A group of House Republicans from New York will force a floor vote next week on expelling fellow New York Republican Congressman and guy who unfortunately will have a movie made out of his life George Santos from Congress because of, oh, so many things, Bloomberg reports.

Long Islander Anthony D’Esposito made the formal motion for a expedited vote in the House because Santos was indicted on charges including wire fraud, conspiracy, making false statements, falsifying records, aggravated identity theft and credit card fraud, as well as admitting to fraud in a Brazilian incident.

OMG!  It’s the end of the world!  Minnesota Democratic Congressman Dean Phillips has thrown his hat into the ring for the 2024 Democratic nomination for president, challenging incumbent president and Corn Pop fighter Joe Biden, per CBS News.  So, who’s Dean Phillips?  Good question. He’s more legit than RFK Jr. but less of a following.  A third term Congressman, Phillips flipped a traditionally Red district to go to Washington.  He’ll have a celebratory announcement in New Hampshire on Friday that multiple people are expected to attend.

US military forces conducted attacks against facilities operated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and affiliated groups in Syria, the Pentagon announced Thursday, in an operation officials say thwarted operations against American personnel, the Washington Post reports.

“These precision self-defense strikes are a response to a series of ongoing and mostly unsuccessful attacks against U.S. personnel in Iraq and Syria by Iranian-backed militia groups that began on October 17,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement, before adding that the US has no intention to carry on further operations at this time.

A Baltimore City judge who reviewed his credentials for admission to the Bar Association found Edward Garrison Draper “qualified in all respects,” and saying the Dartmouth graduate was “most intelligent and well informed in his answers,” but rejected him from the Bar because in 1857, Draper had the one thing even the smartest lawyer couldn’t hide:  he was Black, and therefore became the first person banned from the Bar solely because he was Black.

According to the Baltimore Sun, the Supreme Court of Maryland held a special session Thursday to right the wrong in the slightest bit and admit Draper to the Bar posthumously.  The effort to admit Draper was led by a former Texas judge, John Browning, who works to address past injustices.

Newsmax host Eric Bolling on Thursday asked Jim Jordan if he knows anything about whether Mark Meadows was wearing a wire while he was Chief of Staff, to which Jordan says “I don’t believe anything that gets written about- ya know- from- so many people in the mainstream press.” Problem is that, as we reported earlier, that “wire” story didn’t originate from the mainstream media but from this one hardcore MAGA asshole with a Nazi haircut who founded Students for Trump.

In a filing that put a smile on my face (in a “hahahaha… oh, he’s serious” kinda way), Donald Trump claims that because of foreign interference claims in the 2016 and 2020 elections, he wants to bring classified intelligence into the proceedings relating to his attempt to overthrow the Constitution and reinstall himself into a second term.

“The Indictment in this case adopts classified assessments by the Intelligence Community and others that minimized, and at times ignored, efforts by foreign actors to influence and interfere with the 2020 election. President Trump will offer classified information at trial relating to foreign influence activities that impacted the 2016 and 2020 elections, as well as efforts by his administration to combat those activities. President Trump will also present classified information relating to the biased and politicized nature of the intelligence assessments that he and others rejected during the events in question. Collectively, this evidence will undercut central theories of the prosecution and establish that President Trump acted at all times in good faith and on the belief that he was doing what he had been elected to do,” in a BIG over-promise Trump’s lawyers won’t be able to deliver on.

.@RepJasonSmith called me a liar.

It’s a somewhat predictable projection.

Because he lives a lie every day. pic.twitter.com/EUDhewyrCT

— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) October 26, 2023

MAGA Congressman Matt Gaetz on Thursday pretty much outed House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith. It’s not like Smith’s sexuality is any real surprise but this is pretty fucked up.

The statue of Confederate General Robert E Lee that formerly stood on a pedestal in Richmond, Virginia before its removal in 2021 has been melted down and its remains will be used to create a new piece of public art whose design is still in the works, the Washington Post reports.

Holy freaking shit this is so goddamned hilarious. And stupid… very stupid. We would’ve picked up this Meadows story itself anyway, but the way the Gateway Pundit handled it is just priceless.

Best to go in a straight line here. On the left is the Thursday story “EXCLUSIVE TO GATEWAY PUNDIT: Latest Rumors About Mark Meadows Wearing a Wire – COMPLETELY FALSE,” which is fucking funny enough on its own that Meadows’s team needs to comment to the Pundit to deny said “rumors” on the right side of the image. We take no position on whether or not it’s true, who gives a shit honestly. It’s true enough if ABC News and other outlets’ reporting that Meadows had been immunized to testify to the grand jury impaneled by Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith investigating Trump’s failed post-2020 election coup attempt conspiracy is true as well.

House Oversight Chairbilly James Comer on Thursday sent a letter to White House Counsel Ed Siskel demanding that Biden prove the $200,000 check from his brother James everyone already forgot about was indeed a repayment for a loan and not money laundering or bribery or some shit.

“The Committee on Oversight and Accountability has been investigating the Biden family’s influence peddling schemes. As part of this investigation, the Committee obtained bank records related to President Biden’s brother and sister-in-law, James and Sara Biden, and an entity associated with them. According to these bank records, Joe Biden received a $200,000 check from James Biden dated March 1, 2018. James Biden issued the check from his personal bank account on the same day he received $200,000 from Americore – a company going through bankruptcy proceedings to which James Biden made ‘representations that his last name, ‘Biden,’ could ‘open doors’ and that he could obtain a large investment from the Middle East based on his political connections.’ The White House has claimed Joe Biden loaned James Biden $200,000, and this check was repayment.”

“Records obtained by the Committee do show numerous large incoming transactions into the personal account of James and Sara Biden from various entities. Some of these transaction records may have obscured the identity of the true payer, but no records in the Committee’s possession state that Joe Biden made a large loan payment to his brother. If Joe Biden did personally loan James Biden an amount that was later repaid by the $200,000 check, please provide the loan documents, including the loan payment, loan agreement, and any other supporting loan documentation. As you may know, the Internal Revenue Code has specific requirements for delineating and reporting ‘below-market [rate] loans’ from gifts. While there are some exceptions, for example loans of $10,000 or less, the payment in question would not appear exempt from such requirements if it is a loan. Indeed, there appears to have been no interest paid on the ‘loan’ based upon the White House’s own representations,” Comer wrote in his stupid letter.

Scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adiminstration announced last week that the nasty crab infestation that had been chewing and scratching their way through the bottom of the frigid waterway has been largely taken care of, with the team finding that “Marine heatwaves, a component of our impact on the Earth’s climate, can bring both expected and unexpected environmental change. Between 2018 and 2021, after a period of historically high crab abundance and a series of marine heatwaves, the population of snow crab in the Bering Sea declined by 10 billion. [The team] used survey data to model the potential drivers of the decline in this ecologically and commercially important species. They found that the temperature of the water was not above the species’ thermal limits, but it did increase their caloric needs considerably. This increase, in conjunction with a restriction in range, led to an unexpected mass starvation event.”

I'm running for Congress, to fight for Arizona's 8th.

Biden has failed. We need Trump back. We need to stop inflation, Build the Wall, avoid WW3, and secure Arizona's water future. We need to fight for our families.

DONATE NOW to send me to the House! https://t.co/SHG8CRcJHu pic.twitter.com/atte7wNHeu

— Blake Masters (@bgmasters) October 26, 2023

So many 2022 Arizona Republican losers, so few 2024 elections to run for. After being told on no uncertain terms by 2022 gubernatorial loser Kari Lake that she would fuck up his world if he jumped in the GOP primary race to take on Dem Congressman Ruben Gallego for the seat occupied by useless “independent” Senator Kyrsten Sinema, fascist Reptiloid and 2022 Senate race loser Blake Masters on Thursday declared he was running instead for the US House seat being vacated by retiring far right Congresswoman Debbie Lesko. He’ll face off in the primary against 2022 Attorney General loser Abe Hamadeh who declared just hours after Lesko announced her retirement… but before Lesko endorsed state House Speaker Ben Toma, who hasn’t even declared yet.

Literally just a few minutes ago Hamadeh announced Kari Lake had endorsed him, almost certainly in response to Masters entering the race less than an hour ago. Guess she really hates Masters.

Florida Villager and registered Republican Lyle Parrot is in a whole heap of trouble after screaming “for fucking with me, I’m going to break your throat,” demanding to be shot in the face, and finally taking a failed swing at one of the sheriff’s deputies responding to a drunken scene Parrot was making at the Village of De Luna community center pool – simply because one of the deputies called Parrot’s wife to come pick him up to dry out, Fox 35 Orlando reports.

“Representatives of the Palestinian Hamas movement are visiting Moscow, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a briefing. ‘I can also say and confirm that representatives of the relevant Palestinian movement are on a visit to Moscow. As for contacts, we will inform you further,’ she said. Earlier, a source in the Palestinian delegation told RIA Novosti that a Hamas delegation led by Abu Marzuk, a member of the movement’s Politburo, was visiting Moscow,” says a Thursday press release from Kremlin state media agency RIA Novosti, translated by Google.

Well this sure is a pickle for the fanboys whose simplistic binary worldview stipulates that Russia good, Hamas bad, right? Like it’d be so much easier on them if the Islamic terrorist scumbags had gone to Kyiv and were welcomed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, because Zelensky is a political ally of President Biden. But this is Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s regime heating up the tea kettle and putting out a plate of dry, crumbly cookies for the guys who just slaughtered at least 1,400 Israelis and took hundreds more hostage a few weeks ago. Putin is Trump’s ally, not Biden’s.

They tried to spin it that Biden purposely allowed the October 7th attacks to happen or was otherwise complicit or something. “Crooked Joe” was supposed to have “blood on his hands” after the attack. This doesn’t really help that narrative. Actually hurts it significantly. Probably foolish to expect MAGA trolls to even try to reconcile these facts within their reality, though one can take solace knowing that they’re definitely not happy with the Kremlin entertaining Hamas.

Here is Trump in 2018 bragging about an “amazing” 4.1 percent GDP growth: “These are great numbers”

GDP just hit 4.9 percent under @JoeBiden. pic.twitter.com/1wksrjbRJ9

— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) October 26, 2023

“The Judge in the New York State AG case refuses to accept the overturning of his decisions by the Appeals Court. This is a first in the history of the State! HE HAS GONE CRAZY IN HIS HATRED OF ‘TRUMP'” and blah blah blah “This is Judicial Misconduct, coupled with Prosecutorial Misconduct, and somebody from the State of New York must step in and stop this Complete and Total Miscarriage of Justice!” screamed disgraced former President Trump on Truth Social on Thursday.

It’s the second time in just over 12 hours that the fat fuck cried out for someone in the New York state government to somehow stop the trial. On Wednesday night Trump wrote “So unfair. I don’t even get a Jury Trial. A blight on the New York State Judicial System. Businesses are watching all over the world, and never coming in, only moving out. The Governor should get involved. Election Interference by my Political Opponent!” as if Democrat Gov Kathy Hochul would give a shit or has the power to halt a case brought by a duly elected Attorney General even if she did.

Not even 24 hours on the job yet and new Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is already responding to a major crisis on Thursday by introducing a massive, comprehensive prayer package to address gun violence in the wake of the horrific shooting rampage by right wing militia member and mental patient Robert Card in Lewiston, Maine on Wednesday night, CNN’s Manu Raju reports.

“This is a dark time in America… Prayer is appropriate in a time like this, that the evil can end and this senseless violence can stop,” Johnson said in the Capitol to reporters who asked what kind of action Americans could expect from the House now led by the devout Christian Louisianan.

Lying piece of shit and very credibly accused felon Long Island Congressman George Santos on Thursday added himself as a co-sponsor to a resolution censuring fellow Empire State Representative Jamaal Bowman for stupidly pulling a fire alarm in a House office building to stall a vote on the spending package a few weekends ago, CBS News’s Scott MacFarlane reports.

“The House of Representatives censures Jamaal Bowman, Representative of the 16th Congressional District of New York, for violating District of Columbia Criminal Code Section 22-1319 by knowingly causing a false alarm of fire in an attempt to obstruct official proceedings of the House… Bowman will forthwith present himself in the well of the House of Representatives for the pronouncement of censure,” reads the resolution as introduced by Michigan Republican Congresswoman Lisa McClain and passed on to right wing website the Daily Caller. Their article on it was printed late Wednesday, likely before Santos signed on as a co-sponsor, but they still mention him, saying the “misdemeanor count against Bowman makes him the second representative from New York during the 118th Congress to face criminal charges, after Republican Rep George Santos of New York’s 3rd District.”

That’s certainly one way to work a dude who meant well despite acting like a dumbass and will plead guilty to it this morning into the same sentence as another guy facing at least several decades in federal prison for a litany of felonies and defrauded the NRCC, stole people’s credit card numbers, robbed a homeless veteran whose dog was dying of cancer, so on and so forth. That’s some good wordsmithing there by the Daily Caller, however it’s not clear why they needed to bring Santos into this at all since, again, we’re pretty sure he wasn’t on board yet when they wrote it.

The Massachusetts Republican Party still needs someone to run against Dem Senator Elizabeth Warren next year, Politico reports on an open casting call situation in the Bay State.

Somebody, anybody. Come on. Who doesn’t want to take a shot here? Christ, you could become a member of the most elite legislative body in the United States. Only 100 Americans are Senators. It’s a really big deal! They work on really important issues. And the perks are incredible! You get a staff and office and can even meet the president! Senators get to visit the White House all the time!

Okay, sure. Liz Warren is wicked popular in Massachusetts. She’s got a lot of friends at Harvard and all the other big elite universities. It’s a really blue state and beating her might be tough. But nobody wants to even try? Jeez! You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take, guys. And while everyone says Mass is like so liberal there’s a lot of really patriotic history in the state, something a GOP campaign can easily pick up as a theme. Shit, the freaking Tea Party happened there in 1773 or whenever! You could wear a tricorn hat and yell “The Marxists are coming! The Marxists are coming!” while ringing a bell and riding on a horse! That would be so freaking cool and authentic.

Or you could say “groomers” instead of “Marxists.” Whatever. Or dress up like a pilgrim and wear one of those belt buckle hats instead. People like Thanksgiving. Look, it would be a fun campaign. You could do it if you’re a Massachusetts Republican. Someone’s gotta step up for the team there.