Republicans win House, delivering Trump
a trifecta
Posted By: Dreadnought, 11/11/2024 7:28:19 PM
Republicans are projected to keep control of the House of Representatives, handing the party total control of Washington with former President Trump back in the White House in January. Decision Desk HQ projected the GOP would hold the House by winning its 218th seat, the number needed for a majority in the lower chamber. The result is a major win for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who skyrocketed up from obscurity to lead the House GOP not only legislatively, but had a large role in its campaign infrastructure. Republicans saved some of their most vulnerable incumbents, like Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) and Rep. David Valadao (R-Calif.), while defeating several vulnerable Democratic incumbents.
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Aliyev said oil and gas were a “gift from God,” fossil fuels cannot be eliminated entirely, and climate extremists have subjected Azerbaijan to a “well-orchestrated campaign of slander and blackmail.”
Aliyev said all of these things during his keynote address to the COP29 conference, enraging many of the attendees, even though he said he was committed to a gradual transition away from carbon-emitting energy production.
MSNBC had a pretty good night last Tuesday, beating CNN in the election night ratings for the first time. But since then, the network's ratings have dropped off a cliff. As one dejected viewer explained, she just can't take any more MSNBC claptrap without some explanation of why they got this so wrong.
If you’re like me, you haven’t turned on the news since last Tuesday when Donald Trump won the election. Personally, I can’t bear to listen to another minute of wisdom from Joy Reid, my friend Lawrence O’Donnell or the admirable Rachel Maddow. I can’t hear Anderson Cooper, or Abby Phillip. Can’t abide getting the lowdown
The Elon and Vivek Show
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Trump’s nominations are coming thick and fast, and among the more interesting is his selection of Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead a new Department of Government Efficiency:
Despite the name, Trump clarified in a statement that the Musk-Ramaswamy effort would “provide advice and guidance from outside of Government” in tandem with the White House and its Office of Management & Budget “to drive large scale structural reform, and create an entrepreneurial approach to Government never seen before.”
So I take it there won’t be an actual department, it will just be Elon and Vivek and maybe some aides.
One of the biggest winners of the 2024 election was Scott Jennings. The folksy columnist and former George W. Bush staffer was a dominant force in his role as CNN's token Republican, regularly holding his own in one-on-five debates with Democrats and journalists who support Democrats.
As a normal American, Jennings often seemed out of place on CNN, mostly because he wasn't afraid to criticize Democrats but also because of his insightful commentary and because he never lost his cool—or his sense of humor—when his remarks were inevitably met with incredulous screeching. When Jennings wasn't calling out his onscreen
Sunday night, someone plastered a bunch of wanted posters around the University of Rochester. The posters featured various members of the faculty, many of whom were Jewish, along with text saying they were "wanted" for their response to Israel's invasion of Gaza in response to the 10/7 attack on Israel by Hamas.
Hundreds of posters depicting Jewish faculty members as “wanted” were plastered across the University of Rochester campus in upstate New York on Sunday night, an antisemitic act the school’s president told CNN “would not be tolerated.”
The posters criticize faculty members for their alleged response to the war in Gaza.
A multiple-missile attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels on two US warships has been thwarted, the Pentagon has said.
At least eight drones, five anti-ship ballistic missiles and three anti-ship cruise missiles were aimed at the USS Stockdale and the USS Spruance on Monday.
The vessels shot down the projectiles and were "not damaged and no personnel were hurt," Pentagon press secretary Air Force Major Gen Pat Ryder told reporters on Tuesday.
The attack followed a series of airstrikes made by the US Central Command against Houthi weapons storage bases in Yemen.
Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign donated $500,000 to Al Sharpton’s nonprofit organization just weeks before the anti-Semitic MSNBC host—who once said that "diamond merchant" Jews have the "blood of innocent babies" on their hands—conducted a friendly interview with Harris.
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The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit summarily vaporized 46 years of Federal environmental regulations. Writing in a case called Marin Audubon Society, et al v. FAA, et al, the majority of a three-judge panel ruled that the Council on Environmental Quality, a cabal inside the Executive Office of the President charged with ensuring that National Environmental Protection Act requirements are interpreted uniformly across the federal government, had illegally used the Federal Register to publish that guidance thereby giving citizens, agencies, and even the courts the impression that their internal guidance had the authority of law.
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Judge Delays Ruling on Whether to Toss
Trump Hush-Money Conviction Given Presidential Immunity 11 replies
Trump Hush-Money Conviction Given Presidential Immunity 11 replies
New York judge Juan Merchan postponed his anticipated Tuesday decision on whether to uphold or dismiss president-elect Donald Trump’s hush-money conviction because of the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity.
Merchan said he would delay his decision until next Tuesday, November 19. The judge granted the prosecution’s request to delay the hearing as well as Trump’s November 26 sentencing date.
Manhattan prosecutor Mathew Colangelo asked Merchan to consider the impact that Trump’s reelection has on the ruling, according to emails filed in court.
Not Richard Grennell, eh? I bet the intelligence community feels pretty nervous now. Donald Trump hasn't made his choice of Director of National Intelligence public yet, and now Grennell's available.
Grennell would have had an inside track on Secretary of State after his tenure as US Ambassador to Germany in the first Trump term. Instead, the New York Times reports that Trump will appoint Marco Rubio to run the State Department, where he will work with Elise Stefanik as Trump's ambassador to the UN. That signals more muscular approach to foreign policy than perhaps expected, but still focused on American priorities than paying homage to the progressive global order:
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Hakeem Jeffries could be the next presidential candidate to run for the Democrats when it comes to the 2028 presidential election.
Although still four years away, anger and soul-searching has taken hold of the Democratic Party after Kamala Harris' election loss that left some party officials blindsided.
Some party members believe plans should already start to be made as to how the Democrats will come back from such a devastating defeat and who might be the leader to take them there, given many now-familiar names may be leaving the political stage.
Top Story at the Washington Post Today
Advises Liberals on How to Move to Another Country 27 replies
Advises Liberals on How to Move to Another Country 27 replies
The liberal Washington Post is out with a story today about how to leave the USA and live in another country. It’s one of their top stories for today. As the GP recently pointed out, we have been down this road before, but the people who claim they want to leave rarely follow through and actually do it in the end.
Threatening to leave the country because Trump won the presidency seems to be some sort of rite of passage on the left.
here are lots of people on the left who don’t appreciate how good they have it by living in the United States of America. Maybe living abroad would help.
CBS’s Stephen Colbert revealed on Monday’s show that he has been stress eating in the days since President-elect Donald Trump won the election.
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Air pollution breathed in by women during pregnancy may be linked to a greater risk of developing autism, according to new research.
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Donald Trump warned not to pull out of
Paris climate agreement—by the CEO of
oil giant Exxon Mobil 25 replies
Paris climate agreement—by the CEO of
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Donald Trump’s thumping re-election threatens to upend the business of an industry he’s sworn to protect: Big Oil.
Should his incoming administration follow through on plans to once again pull the United States out of the landmark 2015 Paris climate agreement—as a way to loosen regulations on fossil fuel companies—it could actually end up hurting companies like Exxon Mobil, according to the oil giant’s CEO. (snip) The Exxon Mobil boss was in Azerbaijan to attend COP29 in Baku, the second straight time that a city rich from exploiting its fossil fuel deposits played host to the United Nations climate conference after Abu Dhabi last year.
President-elect Donald Trump's promise to unleash a big oil boom in the US and lower gas prices is running up against a market reality: The world is already awash in fossil fuels. ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods told Semafor on November 12 that while he wants to maintain US oil production at its current highs, the market is already well supplied. "I don't think today that production in the US is constrained," he said. "I don't know that there's an opportunity to unleash a lot of production in the near term."
Oprah Winfrey denies report that Harris
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paid nothing — ever’ 25 replies
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Oprah Winfrey on Monday shut down a report that Kamala Harris’ failed presidential campaign paid her $1 million to stump for the Democrat.
“I was paid nothing — ever,” Winfrey told a TMZ reporter who approached her as she walked to her car.
The reporter asked about the claims that the Harris team paid her the massive figure for the star-studded, virtual town hall called “Unite for America” that the talk show star hosted on behalf of the Democratic nominee in September. (Photo) “Not true,” Winfrey, who endorsed Harris, said.
Chris Wallace to Leave CNN
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CNN anchor Chris Wallace announced on Monday that he would leave the network at the end of his contract, citing the growing influence of podcasters such as Joe Rogan and Charlamagne tha God.
Wallace – who joined CNN in January 2022 after nearly 20 years at Fox News – told the Daily Beast he would leave the network at the end of his three-year contract in favor of independent broadcasting.
Describing podcasts and streaming platforms as “where the action seems to be,” Wallace pointed to Rogan and Charlamagne’s influence during the 2024 election, before adding, “I don’t flatter myself to think I will have that sort of reach.”
President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is his choice to be the next U.S. ambassador amid the ongoing war in Gaza.
Huckabee is a former presidential candidate himself who is the father of Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who served as Trump's White House press secretary and interviewed him on stage at a campaign rally.
'I am pleased to announce that the Highly Respected former Governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee, has been nominated to be The United States Ambassador to Israel,' Trump wrote, although he does not yet have the formal power to make nominations until he takes the oath of office.
It’s hard to know just how much of the country hates Donald Trump. The easy answer is about half. But that’s probably wrong. Much less than half of the country voted against him last week and it would be a mistake to think that every one of those Americans hates the man. Surely a significant portion of Harris-Walz voters made their decisions simply because they either like Democratic policies or oppose the Republican agenda. If so, it would seem that Trump has an opportunity to unify a bitterly divided nation.
Still, there’s an angry, petty and vocal faction on the left that has no interest in unity because
Top Stars at CNN on Chopping Block as
Network May Fire Hundreds After Trump
Landslide Victory 17 replies
Network May Fire Hundreds After Trump
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The legacy media is dead.
Top stars at fake news CNN are on the chop as the network mulls firing hundreds after Trump won the 2024 presidential election.
According to Nielsen ratings obtained by Mediaite, both MSNBC and CNN have seen their ratings tank after last week’s Trump landslide election.
“Insiders told Puck the new round of firings will likely see on-air talent like them affected, as the network’s new CEO looks to free up finances amid waning ratings.” Puck News reported.
FEMA worker Marni Washington breaks silence
on not helping Trump-voting hurricane victims 17 replies
on not helping Trump-voting hurricane victims 17 replies
The FEMA boss who was fired after ordering volunteers not to approach homes displaying Trump signs in Florida after Hurricane Milton has insisted her edict 'was not isolated' and also happened in North Carolina.
Speaking out for the first time since she was fired, Marn'i Washington accused the Federal Emergency Management Agency of 'lying' about the scandal, and making her the scapegoat of a wider practice.
Washington was blasted publicly and lost her job after a text chain was leaked that showed her instructing colleagues to 'avoid' houses that had Trump signs in their yards.