You’d think that once Maine Republican state legislator Lucas Lanigan turned himself in to face domestic abuse charges two days before the election, his political career would be over, right?  Well, not in today’s political climate, in which Lanigan won re-election to his seat according to a second recount of the votes which found he won by a single vote, NBC News reports.

Lanigan’s wife originally told police the Republican choked her after she confronted him about an alleged affair.  His wife later attempted to withdraw the charges, claiming it was a misunderstanding.  Still, Lanigan got 2,478 votes to Democratic challenger Patty Kidder’s 2,477.

Canadian far right scumbag Pat King, a leading figure of the “Freedom Convoy” movement whose five week shitshow paralyzed the nation’s capital of Ottawa when hundreds of 18-wheelers choked the streets in protest of the COVID-19 vaccine mandate, was found guilty Friday on five of nine charges against him for inciting the mess, and faces up to 10 years in the clink, the CBC reports.

The five charges King was nailed on include two counts of disobeying a court order and one each of mischief, counseling to commit mischief and counseling to obstruct a public or peace officer while he walked on three counts of intimidation and counseling to commit intimidation, and one of obstructing a public or peace officer. King’s defense had tried to sell the court on a very MAGA January 6th-ish “entrapment” line of bullshit, as the CBC writes his lawyer Natasha Calvinho “argued police and government ‘barricaded’ protesters in downtown Ottawa, preventing them from leaving the city. She also pointed to moments when King told supporters to remain peaceful and co-operate with authorities.” Hmmmm… That last bit sure sounds pretty goddamned familiar, right?

King’s fellow Clustertruck organizers, Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, are still facing trial as co-defendants. The CBC reported earlier this year that their case has been stalled repeatedly, though a verdict could come within the next six months. That King went down on Friday does not mean the other two will be convicted as the charges against them are very different in nature.

Far right German activist Ursula Haverbeck, who spent decades fighting the government over free speech issues related to history, died Wednesday at the age of 96, the Associated Press reports.

Haverbeck, who was jailed multiple times for having outspoken opinions on whether the Holocaust actually happened, was out on appeal and facing a 16 month term for again having been convicted of just asking questions over the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. It would have been Haverbeck’s fourth time in the joint in 20 years had she lived to go inside for the latest sentence.

And yeah, she was a fucking Holocaust denier and the above was some good old fashioned mainstream media-style normie-washing of MAGA psychopathy. The AP didn’t do that here, but their headline “Ursula Haverbeck, German far-right activist repeatedly convicted for Holocaust denial, dies at 96” is slightly weird and definitely longer than it needs to be. Yes, “Holocaust denial” is right there, and while we do appreciate them linking her to the “far right,” what was wrong with simply writing “German Holocaust denier Ursula Haverbeck dies at 96”? Is this like some sort of politically correct construct akin to how saying “He’s autistic” is verboten and you have to say “He has autism” instead, like you can’t define a person for certain attributes about who they are?

Hey @elonmusk I have the funniest idea ever!!! https://t.co/OEwz6S5ncs

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) November 22, 2024

The Texas Supreme Court on Friday ruled that Picasso-faced Attorney General Ken Paxton won’t have to sit for a deposition in the the long-running lawsuit brought by former lieutenants who said he had fired them in retaliation for blowing the whistle on his crimes, the Texas Tribune reports.

Fucked up story short: Paxton actually waved the white flag in this lawsuit, saying he agreed not to contest it, the whole point of that being he did not want to go under oath in the deposition and be questioned about his crimes. A trial judge said not so fast, you lazy-eyed piece of shit, ordering Pax to sit regardless of whether he was putting up a defense. The case made it to the Lone Star State’s Supreme Court, but Paxton’s petition wasn’t docketed until after fellow degenerate criminal now-President-Elect Trump for reasons still unknown demanded that the court shield Paxton from the deposition. Fully aware of the appearance of impropriety, the court went out of their way to claim that Trump’s Truth Social post had nothing to do with them granting certiorari to Paxton.

We doubt they’re even going to bother now that Paxton and Trump both got what they wanted here, that Crooked Kenny doesn’t have to plead the Fifth or otherwise implicate himself in this case. Also extremely unlikely is the reason why Trump thought it important enough to intervene on something that, as far as we know, had nothing to do with him personally. It is entirely possible that Trump was simply being “altruistic” and rewarding Pax’s past loyalty with the shout out. But really any other scenario raises the possibility that the fat fuck could somehow have been implicated too – for what we can’t even begin to speculate. Well it sure sucks for us that Paxton escaped it, huh?

Although he almost certainly could if he wanted to come back and wait for the House Ethics Committee to drop a report on his statutory rape, sex trafficking, drug use, and possibly even bribery, given that he won reelection on November 5th, Matt Gaetz on Friday told CNN his days of not doing anything for the American people are behind him and he will not show up to be sworn in to the 119th Congress on January 3rd. Now Mike Johnson loses a vote for however long it takes for Ron DeSantis to set up a special election and Pam Bondi will be the next US Attorney General.

So this entire debacle was all for nothing. It was such lib-owning to name Gaetz the nominee for attorney general and he quits eight fucking days later. Congrats on that, MAGAmerica.

American homosexuals engaging in chemsex should be outraged that we were funding this in Malaysia! https://t.co/pC21qafQDR

— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) November 22, 2024

At least Gaetz will have even more time on his hands for other pursuits on the internet.

Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan on Friday ordered convicted felon President-Elect Trump’s sentencing on 34 felony counts of business fraud canceled indefinitely, the unfortunate outcome of the fat fuck’s return to power, but apparently leaving the door open to him being imprisoned in 2029.

There’s still further motions pending in the case, mostly Trump’s effort to toss the conviction. It’s not clear yet if a rejection of the dismissal bid could move through the state-level appellate process from there. Either way, it’s probably too much to hope for this to be all settled by then and that Trump would be due to report to Clinton Correctional Facility at 12:30 PM on January 20, 2029.

Scumbag Trump minion Dan Scavino on Friday shot down reports that former Michigan Congressman and 2024 Senate race loser Mike Rogers was under consideration to replace FBI Director Chris Wray, with Scavino posting “Just spoke to President Trump regarding Mike Rogers going to the FBI. It’s not happening — In his own words, ‘I have never even given it a thought.’ Not happening,” even though Rogers was definitely at Mar-a-Lago when dipshit JD Vance posted that they were working on finding a new director. Note how Scavino didn’t say they weren’t firing Wray.

“Walmart is just upset that they can’t stock cheap products that don’t last very long and we have no idea of how they would be rolled out. Perhaps, just perhaps we all would think about unnecessary purchases if low-priced things were more expensive. I believe he will start with Autos and Electronics. Toys, other stuff later. But a question, exactly how many toys does a child need? Answer = None! Needs are different from Wants” – Top comment on the Fox Business News article “Walmart warns of higher prices if Trump implements proposed tariffs,” posted Thursday.

Where to start with this one. First off, “how many toys does a child need?” is mostly the wrong stupid rhetorical question here. It’s how many toys does a parent need to make sure their little bundle of joy isn’t spending a rainy day microwaving a can of soda or dumping a box of rusty nails they found in the garage down the toilet just to see what happens. It depends on the kid, but it isn’t zero for any of them. Also, babies and toddlers absolutely do need to be supplied with interactive toys for their growth. A box of rusty nails isn’t going to help them develop their spatial acuity.

Then again it’s obvious this dipshit commenter isn’t so concerned with what children can or should do without so much as he’s simply wishcasting that Americans will simply soldier on and happily cut back on spending on discretionary-ish items if it means that convicted felon President-Elect Trump’s agenda isn’t threatened by voter outrage over their “wants” unnecessarily becoming more expensive at Donald’s whims. That it’s probably a safe bet that three weeks ago this same asshole was screaming about how bacon costs $2.00 more than it did in 2019 is also beside the point.

On a Thursday edition of his podcast, Kremlin asset and former top Fox News propagandist Tucker Carlson said he told Jesus Dork Speaker of the House Mike Johnson to reach out to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin to check in before putting a Ukraine aid package to a vote earlier this year. Per Tucker, Johnson did reject that outright, which seems sort of believable if only because Tucker seems frustrated over it, saying he had tried to appeal to Johnson on the “moral obligation” to let Putin win.

Convicted felon President-Elect Trump’s transition team were “blindsided” by the credible evidence that his Defense Secretary nominee/Fox and Friends Weekend host Pete Hegseth is a rapist when they thought all they were getting was an extremely unqualified far right asshole who was kicked off National Guard duty for Biden’s inauguration after being flagged as an “insider threat” due to his Nazi-ish tattoos, the Wall Street Journal reports on the next most vulnerable of Donald’s top picks.

“This is another instance of people being blindsided, so I think there’s rising frustration there,” a Trump minion familiar with the transition team’s thinking told the Journal. While the fat fuck is still behind Hegseth for now, “if this continues to be a drumbeat and the press coverage continues to be bad, particularly on TV, then I think there is a real chance that he loses Trump’s confidence.”

Following meetings with Senators on Thursday, Hegseth told reporters that “the matter was fully investigated and I was completely cleared,” even though paying off the accuser doesn’t actually mean “cleared.” Hegseth’s lawyer has acknowledged the sexual encounter but claimed it was consensual, and the accuser hasn’t spoken publicly. Speaking to NOTUS, several Republican senators seemed a little less edgy about Hegseth than they were with Matt Gaetz. “I’m sure members will be advised, also, to the fact that no charges were brought,” said Kansas Senator Roger Wicker. “And that the allegations are in dispute.” Texan John Cornhole Cornyn said “We’re not going to confirm these people based on press reports,” Reminded by a reporter that it was from a police report, he added, “Oh, OK, well, that’s hearsay too… We’re not going to decide based on pieces of the story. We want the whole story.” Sounds like they really want to go down this road.

A jury in Stockton, California this week found local scumbag Antonio Hernandez guilty on 35 counts of specific charges that themselves are too awful to even list here given the specific age bracket of the victim(s), the Stockton Record reports on a sadly still all-too-common occurrence these days.

What sticks out however is the range of sentences Hernandez faces: 740 years to life, which seems not excessive so much as excessively silly. Like if the “25 to life” range means really more like between 25 and 50 years or just a life sentence then what’s the upper actual numeric range of 740 to life? Is it 740 to a million? Might as well be between 740 years and the heat death of the universe.

If this is just the court having a little fun with the bastard then we’re all for it. They could however have more fun and sentence him to 50 to however many years it takes for El Loco to stab you in the fuckin brain through the eye socket with a sharpened toothbrush in the Pelican Bay showers, puto.

Justice has been served. pic.twitter.com/b5Aq5yQZfz

— Mike Lawler (@lawler4ny) November 21, 2024

Ughhhhhh man… This is really where you’re at in life, bro? Kevin McCarthy has based-God laser eyes now? Fuuuuuck. What makes this even lamer is how far removed Matt Gaetz’s humiliation is from anything McCarthy ever did. Like it’d be more than justifiable to tweet this if a McCarthy-backed primary challenger had felled Gaetz earlier this year. Not only did that not happen there, it didn’t happen to any of the 2023 palace coup plotters that ended Kev’s career. He can’t even take credit for Bob Good losing to that John McGuire douchebag in Virginia. That was all Trump.

Yes, McCarthy did affirmatively decide to continue the House Ethics probe the Dem-majority had launched in 2021, which was Gaetz’s real reason for backing the coup. Yes, the final report from that investigation, even unreleased, probably derailed Gaetz more than anything else. But even without it there still would’ve been a shit ton of negative press – plenty of what we have today is coming from the civil cases far outside of the Ethics Committee – and it’s very fair to question whether Gaetz would have survived the ordeal. The hearings would’ve been a fucking historic shitshow.

Hence why Mike Lawler looks like even more of a tool than usual here. Even trying to frame it as some kind of karmic retribution is just so homophobic-slur-ish. McCarthy simply does not have the last laugh here and it’s incredibly douchey to somehow suggest he’s even laughing at all.

“I greatly appreciate the recent efforts of Matt Gaetz in seeking approval to be Attorney General. He was doing very well but, at the same time, did not want to be a distraction for the Administration, for which he has much respect. Matt has a wonderful future, and I look forward to watching all of the great things he will do!” posted convicted felon President-Elect Trump on Thursday afternoon.

Yeah, he was doing so well he had to quit, lol. Safe to say this is a significant and embarrassing setback for the fat fuck’s incoming second regime. It would’ve been one thing if Gaetz had gone through the whole gauntlet and fell short of confirmation by however many votes in January. At least then the MAGA media complex would have their list of “RINOs” to blame so they could defiantly claim the whole thing was a rigged witch hunt. But this, with Gaetz being the one to pull the trigger not only humiliates Trump, Jesus Dork Speaker Mike Johnson – for pressuring the Ethics Committee to bury their report – and the other Republicans who just spent a week defending Matt, but it also signals that the Senate GOP wasn’t going to allow Trump the whole recess appointment end-run.

Why waste time on this if Trump had a clear path to simply installing Gaetz? Whether John Thune and crew will keep holding firm on that who knows – they are Republicans after all – but it may not bode well for Pete Hegseth, Tulsi, Bobby, and the other freaks and scumbags Trump nominated.

“I had excellent meetings with Senators yesterday. I appreciate their thoughtful feedback – and the incredible support of so many. While the momentum was strong, it is clear that my confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction to the critical work of the Trump/Vance Transition. There is no time to waste on a needlessly protracted Washington scuffle, thus I’ll be withdrawing my name from consideration to serve as Attorney General. Trump’s DOJ must be in place and ready on Day 1.”

“I remain fully committed to see that Donald J Trump is the most successful President in history. I will forever be honored that President Trump nominated me to lead the Department of Justice and I’m certain he will Save America,” tweeted a now-job and prospect-less former Congressman Matt Gaetz on Thursday. Here’s hoping that Ethics Committee report still comes out though.

Whether Gaetz can rescind his resignation is an open question. He’s gone from the 118th Congress and not coming back, but the 119th begins on January 3rd, in which he’s the duly-elected representative. None of the process to run a special election to replace him has started yet, so it is possible he’ll be back in his seat… which would make it harder to keep the ethics report buried.

Several Republicans in Congress tell NOTUS that convicted felon President-Elect Trump’s team haven’t quite filled them in yet on whether their Orange Allah’s pledge to use the full might of the federal government to deport every last undocumented immigrant in the United States means he’s actually going to use the full might of the federal government to deport every last undocumented immigrant in the United States or if it was more of like a symbolic pledge or something.

“In my eyes, this is about people that are convicted criminals and those that have been denied their asylum claims,” said “moderate” Texas Congressman Tony Gonzales in an interview. “Those that are still awaiting the process, the president has never said – I’ve never heard him say – that he’s going to deport people like that,” Gonzales continued, evidently just hearing what he wanted to hear from Lord Donald and his minions. It also doesn’t make any fucking sense, since an illegal alien convicted of any felony is automatically deported immediately upon completion of their sentence already.

Fellow Latino Republican John Duarte of California says they were criminals before they crossed the border. “A lot of criminals have been let into the country. They need to be out of the country.” Okay.

Does that encompass an El Salvadoran dishwasher at a steakhouse in New Jersey who got the shit kicked out of him by a corrupt cop back home in 2003 and was tossed in jail on a made-up assault charge until his family scraped up enough to pay off a judge to let him out and if yes how does Trump’s DHS go about obtaining the El Salvadoran record of the incident to make a determination?

CONFIRM. THE. MANDATE. https://t.co/RoZJBoEVdk

— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) November 21, 2024

“Pete Hegseth is a strong nominee to lead the Department of Defense. We had an excellent discussion about the need for America’s military to remain the best in the world. That means taking care of our service members, equipping them with the latest technology, and focusing on making our military the most lethal force on the planet. Pete pledged that the Pentagon will focus on strength and hard power not the current administration’s woke political agenda. National security nominations have a history of quick confirmations in the Senate. I look forward to Pete’s hearing and a vote on the floor in January,” says Senate GOP Conference Chair John Barrasso in a statement about the rapey Fox News host who – like his rapey fellow Trump Reich 2.0 cabinet nominee Matt Gaetz was on on Tuesday – is being shopped around the chamber by Barrasso’s colleague, Vice President-Elect JD Vance. Notice how Marco Rubio doesn’t need the same treatment.

The statement is notable as it comes less than 12 hours after cops in Monterrey, California made public a 2017 report outlining the depravity of Hegseth, corroborated by multiple witnesses, and that the assault on the woman was first reported by a nurse and not the accuser, that both other witnesses and the accuser suggested she might have been drugged, and that two other women at the California Federation of Republican Women conference said Hegseth placed a hand on their thighs and invited them up to his hotel room during the event. Oh and that the woman’s husband was looking for her after the white nationalist Fox News host absconded with her to his hotel room.

The Washington Post reports that police investigated an alleged sexual assault on a woman in 2017 in Californiaa, reported by personnel at the hospital where she sought treatment, in which she claimed she was drugged and sexually assaulted after a night of partying at a political gathering.  The woman identified Trump Secretary of Defense-designate Pete Hegseth as her attacker, but later signed a non-disclosure agreement to keep the incident from Hegseth’s employer, the Fox cable network that has a long history of hiring and protecting sexual assaulters, harassers and rapists.

While she told police Hegseth appeared to be a “nice guy” while with the group, when they got alone, Hegseth became aggressive even though the woman says she told Hegseth “no” and to stop his physical contact repeatedly.

“Today, on 21 November 2024, Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (‘Court’), in its composition for the Situation in the State of Palestine, unanimously issued two decisions rejecting challenges by the State of Israel (‘Israel’) brought under articles 18 and 19 of the Rome Statute (the ‘Statute’). It also issued warrants of arrest for Mr Benjamin Netanyahu and Mr Yoav Gallant,” says the International Criminal Court in a statement announcing they went there for the Israeli dictator and his former defense minister, fired immediately after the United States election two weeks ago.

Separately the court also dropped a warrant for Hamas leader Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri.