The National Republican Senate Committee have decided that painting useless “independent” Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema as too liberal for Arizona is the key to putting batshit Nazi 2022 gubernatorial loser Kari Lake ahead of the incumbent and Dem Congressman Ruben Gallego in the Grand Canyon State’s 2024 Senate race, Politico Playbook reports on the bizarro world strategy slapped together in response to polling repeatedly showing Sinema splitting votes off from Lake.

Sinema hasn’t even said whether she’s running again yet, but even she knows there’s almost zero chance she’ll still be a Senator come January 2025. If out of hubris or – far less likely – some secret sense of duty and desire to partially redeem herself she does knowing that she’ll help Gallego against Lake, the NRSC’s strategy sort of makes sense if this was the home stretch. Now they’re just telegraphing their weakness and maybe even encouraging Sinema to stick with it and fuck them.

Happy Joe Biden is too old day! On Monday, US media outlets far and wide will remind Americans that the 46th president is the oldest man ever elected to the nation’s highest office, with stories appearing in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Fox News, CNN, Reuters, NBC, Politico, ABC, Punchbowl, CBS, Bloomberg, the Associated Press, The Hill, USA Today, and others containing words like “gerontocracy” and sentences invariably saying something along the lines of “Although likely 2024 rival former President Donald Trump is just three and a half years younger at 77, polls show that many voters perceive him to project more vigor and energy than the incumbent.”

The stories will quote from Democratic experts expressing concern that Biden’s campaign hasn’t decided on a strategy for appealing to these voters going into this crucial election year, with lots of wallets feeling the pinch from stubborn inflation despite low unemployment and steady economic growth. Also two major overseas wars and a crisis at the southern border, can’t forget those.

The mainstream media outlets will also print a number of opinion and analysis pieces by political experts timed to mark the occasion, with takes ranging from “Joe Biden is too old” to “Joe Biden is way too old,” though a few will say “Joe Biden’s age brings the experience and wisdom needed to navigate today’s escalating crises,” or “Here’s how Joe Biden can turn the age issue around.”

President Joe Biden was born on November 20, 1942 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He has spent nearly 47 of the previous 51 years of his life serving in federally elected office in Washington DC.

Fox and News Corporation Chairman Lachlan Murdoch went to Kyiv and met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky over the weekend, accompanying reporters Jerome Starkey from UK tabloid The Sun and Ben Hall from Fox News, Axios reports while adding that other specifics were unknown, particularly whether it somehow would signal a shift in Fox’s anti-Ukraine propaganda.

A French island territory off the northwestern coast of Madagascar with a population of more than 300,000 is a risk of running out of drinking water in the coming weeks as an unprecedented freshwater shortage has hit the region, CNN reports.

With an area of 144 square miles and 310,000 people, Mayotte is in the midst of its worst drought in nearly 30 years, but the island is also being impacted by a long-term lack of investment in infrastructure that would have provided rainwater collection and seawater desalination.

The situation is so dire most residents of the island only have access to freshwater for an 18-hour period every two or three days based on a schedule produced by the local government.  The two larges reservoirs on the island are both below 7% capacity.  The French government has shipped in 600,000 liters of bottled water since September, and they’ve ordered all water bills suspended.

Crazy fascist Libertarian freak and hardcore Trump fan Javier Milei on Sunday defeated Economy Minister Sergio Massa to win the presidency of the inflation-wracked South American country, winning as much as 56 percent of the vote to Massa’s 44 percent in a runoff, Bloomberg reports.

Rosalynn Carter, the First Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981 and part of the longest-wed couple to have served in the White House, died on Sunday in Plains, Georgia at the age of 96, NBC News reports.  She had recently entered hospice care after fighting dementia.  She wed future president Jimmy Carter, then a new graduate of Annapolis, in 1946.

Fat former President Trump on Sunday will address his servant Low Energy Greg Abbott’s legions at his unfinished border wall in some town in Texas. Abbott just announced that after seeing polls with Trump leading rivals by upwards of 40 percent in GOP primary polls for like six months now, that he now supports Donald for the presidency in 2024, as if it was a tough call.

“I’m calling on Speaker Johnson to create a January 6th Select Committee. Releasing the tapes is not enough! There needs to be investigations and ACCOUNTABILITY for ALL of the lies, deceit, and lives ruined. Every member of the Jan 6th committee, Nancy Pelosi, FBI, DOJ, DC Police, Cap Police, Jan 6 witnesses who lied, all need to be subpoenaed. Criminal referrals must be written and prosecutions MUST happen under a Trump DOJ. I’ve said it all along, MAGA did not do this,” tweeted white nationalist Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene on Sunday, melting down over who the fuck knows what “evidence” she thinks she found in the Capitol’s January 6th security “tapes.”

Citizens in central Pennsylvania are warned to be on the lookout for thousands of captives who escaped from a regional facility, officials said, with the breakout being assisted by someone who cut large holes in the facility’s fence Saturday, allowing the mass exodus.

According to WYOU CBS 22 in Joe Biden’s hometown Scranton, Pennsylvania, the escapees all match the same physical description:  6,000 to 8,000 individuals, brown hair, brown eyes, approximately 2-foot tall while standing on rear legs, supple fur and a tail about a third of the length of its body.  They are known to be aggressive.  The escapees fled the Richard H. Stahl Sons Incorporated facility in Rockefeller Township and disappeared into the surrounding forested lands.

Police and other local authorities advise local residents on to approach the escapees, because they can attack, although they have not launched a massive manhunt to recapture the escapees.  And under no circumstances should civilians consider taking one home with them because minks make horrible pets.

Later on the in the same interview Mickey Maoist claimed he “wouldn’t be running unless I thought that the Democrats would beat Trump if he were the nominee. They’re going very easy on him right now. They’re not saying much. If he were to be the nominee, you’re gonna see scorched Earth,” as the “electability” argument for himself against the Orange God Emperor.

“FoxNews worked hard today, and were able to find 3 representative voters to go on the show. One was for Crooked Joe, where the person found nothing mentally wrong with him. Another was for Birdbrain, and the 3rd for Ron DeSanctimonious. Considering that I’m leading Biden by 11 Points (WAPO), and leading the Republicans by over 50 Points, FoxNews must have worked very hard not to find a TRUMPER?” writes cable news critic Donald Trump on his highly regarded social network.

About two dozen members of the neo-Nazi group “Blood Tribe” marched on the grounds of the state capitol in Madison, Wisconsin, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.  Clad in their field trip uniforms of black pants and red sweatshirts, the group carried flags with swastikas on them.

The men who proclaimed their pride in their white race hid their identities behind balaclavas and sunglasses as they chanted “Israel is not our friend,” “There will be blood,” and other racist, homophobic, antisemitic and misogynist slogans.  While the sight of twenty-odd pathetic man-children anonymously marching around the capitol grounds like a third-grade outing likely made them chuckle, local politicians denounced the demonstration.

“To see neo-Nazis marching in our streets and neighborhoods and in the shadow of our State Capitol building spreading their disturbing, hateful messages is truly revolting,” Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers said in a statement Saturday. “Let us be clear: neo-Nazis, antisemitism, and white supremacy have no home in Wisconsin. We will not accept or normalize this rhetoric and hate. It’s repulsive and disgusting, and I join Wisconsinites in condemning and denouncing their presence in our state in the strongest terms possible.”

In an odd Saturday special election, voters elected the Republican candidates for the Secretary of State and Attorney General positions, with the elections resulting in the first two women elected to those positions–a foregone conclusion given that Democrats nominated women as well, according to the New York Times.

Nancy Landry, a relatively moderate Republican, beat Democrat Gwen Collins-Greenup for the Secretary of State position, while Trump-endorsed Liz Murrill beat Democrat Lindsey Cheek to become Attorney General.  Also, Trumpian former Congressman and lackey in the Trump administration John Fleming won the race for state treasurer.

One of ten bottles of Macallan Adami 1926, a scotch whisky bottled in 1986 after being aged in sherry casks for six decades, was sold by Sotheby’s in London for a record £2.2 million, or $2.7 million, the highest ever spent for a single bottle of a spirit or wine, ABC News reports.  Macallan produced just forty bottles of the 1926 scotch whisky, with ten of them–including the one auctioned–getting individual labels designed by Italian painter Valerio Adami.

This guy’s supposedly a Baptist pastor.

National Zero founder Spartan lit into Mediaite founder Dan Abrams on Saturday over what he saw as hypocrisy in how in a Wednesday segment on his nightly NewsNation show “Dan Abrams Tonight” he bitched and complained about “what he saw as hypocrisy in how cable news hosts both breathlessly condemned the childish antics on Capitol Hill in recent days while at the same time gave those members of Congress praise and a platform,” while his own site Mediaite covered and thus also gave a “platform” to said “childish antics” in no less than 15 articles during this week.

Dan Abrams Calls Out CNN, MSNBC, and Fox for Hypocrisy on Chaos in Congress: ‘Fanning the Flames Of Division' https://t.co/1lS8DdQg3H

— Mediaite (@Mediaite) November 16, 2023

“Then, as if they were intentionally trying to amplify his own utter void of self-awareness, Abrams had his editorial team at Mediaite assign one of their guys to write an article about how their boss completely owned the Mainstream Media in a show with a tiny fraction of the audience of CNN’s Kaitlan Collins and Fox’s Sean Hannity in the same time slot,” Spartan said in his own article.

Elon spaceship go big boom high in sky above Gulf of Mexico on Saturday morning, Bloomberg report. “What we do believe right now is that the automated flight termination system on second stage appears to have triggered very late in the burn as we were headed downrange out over the Gulf of Mexico,” say Elon guy after spaceship break into kajiliion little pieces and fall into water.

Maybe Elon too distracted by libs at Media Matters pointing out how commercials on X show up next to posts by guys with no girlfriends who hate Jews and now companies not giving Elon money for X any more. Maybe reason for spaceship boom. Elon big mad at Media Matters libs, say he going to get judge to get big mad too so he bang wooden hammer on desk and take all their money.

“Radical Democrat Fani Willis has again proven that her case is purely political, designed to interfere with President Trump’s reelection by demanding a trial date in the most vital time in President Trump’s winning campaign. Crooked Joe Biden knows he can’t beat President Trump and this corrupt step by Fani Willis is just further proof of that fact,” says large-headed Trump spokesman Steven Cheung in response for a request to comment from the Guardian’s Hugo Lowell on Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s proposed RICO trial start date of August 5, 2024.

• Do not underestimate the importance of Kenneth Chesebro explicitly stating that he told Trump about the fake electors plan.  It is the key testimony that shows Trump knew the entire January 6th plan was to disrupt the Constitutional transfer of power.  And it came from the Fulton County case, not Jack Smith–though Smith undoubtedly knew it and/or will use it in the DC federal case.
• As conservatives whine and bitch about how “soft” Biden was with Xi of China, remember the titular leader of the Republican Party shared classified military intelligence with Xi while he ordered the US military to strike Syria as they enjoyed chocolate cake at Mar-a-Lago.
• I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say Tim Scott’s girlfriend won’t be at the office holiday party next month.
• A list of recommended ethical behavior is not a “code” for justices.  It’s a list of suggestions that lack any consequences.  Until the code is enforceable by an outside auditor, the public won’t respect anything this kangaroo court decrees.  
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