optional.

With his entire Infowars on the auction block on Wednesday to pay off a billion-dollar defamation judgment to Sandy Hook parents, Alex Jones should be filling out paperwork for an unemployment check.  Instead, he’s probably planning on never missing a show because a self-described “ally” of Jones is expected to buy the entire Infowars business for a seven-figure sum.

CNN reports that the unnamed Friend of Alex will continue the entire Infowars operation, with Jones at the mic, but simply under new ownership.

At some point, a person who’s honest with themselves says, “Nah, there’s no way I should accept this job.”  I, for example, would not take the position of a cardiovascular surgeon because of all the schoolin’ needed.  Even with significant prerequisite skills missing, Fox News weekend host Pete Hegseth has been named as Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the most powerful military in the world as the United States Secretary of Defense, NBC News reports.

Besides playing the occasional game of Risk, Hegseth’s military planning and logistics experience as a major in the Minnesota National Guard is sufficient enough to oversee the military operation with a $820 billion, 2.86 million person Department of Defense.

In other news, Silicon Valley creatures Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will head a new federal Department of Government Efficiency Department, or something as ridiculous, to “dismantle federal bureaucracy.”  … because staffing an entirely new federal Cabinet department is exceptionally efficient.

Pennsylvania woman Savannah Huntington tells CNN she’s joyous that convicted felon President-Elect Trump will soon return to power and liberate her mom Rachel Powell from the West Virginia federal prison where she resides for her 2022 conviction on eight felonies committed during the January 6, 2021 MAGA insurrection at the US Capitol. “The only thing I could think of when I heard that Trump won the election was that my mom is coming home,” said Huntington of the woman who birthed her and then decades later used an ice axe to smash into the windows of the Capitol in a violent rage over Trump’s humiliating defeat to Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, just never mind that Powell was a pretty shitty mother who left her kids alone to go to DC that day.

“I believe that Trump is a man of his word,” said Powell over a prison phone to CNN and if you’re done snorting then the rest of the article quotes from other people who were unsubtle about the heat the fat fuck could face from his cult if he ends up caving to pressure from Republicans who really don’t want him pardoning anyone beyond maybe a token few misdemeanants.

“Unless the president pardons everybody, he is going to get some significant blowback,” said mentally ill MAGA lawyer John Pierce, who has represented dozens of the insurrectionists. “They are not a shy group of people.” Other shitbag attorney Joseph McBride was less absolutist but still all for it. “Not everybody who went to the Capitol was a saint, right? So, you have to draw distinctions between people. Even in the situations where people were violent, maybe a pardon is not the best idea, but maybe a commutation is, maybe a lessening of the punishment,” said McBride.

A group of Howell, Michigan-area residents on Saturday showed up to protest a local theater company’s performance of The Diary of Anne Frank, shouting slogans in opposition to the American Legion Post 141 hosting the stage adaptation of the journal of the teenage Holocaust victim.

And yeah, Detroit affiliate WXYZ actually uses the word “protest” in their text article and on the screen in the segment above to describe what’s unambiguously a hate crime in the moral sense if not in statute. That’s not a “protest” any more than the Holocaust was a “solution.” Like they’re upfront about it being intimidation by actual Nazis, but the slippery wording is more than a little disconcerting. “Protesting” carries them a lot of the way toward legitimacy, like they’re on the same tier as pro-choicers outside the Supreme Court on the day of the Dobbs decision. Hell, say what you will about the “pro-lifers” waving gruesome photos of the aftermath of abortions at their “protests,” at least those freaks by all appearances believe their cause is just and they’re doing the right thing.

What were these guys “protesting”? Jews? Is there anything else to say besides they were simply protesting Jews, not even with some Moms for Liberty-type horseshit pretense like the content of the play is somehow inappropriate? Is it on us to point out that if they actually were committed to combatting the malign reach of the “International Jew” then they’d show up at an AIPAC fundraiser or something, and it’s obvious they’re simply too fucking lazy, cowardly, or both to do that?

Anyway yes, this county voted 61 to 37 percent for Trump this year. You guessed correctly.

What was already a horrifying ordeal for four boaters whose catamaran sprung a leak and began sinking hundreds miles out in the Atlantic Ocean from Bermuda on Sunday turned downright “magical” when their distress calls to the US Coast Guard were relayed to not a fishing trawler or oil tanker, but the hulking Disney Cruise Line ship Disney Treasure, ABC News reports.

The crew sent a small shuttle boat to their aid and took the four, a married couple, their daughter, and a cousin ranging in age from 25 to 74 aboard the happy, exciting, fun-for-the-whole family ship that was en route to Florida from the Netherlands. Further details, such as whether the crew members sent for the pickup wore eyepatches, bandanas, and sang “Yo-ho-ho! A pirate’s life for me!” or if they dressed as the characters from The Little Mermaid and sang “Under the Sea! Under The Sea! Darling it’s better! Down where it’s wetter! Take it from me!” or whether they sang anything at all to the nearly-doomed boaters on the way back to the Treasure, were unavailable.

Given that ABC News is technically the state media of the semi-sovereign mega corporation that has its own armada the specifics of how the survivors were treated were otherwise suppressed.

Forestry officials in Britain are asking the public’s help to contain an exploding outbreak of deer that threatens to completely destroy the island’s natural ecosystems, the Associated Press reports.

The infestation is a side-effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, during which the ungulate parasites quickly multiplied while relatively unfettered by natural predators such as automobiles, trains, and human hunters who like to shoot at the closest thing to another human they legally can.

Venison wholesaler Ben Rigby tells the AP the flesh of the ravenous plague could catch on in popularity for human consumption. “We’re not really a game-eating nation, not like in France or Germany or Scandinavia,” Rigby said. “But the UK is becoming more and more aware of it and our trade is growing.” Food pantry coordinator SJ Hunt said demand is growing because that’s what they’re serving these days. One recent hit was a venison bolognese sauce distributed in pouches to pantries last year when canned beans or sardines were the only proteins needy folks could get.

“There were no eggs. There was no cheese. That’s all that they could do, and people were just saying, ‘Thank you, please bring more (of the venison),” she said. “That’s fantastic, because people realize they’re doing a double positive with helping the environment by utilizing the meat as well.”

I've been nominated to be an advisor to the incoming Trump administration on innovative technology. The public can vote on nominations.
If I was accepted as an advisor to the Trump admin on technology, I would inform them of what I have learned about exotic propulsion systems,…

— Michael Salla (@MichaelSalla) November 12, 2024

“If I was accepted as an advisor to the Trump admin on technology, I would inform them of what I have learned about exotic propulsion systems, secret space programs, ET and ancient technologies, etc, through my exopolitics research, interviews with hundreds of whistleblowers / Insiders / contactees, leaked Majestic documents, etc,” continued Dr Michael Salla, founder of the “Exopolitics Institute,” who has lent his on-camera expertise to no fewer than 13 episodes of the long-running History Channel speculative “science” series Ancient Aliens including Season 11’s “Pyramids of Antarctica,” Season 14’s “The Reptilian Agenda,” and Season 15’s “The Came From The Pleiades.”

In a blog post by Salla hyping a 1 hr 14 minute YouTube video posted last week Salla writes he and Romanian alien expert/psychic contactee Elena Danaan discussed “her experiences, along with Corina Pataki, of what was discovered inside the Bucegi mountains of Romania. They cover what was detected concerning a plasma consciousness that surrounds an anomaly allegedly first discovered under the Bucegi mountains in 2003. Danaan recognized the facility as an ancient Anunnaki laboratory built tens or hundreds of thousands of years ago from her own past life memories. Danaan and Dr Salla also analyze the ancient story of Adapa and Enki or Ea, where EA was not the trickster god that is depicted in some Sumerian texts but in fact actually saved the life of Adapa who was about to be punished for killing a Ciakar (Draconian leader).”

Among the dire warnings about sea level rise and permafrost thawing due to increasing global temperatures in the new “State of The Cryosphere 2024” report that dropped on Tuesday from the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative is one extremely unwelcome side effect that will no doubt actually help perpetuate climate change denialism given its counterintuitive nature.

The “Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) may be en route to collapse due to a combination of ice sheet and sea ice melt and warmer waters. Once at the point of collapse, the AMOC would likely not recover for thousands of years. AMOC collapse would have far-reaching and dramatic impacts, including rapid cooling of Northern Europe by more than 3°C per decade, with no realistic means of adaptation. As a result of growing evidence of such collapse, a group of 40 leading ocean and climate scientists warned leaders of the urgent need to cut emissions,” and yeah you don’t need a crystal ball to foresee how the weather in Europe abruptly – the report elsewhere says the collapse is likely already underway and take as little as a decade – turning colder would be received by the MAGA kids who claim every blizzard means global warming is a hoax.

However, as this is the plot of the 2004 disaster film The Day After Tomorrow the fanboys might actually be more accepting of the idea, even if the timeline of the rapid cooling event is obviously compressed in the movie. Can’t hurt that lead Dennis Quaid is now MAGA, having starred in that Reagan biopic and endorsed their Orange God Emperor at that rally in Coachella last month.