• This is the weirdest of Fridays.  It’s like a Saturday because Thanksgiving feels something like a workday, but it’s also Sunday-ish because it’s the second consecutive day off from work.  But it is Friday and here we are.
• These aren’t even MAGA C-listers.  The A-listers were the first appointed in the first term.  The B-listers replaced them when they inevitably left office.  The C-listers were the ones who initially defended him in his various legal cases, and then dropped out.  Now, these remaining remoras are getting government posts.
• Enjoy the last White House holiday with any sophistication and class.  With Melania not moving to DC for a second term, Alina Habba will probably get the honor of decorating the nation’s most historic residence next year.
• During a pre-Black Friday Black Friday sale, a tea company advertised itself as “100% plant-based,” which makes me wonder why they think that was important to declare.
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In what legal experts say is unprecedented, Elon Musk’s dead-named Twitter has refused to confirm that it will turn over the social media accounts for Jones’s Infowars businesses, including the companies linked to Jones’s diet supplement sales, CNN reports.  Musk’s attorneys argue that according to the platform’s terms of service, accounts cannot be sold and remain the property of Twitter–whose Twitter handle was sold to Musk along with the rest of the assets of the company when he bought them.

All Infowars assets were sold to the parent company of the satire site The Onion, which was backed by some of the Sandy Hook parents to whom Jones owes hundreds of millions of dollars.  They bought the company in a bankruptcy sale, coming in as a dark horse in the auction to take the company from Jones backers who were going to allow Jones to continue to broadcast.  An alleged appointee in the incoming administration, Musk’s company would be leveraging a previously unchallenged ability of the court to decide what property can and cannot be seized in a bankruptcy.

Days after the FBI reported a number of designees to the incoming administration received threats, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said at least four Democratic Congress members from New England received bomb threats or swatting attempts, according to the Washington Post.  Jeffries said the threats were “all signed with ‘MAGA’ at the conclusion of the message.”

Connecticut Democrats Rosa DeLauro, Jahana Hayes and Jim Himes and Congressman Seth Magaziner of Rhode Island said in separate statements that they were individually targeted with bomb threats over the Thanksgiving holiday.  Authorities investigated and determined all to be hoaxes.  It’s possible that the sources of these are foreign actors, like the Russian-linked ones who made multiple threats to voting locations in the November election.

Confirmed bachelor Senator Lindsey Graham tells Axios that convicted felon President-Elect Trump wants to take credit for a ceasefire and hostage release deal in Gaza since he already milked the genocidal war that has left tens of thousands of civilians dead to help himself return to power.

“Trump is more determined than ever to release the hostages and supports a ceasefire that includes a hostage deal. He wants to see it happening now. I want people in Israel and in the region to know that Trump is focused on the hostages issue. He wants the killing to stop and the fighting to end… I hope President Trump and the Biden administration will work together during the transition period to release the hostages and get a ceasefire,” said Lindsey, leaving out the part that “more determined than ever” actually means “more determined than he was before the election” because then the fat fuck wouldn’t have been able to take credit for Netanyahu finally relenting on this shitshow.

Then again in reality Trump could probably care less if Gazans continue to suffer and die. Lindsey’s either full of shit or delusional if he thinks it still matters to Trump after he won with the help of significantly softer support for Kamala Harris from Arab American voters in Michigan.

A man identified by neighbors as a member of the wealthy Rothschild banking family was killed in a fire in his Hollywood Hills, California home early Wednesday, KABC reports on a tragedy that leads us to speculate that QAnon fans are speculating that somehow the family’s fire-causing space lasers were hacked and the energy beam redirected at one of its owners with lethal precision.

“It is very sad,” neighbor Jim Moore said of the deceased, Will Rothschild. “He was a good guy. A good neighbor.” The parties whom QAnon conspiracy freaks will deem responsible for the hacking are unknown at this point, however it cannot be ruled out that somehow convicted felon President-Elect Trump’s “white hats” and “digital soldiers” took control of the space laser on his orders.

Indicted former Brazilian dictator Jair Bolsonaro tells the Wall Street Journal he’s plotting a comeback and counting on convicted felon President-Elect Trump to help topple current President Luiz Lula to help make it happen with economic sanctions against the country.

“It’s time for MAAGA – Make All Americas Great Again,” said Bolsonaro, banned from office until 2030, already indicted on multiple felonies and facing a shit ton more after attempting to flee to Hungary and police have obtained recordings of him plotting a coup after his 2022 defeat to Lula.

This image has nothing to do with the content of this “article,” yet it’s still appropriate.

Well it’s Thanksgiving and lots of people have to sit at the dinner table with relatives of certain persuasion, relatives whom might be a little extra fucking insufferable and smug after they feel like “they” won this year. We’ve already done that joke guide on how to argue with them on at least one of the four previous Thanksgivings this site has been around for. Probably two actually.

Instead we recommend a tact like this: “Uncle Marty, I’m so happy for you. You’ve come so far personally since last Thanksgiving, before you went to AA then stopped and now you’re off the wagon again. Janet cleaned you out in the divorce and went back to the Philippines but you seem so much happier with, um, what’s the other 23 year-old’s name again? Yekaterina, yes. And above all else the election seems to be really brightening up your spirits. And yes, you were so right about Joe Biden’s economy and I’ve come around to see the light of America First. I’m really looking forward to unemployment going to zero, gross domestic product shooting up to 7 percent, and gas going down to $1.83 a gallon nationally. Also my electricity bill cut in half. That’s really been out of hand lately. So when should I expect that? Is it going to be in February or March? April at the latest, right?”

Well you guys are smart, you can mix it up. Talk about the murder rate and how you expect it to be zero by next summer. That McDonald’s better drop the price of a Big Mac meals back down to 2019 levels within a few months or you’re going to report Yekaterina to ICE. But be subtle with the threat.

With just one race left uncalled in the US House as the AP on Wednesday handed Iowa’s 1st District to incumbent Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks over Dem challenger Christina Bohannan by 798 ballots, the GOP are looking into why the hell they lost (probably) a net two seats to the Ds despite the first popular vote win for a Republican presidential candidate in two decades, with some pointing to Libertarian spoiler efforts in several key swing seats as a major factor, Politico reports.

In three districts there were right wing spoilers whose vote share was larger than the margin of the Democrat’s win: Ohio Libertarian Tom Pruss took 14,799 votes in the 9th District, far larger than longtime incumbent Marcy Kaptur’s 1,193 vote edge over Republican challenger Derek Merrin. In North Carolina’s 1st District, freshman Dem Don Davis beat Republican Laurie Buckout by 6,303 votes while Libertarian Tom Bailey took 9,949. Dem Janelle Bynum ousted Oregon 5th District GOP Congresswoman Lori Chavez-Deremer by 9,475 votes, which was larger than Libertarian Sonja Feintech’s 6,033 vote share but a fourth candidate, independent Brett Smith, took 18,233 votes.

Politico identified spending by two groups key for late ad pushes boosting the three Libertarian spoilers: In the Ohio race it was $423,263 from the Voter Protection Project, founded by Dem former House candidate Andrew Janz. Save Western Culture, a mysterious outfit registered at a UPS Store box in Massachusetts, dropped $46,348. In Oregon’s 5th both groups spent a total of $371,340.

Both chambers of India’s parliament were suspended Thursday just minutes after calling to order when, for the third day in a row, opposition lawmakers demanded inquiries into dictator Narendra Modi’s links to the Adani Group and specifically why it’s the US Justice Department rather than Indian prosecutors looking into the shady billionaire and the center of the outfit, Reuters reports.

Mega-rich asshole Gautam Adani, nephew Sagar Adani, and managing director of Adani’s Green division, Vneet S Jaain, are accused in New York’s Eastern District of a scheme to pay bribes of $265 million to secure solar power contracts in India, and lying to US investors about the venture.

“We want a discussion on this in parliament. It is going to be the third day that we are demanding a reply from the prime minister” on the Adani issue, said Manickam Tagore, a lawmaker with the opposition Congress party, which has been leading the protests against the Adani cartel and accusing the Modi’s majority Bharatiya Janata Party of blocking investigation’s into Adani’s fuckery.

For their part, the BJP aren’t defending the Adani crew’s fuckery while not trashing them either. “Let him defend himself,” BJP spokesworm Gopal Agarwal said on Tuesday after the indictment dropped.

Reflecting the opinions of innumerable economists and pundits, Mexican government officials on Wednesday warned that Donald Trump’s plan to levy 25% tariffs on products coming across the Southern border would end disastrously for the United States, Reuters reports.

“It’s a shot in the foot,” Mexico’s Minister of the Economy Marcelo Ebrard said, after Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum declared that any US tariffs would be met with similar tariffs on US products coming into Mexico, a move that would cost the American economy more than 400,000 US jobs.

In addition to the jobs, an analysis by the Mexican government showed that tariffs on Mexican-built automotive parts or vehicles for the US Big Three automakers would wipe out their reported annual, a situation that obviously would never happen given the manufacturers would pass along the thousands of dollars in tariff costs to consumers.

“Just had a wonderful conversation with the new President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo. She has agreed to stop Migration through Mexico, and into the United States, effectively closing our Southern Border. We also talked about what can be done to stop the massive drug inflow into the United States, and also, US consumption of these drugs. A very productive conversation!… Mexico will stop people from going to our Southern Border, effective immediately THIS WILL GO A LONG WAY TOWARD STOPPING THE ILLEGAL INVASION OF THE USA. Thank you!!!” posted convicted felon President-Elect Trump Wednesday. Well guess that’s it. No more illegal immigration.

It’s over amigos. This means that not a single person will cross the border after January 20th. Any more than zero means Trump is a failed president. But that won’t happen. He’s in the clear. Also drug overdose deaths will be zero. Same story with that. It’ll go absolutely perfect.

“I will be working on a large scale United States Advertising Campaign, explaining how bad Fentanyl is for people to use – Millions of lives being so needlessly destroyed. By the time the Campaign is over, everyone will know how really bad the horror of this Drug is,” Trump also posted. Lol.

P. Diddy’s will have his sliced Thanksgiving turkey on a metal tray after federal Judge Aran Subramanian ruled that the prisoner whose real name is Sean Combs still poses a significant danger to the public, NBC News reports.  Indicted on dozens of charges relating to sex trafficking and rape, Combs will remain in custody because despite multiple options for house arrest outlined by the music producer’s lawyers, Subramanian said there was “no condition or combination of conditions will reasonably assure the safety of the community.”

Combs’ lawyers detailed ways in which Combs could return to a highly-supervised release in a Manhattan apartment that would be monitored around the clock, giving Combs only access to his lawyers and pre-approved family for visits and communications.  Prosecutors, however, noted that Combs has been accused of attempting to witness tamper while behind bars as he faces trial.

Experts on urine tell CNN it’s mostly okay to piss in the shower, as it’s unlikely to cause any health hazards. “There’s no downside, and it is just convenient for some people,” Dr Karyn Eilber, a professor of urology at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, told the mainstream media network, adding “It’s really personal preference that people don’t like to associate a place where you clean yourself in the shower to a place where you also do some elimination.” Eilber did not share her personal preference.

Peeing in the shower is also “not likely to clog up the drain,” per CNN. What the actual fuck, lol.

“In a warm shower, it’s very easy for you just to relax and let the urine come out,” said New York City urologist Dr David Shusterman, addressing a misconception that for women it might cause pelvic straining. “Contrary to claims of urinating in the shower being unhealthy, I think it’s actually healthy.”

The article, by “freelance health and science journalist” Jocelyn Solis-Moreira goes on for quite some length, ending in a section with “Avoid urination in baths and hot tubs” bolded at the top, and warning that “Peeing in the shower may not be bad, but that’s not the case for baths and hot tubs. Shusterman said warm, stagnant water is a breeding ground for bacteria and fungi. It raises the risk of bacteria entering your urethra when sitting in the tub.” Unmentioned maybe it’s just weird to want to bathe in your own piss. Also absent from the article is any sort of social aspect to this, that others might not appreciate you pissing in the shower if you’re at the gym or some other communal setting.

One of the last three undecided House races ended Wednesday when incumbent California GOP Congresswoman Michelle Steele conceded to Dem challenger Derek Tran in the state’s 45th District.

The media are rooting for Trumpflation, since they’ve now seen how inflation crushed Joe Biden. But Trump’s tariff policy is designed as leverage to smack down America’s opponents, not as a full-scale economic policy that would increase prices.

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— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 27, 2024

Citing three federal law enforcement sources, NBC News’s Tom Winter reports that the officials who were “briefed on the swatting incidents involving members of the Trump transition say these were not credible threats, no devices or physical threats were found, and the threats did not involve Trump or Vance.” What the “not credible” means exactly is unclear but it’s obviously either some jerkoff troll posting shit online and Trump’s minions grossly exaggerated it or they just made it up.

Whatever they need to justify implementing a fascist police state starting January 20th.

“Last night and this morning, several of President Trump’s Cabinet nominees and Administration appointees were targeted in violent, unAmerican threats to their lives and those who live with them.”

“These attacks ranged from bomb threats to ‘swatting.’ In response, law enforcement and other authorities acted quickly to ensure the safety of those who were targeted. President Trump and the entire Transition team are grateful for their swift action. President Trump and the Transition are focused on doing the work of uniting our nation by ensuring a safe and prosperous future. With President Trump as our example, dangerous acts of intimidation and violence will not deter us,” said convicted felon President-Elect Trump’s spokeswoman Karoline “Blondi” Leavitt in a statement.

A Wednesday Fox News “exclusive,” which is basically just an extended version of this press release, contains zero specifics about the “swatting” and threats, particularly about their level of credibility.

However Punchbowl’s Melanie Zanona reports that Matt Gaetz received a pipe bomb threat at his home in Florida, at which local cops had a bomb-sniffing dog conduct a check of his mailbox. The search was “inconclusive” and Gaetz was not home at the time. A “family member” was though.

Sources within convicted felon President-Elect Trump’s team of scumbags tell Rolling Stone that the self-proclaimed “anti-war president” is very warm to the idea of sending US military assets to Mexico to take on the drug cartels, so much so that the question now is one of degree.

“How much should we invade Mexico? That is the question,” said a senior Trump transition minion of a conversation that ranges from a full blown ground invasion to a “war on terror” style campaign of drone strikes and assassinations whether or not the Mexican government is cool with it.

Should be fine and free of any unintended consequences like retaliatory terrorist attacks.

A federal judge on Wednesday tossed non-CIA agent Ray Epps’s lawsuit against Fox News, ruling that the propaganda network’s lies about the January 6th-er having been sent by the government to incite the Capitol insurrection did not rise to actual malice, Politico’s Kyle Cheney reports.

Congressman John Duarte was winning but after 22 days of counting ballots he is now losing by 105 votes.

Democrats are stealing another House seat!

Elections nationwide should be one day, paper ballots, and require proof of citizenship with ID!! https://t.co/erOpmddwhk

— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) November 27, 2024

Ughhhhh, what a stupid dipshit. Fun fact that she nor any of her fellow MAGA conspiracy freaks understand: A majority of the House, 297 seats, still have a number of outstanding ballots to count in their races, per the New York Times . Of those 294 have been called and/or the loser conceded because the margin was larger than an estimated number of outstanding votes.