Continuing his legal offensive against the freelance MAGA conspiracy freaks constantly harassing him with insane bullshit, Hunter Biden on Wednesday filed a federal defamation lawsuit against QAnon-pilled former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne for a series of tweets falsely linking Hunter to Iran and blaming him for the horrific October 7th Hamas terrorist attacks on southern Israel.

“Plaintiff brings this action for defamation against Byrne because he has made, published, and repeated false and defamatory statements about Plaintiff, knowing full well that the statements are false, for the purpose of subjecting Plaintiff to harassment, intimidation, and harm. On or about June 27, 2023, Byrne published false statements that Plaintiff ‘was reaching out to the Iranian government in the fall of 2021’ and offering to have Plaintiff’s father, President Joe Biden, ‘unfreeze’ $8 billion in Iranian funds ‘in return for $800 million being funneled into a numbered account for us.’ Byrne further stated falsely that Plaintiff urged the Iranian government that, ‘if you do this deal with us, it will lubricate other negotiations which have recently started between us.’ According to Byrne, ‘by that, the Iranians believed that Hunter meant the [Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action] talks, which had restarted in Geneva a month or two previously.’ These statements are completely false, and Byrne knew them to be false at the time he made them,” wrote Hunter’s lawyers in the complaint.

Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s DC case against disgraced former President Trump over his failed post-2020 election coup attempt may not specifically charge the bastard with inciting the deadly January 6th, 20201 attack on the Capitol by a horde of his most violent and deranged fanboys, but Politico notes that Smith’s team are putting the assault front and center in recent filings that his refusal to do anything to stop the mayhem was an act of furtherance for his conspiracy.

“The defendant here is charged with four related criminal counts, including conspiring to obstruct and obstructing the official certification proceeding on January 6. Essential to those charges are factual allegations and evidence that the proceeding was in fact impeded – namely, by a large crowd, including individuals whom the defendant had directed at the Capitol, that violently advanced on the Capitol building to create ‘a catastrophic security risk,'” wrote Smith lieutenant Molly Gaston in a filing this week. It’s not clear yet how much of Smith’s case will center on the riot, however Gaston wrote that it will be supported by “video, photographic, and geolocation” evidence as well as testimony from a number of insurrectionists who previously told courts and the January 6th Select Committee they sacked the Temple of Democracy at Trump’s behest.

Trump, confused: Kim Jong Un leads 1.4 billion people

(North Korea has a population of 26 million) pic.twitter.com/yJua4sbG7m

— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) November 9, 2023

Meg Bryce, daughter of far right Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, and mom to four kids – all of whom have attended private schools since Bryce pulled them out of the public system during the COVID pandemic – was defeated Tuesday in the race for an open at-large Albemarle County, Virginia School Board seat in a 62-38 landslide by liberal opponent Allison Spillman, mother of five students in the district, one of whom her campaign website describes as a “a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community,” the Advocate reports on yet another defeat from a rough night for Karendom.

Lost in the shuffle of Ivanka testifying and the electrifying debate among the First Runner-Up nominees is the move by 106 Republicans to defund the Office of the Vice President.  Mixed into a slew of amendments House Members added to the Appropriations bill was a move nutty Georgia Republican Mike Collins–you thought I was gonna say Marge, didn’t ya?  You forgot they have more than one nutty Republican in Congress–to “defunding the Executive Office of the Vice President.”  Y’know, Kamala Harris’s job.

The amendment was defeated on a floor vote, but not before 106 Republicans voted to defund an office explicitly created by the Constitution of the United States, and it was such a spectacularly bad piece of performance art, Collins asked for a floor vote, which even the majority of other Republicans rejected.

The Republican Cloakroom has a fun list of amendments added by Republican House members, from Matt Gaetz’s attempt to prevent funding to buy land for the new FBI building (it lost) to Lauren Boebert trying to regulate the use of surveillance cameras in theaters, which isn’t a real thing but could be given some of the others offered.

The entertainment industry can get back to something close to normal after SAG-AFTRA announced a tentative agreement with the studios, NBC News reports, with actors able to go back to work as of 12:01 a.m. ET Thursday pending the expected approval vote of the 150,000 members.

The union had been on strike for almost four months, shutting down virtually all television show and movie productions across the country except for some independent productions.  The new contract is expected address many of the concerns members had regarding increasing use of technology through AI and improving pay rates coming from streaming and other alternative platforms.

I can’t get over the feeling that Vivek Ramaswamy really is trying his hardest to get me into that 2019 Altima that’s on the lot, but he’s got to his manager’s sign-off on the low-ball counteroffer you gave him.  He’s got the vibe of the guy who repeatedly reminds his co-workers around the coffee maker about how he graduated from the ‘used car salesman school’ with top honors because he recited the sales pitches so convincingly.  (And 5% GDP growth while eliminating trade with China to get them back for something, as he said earlier?  This guy ain’t ready for prime time.)

Unfortunately, Nikki Haley had to fend off a misogynist attack from one of her cohorts on stage to jab at another, but she handled it well.  She’s thoughtful, she’s experienced, she’s articulate, and she’s a woman, so she won’t get the nomination.  (Her sober closing statement after Vivek’s “Michelle Obama” rant shut down his nonsense.)

Ron Desantis?  Well, he’s Vivek Ramaswamy’s manager who comes out of the office to say, hey, look, I want Vivek here to hit his quota, but we just need a few hundred dollars more, so whaddaya say?  [Flashes fake smile as he puts his hand out to shake on the deal.] DeSantis relying on his record as governor is a joke, and he came perilously close to repeating Al Gore’s “Social Security lock box” gaffe from 2000, except sprinkled with a bit of extra-judicial murder.

Instead of doing two separate articles for both of these stupid spectacles let’s just put them together for a “split screen.” Starting first circa 7:30 EST is fat former President Trump’s rally in Hialeah, Florida, co-starring his former Reichsminister of Propaganda Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

American fighter jets in the Middle East whooshed into action Wednesday against a high-level class of Iranian bad guys and dropped some fweeeeeee-KABOOM! on them in a pretty challenging expert-mode mission in Syria, the Messenger reports on some cool new content from the US military.

As you might have read, Tuesday was not a great day on the MAGA internet and their collective mood did not at all improve after Wednesday dawned, seeing them grow only more negative:

“Imagine the ice that must run through so many people’s veins” – Top comment on the Gateway Pundit article “Ohio Legalizes Killing Babies Until the Moment of Birth and Overwhelmingly Votes to Legalize Marijuana.” Thanks for getting a not that great Foreigner song in our heads.

“Republicans need to realize Democrats are single issue voters. They don’t care about the economy, inflation, wars, energy costs. They care about abortion and nothing else” – Top comment on TownHall’s article “Republicans Lose Both Chambers in Virginia State Legislature.”

“You can grouse about cheating all you want, but the Democrats are better organized and have a better ground game, better fundraising operation, and a better ballot harvesting operation. What have Republicans done since 2020 to counter that? Under Ronna McDaniel, nothing. She has been a complete failure at her job. After overseeing three dismal election cycles, the Republicans rewarded her with an unprecedented fourth term. If the GOP gets wiped out in 2024, they’ll probably appoint her for life” – Top comment on the Instapundit post “YEAH. ESTABLISHMENT AGAINST DEMOCRATS? THE DEMOCRATS WIN. THEY’RE MORE AUTHENTIC, AFTER ALL: Mitch”

“Good thing all those ballot irregularities in Bridgeport, Connecticut only occurred in Bridgeport, Connecticut! Whew!” – The current top comment on PowerLine Blog’s “After last night.” Lucky for him the other readers deemed this inside of Poe’s law, because it was true in the real world.

“Three individuals have been arrested in connection with operating sophisticated high-end brothels in greater Boston and eastern Virginia. Commercial sex buyers allegedly included elected officials, high tech and pharmaceutical executives, doctors, military officers, government contractors that possess security clearances, professors, attorneys, scientists and accountants, among others.”

“The following defendants have been charged with conspiracy to coerce and entice to travel to engage in illegal sexual activity: Han Lee, a/k/a ‘Hana,’ 41, of Cambridge, Mass, James Lee, 68, of Torrance, Calif, and Junmyung Lee, 30, of Dedham, Mass. Han Lee and Junmyung Lee were arrested this morning and will appear in federal court in Boston later today. James Lee was arrested in the Central District of California and will appear in federal court in Boston at a later date. According to the charging documents, from at least July 2020, the defendants operated an interstate prostitution network with multiple brothels in Cambridge and Watertown, Mass, as well as in Fairfax and Tysons, Va. It is alleged that the defendants collectively established the infrastructure for brothels in multiple states which they used to persuade, induce and entice women – primarily Asian women – to travel to Massachusetts and Virginia to engage in prostitution,” says a Justice Department press release.

Continued: “Specifically, the defendants allegedly rented high-end apartment complexes as brothel locations, which they furnished and regularly maintained. The monthly rent for the brothel locations were as high as $3,664. It is further alleged that the defendants coordinated the women’s airline travel and transportation and permitted women to stay overnight in the brothel locations so they did not have to find lodging elsewhere, therefore enticing women to participate in their prostitution network… Over the course of the investigation, a wide array of buyers were identified, including, but not limited to, politicians, high tech and pharmaceutical executives, doctors, military officers, government contractors that possess security clearances, professors, lawyers, scientists and accountants. The investigation into the involvement of sex buyers is active and ongoing.”

Disgraced former President Trump on Wednesday declared victory in the Minnesota state Supreme Court case concerning his eligibility for the 2024 ballot, writing “Ridiculous 14th Amendment lawsuit just thrown out by Minnesota Supreme Court. ‘Without Merit, Unconstitutional.’ Congratulations to all who fought this HOAX!” in a Truth Social post celebrating his big “win” over “election interference.”

Problem is, and there’s always a problem but this is a pretty big one, per Politico’s Kyle Cheney, is that the court did not rule on the merits nor was it dismissed with prejudice. “Petitioners can refile when general is closer,” Cheney writes. Which, we could be wrong here, means that the Minnesota state Supreme Court just said Trump can run in the primary but they might disqualify him after he’s already on the November 2024 ballot. That would actually be significantly worse for him.

“There is no justification for this subpoena. After a long, desperate search for any financial transaction between Jim Biden and his brother, including an unnecessary and intrusive review of Jim’s private banking records, the Committee has resorted to criticizing two loans that Jim received when his brother was no longer in public office and not even a candidate for the Presidency. Those same bank documents clearly show that Jim repaid both loans within weeks. There is nothing more to those transactions, and there is nothing wrong with them. And Jim Biden has never involved his brother in his business dealings,” says an attorney for Billy Carter James Biden in a statement responding to dipshit James Comer’s subpoena for him, his nephew, and their buddy Rob Walker.

A new Marquette University Law School survey finds President Joe Biden leading disgraced former President Trump 45 to 42 percent in Wisconsin in a 2024 matchup, which proves absolutely, with zero uncertainty that Joe Biden is going to win reelection. No, sorry, it’s not an outlier.

The simple truth is that a lot of Cheesehead state voters simply aren’t getting the full message about Trump’s recent accomplishments in accusing a New York State judge of being a Soros-paid agent and declaring the whole trial to be “election interference.” You can scream all day about how a Republican governor just won reelection in Mississippi and how it shows that pollsters are underrating GOP strength next year, it’s not going to change the fact that Marquette polls are super accurate and predictive of results. Sorry. Trump’s going to lose in Wisconsin which makes it so much harder for him to win the Electoral College. Basically impossible. It’s pretty much over already.

Look, we cover a lot of elections, we’ve been doing it for like three and a half years now. That’s a lot of experience you don’t have which we’re going to lord over you with supreme confidence. This stuff is hard work, you can’t just slap together a WordPress blog in a couple of hours and say “Hey guys, check out my new website!” to your internet friends and then act like you’re some kind of expert. The bottom line is we know politics here, you don’t. So if we say Trump is in trouble in Wisconsin it means he’s in trouble everywhere and that’s it. Blue wave incoming. MAGA in disarray. End of story.

PS: We’re just not going to respond in the comments to anyone who challenges the narrative we’ve just set forth in this piece, especially using past forecasting errors. It makes things easier for us to simply not have to defend the conclusions we worked backward from to arrive here. But feel free to waste your time anyway. Ignoring you pointing out flaws in our analyses simply because they’re in conflict with you what you wanted to hear us tell you is what being a polling expert is all about.

House Oversight Committee Chairbilly James Comer on Wednesday finally subpoenaed President Joe Biden’s idiot son Hunter and assclown brother James in what would seem to be the final stages of Comer, Jim Jordan, and their bro Jason Smith’s so-far abysmally attempt to impeach Biden.

Police in Middlesex County, New Jersey on Wednesday are combing a wooded area in the town of Helmetta, searching for fugitive Capitol rioter Gregory Yetman, a New York native wanted on unspecfied charges for his participation in the January 6th MAGA insurrection, WNBC 4 reports.

Evidently with nothing else going on in the nation’s largest city that could benefit from aerial coverage, WNBC sent their chopper 35 miles south of Manhattan to capture about a minute of footage of cops searching someone’s backyard toolshed for the elusive Trump fanboy, a level of response kind of questionable for some asshole who’s going to get caught sooner or later. However given that their report also mentions a SWAT team, it’s possible, maybe even likely, that the MAGA terrorist is armed and dangerous or somehow otherwise poses an imminent threat to others.

Ol Man Steny’s surely gettin’ on in years. You can see it in all the silver in ‘is hair. But he still got his wits, ‘specially when he’s talkin’ to Gammy Lauren, who ain’ all there. She start off tellin these stories ’bout times an places an things that jus’ plum don’ exist and Ol Steny jus’ stand there tryin’a figure out the fuck she jus’ say. Sad seein’ a proud ol granma fallin ‘part like this. She need a safe, clean ol folks home where she ain’ gonna be a danger to herself or her precious granbaby boy.

DC Judge Tanya Chutkan on Wednesday handed Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith a big win by ruling in favor of Smith’s motion to force disgraced former President Trump to commit to using his batshit stupid “advice of counsel” defense – one that the fat idiot already pretty much blew up publicly in his interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker in September – by January 15th, 2024.

Chutkan did somewhat throw Trump a bone as Smith had wanted the deadline to be next month, December 18th, though we would imagine Smith already had that priced in. It’s not clear to us if this entails a ruling on the overall admissibility of the defense or if it’s dealer’s choice and Trump can play it at will. It’s a really fucking risky strategy and one that will require him to waive all relevant claims of attorney-client privilege as well as almost certainly take the stand in his own defense.

Disgraced former President Trump undorsed Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron in the state’s gubernatorial race on Wednesday, posting on Truth Social that Cameron, whose campaign Trump had previously supported, had “lost because he couldn’t alleviate the stench of Mitch McConnell. I told him early that’s a big burden to overcome. McConnell and Romney are Kryptonite for Republican Candidates. I moved him up 25 Points, but the McConnell relationship was ‘too much to bear'” and that incumbent Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves, “on the other hand, surged to a win for Governor in Mississippi after my involvement. Congratulations to Tate!”