A New York state judge temporarily lifted a gag order on Donald Trump, his sons and his attorneys from discussing the court staff  involved in his state civil case, a move the case’s judge implemented after Trump and his lawyers targeted a court clerk, CNN reports.  Associate Justice David Friedman of the First Judicial Department said in a decision from the bench the stay was warranted “considering the constitutional and statutory rights at issue an interim stay is granted.”

Update 6:54 p.m. ET: That didn’t take long. At 6:44 p.m. ET, Trump posted on his failing social media platform: “Judge Arthur Engoron has just been overturned (stayed!) by the New York State Appellate Division (Appeals Court), for the 4th TIME (on the same case!). His Ridiculous and Unconstitutional Gag Order, not allowing me to defend myself against him and his politically biased and out of control, Trump Hating Clerk, who is sinking him and his Court to new levels of LOW, is a disgrace. They are defending the Worst and Least Respected Attorney General in the United States, Letitia James, who is a Worldwide disgrace, as is her illegal Witch Hunt against me. The Radical and Unprecedented actions of Judge Engoron will keep BUSINESSES and JOBS forever out of New York State. I have done NOTHING WRONG, my numbers were low, not high, I have a COMPLETE DISCLAIMER CLAUSE, their Star Witness admitted he lied and made up this Fake case against me, and the the Attorney General used a ‘Get Trump’ platform in order to run for A.G. & Governor (she failed!). This wicked attack on Democracy must be ended, NOW!”

Florida Governor and runt of the presidential race Ron DeSantis suffered another defeat in his ongoing deflection war on libs after the Supreme Court of the United States–that famously “woke” panel–denied the state’s effort to enforce its recently passed ban on drag shows in the state, USA Today reports.

Attempting to mask his lack of accomplishment and his disastrous management of disasters, Ron the Runt is instead relying on culture wars to catapult his petite frame to the White House.  However, jurists at various levels of courts, in both state and federal courts, have repeatedly blocked his attempts to target the LGBTQ community.

This decision comes after DeSantis’s state attorney argued that the lower court decision blocking enforcement of the state drag show ban only applied to the individual establishment involved in the case, Hamburger Mary’s in Orlando, rather than the more obvious understanding that it barred DeSantis from enforcing the ban across the state.

A federal jury on Thursday found California QAnon freak David DePape guilty on charges of assault and attempted kidnapping in violation of federal law in connection with his October 2022 hammer attack on Paul Pelosi. The MAGA conspiracy-pilled asshole still faces state-level charges of attempted murder, residential burglary, assault with a deadly weapon, elder abuse, false imprisonment of an elder, and threats to a public official and their family.

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“President Xi and I had a deal whereby China was going to criminalize at the highest level, THE DEATH PENALTY, the manufacturing of Fentanyl. That deal miraculously disappeared with our RIGGED PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2020. Too bad!!! One more thing to add to the Stolen Election List of Disasters!” screamed disgraced former President Trump on Truth Social on Thursday.

This is to our knowledge the second time Trump has made this extremely dub- ah fuck it, we’ll just call it a false claim about such a supposed agreement, the first time coming in a little noticed “Agenda 47” video back on June 1st. Again we have to point out how “miraculously” it came more than two years after his humiliating defeat to Joe Biden in the election, at no point did he ever mention anything like it when, if it were even ten percent true, would’ve been a round-the-clock blockbuster on right wing media and in the Congressional GOP. Biden, ChiComs, and fentanyl in one story is the stuff of MAGA wet dreams and even here in the real world it went nowhere in the last five months since Trump first made it up for one of his deranged video announcements.

Probably because if it did in fact have even the most marginal basis in reality then it’s actually a major failure on Trump’s part because it means he said nothing while Biden helped Xi murder hundreds of thousands of Red Staters since 2021. So by all means he should keep hyping this.

Biden classified documents fuckup investigation special counsel Robert Hur is wrapping up his investigation into the then-vice president having accidentally taken some files he shouldn’t have from the White House to his home and his office at a DC think tank he operated out of for the two years or so before he launched his campaign in 2019, the Wall Street Journal reports.

As we all know from the Mueller Investigation, the sitting president cannot be charged with a crime under current DOJ regulations due to the impracticality of a trial and all that shit, but Hur isn’t going to bring a case against any of Biden’s aides over this either nor does it appear he’ll hint that Biden would have been charged. “Scathing criticism” is all the Journal says of Hur’s soon-to-be-released report, guaranteed to cause a screaming “two-tiers of justice” meltdown from the MAGA assholes.

House Ethics Committee Chairman Michael Guest will introduce a motion to expel lying piece of shit Congressman George Santos when the House reconvenes after Thanksgiving, CNN’s Melanie Zanona reports, explaining that if it’s Guest who drops the hammer it will get more traction as opposed to the angrier, more frustrated attempt made by fellow New York Republican Mike Lawler.

“While the committee didn’t include a disciplinary recommendation, because that would have taken more time, the fact the chairman is making the motion will send a strong signal to the rest of the conference – and is a sign this expulsion effort could very well succeed this time,” Zanona wrote.

UPDATE 11/16/2023 11:11 AM EDT: In a lengthy tweet rant Santos announced he’s not running for reelection next year, just two weeks after saying he was in. Shit, we were really looking forward to reporting on him losing by 80 or 90 percent on primary night. What a fucking asshole.

“Today the Chairman of the Committee on Ethics, Representative Michael Guest, and the Ranking Member, Representative Susan Wild, submitted a report to the House of Representatives in the Matter of Allegations Relating to Representative George Santos. The full Committee report includes the report of the Investigative Subcommittee (ISC) in this matter. At the completion of its investigation, the ISC unanimously concluded that there was substantial evidence that Representative George Santos: knowingly caused his campaign committee to file false or incomplete reports with the Federal Election Commission, used campaign funds for personal purposes; engaged in fraudulent conduct in connection with RedStone Strategies LLC, and engaged in knowing and willful violations of the Ethics in Government Act as it relates to his Financial Disclosure Statements filed with the House,” says the House Ethics Committee on their investigation into George Santos.

“In light of the ongoing criminal investigation into Santos, and the ISC’s findings of additional uncharged and unlawful conduct by Santos, the ISC recommended that the Committee immediately refer these allegations to the Department of Justice. The Committee has unanimously voted to adopt the ISC’s report, and with it, refer the substantial evidence of potential violations of federal criminal law to the Department of Justice for further action as it deems appropriate. The Committee concurs with the ISC’s determination that Santos’ conduct warrants public condemnation, is beneath the dignity of the office, and has brought severe discredit upon the House.”

Again, they did not recommend for or against that Santos be expelled but they fucking found ongoing criminal conduct that they referred to federal law enforcement for further investigation.

House Oversight Committee Chairhick James Comer on Thursday told Newsmax he was aiming to get his most elusive prey, Hunter Biden, under oath by Monday, December 4th so he and his team of crack investigators can finally unravel the giant conspiracy of the Biden Crime Family something.

Noticeably absent from Comer’s hit on the far right propaganda network – aside from any real evidence that Joe Biden benefitted from Hunter’s scams but that’s a given now – were details about the nature of the sworn deposition, specifically whether it would be aired publicly, leading us to suspect it will not be. We get that sometimes the practice is to have a closed-door deposition and then a public one, and that’d be completely fine, but Comer did not mention that either.

Actually you would think that if it were public and on television then Comer would be excitedly hyping it. Of course Hunter hasn’t actually agreed to anything yet – and he doesn’t have to because the House still hasn’t formally authorized this impeachment inquiry, making his subpoenas legally unenforceable – though Comer could set a public hearing, promote the hell out of it, and still declare victory if Hunter doesn’t show up. Then he can have some “whistleblower” testify instead.

Let’s skip the naive, leading sarcasm and get right to it: Comer is too chickenshit to risk Hunter making him look like even more of a stupid asshole at a public hearing, even one preceded by a closed-door deposition. MAYBE that will change and Comer will take it live if/when the private one goes well enough for him, but don’t count on it. Either way right now Comer is screaming like those 🚨 emojis he’s so fond of using that he doesn’t have shit. If he did, he would be setting a trap for Hunter, some apocalyptically damning evidence to pull out in a big, dramatic reveal at a live hearing.

President Joe Biden’s campaign is using fat former President Trump’s campaign pledges to create a fascist police state, destroy the rule of law, and institute violent purges as a campaign issue, aiming to remind voters that they rejected the obese Hitler-like figure in 2020, Semafor reports.

Using Trump’s own words against him is a bold strategy that could still struggle to resonate with voters tired of paying way more for fries at Burger King than they did in 2019 and since Trump promises to fix that they don’t really care about the whole potential mass internment camps thing.

This is exactly what Ted Cruz warned would happen like six months ago! Target is selling the DVD for the woke-ified live action Little Mermaid remake! It confirms everything you already knew about the Woke Industrial Complex and how they collude with each other to propagate their mind virus and stifle the voices of traditional Americans! You can learn more by reading Cruz’s latest book Unwoke: How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America, available at Target and other culturally Marxist retailers.

Fat former President Trump has been bitching about his loyal servant RNC Chair Ronna Not-Romney McDaniel’s incompetent handling of the GOP primary debates that he refused to participate in and spending money pretending there is a primary however he’s not angry enough to the point where he’s actually going to do anything about it and rally the party to force her out, Politico reports.

The reason is simple: If she won’t go voluntarily – which she won’t – it would take a two-thirds vote of the 168 delegates to remove her, definitely a tall order considering she won 111 delegates when she was elected to a fourth two-year term back in January. “I think it would make some people happy – maybe a lot of people happy – but I think in the end it would probably be detrimental to the party to try to have her removed by vote. Frankly I don’t think there’s any way in the world you can get a two-thirds vote to replace her,” said Anti-Ronna Tennessee delegate Oscar Brock.

North Dakota delegate Lori Hinz, who also voted Not-Ronna in January, says she hears shit all the time from people who want Not-Romney to be Not-RNC chair not in 2025 but now. “There is definitely frustration with repeated losses. I think everyone in the party feels that way.” Asked if there was anything Ronna could do to right the ship, Hinz said. “That’s entirely up to Ronna. That’s her decision. She generally does not bend to outside sources very well.” Actually that’s bullshit, lol.

Trump feels – not entirely incorrectly – that the primary debates have been a waste of resources and wants them canceled so the party can focus on “election integrity efforts” instead. The Orange Allah’s minions have considered a plan to install a gauleiter who will have power over Ronna once he becomes the nominee, though the exact contours of how this would work were not detailed.

Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia on Wednesday encouraged fans of her Bangladeshi National Party to not vote in the upcoming January 7th parliamentary elections because they can’t trust the results from rival Awami League incumbent Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the AP reports.

Right or wrong about Awami League rigging, it’s kind of stupid for Zia to publicly tell people to fuck off from the election, at least this early on. While we don’t know shit about Bangladeshi politics, we get the sense that Hasina (interestingly enough also a woman) is more like a Marcos or Erdogan than a Putin or Lukashenko, as in she’s a scumbag autocrat leading a dominant machine rather than a straight up dictator who simply rigs elections from top to bottom and “wins” 90+ percent of the vote.

Or maybe Zia’s right and showing up would simply help legitimize a fraudulent election. Still, it sounds really MAGA to complain preemptively to the point where you guarantee your party loses.

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A new study shows that deaths due to cardiac arrest in college athletes have been steadily declining over the last 20 years, NBC News reports on research by non-ivermectin fan scientists.

The Senate passed the Continuing Resolution to fund the government into 2014 by an 87-11 vote, according to NBC News, thus averting a shutdown once it is signed by another adult, President Joe Biden, and possibly pushing the first domino in the expected downfall of Preacher of the House Mike Johnson.

US Capitol Police tweeted they were confronting around 150 so-called “Ceasefire” protestors outside a Democratic National Committee meeting. DC Metropolitan Police were called in to assist, as demonstrators pushed back against officers, resisted detainment and jostled others in the crowd. as police attempted to restore order Wednesday night. (Video from Yashir Ali of HuffPost.). The DNC officials eventually moved their meeting to another location while police worked to reopen the streets around the protest.

He hasn’t qualified for the debate stage since August and he’s never polled much outside the margin of error in any poll, but former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson wants everyone to know that he’s sticking around in the GOP Presidential nomination campaign, NBC News reports, despite polling at a generous 1% in latest polling.

Henderson said his campaign would be making major ad buys to improve his name recognition.  To boost his efforts, Huntingdon will run ads in Iowa and New Hampshire to plaster his name across outlets that will also have more familiar–and better funded–names like Haley and DeSantis.

“We’re planning the campaign for January 15 and leading up to that,” Hasseldorf said of the branding campaign, planned to begin over the Thanksgiving holiday, during which Hooterville will differentiate himself from the crowd “because everybody else is just slinging mud at each other right now.”

President Joe Biden will make a statement and take questions after meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in California as trade pressures and anxiety over Taiwan increase.

A Trump lawyer representing the disgraced former president in the Colorado 14th Amendment trial on Wednesday told the court that the Orange God Emperor’s worshippers are in a state of “unrequited love” for him akin to a “stalker and his victim,” like John Hinckley Jr with Jodi Foster and like Jim Carrey’s character in “Dumb and Dumber,” Politico’s Kyle Cheney reports.

This is going to be one of those things that gets buried and forgotten about. Enjoy it in the moment.