Posts on Saturday, November 16, 2024
Chicago residents are fed up with how the City and its Mayor, Brandon Johnson, have handled staggering crime, budget cuts, a failing school system, and the funneling of funds away from residents to benefit illegals.
They issued a stark warning to the Democrat party last year, and in October, resident Jessica Jackson blasted Democrats at a City Council meeting in a blistering takedown of their decades-long failures in the city.
She also declared, with the support of others in the audience, that she was backing Donald Trump for President.
Trump is adding people to his new team at lightning speed. Most people on the right are overjoyed with the choices that they are seeing, but Democrats and liberal media types are dumbfounded. They just don’t get it.
Enter Victor Davis Hanson.
Hanson is a conservative, a historian, and a scholar. He recently took some time to write an analysis of Trump’s cabinet picks to help explain the thinking here. His explanation is absolutely brilliant, as usual.
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Podcaster Joe Rogan suggested this week that President Biden wanted President-elect Trump to win after his party pushed him to drop out of the race in July.
Biden’s smiling face during his meeting with Trump at the White House on Wednesday sparked some speculation that the incumbent was happy to hand over the reins to Trump rather than his replacement on the Democratic ticket, Vice President Kamala Harris.
“Do you know what one of my f******* favorite things of this whole election cycle has been? Yesterday when Biden and Trump sat down in the White House,” Rogan said. “Biden voted for Trump. I guarantee it. I f****** guarantee it.
President-elect Donald Trump returned to the World’s Most Famous Arena Saturday night as the people’s “champ” — when he got a thunderous ovation while doing a heavweight-style walk-in to the UFC 309 fight at Madison Square Garden.
The former and future president got the sell-out MMA crowd pumped as he walked out to Kid Rock’s “American Badass” with a massive celebrity entourage in tow.(Photos) Trump was flanked by billionaire Elon Musk, UFC CEO Dana White, Donald Trump Jr., Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, newly nominated head of HHS Robert Kennedy Jr., conservative commentator Dan Bongino — along with Rock himself.
Finally, someone had the guts to tell off the ladies of The View and their constant attacks on President-elect Donald Trump.
Democrat New York City Mayor Eric Adams told the hosts of The View to “tone it down” regarding their criticism of Trump. The heated exchange began after co-host Sunny Hostin questioned Robert F. Kennedy’s qualifications to serve as the next Department of Health and Human Services secretary in the Trump Administration. “RFK Jr. … RFK Jr. ate some pork, and now he has a brain worm,” Hostin said. “Is he the person that should be in charge of that … of our food?”
Co-host Ana Navarro echoed similar remarks,
Donald Trump is bringing yet another one of his lawyers to his administration, this time bringing an attorney who helped him get a sweeping 'immunity' decision out of the Supreme Court to a powerful White House post.
Trump's transition team announced Saturday that Will Scharf will join serve as White House Staff Secretary an an assistant to the president.
'Will is a highly skilled attorney who will be a crucial part of my White House team. He has played a key role in defeating the Election Interference and Lawfare waged against me, including by winning the Historic Immunity Decision in the Supreme Court,' Trump wrote.
She’s never been shy in sharing her opinion — but now Sunny Hostin has one less platform to do it on.
“The View” co-host has confirmed she deleted her X account in the wake of Donald Trump’s presidential election win, saying she believes it was a “patriotic” act.
Hostin, 56, made the admission on the “Behind The Table” podcast earlier this week, saying she no longer wants to be associated with the site because it’s owned by avid Trump supporter Elon Musk.
“I think the most patriotic thing I could do right now is just to delete the account,” the avowed Democrat declared.
Human… Please Die’ — Google AI Chatbot
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A graduate student at a Michigan university experienced a chilling interaction with Google’s AI chatbot, Gemini. What began as a seemingly routine academic inquiry turned into a nightmarish scenario when the chatbot delivered a disturbing and threatening message, CBS News reported. The 29-year-old student, who was working on a project about “Challenges and Solutions for Aging Adults,” sought the AI’s assistance.[Snip] The student’s sister, Sumedha Reddy, who was present during the incident, recounted the fear and panic that gripped them both.
Another shocking allegation involving the Secret Service could potentially endanger President Trump’s life further following two assassination attempts.
Counter-extremism researchers with the Justice Report say they have discovered that a lifelong anarchist, left-wing extremist, and devout follower of Anfifa is working as a Secret Service agent. Moreover, the individual reportedly has made a series of disgusting comments regarding Trump.
The Gateway Pundit will NOT be naming the alleged Secret Service agent until we confirm the person’s identity.
The supposed agent has a series of ugly posts under the since-deleted account /u/endon40 on the leftist social media forum Reddit
A bizarre attack on the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence in Washington DC earlier this year was like “an emotional buzzsaw,” as she pushed for the perpetrators to get the “maximum possible sentence,” according to America’s archivist.
Colleen Shogan, who also serves as the head of the National Archives and Records Administration, spoke in court Tuesday before a federal judge at the sentencing of a career climate protestor who, along with a partner, helped smear red paint on display cases holding the historic documents.
The Valentine’s Day incident was a willful assault on “our shared past and the beliefs which unite us as Americans,”
Incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune said “all the options” are on the table to get President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet picks through the confirmation process amid concern that some appointees won’t receive enough votes to be confirmed.
Trump in recent days announced his choices for key government positions, from Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence to Matt Gaetz as attorney general and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary.
Thune (R-SD) told Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier on Thursday on “Special Report” that Senate Republicans are going to work with Trump to “see that he gets his team installed as quickly as possible
Republican Gov. Mike DeWine is considering an Ohio attorney and Trump surrogate to fill Vice President-elect JD Vance’s Senate seat once he vacates the position and moves on to the White House, Fox News Digital has learned.
Attorney Mehek Cooke, a Republican attorney who served as a political and legal surrogate for Trump in 2024, is under consideration to be chosen to fill Vance’s seat, a source familiar with the situation told Fox News Digital.
Cooke, known as a formidable fundraiser in the state of Ohio, has appeared on Fox News and was a vocal supporter of President-elect Trump during the 2024 campaign,
If you’ve ever played speed chess, then you can appreciate what President Trump is about to do to “official” Washington. This won’t be like 2017, when the president did everything he could to work amicably with House and Senate Republicans. This time, you either get on the “Trump Train” or kindly throw yourself from the back car. There’s no time to waste, and the president won’t be slowing down for stragglers.
After his first election, President Trump arrived in D.C. with Republican majorities in Congress, too. He expected that the people who had promised to repeal Obamacare for seven years would have
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson will not attend the funeral of slain Officer Enrique Martinez on Monday — honoring the family’s wishes that politicians steer clear of the service.
Johnson initially planned to attend but made an about-face following backlash for failing to respect the grieving family’s request.
“The family of Officer Enrique Martinez continues to be in my prayers as they prepare to lay him to rest. I heard from the family and am honoring their request and will no longer plan to attend the honors funeral services,” his office said in a statement, according to NBC Chicago.
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that “when the Democrats lose, the mass is over, go in peace. When the Republicans lose, we have a riot, and we pretend every election is bull****. This is already something that has passed us to the point where we’re not the country we should be or we used to be.” And it “doesn’t matter to anything” that some Democrats are trying to tip the scales in favor of Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA).
Maher began by saying, “I feel like we’re gliding over something really important in this world — or at least in this country — which is that,
The re-election of Donald Trump has left many progressives worried about the future of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programming. And with good reason.
Yet, as a head of a school in New York City, I’ve come to recognize an ironic truth: DEI programs, as traditionally practiced, can be divisive, placing students into rigid roles that can drive them apart instead of bringing them together.
Which is why a new approach to diversity is needed, one that avoids the politicized dogma that now defines the DEI landscape.
The campaign in support of Lara Trump succeeding in the seat of Florida Sen. Marco Rubio found her offering her own take on the forthcoming vacancy. [Video]
Even before President-elect Donald Trump had officially nominated the senior lawmaker from the Sunshine State to be his Secretary of State, early reports of the decision had triggered buzz over who would fill those legislative shoes. Saturday, the Republican National Committee co-chair joined “Fox & Friends Weekend” where argued her family had done “crazier things.”
Before the end of the interview, co-host Will Cain prompted, “Do you want to go be a disruptor in the Senate?”
Nick Begich III, the grandson of late Alaska congressman Nick Begich Sr., has flipped the state’s at-large congressional seat to Republican after defeating Democrat incumbent Rep. Mary Peltola.
Decision Desk HQ called the race for Begich on Saturday with the Republican receiving 152,545 votes compared to Peltola’s 143,370, with 92 percent of the votes counted: [Tweet]
Begich’s win comes after he and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) were defeated by Peltola in 2022.
“This victory belongs to the people of Alaska,” Begich said in a statement to Must Read Alaska. “Our state has immense potential,
Earlier this week, President-elect Donald Trump selected Pete Hegseth to serve as his Secretary of Defense. The reaction was swift, with the criticism in many cases downright nasty and ugly. MSNBC, which has been taking Trump's win pretty hard and has suffered from plummeting post-election ratings, had on multiple guests who threw Hegseth under the bus by accusing him of being a "white supremacist."During "All In with Chris Hayes," Sherrilyn Ifill, a lawyer and professor at Howard University, who also served as the former president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, made such a claim.
The son of far-left Democratic billionaire kingmaker George Soros said President-elect Donald Trump beat Vice President Kamala Harris because he’s a “super candidate” his party underrated.
“Too many Democrats are fighting each other over campaign tactics because it is easier than accepting that Trump was underestimated as a candidate,” Alex Soros, 39, wrote on X Friday.
“He was a ‘super candidate’ with increasing appeal to a broader electorate — likely beyond the reach of both Democrats and Republicans.
(Photo) “The president-elect outperformed Republicans across the country this year,” he added.
President-elect Donald Trump filed a lawsuit on Friday, vowing to bring justice to his name after years of attacks from the mainstream media.
The incoming 47th president announced he is suing several media outlets, including the New York Times, CBS News, Penguin Random House, and the Daily Beast, alleging widespread bias and defamation. Trump’s lawyer, Edward Andrew Paltzik, demands $10 billion in damages for publishing defamatory material. In the lawsuit, Trump accused the mainstream media of “defaming and disparaging” him during coverage of the election and making “false and defamatory statements.”
The NYT was at the center of the lawsuit.
Green Nightmare: Hertz Accelerates Tesla
Selloff as EV Fleet Depreciation Slams
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Rental car giant Hertz is dramatically expanding its electric vehicle selloff program, with used Tesla Model 3s now available for under $20,000 as the company grapples with mounting EV depreciation costs. Hertz’s heavy investment in Tesla EVs has been a disaster causing massive losses and the loss of its CEO.
Inside EVs reports that Hertz’s ambitious electric vehicle program has hit another significant roadblock, with the company reporting an 89 percent increase in EV depreciation costs, amounting to $537 per vehicle per month. The rental car company has committed to selling 30,000 electric vehicles from its fleet by the end of 2024,
President Joe Biden sat down with Chinese President Xi Jinping for the last of many meetings with the leader of the economic powerhouse, with Biden accidentally referencing an 'alliance' with the country's top competitor.
'We are the most important alliance – or the most important relationship in the entire world, and how we're getting along together can impact the rest of the world,' Biden said, quickly correcting himself after applying the friendly term to a key supporter of Russia who has been harassing U.S. allies in the South China sea and flooding the U.S. with exports.
But he restated his long held view of using diplomacy to avoid problems.
There was a time, going back two weeks ago (oh my, were we ever that young?!) when political pundits and analysts were lending their perspectives and rendering their careers in making election predictions. This was back when pollster Ann Selzer was declaring Kamala Harris as holding a 3 percentage point advantage in Iowa and was on a momentum streak that looked to sway the election her way. She, and the energetic pundits who touted her outlier result, saw shame as she was only off by 16% as Trump took the state handily.
Others were offering their wise prognosticating, including a few seers who speculated
On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “José Díaz-Balart Reports,” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) said DNI nominee Tulsi Gabbard is “someone who is likely a Russian asset,” and “considered to be, essentially, by most assessments, a Russian asset.”
Wasserman Schultz said, “Tulsi Gabbard is someone who has met with war criminals, violated the Department of State’s guidance, and secretly, clandestinely, went to Syria and met with Assad, who gassed and attacked his own people with chemical weapons. She’s considered to be, essentially, by most assessments, a Russian asset. And would be the most dangerous –.”
President-elect Donald Trump tapped longtime fracking advocate Chris Wright to lead his administration’s Department of Energy, he announced Saturday.
Wright, the chief executive of oilfield services group Liberty Energy, helped launch the American Shale Revolution of the mid-2000s that significantly increased US production of oil and natural gas.
“As Secretary of Energy, Chris will be a key leader, driving innovation, cutting red tape, and ushering in a new ‘Golden Age of American Prosperity and Global Peace,'” Trump said in a statement.
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On Saturday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Cavuto Live,” Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) said that the country is seeing another Hitler with President-Elect Donald Trump.
While discussing the 2024 elections, Clyburn said that the country has swung back and forth between left and right over the years, and, at the moment, is swinging to the right, “I hope it’s not going as far right as that which happened in Germany in the 1930s, which, you may remember, I forewarned way back in 2018 that I saw this coming. I’ve studied history all of my life.
President-elect Donald Trump is putting together his new administration as the 47th President of the United States while taking a much-deserved victory lap. Trump was all smiles at Thursday night's America First Policy Conference where he laid out the vision for Trump Administration 2.0, announced further White House appointments and hinted at others, and was feted by Hollywood mogul and actor Sylvester Stallone as the second George Washington. (Photo) To add more juice to the thrill of winning and the agony of the Left's defeat, America First Works created an ad that is a compilation of the media, political "experts," and stalwart Republicans
A humiliating scene unfolded Friday night on far-left MSNBC after a guest used what he described as “a bad choice of words” while predicting the outcome of Gaetz’s nomination to serve as America’s next Attorney General.
As the Daily Mail reported, Host Stephanie Ruhle hosted a segment on her show “11th Hour” to discuss President-elect Trump’s bold choice to pick Gaetz to take over the Attorney General position and drain the Deep State swamp.
The Gateway Pundit reported that Trump sent shockwaves throughout the political world on Wednesday after announcing Gaetz as America’s next leading law enforcement official.
President-elect Trump announced that Chris Wright, the CEO and founder of Liberty Energy, will lead the Department of Energy in his new administration.
"I am thrilled to announce that Chris Wright will be joining my Administration as both United States Secretary of Energy, and Member of the newly formed Council of National Energy," Trump said in a statement released Saturday.
The newly-elected president wrote that Wright "has been a leading technologist and entrepreneur in Energy." "He has worked in Nuclear, Solar, Geothermal, and Oil and Gas," Trump's statement said. "Most significantly, Chris was one of the pioneers who helped launch the American Shale Revolution
Two Democratic senators urged the Pentagon and federal law enforcement Friday to investigate Elon Musk’s alleged communications with Russian officials, including President Vladimir Putin, citing national security concerns. Democratic New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Democratic Rhode Island Sen. Jack Reed, who chairs the Armed Services Committee, addressed their concerns to Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Pentagon’s inspector general.
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has failed its seventh consecutive financial audit.
Despite commanding an $824 billion 2024 budget — funded entirely by hardworking American taxpayers — the Pentagon remains unable to account for vast sums of money.
The Pentagon began its first-ever agency-wide financial audit in 2017. This marked the beginning of a process that had been sought, promised, and delayed for years.
Since undertaking this initial audit, the Pentagon has consistently failed to pass its subsequent audits, the first of which failed in 2018.
Out of the 28 entities audited this year, only 9 received clean opinions, while 15 received disclaimers —
LIMA — Lame-duck President Biden was relegated to the back corner of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference’s annual family photo in Peru — as Chinese President Xi Jinping enjoyed a front-and-center position next to the host country’s President Dina Boluarte.
The petty humiliation of America’s leader came ahead of his Saturday afternoon meeting with Xi — who has been feted with relative pomp throughout the APEC event in Lima as thanks for his country’s financing of a large new port on Peru’s coast.
The outgoing Biden, 81, whose increasing irrelevance domestically and on the world stage has earned him the moniker of “super lame duck,”
CNN: Reporters Were Crying and Hugging
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A report by CNN chief legal affairs correspondent Paula Reid indicates journalists were spotted consoling each other in the hallways after learning that President-elect Donald Trump had nominated Matt Gaetz as his Attorney General.
Reid provided the insight during a segment on "The Situation Room" With Wolf Blitzer.
Blitzer inquired as to the panel's thoughts on what the nomination would mean for the Justice Department. Reid chimed in and pointed out that Gaetz's pick is controversial due to his ongoing investigations.
"But just because you‘ve been investigated, right, Hillary Clinton has also been criminally investigated, but not charged, it doesn‘t mean you can‘t be attorney general," she explained.
President-elect Donald Trump has not even taken office yet, but Republicans have reportedly already started the effort to purge wokeness from the federal government.
Several conservative groups are currently in a campaign to identify federal employees who are partisan or possibly resistant to enacting Trump’s agenda, according to a CNN report. These groups include the Heritage Foundation Oversight Project and the American Accountability Foundation.
The organizations have flooded federal agencies with tens of thousands of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests demanding access to emails, personnel records, and other communications between government employees. The effort is part of a comprehensive strategy to lay the groundwork for mass firings of civil servants
Boy, Michael Moore is a real piece of... work, isn't he? So much of the time, if reality was in Miami, Moore would be in Timbuktu. To call him a blind ideologue is to indulge in the grossest of understatements. He has gotten so many things so badly wrong, that it's rather amazing he has the nerve to show his face in public.
And yet, on Wednesday, he retreated to his own website to post a rant about Donald Trump's reelection, and how Americans are "not a good people" for reelecting him:
Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore broke his silence about the 2024 election on Wednesday,
US pilots receive Silver Stars for heroic
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The U.S. Air Force on Friday awarded Capt. Lacie “Sonic” Hester and Maj. Benjamin “Irish” Coffey the Silver Star, America’s third-highest combat honor, for their heroism in intercepting over 70 Iranian drones threatening Israel during Tehran’s assault in April. The operation, conducted by U.S. air and naval forces, unfolded in complete darkness. “When we were getting our brief to go fly that night, we still had no idea,” Hester told CNN, describing the perilous maneuvers and courage required to counter the drone swarm. “It could have just been a bust — just another sortie of flying in a circle, waiting for it to happen.” Hester became the first woman
Our Elections Are Not OK
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On this very terrain, four years ago, I asserted that we can “never again” allow an election like 2020 to happen. I’m back to say that despite Trump’s near landslide, America’s election system is still broken.
And the time to fix it is immediately, while President Trump has the wind at his back with a Republican Congress and the public on his side.
You most clearly see a broken election system when the margins are extremely tight. We saw it in 2020 when approximately 40,000 votes in key states tipped the election, and not so much in 2024. But rest assured, the public still lacks confidence in the integrity of our elections
RFK Jr.'s Biggest Problem at HHS May Not
Be Big Pharma, But Those Legions of Highly-Paid
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Be Big Pharma, But Those Legions of Highly-Paid
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. surely faces a tough confirmation battle in the Republican-led Senate, and you can be sure that Big Pharma's minions are even now readying their heavy artillery to deliver round after round of explosive character assassination and misrepresentation.
But those volleys might not be RFK Jr.'s biggest obstacle as President Donald Trump's Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). No, his biggest problem could easily turn out to be the deeply entrenched career civil service bureaucracy and its ideological battering ram of programs advancing the fundament falsehood of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI).
The Pentagon on Friday failed its seventh audit in a row, with the nation’s largest government agency still unable to fully account for its more than $824 billion budget, though officials stress they are making good progress toward a clean audit in 2028.
The Department of Defense technically earned a disclaimer of opinion, meaning it failed to provide sufficient information to auditors to form an accurate opinion.
The goal is to earn an unmodified audit opinion, or a clean audit that says the financial statements are accurate. A qualified opinion says there are omissions and concerns but the finances are generally reliable.
The once and future President Donald Trump was wrong about one thing: "We’re going to win so much, you’re going to be so sick and tired of winning'"
Not me.
The White House, the Senate, the House, the popular vote, a state legislative and mayoral majority, all on top of the Supreme Court majority... George Clooney retiring from politics and late-night TV hosts like Jimmy Kimmel literally crying on television.
It’s all too good to be true.
The decisive wipeout of Vice President Kamala Harris was a rebuke of the stale misandristic Democratic Party and everything they represent: woke; envy; censorship; bureaucracy; elite sanctimony; corporate collusion and war.
I said before that an intraparty civil war may be brewing in the Democratic Party in the wake of the Republican Party’s tremendous victory in the 2024 elections. And evidence continues to build.
Everyone is looking to blame someone for the loss. Fingers have been pointed at Joe Biden for not dropping out earlier, Kamala Harris for running a terrible campaign, and Tim Walz for being Tim Walz. The party’s problems appear to be getting worse, as Pelosi is now being told to “take a seat” and get out of the way.
Among other issues, Pelosi faces mounting criticism from her Democrat colleagues for publicly undermining
When there are kings, there are jesters. One glorious benefit of living through a time of political upheaval and uncertainty at the hands of a fickle ruler is watching the rich vein of satire surface from the bonfire of the king’s vanities. [Snip] With America only weeks away from the return of its felon president, the jester business here is about to enter a golden age. His term hasn’t even started and...his first term is echoing through headlines as he made Cabinet appointments and demanded their positions be accepted without confirmation or vetting or well any old nod to how our government works.
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that “Democrats run for office as if the voters don’t live here, as if they don’t go to the grocery store and Starbucks and the office. But they do. They live here, and they actually see women and people of color, and it doesn’t look like some patriarchal, racist nightmare.” And “The basis for Democratic campaigns has become, we’re the smart people. That we know from the get-go. No need to look into that.” And criticized the “intellectual incest” of the party.
Maher began his closing monologue by stating, “Someone must tell the usual suspects on the far left
For a hundred years, American Jews have overwhelmingly voted for the Democrat candidate. Franklin Roosevelt received about 80% of the Jewish vote each time. This dramatic tilt toward the Democrats continued up through the turn of the century, when they gave Al Gore about 79%. They gave Obama 78% in his first election, and even gave him 69% in his second – after Obama’s antipathy toward Israel became impossible to overlook.
Some of this Jewish support for Democrats is understandable.
Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign shelled out $2.6 million on private jet travel in the final, dying gasps of her presidential run — bringing her failed campaign’s total tally on the environmentally unfriendly mode of transportation to a staggering $12 million, records show.
As Harris’ team desperately shuttled across the nation to host rallies and coax voter turnout between Oct. 1 and Oct. 17, her campaign ponied up nearly $2.2 million to the south Florida-based company Private Jet Services Group, along with $430,000 to Arlington, Va.-based charter flight broker Advanced Aviation Team, according to Federal Election Commission data.
The reliance on private jets, which can be up to 14 times more polluting
Senate Minority Whip John Thune, R-S.D., was "adamant" he would carry out President-elect Trump's agenda as leader as he made his case to GOP senators before they selected him to succeed Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Wednesday.
"I will just say that Sen. Thune said over and over and over and over in this long meeting that he was 100% behind President Trump — 100% behind his agenda," said Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo.
"He was adamant about it." (Photo) Hawley noted that he did not vote for Thune, instead publicly endorsing Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas.
"But I will hold him to that pledge," Hawley said of Thune.
As the contested Pennsylvania Senate race barrels towards a $1 million recount, Democratic officials in a few blue counties are openly admitting to counting disqualified ballots in defiance of state law and court orders.
The Associated Press has called the race for Republican Sen.-elect Dave McCormick, who currently holds a 26,000 vote lead over incumbent Democratic Sen. Bob Casey. But Casey has refused to concede and insisted that every vote be counted. The close margin – within one percentage point – triggered an automatic recount under Pennsylvania law.
Report: Democrats Already Drawing Up Plans
‘Refusing to Enforce Immigration Laws’
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Democrats in deep blue states are already drawing up plans to thwart President-elect Donald Trump's attempts to fix illegal immigration in America.
The plan? Simply refusing to enforce the law, according to a New York Times report published on Saturday.
The Times notes that the resistance party is seeking to pivot away from silly protests involving "pink knit caps and homemade signs" and instead will "tune out" the new President when he enters the Oval Office.
"As they face this tough political landscape, Democratic officials, activists and ambitious politicians are seeking to build their second wave of opposition to Mr. Trump from the places that they still control: deep-blue states," they write.
Donald Trump's pick of Fox News host Pete Hegseth to lead the Department of Defense will no doubt shake up the Pentagon say troops.[Snip] But current and former service members tell DailyMail.com that a shake-up at the top of the Pentagon totem pole is necessary. Robert O'Neill, the former Navy SEAL who killed terrorist Osama bin Laden in 2011, told DailyMail.com that Hegseth is a 'fantastic choice.'[Snip] Other service members share the same view that Hegseth will bring a new perspective to the agency.
A Southwest Airlines plane carrying passengers has been struck by a bullet amid gunfire near a Texas airport.
The shooting took place near Dallas Love Field Airport at around 9.50pm Friday.
No injuries have been reported and the suspect remains at large. The plane has been taken out of service.
The Indianapolis-bound plane was preparing for departure when the right side was struck by a bullet just under the flight deck, a Southwest spokeswoman said.
'Southwest will accommodate our Customers on another flight,' she added.
'Law enforcement authorities have been notified and the plane has been removed from service.'
The German government has collapsed and is rapidly heading to snap elections in early 2025, but Chancellor Olaf Scholz has picked this moment to reach out to Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first time in two years to ask him to withdraw his troops from Ukraine.
Olaf Scholz, the German Chancellor who leads the so-called progressive coalition ‘traffic light’ government of social democrats, liberals, and greens and who now faces a February snap election after it collapsed, made a rare telephone call to his Russian counterpart on Friday to ask for the war in Ukraine to end.
Per a German government spokesman, the call lasted for an hour
President-elect Donald Trump's pick for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has hit back over claims his tattoos are associated with white supremacists.
The veteran responded to an Associated Press story that said he was flagged as a possible 'insider threat' by a fellow service member due to a tattoo on his bicep.
That service member had sent an email to the District of Columbia National Guard over the tattoo which reads 'Deus Vult', claiming it was used by white supremacists.
Senator Bill Hagerty Outlines Case for
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MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell just didn’t know what to do with Republican Senator from Tennessee Bill Hagerty, after he outlined all the motives and justifications for President Trump to appoint Matt Gaetz for U.S. Attorney General.
Senator Hagerty cites examples of the Main Justice targeting of President Trump from the 2016 campaign all the way through the IC manipulation of the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020, to the continued use of Lawfare to target President Trump throughout 2024. Of course, that background makes the appointment of Matt Gaetz understandable. WATCH:
OAKLAND, Calif. - A recent poll showed that Vice President Kamala Harris could have a strong advantage if she chooses to run for governor of California in 2026 when Gov. Gavin Newsom’s term ends. The survey, carried out by the University of California, Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies and co-sponsored by the Los Angeles Times, indicated that nearly half of the 4,838 participants might support Harris in a potential gubernatorial bid. The Times reported that Harris's support would mostly come from Democratic voters, with 72% indicating they would be very or somewhat likely to back her for governor. In contrast
Liberal women have sworn to go on sex strike over Donald Trump’s election win.
Mr Trump swept to victory in Tuesday’s presidential race that Democrats cast as a referendum on abortion rights and protections for women.
Some women are now threatening to punish men for voting for Trump, taking inspiration from a Korean feminist movement that vows to withhold sex from men in order to redefine the gender power balance.
Secrets
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Would you like to know what the Deep State knows? Every dirty little secret? The details of their campaigns against parents concerned about the political and sexual indoctrination of their kids in public schools? Want to know who decided to surveil Catholics and other Christians? How about who’s behind the tyrannical pursuit of Americans who visited the Capital on January 6? Want all the details about who’s behind the Covid lockdowns and lies? How about the real story on the 51 intelligence traitors who went after Trump, the whole story on the Russia hoax and who decided to bury the Hunter Biden laptop story?
Future first lady Melania Trump plans to split her time between New York, Florida, and Washington DC during her husband’s second term in office, according to a report from the New York Post. Reportedly, she is doing this “so she can be the hands-on mother to Barron that she is,” a source told the outlet.
“Melania will be the first lady, but only on her terms,” the source said. “She’ll do the big events. But no ladies’ tea and no — or very few — interviews.”
“She views winning as the main show, and the rest she’ll do as she pleases,” the source continued. “She’s really in the driver’s seat
Former Vice President Mike Pence has urged Senate Republicans to reject President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Mike Pence, who famously turned his back on Trump after serving under him during his first term, has now released a scathing statement on Kennedy’s nomination.
Pence, in an ironic twist, called it “deeply concerning” and labeled it a “betrayal” of the pro-life values their administration once stood for.
On Thursday, President Trump announced his decision to appoint Kennedy to the pivotal role,
During his campaign, Donald Trump promised moms like Jackie Medina he would deport millions of illegal immigrants, including criminals like the man who killed her 16-year-old daughter Lizbeth last year.
But can he even do it?
There are an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S., and Trump has vowed to deport “all” of them. The vast majority aren’t dangerous, and many have lived and worked in the U.S. for years. Does the president-elect really plan to deport such a massive number, even those who don’t pose an immediate threat to society? While border security needs to be tightened,
The Washington Post’s fact checks have by and large been tools of partisan politics. We saw this most notoriously in Oct. 2020, when the Post undercut reports that Hunter Biden arranged what looked to all the world like an influence-peddling meeting between one of his foreign business clients and The Big Guy, that is, his father, who was vice president at the time. The fact that the Post’s “fact checks” are largely designed to intimidate, confuse, and undermine foes of the left’s agenda makes it all the more striking that on Wednesday, the Post’s fact-checking spotlight was shining on none other than Nancy Pelosi,
In under three months, Donald Trump will be in the White House again. We’ve compiled a list of people who helped him pull off his extraordinary comeback—and will help him govern once he is in the Oval Office again. Think of it as a Who’s Who of Trump World in 2024. Some may join him as official White House staffers, cabinet members, or diplomats. Others may simply have the president’s ear, either as members of the media or trusted confidants. Either way, these are the people who will shape the country for the next four years. Bookmark this page; you’re going to need it later.
The Coming Era of MAGA Dominance
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Only Donald Trump could have pulled off the kind of victory we witnessed just over one week ago. The victory achieved by, and for, the man himself is already the greatest political comeback in American history. But it is entirely possible that his win now could set up an equally unprecedented comeback, but not for any one particular individual. If the Republican Party plays its cards right this time, it could build off of the massive coalition that President Trump has built for himself and ride this wave of momentum to a new era of dominance in American politics.
CNN anchor Chris Wallace was reportedly told his two poorly rated shows would be canceled and his massive salary slashed before the veteran journalist announced he would leave the network.
Wallace, who was being paid a reported $7 million a year, was informed that he was welcome to stay on as an analyst but at a much lower salary as part of CEO Mark Thompson’s vast cost-cutting initiatives, according to Puck News.
Instead, Wallace announced earlier this week that he was exiting CNN, and portrayed the move in a Daily Beast interview as a pivot to podcasting and streaming — because “that’s where the action seems to be,” he said.
Democrats on the Bucks County Board of Commissioners voted to illegally count misdated and undated ballots in an attempt to swing Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate election in favor of ousted Democrat incumbent Sen. Bob Casey, D-Penn.
The vote comes after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court already ruled those ballots were not allowed to be counted, per state law.
Diane Ellis-Marseglia, one of the Democrats, admitted she knew it was against the law, but voted to count the ballots anyway.
“I think we all know that precedent by a court doesn’t matter anymore in this country. And people violate laws anytime they want,” she said.
One of the most bizarre sporting events of all time has finally arrived.
Mike Tyson, the 58-year-old former heavyweight champion once dubbed “The Baddest Man on the Planet,” and YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul, 27, are squaring off in a professional boxing match tonight at the Dallas Cowboys’ AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, with the fight streaming on Netflix at 8 p.m. ET.
The fight was originally supposed to take place on July 20, but it was postponed after Tyson had an ulcer flare-up and began throwing up blood.
Rudy Giuliani surrendered his vintage Mercedes Benz, dozens of watches and other lavish possessions to the two Georgia election workers he defamed following the 2020 presidential election – in what his rep decried as a “bastardization” of the justice system.
The 80-year-old disbarred lawyer and former New York City mayor relinquished 26 watches, a ring, cash, and a blue 1980 Mercedes convertible once owned by Hollywood icon Lauren Bacall, to the two women who won the $148 million defamation judgment, according to his lawyer.
Giuliani, once fondly known as “America’s Mayor,” was given until Nov. 14 to fork over his assets after missing an Oct. 29 deadline.
A Connecticut teacher who went viral for threatening to “fight” Trump supporters and land them on a “stretcher, gone forever” in a social media video has resigned and made a tearful apology, saying her “message came off wrong.”
Annie Dunleavy, who was a special education teacher at Chapman Elementary School in Cheshire until earlier this week, came under fire for posting a profane rant on Snapchat after President-elect Donald Trump’s victory: [Tweet, video]
Claiming that “people of color, and poor people, and gay people” were no longer “gonna be safe in America,” the 30-year-old teacher pointed at the camera and said, “Neither the f**k are you guys.”