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December 19, 2024

Top 10 Conservative Idiots #17-17: 2024 Year In Review Edition


Top 10 Conservative Idiots #17-17: 2024 Year In Review Edition

Welcome back to the Top 10 Conservative Idiots! Yoooooooooooooooooooooo!!! What’s up Santa Ana, how you guys doing? It is great to finally be back home! Sold us out again! Are you guys doing fucking good? Great! Well, here we are – it’s finally the end of the year, and holy shit, not since COVID have I ever wanted a year to end more. But hey it’s our last year of freedom before Fuckface comes in and starts ruling this country with an iron fist. We might as well enjoy it. And like I’ve been saying this is our last regular Top 10 for quite a while. Yeah we desperately need to take a lot of time off because this election cycle practically brought us to the breaking point. It was too much. And of course it ended with the worst outcome of an election in United States history – total one party rule. So yeah, this is peak conservative idiocy, and it will be wild to see what January has in store for us. But fuck everyone who made this nightmare administration happen. OK, that’s enough of my ranting, do we have time for the thing? Of course we do! Yeah we got to talk about this bizarre new trend in airports – seat squatting – look, we all travel quite a bit. Look here’s the thing – no, stop making this a trend. If you’re sitting in my seat when I board, I’m kicking your ass out. Period. End of story. Yeah no, I’m in a “I don’t take shit from anybody” kind of mood and have been since the 2016 and 2024 elections. But really, social media is once again, the catalyst for enabling this kind of extremely selfish behavior. Yeah it’s probably the reason why we can’t have nice things in this country ever again! Hey, we had the chance! But nope, you chose to listen to the wrong people and voted his sorry ass back into power where it doesn’t belong for a second time and are giving him the chance to destroy the country for good. Boy, that escalated quickly, didn’t it? Yeah since the last month, I have been in a “fuck everybody” kind of mode, and that may be the weirdest segue we’ve ever done! Hey it’s our last show for quite a while. OK, that’s enough of the intro, we have a lot of idiocy to get to! But first Jordan Klepper of the Daily Show compiles his best MAGA encounters of the year:

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Well, here we are. It’s finally the end of this fucking year. And we are all pissed off, dejected and dismayed by the outcome of the WORST ELECTION IN UNITED STATES HISTORY! I cannot emphasize enough how bad this election was and how fucking bad things are going to get. But hey if you’re here, you already know that! But we will be watching president elect Elon Musk burn everything down from the sidelines for now. This is also the last regular Top 10 for a while, because we gotta take a very long break. We’re as exhausted as you guys are. So to begin our annual look back at the year that was, we of course dedicate the first slot to January – February (1) which started out with promise. That is, unless you were watching Fox News, where they kept hammering shit against Biden about the economy and their stupid border war crisis – a crisis they made up and intentionally blew up so Biden wouldn’t get a win. Fuck Fox News! The second slot goes to March and April (2), which saw the beginning of the presidential primary nomination, and as can imagine, it was a total shit show and the first time in US history a convicted felon was nominated for the position. In the third slot this week, is May and June (3) when Fuckface got his sentence and, oh yeah, he almost got “assassinated”, which was of course… probably staged to convert more people to his side, we knew it. Taking the fourth slot this week is July and August (4) which featured the debate from hell, Joe Biden stepping aside, Kamala Harris enjoying a surge of popularity… and… another Fuckface assassination attempt? Holy hell. In the number 5 slot this week is September and October (5) which was dominated by two things – one – the election, and two – an absolutely bizarre conspiracy started by vice presidential nominee JD Vance aimed at harassing Springfield, Ohio’s Haitian community. And to round out the year, in slot #6 is November – December (6). Yes, we have to talk about it. We thought the 2016 election was the election from hell. Just wait until 2025 when the real shit will start hitting the fan, and it's going to be the massive shit show that everyone thought it was, and then some. For those saying “What could possibly go wrong?”, you ain’t seen nothing yet! In the number 7 slot this week is of course, our weekly visit to the Holy Church Of The Top 10 in “Holy Shit”, and it’s our annual end of the year look back at all of the crazy shit that went down in 2024 among the lunatic fringe faction of Christianity and predicts what’s going to happen next year! In the number 8 slot this week, is a new edition of Conspiracy Corner! And holy shit, does our old friend Marjorie Greene have an absolutely bizarre new theory to sell you about drones over New Jersey! In the number 9 (NEIN!!) slot this week is People Are Dumb (9), and it’s always our favorite People Are Dumb because we get to recap our favorite idiots throughout the year – the stupidest of the stupid! And finally, in our post-election segment Road To The Shithouse (10), we’re going to tell you exactly what you voted for and how things are going to get infinitely worse with the worst House, the worst Senate, the worst SCOTUS, and the worst President we’ve ever had in American history can really fuck things up, Merry Christmas, America! Finally, since this is going to be our last regular Top 10 for a long time, we need to go out with a bang, and we’ve got an ultra-special musical guest that we really had to pull some strings to get on our crappy program. Enjoy! And as always don't forget the key!


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So once again, we are faced with the inevitable task – how do you boil down an entire year into just six short entries? Well, of course, the year was absolutely dominated by one man – of course we all know it’s Orange Fuckface. Yeah, remember when we were salivating at the fact that he would just go fuck off and hawk his shitty products like his stupid NFT trading cards and not be, you know, an actual threat to the United States and its’ allies? Boy were we wrong! Well, a lot of things happened in January and of course, that’s our usual time off between seasons. But probably my favorite thing that happened between when we signed off on Dec. 16th and when we came back from our break. And that was that one of our all time favorite bands here, Green Day, altered the lyrics to the title track from their acclaimed American Idiot album, which turned 20 this year. And of course, the altered lyrics not only triggered some MAGA tears, the blab chamber on Fox News wouldn’t shut the fuck up about it, and it was rather glorious to watch the MAGA meltdown.

On New Year’s Eve, we learned the improbable fact that a trio of middle-aged, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inducted punks in notably well-tailored suits can somehow still shock and offend the masses. For Green Day, all it took was changing the “American Idiot” lyric “I’m not part of a redneck agenda” to “I’m not part of the MAGA agenda” during their performance on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rocking Eve with Ryan Seacrest — a lyric tweak they’ve been using for years.

The ensuing freakout on social media and conservative news channels went on for days, with some commentators seeming to be downright stunned that Billie Joe Armstrong holds the left-of-center political views he’s been quite clear about for decades. “Green Day goes from raging against the machine to milquetoastedly raging for it,” Elon Musk wrote on X.

In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, we try to make sense of the outsized reaction to Green Day’s performance — and take a look ahead at what it says about the role musicians might play in this year’s presidential campaign, with Andy Greene joining host Brian Hiatt for the discussion. To hear the full episode, go here for the podcast provider of your choice, listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or just press play above.)
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/green-day-Fuckface-maga-new-years-eve-1234940158/




Then of course, everyone was horrified by the fact that there were literal Nazis marching in New York City, but in January, they seemed a bit confused about how turnstiles work. It was literally like watching that scene from Blazing Saddles. Does anyone have a dime? Someone go and get a shitload of dimes! Ha ha ha ha ha! There was also the feud between Fuckface’s shadow president Elon Musk and our favorite news host, John Oliver that lasted a few days and was definitely amusing. But maybe the craziest thing that happened in the first month of the year happened in our favorite state, Florida, the Sunshine State, America’s penis. So while us normal, non-Fox watching folks have been horrified with seeing Moms For Liberty types get elected to our school boards with zero experience and are banning books and other things kids need to learn, well, we’re not surprised this happened.

"A school district in Florida’s panhandle reportedly pulled multiple dictionaries and reference books off its library shelves for including descriptions of “sexual conduct.”

Escambia County School District allegedly removed five different dictionaries, eight encyclopedias and the “The Guinness Book of World Records” from its collection after determining the titles could run afoul of Florida’s HB 1069 bill, which restricts sexual content from being taught in schools.

The books were among the 1,600 titles the public school district took out of circulation last summer, according to a statement from free speech advocacy group PEN America.

Decommissioned titles also include biographies of Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Oprah Winfrey, Nicki Minaj and Thurgood Marshall."

Read more at : https://www.huffpost.com/entry/florida-school-district-removes-dictionaries-sexual-content_n_659ef171e4b0e696b9109285




Of course, now we have to move onto February. The Kansas City Chiefs are one step closer to becoming the Tom Brady Patriots by winning their 4th Super Bowl in a row. One state that clearly has its’ middle finger aimed at the pulse of the United States is Texas. Once the bluest state in the land, Texas is now hard authoritarian crazy, and isn’t coming back to reality any time soon. The unholy trinity, the un-magnificent three leaders of that state – Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Ken Paxton, and SOS Dan Patrick are cold blooded psychopathic killers, especially when it comes to carrying out their Fox News’ masters demands, installed some booby death trap barbed wire at the US – Mexico border, resulting in deaths. Meanwhile, a bizarre MAGA convoy outside El Paso was actually cheerleading this shit (see: Idiots #16-3 ). Yeah that was just the beginning of the slide towards fascism, scary times we live in! But the real scary thing happened during the Chief’s victory parade in Kansas City. Yeah, why we can’t have nice things!

One person was killed and more than 20 were injured when shots were fired after a Wednesday rally celebrating the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory.

While details of what exactly unfolded before the gunfire erupted are still coming to light, here is what NBC News has learned so far about the shooting that turned the celebration into chaos.


Thousands of jubilant fans flocked to downtown Kansas City, Missouri, bedecked in the team’s colors of red, white and gold, to celebrate the team’s Super Bowl victory Wednesday afternoon. More than 800 law enforcement officers were stationed in and around the rally for safety, authorities said.

The shooting was reported at the conclusion of the rally, around 1:50 p.m., Kansas City police Chief Stacey Graves said Thursday.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/timeline-kansas-city-chiefs-parade-shooting-what-we-know-rcna139000




But of course, speaking of death and destruction in this country, the end of February this year had a *LOT* of it. And one of the things I absolutely have to mention is social media bullying. One account on the site formerly known as Twitter, which we now call the Xitter, that is championed by Elon Musk is an account called libsoftiktok, led by MAGA Qultist and insurrectionist Chaya Raichik (see: Idiots #16-4 ) . They may have inspired the murder of a trans student in Texas, and libsoftiktok got a job under batshit crazy Oklahoma superintendent Ryan Walters! WTF! But we knew something was up this year when the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) held their annual gathering in – wait for it – another nation! Yes, Hungary, led by Putin apologist Viktor Orban. Where they said this, which raised more than a few eyebrows around the world!

Far-right activist and prominent “Pizzagate” influencer Jack Posobiec hailed the “end of democracy” at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), where prominent Republicans and GOP officials trotted out January 6 conspiracy theories and downplayed the attack on the US Capitol to overturn 2020’s election results.

“Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely,” Posobiec said during a panel moderated by former Orange Fuckface aide Steve Bannon on Thursday.

“We didn’t get all the way there on January 6, but we will endeavor to get rid of it and replace it with this, right here,” he added.

Posobiec is among guests at this year’s four-day CPAC event in Washington DC, where Mr Fuckface, right-wing media personalities, members of Congress, state officials and the former president’s allies and surrogates are reviving familiar grievances and outlining attacks against political rivals heading into 2024 elections.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/posobiec-democracy-cpac-january-6-b2501566.html




That’s it for January and February. Now we move onto…


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Now we move on from the frost of winter onto spring! Yeah that’s right, did people forget we were in an election year? It’s presidential primary time! Where it all begins, the traditional Straw Poll in Iowa was the predictable disaster that we all knew it could be, and then some. There were some rather interesting senate races to watch including Fuckface’s favorite punching bag Adam Schiff and another MAGA Qultist who has no business being in politics, Steve Garvey. But probably the most shocking nomination of all the candidates not running for president was the guy who they chose to be possible next governor of North Carolina, Mark Robinson. Yes, he’s every bit as batshit crazy as you can imagine, and there’s no doubt if 30 Rock were still on the air, that Tracy Jordan would be playing him. But remember the Governor Dunston episode? It’s kind of like that but IRL. However, that seems to be the way the whole world is trending these days. But of course, since the entire world seems to be going fascist batshit crazy, let’s check in on our good friends Argentina, and see how their quest to make Argentina great again with their Putin stooge Javier Milei at the helm. It’s of course, going as predictably south as you could possibly imagine. Which doesn’t exactly bode well for the United States coming out of the 2024 election. Great job, America! /sarcasm

Colombia ordered the expulsion of Argentine diplomats from their embassy in the Andean nation, Colombia’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday, citing “denigrating” comments by Argentine President Javier Milei about Colombian President Gustavo Petro.

In a recent interview with news channel CNN, which has not yet been aired in full, Milei called Petro a “terrorist,” “murderer” and “communist.”

“The Argentine president’s comments have deteriorated the trust of our nation, in addition to offending the dignity of President Petro, who was democratically elected,” the ministry said in a statement.

In January, Colombia recalled its ambassador to Argentina after similar comments from Milei.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/colombia-expels-argentine-diplomats-milei-calls-petro-terrorist-rcna145431




Then in April, we had the horrifying collapse of the Francis Scott Key bridge outside of Baltimore, which sent America’s conspiracy theorists including Marjorie Shit For Brains into a tizzy with some absolutely wild and unfiltered speculation (see: Idiots #16-8 ). Down south, the fight against abortion was just beginning. Yes, for the 25th year in a row, thanks anti-abortion scumbags! Of course, they were celebrating their ill gotten gains of maliciously overturning Roe V Wade after they got caught lying to Congress and saying they wouldn’t. But we all knew they would. Also, there was that whole thing about deregulated Capitalism rearing its’ ugly head when Boeing 737 Max 8 planes started crashing and having errors. But the biggest story of April was the Ukraine aid. Marjorie Shit For Brains was threatening to primary Mike Johnson over it. But thankfully the conspiracy theorists lost that battle!

The U.S. House of Representatives on Saturday with broad bipartisan support passed a $95 billion legislative package providing security assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, over bitter objections from Republican hardliners.

The legislation now proceeds to the Democratic-majority Senate, which passed a similar measure more than two months ago. U.S. leaders from Democratic President Joe Biden to top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell have been urging embattled Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson to bring it up for a vote.

The Senate is expected to pass the measure next week, sending it to Biden to sign into law. A dozen or so Democratic lawmakers waved small Ukrainian flags as it became clear that element of the package was headed to passage. Johnson told lawmakers that was a "violation of decorum." Johnson this week chose to ignore ouster threats by hardline members of his fractious 218-213 majority and push forward the measure that includes some $60.84 billion for Ukraine as it struggles to fight off a two-year Russian invasion.

The unusual four-bill package also includes funds for Israel, security assistance for Taiwan and allies in the Indo-Pacific and a measure that includes sanctions, a threat to ban the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok and the potential transfer of seized Russian assets to Ukraine.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-house-vote-long-awaited-95-billion-ukraine-israel-aid-package-2024-04-20/




Yeah, we all thought that might have been the end of MAGA. But nope, we haven’t even begun to hit the peak of stupidity yet! Just wait until January! And yes, during March and April, the cause to ban the social media streaming service known as Tik Tok was coming to a head, but could they actually do it in 2025? Well, it’s impossible to say at this point. But my favorite story of the first part of the year, has to be yet another shitty, failed product that Fuckface attempted to attach his name to – social media! Yes, you might remember on social media when the $DJT stock went public and MAGAs were gloating about how they were going to get rich. But remember that term from the 2008 economic crisis called “pump and dump” where brokers were overestimating the value of companies so they could loot what was left of the treasury? Yeah that happened.

Fuckface Media shares have been slipping in recent days. So has Orange Fuckface’s net worth.

The former president is no longer listed on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a daily ranking of the world’s 500 richest people, after the stock price for Fuckface Media – the parent company behind the former president’s social media company Truth Social – took a nosedive.

The price has skidded. Shares dipped 12% on Friday and 8% on Monday. And after making up some lost ground on Tuesday, Fuckface Media nosedived again on Wednesday, ending the day down 8.6% at $34.26. Shares have slid more than 50% since their peak in late March.

Wednesday has been the stock's lowest-trading day since Fuckface Media merged with the public shell company Digital World Acquisition Corp. and started trading under the ticker DJT on March 26.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/04/09/Fuckface-media-stock-price-dip/73260727007/




And by the way, remember what we said about abortion? Guess what? Not only did Alabama set the tone for crazy in 2024, along comes Arizona and says “hold my beer and watch this!”. Yes, apparently, everyone seems to have forgotten that today’s bloodthirsty and ruthless GOP wants to take the United States back to the stone ages. Literally. Yes, Arizona – where batshit crazy religious fundamentalists rule the state senate, and with the aid of a MAGA Q nutjob who literally prayed on the senate floor to make this draconian ruling happen, was what made it possible. Yes, the horrifying overturning of Roe V. Wade in 2022 was only just the beginning. 2025 is going to bring some truly insane shit happening to the world of forced birth practices! And come on, even Fuckface himself said that ruling goes too far! When he says it, you know they went too far!

Orange Fuckface said Wednesday that an Arizona law that criminalizes nearly all abortions goes too far and called on Arizona lawmakers to change it, while also defending the overturning of Roe v. Wade that cleared states to ban the procedure.

“It’ll be straightened out and as you know, it’s all about states’ rights,” the former president told supporters and journalists after landing in Atlanta for a fundraiser. “It’ll be straightened out, and I’m sure that the governor and everybody else are going to bring it back into reason and that’ll be taken care of, I think, very quickly.”

Though Fuckface has waffled on whether he supports abortion rights, he appointed three of the Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe v. Wade and ended a federally guaranteed right to abortion. Now facing growing political backlash as Democrats notch victories around the nation by campaigning on abortion rights, Fuckface increasingly has been put on the defensive and urged Republicans to avoid supporting bans that are unpopular with many Americans.

Fuckface issued a video statement this week declining to endorse a national abortion ban and saying he believes limits should be left to the states. His statement angered some religious conservatives and energized allies of President Joe Biden who see abortion rights as one of Fuckface’s weaknesses.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/Fuckface-abortion-arizona-law-florida-ban-7cdd6d2e3c320a89ec7a7c037824e7cd




That’s it for winter and the first part of spring! Now onto..


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There was a lot to unpack in May and June. Too much, in fact! Yes, the first half of summer was when Bibi Netanyahu began his completely illegal and immoral occupation of the Gaza Strip, which we made a Top 10 policy not to cover. And why is that? Because we’re a comedy show and that goes against our long-standing policy of not making fun of events that are too horrifying to make fun of. So we of course will skip that for now. But perhaps the biggest story of the year, at least in the United States, was the securities fraud trial of Orange Fuckface by the state of New York. It was literally everywhere – every headline, every piece of news, you name it. And of course, like the sadistic football coach’s assistant that Fox News is, they just kept moving back the goal posts. But those of us who aren’t dialed into the Murdoch monopoly know that he’s guilty as fuck. But that didn’t stop his deranged cultist fanbase from continuing to vote for him anyways. It’s truly insane what this country allowed him to get away with, and continues to allow him to get away with, and now here we are – literally at the door of fascism, but we can remember where it all started. It also spawned the term “lawfare” – a made up MAGA term that’s a weird mish-mash of “law” and “warfare” which is too ridiculous to begin to comprehend.

The Supreme Court has scheduled a special session to hear arguments over whether former President Orange Fuckface can be prosecuted over his efforts to undo his 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden.

The case, to be argued Thursday, stems from Fuckface’s attempts to have charges against him dismissed. Lower courts have found he cannot claim immunity for actions that, prosecutors say, illegally sought to interfere with the election results.

The Republican ex-president has been charged in federal court in Washington with conspiring to overturn the 2020 election, one of four criminal cases he is facing. A trial has begun in New York over hush money payments to a porn star to cover up an alleged sexual encounter.

The Supreme Court is moving faster than usual in taking up the case, though not as quickly as special counsel Jack Smith wanted, raising questions about whether there will be time to hold a trial before the November election, if the justices agree with lower courts that Fuckface can be prosecuted.
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-Fuckface-immunity-prosecution-capitol-riot-9fd5dc5947dab82bbd18d3efcb4267d8




You know, most presidents, when they lose an election because most of the country hates their guts, fuck off and we never hear from them again. The rare exception being the great Jimmy Carter, because he at least spent his latter years, you know, actually helping people. And speaking of trials, the trial over serial New York sex offender Harvey Weinstein announced that it would be going to a retrial. But let’s go back to that guy who we somehow are going to call president again, inexplicably. Yes, his efforts to attempt to overturn the 2020 election were very Wiley Coyote and almost cartoonishly super villain because they kept backfiring and backfiring. But who needs it since we’re in an election year and we already know who the candidate was going to be? Yeah, he’ll get a blank check to do whatever he wants, and it’s going to get real dark, real quick. But we can’t forget this humorous attempt from Arizona where every singe person who attempted to interfere in the election got their ass handed to them, like Wiley Coyote when he tries to light Acme brand dynamite.

The chief of staff for former President Orange Fuckface faces the same conspiracy, fraud and forgery charges as the other named defendants in Arizona’s fake elector case, the state attorney general’s office said Wednesday.

Mark Meadows wasn’t named in a grand jury indictment last week because he hadn’t been served with it, although he was readily identifiable based on descriptions in the document. He has since been served, revealing nine felony counts, Richie Taylor, a spokesman for the attorney general’s office, wrote in an email to The Associated Press.

George Terwilliger, an attorney for Meadows, did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the AP. He previously referred to the Arizona indictment as a “blatantly political and politicized accusation and will be contested and defeated.”

With the indictments, Arizona becomes the fourth state where allies of the former president have been charged with using false or unproven claims about voter fraud related to the election. Joe Biden won Arizona by more than 10,000 votes.
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/charges-revealed-against-former-Fuckface-chief-of-staff-in-arizona-fake-elector-case/




And of course, we cannot forget the absolutely bizarre revelations that South Dakota governor and possible vice presidential candidate Kristi Noem admitted to murdering her dog in cold blood (see: Idiots #16-11 ). We also had a new nickname for Fuckface – Dances With NFTs because he unveiled yet more of that stupid merchandise in the form of NFT trading cards. Yeah the guy who is going to be the next leader of the once-free world has a picture of him floating around the internet looking like fucking Rocky or an astronaut or a NASCAR driver or some other bullshit. Elsewhere, the battle over aid to war-torn Ukraine, which was still going on, was thwarted by Putin stooge and current speaker Mike Johnson. But the summer was dominated by the news coming from the Heritage Foundation that 2025 was going to turn the US into a literal revolving door kleptocracy, and that it was a gift to Fuckface.

Developed by the far-right Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 proposes replacing the federal civil service with Republican partisans, ending the independence the FBI and DOJ to let the president oversee prosecutions, imposing Christian nationalism in law, and the defunding or abolition of a wide range of essential federal programs

“There's some very controversial parts of it," said Griffin. "One is eradicating Social Security, which he knows is obviously a political loser. But listen, people deeply connected to Orange Fuckface were part of this. He obviously praised it. He's going to be the first to tell you that Agenda 47 is actually his plan and platform."

"But the key part of Project 2025 ... I think it's the most important part for Americans to understand, is this reshaping of the federal government," Griffin continued. "And I saw the actual executive order at the end of the last administration, ready to go, that would remake every civil servant into a political appointee and a loyalist to Fuckface. And it goes beyond Social Security and some of these technical things. It's the national security apparatus. It's our emergency management. It's FEMA, it's responding to natural disasters, pandemics, those would all be our subject matter experts, the Dr. Faucis of the world, would be replaced with whatever loyalist he puts into those positions."
https://www.rawstory.com/project-2025-what-is-it/




Yeah that’s the really fucked up thing now that we’re in the end of the election – we knew how dangerous Project 2025 was and that the Heritage Foundation is run by a bunch of fucking assholes who are drunk with power and out of control. And by the way it was also revealed that SCOTUS justice Samuel Alito was a MAGA tool who had the Stop The Steal flags on his house (see: [link: https://democraticunderground.com/100218972231 | Idiots #16-13] ).. I also love that Guiliani got served while he was hawking his shitty coffee on Steve Bannon’s podcast. But then it was also graduation time, which meant time for celebrity commencement addresses. However, none got the attention that Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Harrison Butker received for his full on MAGA authoritarian address to a relatively small Catholic school. Yeah, this is where that movement is heading, and it is scary as hell!

The NFL has responded to Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker's controversial commencement speech at Benedictine College, where he urged women to be homemakers and railed against Pride Month. The league said in a statement to CBS News that it doesn't hold his views.

"Harrison Butker gave a speech in his personal capacity," said Jonathan Beane, the senior vice president and chief diversity and inclusion officer at the NFL. "His views are not those of the NFL as an organization. The NFL is steadfast in our commitment to inclusion, which only makes our league stronger."

The organization's response comes after backlash over the three-time Super Bowl champion's remarks. In a 20-minute address last weekend at the Catholic liberal arts school, he took aim at Pride Month, women in the workforce, President Biden and abortion.

Butker, who has made his conservative Catholic beliefs well known, began his address by attacking what he called "dangerous gender ideologies" in an apparent reference to Pride month, which has been celebrated in June since the Stonewall riots in 1969.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/harrison-butker-commencement-speech-nfl-kansas-city-chiefs-benedictine-college/




OK that’s it for spring – summer. Now onto the meat of summer!


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Summmmmmmmmmmmmertime and the livin’s easy! Come on, Lana Del Rey covered that song, so it’s only all right that I should get to use it! Just like as a Lakers fan, no way in hell will I acknowledge the Celtics winning the NBA finals, even though the Lakers suck and probably will for the foreseeable future, yeah. Well, it wasn’t exactly easy living in the summer of 2024, when we’re 4 months away from the 2024 general election and one side has made it clear that they’re going full blown Nazi and the other side isn’t. The biggest story of the year though happened in the ongoing election – Joe Biden dropped out of the race due, mostly to peer pressure. And if there’s one thing Homer Simpson taught us, is that you should always give in to peer pressure! Wait… that’s not how that works, right? But of course, we weren’t ready for the surge in popularity for his replacement – Kamala Harris. And yes, the democrats and even the American public were excited that there was a very real possibility that we could finally have our first female president. Yes, I wish we could go back to that ray of hope for our country, but nope, not anymore!

President Joe Biden on Sunday dropped out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic Party’s nominee, bowing to weeks of growing pressure by his own party members to quit his re-election bid against former President Orange Fuckface.

“It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President,” Biden wrote in a post on the social media site X.

“And while it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President for the remainder of my term,” Biden wrote.

“I will speak to the Nation later this week in more detail about my decision,” wrote Biden, whose bombshell decision came after a sharp spike in recent days in the number of congressional Democrats publicly calling for him to step aside for another nominee.

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/21/biden-to-drop-out-of-2024-presidential-race.html




Yup, Biden is out and Harris is in. But the second biggest news story of the year happened right inside the Fuckface rally in Pennsylvania where some nut with a gun attempted to unload his frustrations on Fuckface and was quickly taken down. Yeah, my favorite thing about this whole exercise was the calls from Mike Johnson, Fox News, and Fuckface himself calling for “unity”. Come on, you’re the party that gives everyone guns and makes death threats against sitting Congressional representatives and senators daily, and WE are the ones who need to tone it down? Give me a fucking break. But their calls for “unity” lasted exactly 48 hours, to which we are not at all surprised. And that word doesn’t mean what you think it means.

Within hours of the assassination attempt on former U.S. President Orange Fuckface, many of his supporters began laying blame on Democrats, seeking to flip the script on who has stoked America’s heated political rhetoric as cases of political violence reach historic heights.

From establishment Republicans to far-right conspiracy theorists, a consistent message emerged that President Joe Biden and other Democratic leaders laid the groundwork for Saturday’s shooting by casting Fuckface as an autocrat who poses a grave threat to democracy. A Reuters analysis of more than 200 incidents of politically motivated violence between 2021 and 2023, however, presented a different picture: In those years, fatal political violence more often emanated from the American right than from the left.

The U.S. is embroiled in the most sustained spate of political violence since a decade of upheaval that began in the late 1960s, Reuters found in that report published last year. That violence has come from across the ideological spectrum, and includes extensive attacks on property during left-wing political demonstrations. But attacks on people -- from beatings to killings -- were perpetrated mostly by suspects acting in service of right-wing political beliefs and ideology.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republicans-wake-Fuckface-shooting-seek-pin-political-violence-trend-democrats-2024-07-14/




In campaign news, one of my favorite things from the campaign was Fuckface’s ridiculous use of the 1991 cannibal serial killer flick Silence Of The Lambs to make some kind of fucking weird statement about immigration. Dude, even Anthony Hopkins, Hannibal himself, was like “WTAF???” (see: Idiots #17-4 ). With Fuckface’s popularity seemingly dwindling, and his rallies reaching Spinal Tap levels of ridiculous, even the most hardcore MAGA Dude Bros were questioning their loyalty. Or were they? But my other favorite thing about this summer was when the rumors broke about passage in VP nominee JD Vance’s book about him possibly having sex with a couch. Which… now that he’s going to be the next vice president, Biden might want to cover the couches in plastic before he leaves.

Sen. J.D. Vance has ties to a slew of far right academics who believe feminists need raping, working women are on drugs and judges should decide who gets to get married, a new analysis shows.

Vance's connections to extreme anti-feminists could have dire consequences for his running mate former President Orange Fuckface after President Joe Biden endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to take over his campaign, political theorist Laura K. Field reported for Politico Wednesday.

"Vance, along with his New Right fellow-travelers, is about to introduce voters to a more conceptual take on sexism — one which many women, and indeed many men, might find even more alarming," writes Field.

Want more breaking political news? Click for the latest headlines at Raw Story.

"Fuckface lost women by 15 points in 2020...if he hoped the vice presidential pick would help with that he may be sadly mistaken."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/extreme-anti-feminists-and-misogynists-the-academics-that-formed-j-d-vance-s-views/ar-BB1qz5sE?apiversion=v2&noservercache=1&domshim=1&renderwebcomponents=1&wcseo=1&batchservertelemetry=1&noservertelemetry=1




Plus in the summer time, here in California, we get absolutely bombarded with stupid questions about the weather. Particularly that we’re home to the place known to have the hottest temperatures on the planet – Death Valley. And this year it was a hot one, but thankfully we didn’t all die from it (see: Idiots #17-1 ). Elsewhere, Alex Jones saw his venerable dead children harassing “news” outlet Infowars get its’ ass handed to him in court and had to liquidate its’ assets. There was also an absolutely bizarre story coming out of Orlando where Disney really did deny a grieving husband a lawsuit opportunity after his wife died of peanut allergies (see: [link: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219369805 | Idiots #17-5] ). But my favorite conspiracy theory of the year had to be the bizarre claim that Fuckface was in a helicopter with former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown – which he was like “WTF???”.

Brown, a longtime Democratic power broker who also served as speaker of the California State Assembly, told the San Francisco Chronicle after Fuckface's press conference that he was never in a helicopter with the former president. He also denied that he had ever said anything disparaging about Harris to Fuckface.

Another Black former California politician, Nate Holden, told Politico late on Friday that he had been in a turbulent helicopter ride with Fuckface in New Jersey, likely in 1990.

Earlier on Friday, Fuckface had dug in, insisting in posts on his Truth Social platform that his helicopter ride had been with Willie Brown and that it had occurred in New Jersey, not California.

"There were "Logs," Maintenance Records, and Witnesses. There was also a story on "Willie and Me," Fuckface said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/Fuckface-apparently-confuses-willie-brown-with-jerry-brown-helicopter-tale-2024-08-09/




That’s it for summer! Now it’s onto fall! Enjoy your freedoms while they last, America!


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Now we’re into the fall. 2 months from election time. There was a lot to unpack in the months of September and October. Probably one of my favorite things that happened on social media was that Fuckface had an absolutely epic meltdown over Taylor Swift not supporting him, even though she didn’t publicly disclose her political beliefs until near the end of the election. Turned out that didn’t matter in the results. But what was even more insane was that there was a SECOND attempt on Fuckface’s life – yes, my friends, a second! And once again, Fox News and Mike Johnson parroting calls for “unity” and for the LEFT to tone it down. Come on, you guys enable violent lunatics every day and give them unlimited weapons and ammo and no consequences for using said weapons and ammo. If anything, these wounds are entirely self-inflicted. But this time – it took place at a place where it’s relatively easy to find Fuckface – either at his roach infested golf course resort, or at the nearest McOranges where he’s chowing down on Big Macs and chicken nuggets. And two packets of sauce. Come on. But anyway yeah, another day, another gun nut. Which that – once again – is the reason why we cannot have nice things in the United States.

The man who authorities say pointed a rifle with a scope into former President Orange Fuckface’s golf club and was arrested is Ryan Wesley Routh, three law enforcement officials told The Associated Press.

The officials identified the suspect to the AP but spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the ongoing investigation.

Secret Service agents shot at the suspect, who was taken into custody after fleeing the scene of what the FBI is calling an apparent attempted assassination of the Republican presidential nominee. Authorities are working to determine a motive.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/Fuckface-shooting-gunshots-florida-f62f8378d3a8ce7b2e99d6a8fb40aba9




I love all the conspiracy theories that stemmed from that. Particularly from the queen MAGA conspiracy theorist herself, Marjorie Shit For Brains, who claimed it was a psy-op. Tell me you don’t know what a psy-op is without telling me you don’t know what a psy-op is. But this was one of my favorite things to happen in the fall was coming from head insurrectionist and crappy pillow salesman, Mike Lindell. You know how your racist relatives like to claim that they’re not racist after saying the most racist shit you’ve ever heard? Well, Mr. Lindell did just that. Yes, after claiming that he’s not racist 1,000 times, he literally priced his crappy pillows at $14.88. Which, if you’ve ever spent any length of time on any political forum, yes, right or left, you know that 1488 is neo-Nazi code for “heil Hitler”. That’s right.

Conspiracy theorist and pillow-pusher Mike Lindell is facing backlash online after his company marked down some of its pillows to $14.88, a figure seen as symbolic for white supremacists and neo-Nazis.

On Friday, Lindell and his MyPillow business advertised the discounted products on social media, promising consumers the “ultimate comfort upgrade.”

“Sleep like a dream with our Standard MyPillow for just $14.88!” the posts read in part.

Below an image of Lindell holding two pillows is a large graphic prominently displaying the price.

The number “1488” is a common symbol used among hate groups. The “14” is shorthand for the “14 Words,” a stand-in for a white supremacist slogan, while “88” refers to an abbreviation of “Heil Hitler,” since H is the eighth letter of the alphabet.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mike-lindells-latest-pillow-price-190532118.html




Yeah my favorite thing about that was how much he tried to pull the “I’m not racist” card after that scandal broke. Also, no doubt that the car of the year – whether good or bad – was the ugliest monstrosity on four wheels not seen since the DMC DeLorean - the Tesla Cybertruck. Yes, the ultra-controversial, truck which is now a symbol of MAGA hate and the forthcoming dictatorship, is everywhere. It’s at schools, in police departments, at auto shows. You probably see them on your daily commute. But underneath their unpolished exterior lies some absolutely bizarre truths about the Tesla brand is that Elon is literally tanking it. Yes, the Cybertruck has been called the “world’s most expensive brick” for a reason. It’s been involved in tons of horrifying accidents. The software never works. Even Lewis Black pointed out that the “finger test” for the front “trunk” resulted in lots of people heading to the emergency room. But the truck has been subjected to not one, not two, not three, but six separate recalls since its’ launch this summer.

Tesla is recalling its rickety Cybertruck for the fourth time — and it's not something that can be fixed with an over-the-air software update.

The EV maker is hoping to fix trim pieces that can fly off while on the road and windshield wipers that aren't beefy enough to whip the four-foot blade across the truck's massive windshield.

More than 11,000 trucks that have been manufactured so far are affected, according to documents posted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. However, that doesn't mean Tesla has actually sold that many trucks — many are still in storage, transit, or dealership lots.

It's far from the first time Tesla has struggled with its brutalist pickup. In fact, it's not even the first sweeping recall of the troubled vehicle — and a near-certain sign that customers who shelled out up to $100,000 for the vehicle may be in for more headaches still to come.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/cybertruck-recalled-again-parts-falling-off




Seriously, people! For $100K, you could easily do better. These are definitely people with more money than brains. Or not. Wish I had that problem! Anyway, back on the campaign trail, things were starting to heat up. Fuckface got back to doing his stupid rallies – and perhaps the strangest one was his stint in Coachella Valley, where his unruly fans were left stranded after attacking bus drivers, which we’re not surprised in the least on that one. But the weirdest story of the fall happens to belong to the guy who is going to unfortunately be our next vice president – JD Vance. Yes, the guy who may or may not have fucked a couch spread an absolutely bizarre theory about the Haitian population in his hometown of Springfield, Ohio that accused them of – wait for it – eating pets. And yes, this bizarre theory grew legs and spread wide across the internet. It even made an appearance in the second debate. Real life really is stranger than fiction!

Orange Fuckface is doubling down on his bizarre and aggressive rhetoric against Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, saying that they’re “destroying” the country.

The former president promised his rally crowd in Uniondale, New York on Long Island that he would visit the small city which suddenly found itself in the midst of a vicious news cycle as Fuckface and his running mate JD Vance pushed false claims circulated online that Haitian migrants were stealing and eating domestic pets.

During the debate with Vice President Kamala Harris in Philadelphia on September 10, Fuckface said the Biden-Harris administration has been “allowing these millions and millions of people to come into our country.”

“A lot of towns don't want to talk about it because they're so embarrassed by it,” he added. “In Springfield, they're eating the dogs, the people that came in. They're eating the cats ... They're eating the pets of the people that live there. And this is what's happening in our country, and it's a shame.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/first-Fuckface-said-haitian-migrants-in-ohio-were-eating-the-pets-now-he-says-they-re-destroying-america/ar-AA1qOa9




OK we’re almost done for the year! Now onto winter!


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OK we’re almost done here! Yes, I know that we were in an election year. Yes, there’s nothing more that we can say that hasn’t already been said. There are two truths to this fucking nightmare of an election – the first is fuck the polls and the stupid betting markets. 2 – we’re not living in the country that we thought we were living in. Yes, America’s soul died on election night. And we’re still pissed off. In fact, we went on our infamous f-bomb filled tirade after the results were called (see: Idiots #17-13 ). But now that the dust has settled – we are still in total shock that 78 million of us want to live in a fascist totalitarian dictatorship run by a crazy billionaire with a continuously operating news network megaphone. And the news about his horrifying policies including ridiculous tariffs and mass deportations kept coming. His cabinet picks got worse than the next. But what may be the most horrifying one of them all may be the new “department” created for his billionaire sugar daddy Elon Musk and Fox News host Vivek Ramasawmy – by the way, what did that guy do to deserve anything? Let alone a made up “department”? Let us know in the comments! But yes, the aptly and not at all coincidentally named “Department Of Government Efficiency” or DOGE – is coming for your jobs. Yes, MAGA, it’s not the immigrants, its’ your boss!

President-elect Orange Fuckface and Elon Musk have big ambitions for making the federal government leaner and more efficient by reviewing its budget and operations from top to bottom.

Musk, the world’s richest person who owns or runs several companies, has warned that his goals – including cutting at least $2 trillion in federal spending – could cause “temporary hardship” before ultimately creating “long-term prosperity.” His pronouncements are prompting budget experts to scoff, while sending chills down the spines of many federal workers and those who depend on the federal government for assistance or their livelihood.

Details about how the new Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, will operate – and how Musk and his co-leader Vivek Ramaswamy will avoid conflicts of interest – remain scarce. But the duo has spoken openly about areas of the government they’d like to see altered, while Fuckface and Republican lawmakers have a long list of programs and operations they’d like to reform.

It’s important to note that while Fuckface has promised that the initiative will make “drastic changes,” Musk and Ramaswamy will not have any direct power to make spending cuts, regulatory changes or other moves. The group will exist outside of the government and will likely serve to make recommendations to the White House for the president’s annual budget, which outlines the president’s vision but Congress is not required to follow.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/14/politics/elon-musk-doge-Fuckface/index.html




Seriously, what could possibly go wrong? Look at all of Fuckface’s cabinet picks. He has neo-Nazis in charge of the military. He has conspiracy theorists in charge of intelligence. He has anti-vaxxers in charge of public health. He has Fox News hosts in charge of the interior. He has the MAGA Taliban in charge of public education. Literally the worst possible people you can think of for every position, and they’re all there because they kissed his ass in some way. But two of his nominees might be the most controversial of them all – former Fox News host and current drunken rapist neo Nazi Pete Hegseth (see: Idiots #17-15 ) and notorious internet anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist and wellness industry aficionado – Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Yes, the nephew of former president JFK has admitted to some extremely bizarre behavior including having a literal worm in his brain and dumping a dead bear in Central Park. But his policies are way more horrifying now that he’s actually put in a position where he could do some real damage.

Orange Fuckface’s team appeared to be quietly distancing itself from Robert F Kennedy Jr in the immediate aftermath of the election amid speculation that the former presidential candidate could be handed control of US public health agencies. Advisers to the president-elect questioned whether Mr Kennedy, a vaccine sceptic who has also been the subject of a series of bizarre stories involving animals, would make it through a security check for a cabinet position.

It raises questions about what role, if any, Mr Kennedy would be given in the Fuckface administration, as the Republican’s transition team sets about filling thousands of federal posts for his return to the White House. Mr Kennedy had previously said that Mr Fuckface had “promised” him control of the Department of Health and Human Services and public health agencies like the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

However, there is disquiet in the Fuckface team about media attention on the former independent candidate after he was pressed in a post-election interview with NBC about his vaccine scepticism. Mr Kennedy said that he would seek to fix the “huge deficits” in vaccine safety but clarified: “We’re not going to take vaccines away from anybody.”

According to CNN, a source close to Mr Fuckface said: “That is not what we want people focused on today.”

Mr Kennedy, son of the late attorney general Bobby Kennedy and nephew of president John F Kennedy, has also said he plans to remove fluoride from drinking water. The claim prompted criticism from public health experts, who argued it would undo one of the great public health achievements of the 20th century...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/Fuckface-campaign-quietly-distances-itself-144333855.html




Seriously, putting this guy in charge of public health will be like putting a bull in a china shop, and then blaming the destruction on the bull! 2024 was also the year of artificial intelligence. Yes, AI is coming for us! It’s coming for our phones, our TVs, our computers, our cars. Literally anything that has a circuit will be connected to AI somehow. Tech bros are now AI bros. Also, after the election, Congress got back to the important issues affecting Americans – trans bathroom bans. But none were more insane than South Carolina’s Nancy Mace (Q – Batshit) having an epic meltdown against incoming transgender Congresswoman Sarah McBride (see: Idiots #17-15 ). But with all of that being, said, my favorite story involving the internet and technology happened because of the Infowars sale. You know who bought Alex Jones’ Infowars? Everyone’s favorite satirical newspaper, The Onion! That’s right! But of course, leave it to MAGA to take a dump in our breakfast cereal. Because that’s what they do best.

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is set to urge a U.S. bankruptcy judge to block the sale of his Infowars website to the Onion news parody site at a Monday court hearing in Houston. The Onion was named the winning bidder for Infowars in a November bankruptcy auction, but Jones and a company affiliated with his dietary supplements sales have argued that the sale process was plagued by fraud and collusion.

Jones declared bankruptcy in 2022 and was forced to liquidate his assets to pay $1.4 billion in legal judgments to the families of 20 students and six staff members who were fatally shot in the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Courts in Connecticut and Texas have ruled that Jones defamed the families by making repeated false claims that the mass shooting was staged as part of a government plot to take guns away from Americans.

The Onion has said it plans to re-launch Infowars in 2025 as a parody site filled with "noticeably less hateful disinformation" than before.

The sale must be approved in court before it is final. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez, who is overseeing Jones' bankruptcy, at a previous court hearing voiced concerns about the auction's transparency. The judge has asked the parties for evidence that he will consider at Monday's meeting.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-judge-weighs-fate-onions-buyout-infowars-2024-12-09/




I so want to see Infowars as a parody of itself, that would be hilarious! And there’s a lot still going on that we haven’t even begun to cover yet. There’s the sightings of drones over the tri-state area, with Marjorie Shit For Brains threatening to shoot them down. There’s yet another mass shooting where the killer attempted to recreate Columbine, complete with a replica of the KMFDM shirt that the Columbine shooters wore that day. But speaking of murder, the one thing the United States does best, we can’t get out of here without the one story that’s currently all over the media – the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside his New York hotel room. The killer – identified as 26 year old Luigi Mangione – certainly did his homework in leading police off the trail, which included such hilarious things as leaving a backpack full of Monopoly money in Central Park. But this has put into light that the real bad guys in all of this – who we’ve been saying for 8 FUCKING YEARS now – are the guys who have been stealing our money all along! And if this doesn’t get people talking, what will? We only hope people are still talking about it after Fuckface takes office.

The fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on Wednesday, which New York City police have described as "brazen" and "targeted," occurred after the insurance provider has faced legal scrutiny over its coverage.

Police have yet to make an arrest in the midtown Manhattan shooting, and a motive remains unclear. The shooting drew an array of reactions, with many critics not entirely sympathetic as they pointed out that the company has denied coverage to some patients. Others, however, slammed those reactions as insensitive, saying that a killing isn't justified and that acts of violence should be denounced.

One criticism of UnitedHealthcare that has garnered attention following the shooting involves a lawsuit alleging the company uses artificial intelligence (AI) to deny coverage to some elderly patients who are on a Medicare Advantage plan, despite allegedly being aware that the algorithm has a 90 percent error rate.

The lawsuit was filed on November 14, 2023. It names UnitedHealth Group, UnitedHealthcare and NaviHealth as the defendants. It was brought by the families of two now-deceased patients who were denied coverage by UnitedHealthcare for stays at nursing homes. The suit is ongoing, and its claims have not been proved in court.
https://www.newsweek.com/united-healthcare-ceo-shooting-ai-lawsuit-1996266




That’s it for our 2024 year in review, everybody!

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My fair congregation! Please be seated! You know this is our last Holy Shit for the year and our last one for quite a while. But before we head into our long slumber, we have to talk about the election. I know, you’re probably sick of hearing about it for a while and we are too, and we’re sick that the unholy, ungodly Dark One is going to be ruling over us again. Yes, I speak of a man, so foul, so profane and disgusting that his name dare NOT be spoken in my church! Even if he is the leader of the once free world, he’s still as disgusting as ever! But my favorite one of these every year is when we look back at the year that was, and make our predictions for what’s going to happen next year based off what they said and what they did. Yes, it’s a complicated process but we’ll do our best! Probably the biggest story of the entire year in the world of religion was the merging of church with the cult of the unholy, ungodly Dark One! Which of course came to an absolute ugly peak in the state of Oklahoma. Yes, Oklahoma’s schools are ruled by Ryan Walters (Q – Batshit) and he has a plan to merge the cult with Oklahoma’s Department Of Education in the absolute worst way possible. And you will not believe it when you see it, it’s every bit as horrible as you could imagine!

But bid specifications for the Bibles, released this week, contain several narrowly drawn and unusual details. They must, for example, include text of the Pledge of Allegiance, the U.S. Constitution and other historical documents not normally included in the Bible.

What Bible fits the bill? The country music star Lee Greenwood’s God Bless the U.S.A. Bible, which is endorsed by former President Orange J. Fuckface and costs $60, far above the average price for Bibles. Mr. Fuckface receives royalties from their sales; financial disclosure reports filed in August show he has made $300,000 from the Bible since endorsing it.

The specifications caught the eye of Oklahoma Watch, a nonprofit news organization, which first reported this week that the bid specs seemed tailored to steer the state’s selection toward one Bible. Among other requirements, the bid rules require King James Version Bibles that are bound by leather or leather-like material.

About 20 million copies of the Bible are sold each year in the United States, and some printed versions are available for under $5. But each copy of Mr. Greenwood’s Bible includes a handwritten version of the chorus of his song “God Bless the U.S.A.,” a frequent anthem at Fuckface rallies. It also includes copies of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence and the Pledge of Allegiance. And it is bound in brown leather.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/04/us/oklahoma-schools-Fuckface-bible.html




Yes, so my prediction for this one is fairly easy – when the unholy Dark One himself cuts off Chinese imports and raises tariffs – Oklahoma won’t be able to put these wretched abominations in the schools because they can’t obtain them or afford them! These things retail for $69.99, with the tariffs, they’ll be $129.99 minimum! You get how that works? Thank you my fair congregation! Well, the topic on the table that was one of the biggest topics being discussed this year in the world of religion was the topic of Christian Nationalism. And yes, there were none scarier than the unholy Dark One’s proposed “border czar” Pete Hegseth. But one of the biggest peddlers of this talking point was Texas pastor Joel Webbon who made huge rounds on social media because of the incredibly extremist stuff they were saying. Yes, they want to undo the last 100 years, my friends!

Radical Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon used his most recent podcast to explicitly lay out his agenda, which boils down to gaining political power and then using that power for the purpose of “crushing our enemies and rewarding our friends.”

That agenda is perfectly in line with Webbon’s previously stated beliefs that the American people are too degenerate, stupid, and cowardly to abide by the Constitution and therefore must be governed by a Christian dictator who “just rules with an iron fist” and forces everyone to “pretend to be Christian.” Under such a dictator, Webbon wants to see the Apostles’ Creed added to the Constitution; abortion, pornography, no-fault divorce, in vitro fertilization, and birth control outlawed; women banned from voting, and non-Christians kept out of his neighborhood.

“We need to win,” Webbon declared. “We need to wield power righteously. … I want Christians to have power and with that power, I want it to be wielded righteously. What does that mean? It means crushing our enemies and rewarding our friends.”

What that will look like in practice, explained co-host Wesley Todd, is “the end of Pride Month, the end of DEI society” and the enforcement of “Christian virtues.”
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/joel-webbons-christian-nationalist-agenda-crushing-our-enemies-and-rewarding-our-friends/




No, asshole, you don’t “need to win”. The White House is not yours and you don’t have a “divine mandate from GAWD”. Because GAWD doesn’t support your hatred! My dream prediction for what should happen to this psycho would be for the democrats to retake the House, while people realize “this sucks” and they begin to undo the last 10 years! Yeah that’s what should happen, and fuck the Dark One, his “news” network and people like this. Another hot topic this year was the 20th anniversary of one of the still hottest movies in Christianity – Mel Gibson’s opus “The Passion Of The Christ”. Yes, it’s been 20 years since it was the highest grossing R rated movie of all time. And it got that title dethroned by – what else? Deadpool & Wolverine!

It can be difficult to grasp, from the vantage point of 20 years later, just how massive Mel Gibson’s The Passion Of The Christ was back in 2004. Releasing in theaters in February, and then sticking around for more than two months (to say nothing of its various recuts and re-releases), the film made more than $600 million at the box office, quickly becoming the most successful R-rated movie of all time. (A title it only lost this past summer, as Deadpool & Wolverine found at least one way they were, in fact, bigger than Jesus.) And now, it’s apparently coming back.

This is per Consequence, reporting on a piece printed in Italpress, which states that Gibson is reportedly in Malta at the moment, holding conversations with Maltese authorities about using the island nation as a filming location for a new movie: The Passion Of The Christ: Resurrection, with an eye toward beginning filming in 2025.

Neither Gibson, nor star Jim Caviezel, who’s set to return for the sequel, have been shy about their ambitions to get The Passion Of The Christ 2 made. Gibson initially announced the project back in 2016, and Caviezel made his own enthusiasm for the return clear in 2018, saying he expected the movie to be “The biggest film in history.” Gibson even gave a glimpse at plot details in 2022, when he suggested that his script for the movie was less grounded than the first film, which got a lot of its appeal from being a straightforward—if brutally violent—depiction of the story of Christ. “That’s kind of getting a little sci-fi out there,” Gibson noted of his scripts, saying the film will partially take place in “the past and in other realms.”
https://www.avclub.com/the-passion-of-the-christ-2-begin-filming-2025




Hello, Deadpool! So my prediction that is that Passion Of The Christ 2 gets upended by Deadpool 3, which that would be hilarious! I would love to see a JAYSUS – Deadpool rivaly ongoing at the box office, and I am sure that Ryan Reynolds is up to the task! But the final thing I want to touch on is the subject of the unholy Dark One himself. Yes, my friends. For too long, we’ve been referring to He Who Shall Not Be Named. And now that the unholy Dark One is about to not rightfully ascend to the throne once again, and this time, he’s way more EVIL than last time, his supporters have taken an unusually dark tone in how they celebrate his unholiness’ victory. In fact, they almost sound like that group in the Middle East that we once declared war against 20 years ago! But yeah, when you see the rhetoric, you will get it!

The first Sunday service following the election of Orange Fuckface held at Christian nationalist televangelist Kenneth Copeland's Eagle Mountain International Church was dedicated almost entirely to thanking God for Fuckface's victory.

Copeland has been an ardent Fuckface cultist since 2016, and used Sunday's service to declare that Fuckface's election will now unleash a "spiritual awakening" in America because "the atmosphere has been cleansed."

"No more rainbow flags," Copeland celebrated. "And the spirit of Margaret Sanger is gone."

During the same service, which has been removed by Copeland's church from its YouTube channel, Copeland also declared that anyone who didn't vote for Fuckface will be held accountable by Jesus with a very specific punishment.
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/kenneth-copeland-says-jesus-has-special-punishment-waiting-those-who-didnt-vote




Well, I won’t say what I feel should happen to his unholiness, but use some historical texts, mainly a certain work of William Shakespeare to see what I think should happen! That’s it for our year end review, and this is the last Holy Shit for a while. We will see you again soon! Mass has ended, may you go in peace! That’s it this year for:





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Welcome back to our segment that attempts to explain the unexplainable, Conspiracy Corner! Of course conspiracies exist when people simply don’t want to read the article past the headlines and just flat out make shit up. We of course are coming to you live from our underground doomsday shelter from deep within the New Mexico badlands. Undisclosed location, of course! Let me just adjust my trusty tin foil hat for maximum government interference. Ah, there we go! They are trying to read yours and my thoughts, after all! Well, my friends, this week, we’ve got some strange sightings happening in the Tri-State area. Yes, the area that’s home to three states – Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York is also home to four of the largest airports in the world – PHL, LGA, JFK, and EWR. That’s thousands of flights a day from literally all sizes of aircraft coming from all corners of the globe for those of you who are into aviation. But there’s also some strange happenings in the sky in that area – drones! Yes, unidentified drones are popping up everywhere outside of Philadelphia and Newark, which is not only alarming the FAA, it’s also alarming internet armchair conspiracy theorists all over the country. And if you follow the online conspiracy theory sphere, you know that just about everyone and their Facebook relatives has a hot take and it’s every bit as weird as it gets!

The mysterious reports of drones dotting the skies over New Jersey and other northeastern states have sparked numerous conspiracy theories and misinformation as authorities investigate, with social media users and government officials alike baselessly speculating about foreign adversaries, aliens and nuclear fallout—all of which the federal government says is false. (More updates on the drone sightings are available here.)

Pentagon Press Secretary Pat Ryder spoke to reporters on Monday and Tuesday, saying several claims about the reported drones were inaccurate and showing the government’s investigation is holding its stance on the drones being harmless and largely misconstrued.

Federal agencies investigating drone sightings—the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, the FAA, and the Defense Department—released a joint statement on Monday concluding nothing "anomalous" was identified after reviewing 5,000 tips for drone sightings, which have been reported in more than six states since mid-November.

That same day, President-elect Orange Fuckface claimed, without evidence, that the U.S. military knows what the drones are but isn’t telling the public the truth (the president-elect receives intelligence but declined to answer whether he received any about the drones), making him the latest public official sowing doubt over what authorities have said about the reported drones.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephenpastis/2024/12/18/mystery-new-jersey-drones-spark-baseless-conspiracy-theories-heres-what-we-know-as-federal-agencies-double-down-on-explanation/




Yeah so this has naturally sparked some fears and the conversations include a wide variety of topics and depending on who you talk to, the drones could be anything from dirty bombs to aliens to Amazon boxes being delivered right to your door. We’re guessing it’s not the latter, though that’s what Jeff Bezos wants you to think! Though recently, the drone sightings have revived a long-dormant conspiracy theory known as Project Blue Beam. Which alleged that the government was using drones as a form of mass surveillance. It started in the 90s and was revived on the Alex Jones show. And like most conspiracies, the goal posts keep getting moved back, and the crazies keep getting stirred up. Which is why we can’t have nice things in this country.

On Saturday, Orange Fuckface-supporting celebrity Roseanne Barr posted on X, formerly Twitter, "Now you see why I mention Project Blue Beam every week on my podcast....." Her post had garnered over 2 million views by Sunday.

Adam Kinzinger, a former Republican congressman and critic of Fuckface, responded to Barr's post, writing, "Here we go. Project Blue Beam. Roseanne here is pushing this. It posits that the govt is faking an alien invasion to usher in the anti-Christ and one world govt. This is this year's QAnon. Pay attention, don't pretend this is just the fringe."

Last week, prominent conspiracy theorist Alex Jones also posted about Project Blue Beam on X, sharing a prior interview with ufologist Steven Greer about "how Project Blue Beam will be used."

Another account on X, Charlie Kirk News, a fan account for right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk posted Friday, "WE ARE F****D. THE DRONES ARE PROJECT BLUE BEAM," which was viewed 7.8 million times by Sunday.
https://www.newsweek.com/what-project-blue-beam-conspiracy-theory-erupts-over-drones-2001051




Hoooooooooooooooooly shit. We’re fucked if that’s the kind of bullshit that gets 8 million views. WTF are we doing in this country? But of course, the conspiracy theories are why we can’t have nice things, because the people who believe them really are that crazy. Like our old buddy and frequent contributor to this program, Marjorie Shit For Brains. Yes, the queen of conspiracies never lets a good one get by her, and uses her powers… well, for nothing but to sow division on social media, while going on the most lunatic fringe talk shows possible when nobody likes her ideas or takes her seriously. But Marge has threatened to unleash her inner asshole and middle finger on the drones. You know, wouldn’t it be great if Marge got arrested for shooting at low flying planes? It would be a danger to low flying planes but come on, you know this would happen!

MAGA Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has claimed that the US government is “in control of the drones” that have been spotted over New Jersey and New York in recent weeks, which officials have so far been unable or unwilling to account for.

Greene, who is well known for amplifying online conspiracy theories, wrote on X late on Saturday night: “The government is in control of the drones and refuses to tell the American people what is going on. It really is that bad.”

The congresswoman offered no evidence to support her claim but followed up with a second post, which went viral when it was shared by podcaster Joe Rogan, featuring a video from drone manufacturer John Ferguson.

In the footage, Ferguson, the CEO of Saxon Aerospace, baselessly speculates that the drones could be patrolling East Coast interstates in search of anything from missing Ukrainian nuclear warheads to radioactive waste.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-drones-conspiracy-theories-new-jersey-b2665038.html




Come on, anyone else loving watching the full blown MAGA meltdown over the drones hovering above the tri-state area? I’m personally loving it, and you know one of them is going to do something stupid at some point. But the best part about this is that every single one of these theories have been debunked, yet they keep going at it like they’re trying to break down the door. What’s up with that? What is up with that? Let us know in the comments! But of course, while the right wing MAGA conspiracy theory world is frothing at the mouth with another plant to shut down part of the government, thankfully, we still have cooler heads prevailing at the top… for now. But that’s what they want you to think!

A puzzling flurry of apparent drone sightings along the US east coast is "nothing nefarious", says President Joe Biden.

The sightings in recent weeks have occurred in New Jersey and a number of neighbouring states, sometimes around air bases. The phenomenon has prompted a number of conspiracy theories about foreign involvement.

Authorities have not given many definitive answers, other than to say the sightings are not always of drones, and that they do not believe there is a threat to national security or that a foreign power is at work.

Members of the US House Intelligence Committee, who were given a closed-door briefing on Tuesday, joined Biden on Wednesday in trying to reassure the public.

Among the committee members who spoke to reporters afterwards were Chrissy Houlahan, a Democrat.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g2q1e238lo





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Of course, you know by now that people are people, and people are dumb! And this is our favorite People Are Dumb because we get to tell you the stupidest of the stupid, the best and dumbest criminals and stupid people of 2024! And before we start, I always want to start by saying exactly what makes a People Are Dumb story. So someone just robbing a McDonalds does not make a People Are Dumb story. Now someone who steals the supply truck and goes on a joy ride because they got really high and wanted all you can eat chicken nuggets? Now that’s a People Are Dumb story! And also we do want to point out that not every People Are Dumb story is a stupid criminal story, but we do love a good stupid criminal story! Also just remember too that we have a policy of omitting names in order to protect ourselves from a lawsuit, because we wouldn’t want to draw negative attention to our fine program, would we? Let’s start with this story out of Alabama, and you probably remember the tale of the guy who stripped butt naked sohe could take a dip in the aquarium at the Bass Pro Shop, right? Well yeah we totally remember that one and it’s every bit as crazy as it sounds!

A man crashed his car outside a Bass Pro Shop in Alabama, stripped down to his birthday suit and plunged into the giant aquarium inside the store, police said.

The ordeal happened Thursday night in front of shocked shoppers in the town just outside Birmingham, Leeds Police Chief Paul Irwin said.

The 42-year-old Alabama man did a “cannonball” leap into the aquarium and then stood under a waterfall. He left the water to yell at two officers, then dove back into the aquarium, police said.

The man eventually climbed over the side of the aquarium and fell to the concrete floor below. Police then apprehended him, the news site Al.com reported.

He faces several charges including public lewdness, disorderly conduct and criminal mischief.

The man was in the water for about five minutes before officers arrived, Irwin said.
https://www.kxan.com/news/weird-news/ap-nude-man-nabbed-by-police-after-cannonball-plunge-into-giant-aquarium-at-bass-pro-shop-in-alabama/




Next up – we go to this bizarre story from Germany. We always want to preface by saying that not every People Are Dumb story is a stupid criminal story. We love stupid criminal stories. We collect them, trade them with our friends. And we also say that people doing ridiculously stupid things isn’t a uniquely American problem. No, it’s a global one that spans the entire world! You know, the COVID-19 pandemic is still a thing. Even though most governments have stopped reporting it because it’s not overloading our hospitals, but this story is weird for multiple reasons. But one thing you should never, ever do is do what this guy did and get 200 vaccines in a row. Look, your immune system is already good, but this certainly isn’t helping things!

As Europe grapples with a costly glut of Covid-19 vaccines, a German man has taken it upon himself to help out — by injecting himself with more than 200 shots.

The 62-year-old man, from Magdeburg in Germany, said he received 217 shots of the vaccine over a span of 29 months “for private reasons.” Yet he showed no side-effects and boosted his immunity to the virus compared with those who received three doses, according to a study conducted by a team of researchers from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

“The number of memory cells was just as high in our test case as in the control group,” said Katharina Kocher, one of the leading authors of the study, published this week in the Lancet Infectious Diseases journal. “Over all, we did not find any indication for a weaker immune response, rather the contrary.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/german-man-receives-217-covid-19-jabs/




Next up – here’s a great story out of Colorado. We always love stupid criminal stories when people use weird ways of getting away from the cops, or they use an easily traceable online form of either transportation or currency. But what’s the one thing we *NEVER* tell you to do when you are on the run from the law? Use your damn phone! And if you commit a crime, don’t solicit a prostitute using Venmo, and don’t use Uber as a getaway car! Yes, this actually happened and it’s every bit as stupid as you could ever possibly realize!

Police in Colorado say they caught a burglar trying to get away in an Uber last week.

According to the Wheat Ridge Police Department, officers responded last Thursday night to a report of a burglary at Blue Sky Plumbing.

A 911 caller reported seeing a hole in the fence and said they had security footage of a man stealing tools.

Arriving officers said they spoke to an Uber driver who they saw waiting in the area.

The driver told them he was called to pick up a man named Jose who was walking toward the car.
https://www.14news.com/2024/01/03/burglar-busted-while-attempting-use-uber-getaway-driver-police-say/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark




Of course, we can’t get out of here without mentioning a couple of stories from our favorite state of all of them. I’m of course talking about Florida, the Sunshine State. Or as Tracy Jordan famously referred to it – “the penis of America!”. And there was a lot of stupid stories coming out of the Sunshine State to choose from. By the way, is it weird when HBO / Max premieres a show called “Florida Man” and you don’t even have to read the synopsis to know what the show is about? I mean come on, we’ve been doing this program for 8 years and we know that! But this one out of Miami is a definite hall of fame contender! Look, if there’s anything you don’t do in the age of heightened security is to make even a casual bomb threat. And if you’re going to, the last place you should do that is in front of the police or airport security, because they don’t take that shit sitting down!

A Florida man claims he was attempting to “flirt” with another traveler when he made a wisecrack about having a bomb in his bag at an airport, according to police.

Miami native Alan Borinsky, 70, told police he was “trying to be funny” when he made the remark at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Friday, according to an arrest report from the Broward Sheriff’s Office.

Borinsky was sitting at Gate G11 in terminal four when two witnesses overheard him tell another passenger something like “If the bomb in my bag goes off prematurely, I apologize to your family in advance,” the police report says, WPLG reported. ...........(more)

https://nypost.com/2024/03/06/us-news/florida-man-claims-airport-bomb-threat-was-attempt-to-flirt-with-passenger/




Finally for this year, like I said, 2024 was the year of Florida Man and there were a shit ton of stories to choose from, and you can go through all of our editions this year to prove that. And while we normally try to keep this segment apolitical, we have to award this as the single most Florida Man story ever, and this might be an actual hall of fame contender. So when a truly massive hurricane like we experienced with Helene this year happens, what’s the first thing you do? Run to the store and grab anything and everything you can to prepare for apocalyptic weather. Well, these two dolts decided that the place to loot was the MAGA merchandise store. Yes, you heard that right. They decided that MAGA merch was more important than food, and well, this is what you get. But then again, this is the state that elected Anna Luna to Congress, we’re not surprised!

Two Florida men were arrested after allegedly ransacking a strip mall 'Fuckface Store' during Hurricane Helene.

Police assigned to patrol the closed-down area of Madeira Beach where they spotted two men outside a collection of shops Friday evening, one night after Helene made landfall.

They found (omitted), loitering despite the issued state of emergency, and in possession of various Fuckface-themed merchandise, styles which were carried by the retail shop.

The beachside 'Fuckface store' in the Tampa Bay area was "unsecured due to damages from the storm," according to the police affidavit obtained by The Smoking Gun.

(omitted) was wearing a "Fuckface cowboy hat," which he claimed "washed up from the hurricane, and that's how they ended up in his possession."
https://www.latintimes.com/florida-men-loot-Fuckface-store-during-hurricane-make-off-Fuckface-cowboy-hats-coffee-mugs-police-560965




That’s it this year for:




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Welcome back to our segment that puts all of our post-election coverage in one place – Road To The Shithouse! Yes, we have to face reality that Fuckface is going to be inaugurated on January 20th and he is going to have unleashed both his inner asshole and his middle finger at America. Well, fuck, this isn’t how we wanted to end things, but here we are. And we’ve got some final thoughts on what happened now that Fuckface Turdburglar and his billionaire criminal cabal are going to be worming their way back to the White House on January 20th, and well, we warned you what a massive shit show this next administration is going to be. In fact, a couple of weeks ago, we were wondering if the Fuckface “honeymoon period” was going to be over. So we decided to close this segment by telling you what you voted for and what you are going to get. In an election, there are no take backs. Yes, we’re seeing a lot of “I regret my vote for Fuckface” votes. And here’s the thing – we fucking warned you! Like, we spent the last two years warning you! But for our final thoughts, we’re going to talk about, and place the blame strictly on one of the organizations that made Fuckface 47 possible, one of the largest newspapers in the country – the Los Angeles Times, and their billionaire asshole owner, Patrick Soon-Shiong. No, we don’t want to bow to your demands, fuck you.

Patrick Soon-Shiong, the owner of the Los Angeles Times, reportedly asked the newspaper’s editorial board to “take a break” from writing about Orange Fuckface, in the latest report of the billionaire owner’s growing influence over the newspaper’s coverage.

The newspaper and its owner were embroiled in controversy for weeks this fall after Soon-Shiong blocked the board from endorsing Kamala Harris for president. The decision led to a wave of resignations on the editorial board and the loss of thousands of subscriptions.

Explaining his decision, Soon-Shiong said he feared endorsing a candidate would fuel divisions across the US. Later, he said that the newspaper had become an “echo chamber”, moving too far left, and that he wanted to see the Los Angeles Times become more “fair and balanced”.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/dec/18/la-times-patrick-soon-shiong-Fuckface




Damn right! And no, Jeff Bezos, don’t think you’re immune from this either. In fact, the point where a red flag went off that something was wrong, was when those two douchebags blocked their rags to endorse Kamala for president. Like they knew something that we didn’t. So what is it? Out with it, already! So instead of using this to rag on the people who got duped, we’re going to focus on the dupers – the people who made Fuckface’s trip back to the White House possible. And one such peddler of misinformation is the owner of the LA Times. And we could spend all day on this subject, because Patrick Soon-Shiong is a piece of shit. In fact when your owner is so toxic that people are leaving in droves, you know that’s a problem! In fact, he can’t stop meddling in the opinions section, and you know what they say about opinions.

After President-elect Orange J. Fuckface announced a cascade of cabinet picks last month, the editorial board of The Los Angeles Times decided it would weigh in. One writer prepared an editorial arguing that the Senate should follow its traditional process for confirming nominees, particularly given the board’s concerns about some of his picks, and ignore Mr. Fuckface’s call for so-called recess appointments.

The paper’s owner, the billionaire medical entrepreneur Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, had other ideas.

Hours before the editorial was set to be sent to the printer for the next day’s newspaper, Dr. Soon-Shiong told the opinion department’s leaders that the editorial could not be published unless the paper also published an editorial with an opposing view.

Baffled by his order and with the print deadline approaching, editors removed the editorial, headlined “Orange Fuckface’s cabinet choices are not normal. The Senate’s confirmation process should be.” It never ran.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/business/media/la-times-patrick-soon-shiong.html




Yeah so not only is this our last Road To The Shithouse section, this is going to be a preview of where we’re going next! Yes, we’re going to expose the peddlers of misinformation and Fuckface’s biggest fanboys – the billioniares! Unfortunately we won’t get to do Stupidest State this year, but that’s OK, we kind of need a break for it. But the reason we decided to switch gears is because, well, we’re fed up, tired, and fucking pissed off. The billionaire criminal cabal which includes Patrick Soon-Shiong. But when the shit hits the fan next year, you gotta know who to complain to. So instead of crying or blaming anyone, we’re going to tell you who’s responsible for our country turning to shit in our new segment “Better Know A Billionaire!”. But Patrick Soon-Shiong and his love of Fuckface is going way too far, and it needs to be addressed! He’s turned one of this nation’s most beloved newspapers into an absolute shit show. Seriously, everything Fuckface touches.

Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong is now prohibiting “editorials containing criticism” of Orange Fuckface “unless they are presented side-by-side with another opinion piece representing the ‘opposing view,’” according to a memo written by the newspaper’s editors.

As Oliver Darcy first reported in his Status newsletter, the staff memo reveals that Soon-Shiong’s “meddling” of the LA Times’ coverage – especially regarding the president-elect – has “grown more pervasive than previously realized.”

The memo, signed by several members of the LA Times’ opinion section, was sent to the newspaper’s executive editor, Terry Tang. It comes after Soon-Shiong killed an op-ed last month critical of Fuckface’s recent Cabinet picks and the incoming president’s suggestion that he may use recess appointments to circumvent the confirmation process.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/la-times-owner-Fuckface-b2665827.html




By the way – you can drown us out and you can have “opinions favorable” of Fuckface, but there’s no way you can silence us. Yes, you got your wish and it’s an extremely shitty one. Fuckface is going to destroy the country so you can add more billions to your already ill gotten gains. And we will tell you where to shove it. So instead of crying in our beers about why the democrats lost the election, we’re using our last segment here to say “fuck you” to the people who made this whole thing possible, and don’t think we’re done yet! Because Patrick Soon-Shiong and his love of and ass kissing for Fuckface is grossly unpopular with the LA Times staff. People have quit. He’s proposed a controversial AI bias meter to promote fairness, but this may be the most egregious of them all – he wants to have “fairness” in the opinions section. Oh so now they suddenly care about fairness? Fuck this shit. Until we meet again in 2025, I’m out! Fuck you Patrick Soon-Shiong, and he won’t be the last!

Patrick Soon-Shiong, the owner of the Los Angeles Times, has announced plans to incorporate an artificial intelligence-powered “bias meter” into the newspaper’s coverage.

Soon-Shiong, the biotech billionaire who bought the Los Angeles Times in 2018, made the comments on a podcast hosted by conservative commentator Scott Jennings, who is soon joining the LA Times editorial board.

The proposed move is the latest controversy to rock the newspaper which has suffered a wave of resignations and layoffs under Soon-Shiong’s ownership. Most recently, Soon-Shiong blocked the paper from endorsing Democrat Kamala Harris in last month’s presidential election, sparking outrage from many staff.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/dec/06/la-times-ai-bias-meter-owner







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Folks, since this is our last regular show for a while, we decided to go all out with a bang, and we’ve got a guest that we’ve wanted to get for the last 5 years! Their latest album is called Power Up. You can see them on tour this April including stops at the Rose Bowl April 18th, Allegiant Stadium, April 26th, and much more. Playing their song “Shot In The Dark”, give it up for the one, the only AC/DC!



Thank you everyone. Well here we are, this is the end… for now. We have to take a long hiatus and do some retooling. Also, this is our last show at the Observatory OC. Our next shows will be at our new home base in Long Beach at the Long Beach Terrace Theater. This year and this election cycle brought us to the breaking point. We were sick of seeing Fuckface and his goons on TV 24 hours a day, and we really thought we were going to be at the very end of it. But nope, 76 million Americans voted for the fucking asshole to be president again and now this is where we are. And it of course, it had to end with the absolute WORST election in United States history. Really, this is rock bottom. They have one party rule. The media will give them a blank check to do whatever they want. So we need to just shut it down. But we will be back. But before we go, I do have something that I have been wanting to do all year, regardless of which candidate won. But since Fuckface unfortunately is going to be worming his way back to the White House, this makes it even more like something I have to do. But we will digress and we will see everyone back out on the road soon. But before we go, I want to thank my staff, my crew, all the great universities that hosted us through this season, and of course our home office in Santa Ana, and the fine people at the Observatory OC, go see a show there if you’re in town. We wouldn’t be here without you guys! UGA and Miami, we will be back. And everyone else, we will be back! Until then… fuck this fucking year. Fuck you 2024, and also fuck you 2025. I’m out!



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Top 10 Conservative Idiots #17-16: Death Of An Insurance Salesman Edition


Top 10 Conservative Idiots #17-16: Death Of An Insurance Salesman Edition

Welcome back to the Top 10 Conservative Idiots! Yoooooooooooooooooooooo!!! What’s up, UCLA, how you guys doing? You doing fucking good? Great! It is good to be home! And by the way we just passed our 8th anniversary, how wild is that? We’ve come a long way, baby! This is our penultimate Top 10 of the year and the last regular one for quite a while. As we keep saying, we have to take a break because this recent election cycle brought us to the breaking point. Couldn’t take it! And we were growing increasingly tired of seeing Fuckface on TV and social media 24 hours a day. I know, we’re a political comedy show! But hey… it’s been a wild ride these last few years and especially in 2024. But we will be back with a new and improved format. We’re also exploring the idea of finally getting a podcast off the ground… maybe. But next week is of course our annual year-end roundup and man we are busy working overtime trying to sort through all the crazy shit that happened this year, and what we think is going to happen next year. But one question I get asked all the time is “Why are you ending the show right now when it’s going to be insane next year? Hasn’t he made your job easier?” Two answers to that question – 1) We had to take a break. A long break. This election practically brought us to the breaking point and we’re just exhausted. Like most of us. We’re fucking sick of seeing his face and all his hate, bile and garbage on TV and social media 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You just can’t satirize this shit anymore because it’s insane thing after insane thing. Enough of it! And the answer to part 2 – no, it hasn’t made our jobs easier. It’s made it that much more fucking difficult! And any actual news is getting harder to find anymore as it gets hidden behind a paywall, while bullshit is free and out there. So that’s the answer to that question. OK enough of the intro. We have a lot of idiocy to cover for our next to last show of the year. But first Stephen Colbert lays his take on the Pete Hegseth nomination and that guy is scary AF!:



So where do we begin this week? Before we go any further, we want to say that we are not going to make fun of the murder of the United Healthcare CEO, but instead we are going to tell you about what his company was up to in his final minutes. We can do that, right? Of course we can! In the number one slot this week is of course United Healthcare (1). While we do not take light in what may be a premeditated murder, we’re certainly going to talk about what happened because it’s crazy. And no, Matt Walsh, we’re not dunking on him because he’s white, just go fuck right the fuck off with your race baiting bullshit. In the second slot this week is Bird Flu (2). Yes, while California is pointing fingers at one of the biggest raw milk producers in the country, there’s a possibility that H5N1 is a mutation away from jumping to humans… or it isn’t. In the number 3 slot this week, is of course Fuckface himself (3), and has the “honeymoon” period after the election ended? Well it’s entirely possible depending on what your sources are, and of course Fox News can’t wait to bend over and kiss the ring every single day, which means they probably interfered in the election. Ugh. In the number 4 slot this week is DOGE (4). Yes, the new made up department to give Fuckface’s personal helper monkeys Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy something to do is getting ready to do as much damage to this country as it can possibly do. At what point do we rise up against these whackos? It’s going to be a long four years, isn’t it? In the number 5 slot this week is our segment detailing the plight of the world’s most poorly designed and constructed monstrosity on four wheels in “Cyberstruck” (5) and yes, the Tesla Cybertruck is the most poorly designed vehicle ever conceived! Great job, Elon! Taking the sixth slot this week is of course our weekly visit to the Holy Church Of The Top 10 in “Holy Shit” (6) and this week – does it feel like the hostile takeover of the government by religion is becoming a reality? Yeah you’re probably right and the quest to take the US into a totalitarian nightmare hellscape is being led by the worst people you know! At the number 7 slot is our segment that explores never-ending corporate greed in Late Stage Capitalism (7) and did you know that United Healthcare was in the process of deploying an AI that could have resulted in half of his staff being fired? Yeah, that happened and they’re not the only ones who are doing this, should you be afraid? Yes! In the number 8 slot this week is of course our weekly venture into the never-ending foray of online tin foil hat nuttery in Conspiracy Corner (8) and this week – RFK Jr isn’t just doubling down on his support of raw milk, he’s attempting to integrate it into the government and the biggest supplier of the shit on the West Coast just got recalled again! Yeah it’s going to be a ridiculously long 4 years, isn’t it? And in the number 9 (NEIN!!!!) slot this week, is a new I Need A Drink (9) and this week, we have to talk about the ridiculous new Netflix phenomenon that is “Hot Frosty” – a movie about a woman who wishes her snowman to come to life and it turns into a male model. Yeah that’s right! Finally this week in Road To The Shithouse (10) – we have to talk about one of Fuckface’s key campaign promises – his threat to eliminate the Department Of Education. Could it happen or could it not? Well the road to it happening is a lot more complicated than signing a simple executive order. Plus to cap things off, we have the legendary Duran Duran joining us! Buy their new album “Danse Macabre” or you are no friend of this program! Enjoy! And as always don't forget the key!

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Ladies and gentlemen, can I lay some harsh truths about reality on you for a minute? There’s one that I want to lay on everybody. That is… death isn’t always sad. Does anyone remember how you celebrated when you found out Rush Limbaugh died (see: Idiots #10-5 )? Well, 10 – 15 years from now, assuming that the United States and the world still exist, people will be asking you where you were when you found out that United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was murdered by a then unknown assailant in cold blood? And the killer turned out to be Brooklyn resident and guy who has a way too Italian paisano video game character name – Luigi Mangione. For the sake of this piece, let’s call this “Death Of An Insurance Salesman”. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!! I could totally see that working as a movie! But it’s totally insane the movement that this has been inspiring. I’ve personally likened it to the ending of the movie Joker. We may see some riots brewing because of this, but we may also not. But if there’s one thing we’ve learned in the events since the murder, it’s that this is a wake up call that the population is pissed, and we’re only getting angrier. But it’s absolutely insane that it came to this.

In the wake of the shooting of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, lawmakers are weighing in on the crime and the reaction to it, including expressions of frustration many Americans feel toward the healthcare system.

Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York told Business Insider on Wednesday that the rapturous online response to the shooting and the valorization by some of the suspect, Luigi Mangione, was indicative of a "mass bubbling of resentment around the precarity that people have been living with."

"Of course, we don't want to see the chaos that vigilantism presents," said Ocasio-Cortez. "We also don't want to see the extreme suffering that millions of Americans confront when your life changes overnight from a horrific diagnosis, and people are led to just some of the worst, not just health events, but the worst financial events of their and their family's lives." She added, "I think for people who are surprised, it's a wake-up call for how much of this exists in our society."

Democratic Rep. Maxwell Frost of Florida, who began his political career as a gun violence prevention activist, told BI that he's "against gun violence in all forms," but that he understood some of the reaction. "There's so much animosity and hatred of this system that people are looking beyond maybe their typical moral scope to meme this guy, or to praise him, because the issue is just so pervasive," he said. "That's something to take note of."

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/progressive-lawmakers-reaction-uhc-ceo-224935610.html




Oh come on, people! Stop your rabbling! But the biggest takeaway from this murder is that people are finally reaching the breaking point of what the American for profit healthcare system is doing to actual Americans and not the billiionaires who own it. But what’s even more insane is the moral and ethical debate this has spawned. First – Ben Shapiro, no, the shooter is not being praised for killing a white male, let’s make that perfectly clear. He was killed because he was a greedy piece of shit who was only poised to become even greedier if this latest shareholder meeting had taken place. And no, Fox News, go fuck yourselves. His murder is not cannon fodder for your ratings. In fact, if you do some research, a quick Google search will tell you exactly what Brian Thompson and United Healthcare were up to that led to the shooting.

The fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on Wednesday, which New York City police have described as "brazen" and "targeted," occurred after the insurance provider has faced legal scrutiny over its coverage.

Police have yet to make an arrest in the midtown Manhattan shooting, and a motive remains unclear. The shooting drew an array of reactions, with many critics not entirely sympathetic as they pointed out that the company has denied coverage to some patients. Others, however, slammed those reactions as insensitive, saying that a killing isn't justified and that acts of violence should be denounced.

One criticism of UnitedHealthcare that has garnered attention following the shooting involves a lawsuit alleging the company uses artificial intelligence (AI) to deny coverage to some elderly patients who are on a Medicare Advantage plan, despite allegedly being aware that the algorithm has a 90 percent error rate.

The lawsuit was filed on November 14, 2023. It names UnitedHealth Group, UnitedHealthcare and NaviHealth as the defendants. It was brought by the families of two now-deceased patients who were denied coverage by UnitedHealthcare for stays at nursing homes. The suit is ongoing, and its claims have not been proved in court.
https://www.newsweek.com/united-healthcare-ceo-shooting-ai-lawsuit-1996266




Uh oh… the crowd is getting restless! Better give them some mindless stimulation! Here, here’s some bullshit fearmongering from Fox News about the “border crisis”. So yeah, United Healthcare is in some deep doo doo about that AI that was being used to deny claims, while Brian Thompson and the UHC executives profited from it. But here’s the thing that MAGA needs to know – you want to know why your pay is so low? It’s not immigrants coming over the border to take your jobs. It’s your boss and the shareholder and dividend class! They’re the ones who are stealing our money and laughing all the way to the bank because you keep voting against your best interests time and time again! But this move definitely has UHC’s competition scared.

A web page listing the corporate leadership team behind Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS), one of America's biggest health insurers, has disappeared from the company's website.

The disappearance of the page listing the provider's 25 highest-ranking employees was highlighted in a post shared to the r/antiwork subreddit on Reddit by the user u/wendysdrivethru.

The web page appeared to have vanished after the fatal shooting of CEO of UnitedHealthcare, Brian Thompson, in New York in what police described as a "premeditated, preplanned targeted attack."

Newsweek has reached out to Anthem BCBS via email for comment.

A screenshot shared as part of the Reddit post revealed how a 404 Error page appeared when they attempted to access the "leadership" section of the page. "Guess they don't want us to see who's on their board? Can't imagine why," a caption accompanying the post reads.
https://www.newsweek.com/blue-cross-blue-shield-corporate-about-us-page-vanishes-website-1996597




Yeah this is starting to feel a lot like the Joker isn’t it? I can see him going “Well, I off one little CEO and everyone loses their minds!”. Well look, America is a fucking powder keg waiting to go off, and this may have been the catalyst to light the fuse. We’ve been fucked over and taken advantage of by Wall Street for so long that it was only a matter of time before someone acted. And don’t worry, we’ll get to the *alleged* killer, Luigi Mangione next week. But this was maybe one of the more disturbing developments from the healthcare industry this week. Yes, they were planning to put time limits on anesthesia during surgery. If that’s not shockingly, disgustingly evil, then what is? And of course I’m not talking about the fact that the asshole criminal convicted felon has wormed his way back to the White House, that’s a different topic altogether. Everyone – remember, remember the 5th of Decembert!

After sharp criticism from anesthesiologists, an insurance company is halting its plan to limit the amount of time it would cover anesthesia used in surgeries and procedures. Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield said on Thursday it would no longer move forward with the policy change.

“There has been significant widespread misinformation about an update to our anesthesia policy. As a result, we have decided to not proceed with this policy change,” the company said in a statement. “To be clear, it never was and never will be the policy of Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield to not pay for medically necessary anesthesia services. The proposed update to the policy was only designed to clarify the appropriateness of anesthesia consistent with well-established clinical guidelines.”

Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield insurance representing Connecticut, New York and Missouri had previously said that, starting in February, it would deny any claims for anesthesia services that exceeded specific time limits set for surgeries and procedures.

Anthem had said the change was part of an effort to make health care more affordable by reducing overbilling for anesthesia.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/05/health/anthem-blue-cross-blue-shield-anesthesia-claim-limits/index.html





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When COVID-19 first broke out on the scene, people thought “it can’t happen here”. Well, it could happen and it did happen and it killed millions of people and 1.2 million Americans, including over 750,000 truly selfish individuals who mocked doctors and public health experts and spat in the face of COVID protocols. But, if you remember your COVID terminology, you probably remember the term “zoonotic virus”. That’s a virus that can jump between species. The current strain of H5N1 is getting to be dangerous. And if you’ve been following this program, you know that our segment Conspiracy Corner has been spending the last couple of weeks documenting the fight between the state of California and one of the biggest producers of the substance known as raw milk, Raw Farms. But of course, the conspiracy theorists didn’t listen to experts during COVID, so what makes you think they will listen to experts this time around? The H5N1 virus has been around for a while, but the current strain could wreak serious havoc on our hospitals.

Influenza A viruses are associated with most of the documented global pandemics in human history. High pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) viruses belonging to the H5N1 subtype are a leading risk factor for future pandemics. The evolutionary barriers to mammalian adaptation of these viruses are lower than previously thought, as shown by rapid mutation accumulation in key viral proteins.

H5N1 viruses were initially detected only in Asian poultries during the past two decades. However, in recent years, a rapid transmission of these viruses into new mammal species has been observed worldwide, endangering wildlife, agricultural production, and human health.

Such rapid viral transmission started after the emergence of a new genotype of H5N1 viruses belonging to clade 2.3.4.4b, which infected wild birds from Europe to Africa, North America, South America, and the Antarctic. These viruses arose from genomic reassortment between the H5N8 and low-pathogenicity avian influenza (LPAI) viruses, generating new hybrid strains.

The genomic reassortment event between 2.3.4.4b H5N8 and low pathogenicity avian influenza (LPAI) viruses gave rise to the panzootic 2.3.4.4b H5N1 viruses, which are genetically different from prior strains. This reassortment involved the polymerase gene and surface proteins, facilitating rapid adaptation to new environments.
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20240925/H5N1-bird-flu-is-mutating-fast-and-jumping-to-mammals-could-the-next-pandemic-be-here.aspx




Yeah we’re in danger all right. Imagine the next administration takes office and RFK Jr bans vaccines and replaces actual science with raw milk, Crossfit, and magic beans. Then watch as Dr. Oz guts your health insurance and sends it back to the stone ages. Yeah it’s going to be a colossal shit show. But so far, actual public health experts aren’t concerned for the pandemic potential, but are calling on people to tone down the fearmongering. But of course our 24/7 news media hysteria isn’t exactly helping things, and they certainly don’t plan to start any time soon. But rest assured that there are some very smart people in charge of our public health (for now) and they’re actively looking into the situation.

Outbreaks at the interface of animal and human health are hard to study in the U.S. because they’re covered by different jurisdictions. The USDA [U.S. Department of Agriculture] oversees farm issues and its focus is on agriculture. While the USDA does have an emergency response team dedicated to influenza, farmers may have concerns about people coming onto their property to collect samples from livestock or workers, and some of those workers may not have documented immigration status. But those workers are at risk of infection, as shown by a case of human infection that occurred in early April. Samples from animals at the relevant farm were reportedly ‘not available’ for testing.

If we can’t collect samples directly from cattle, we have to look at something like milk, and we have indeed found that a lot of tested milk samples contain genetic traces of the bird flu. But that does not tell us how many cows might be infected. It’s not at all clear because the milk we are testing is not from just one cow but many, and so we have no idea how many of them were contributing to the signal. All we can say is that it is certainly not a small number given how many samples are coming back positive, but beyond that we just don’t know exactly how many infected cows there are, where they are, or how many may have been very mildly infected and not detected.

One of the problems is the way public health has been politicized following the COVID pandemic. But the virus doesn’t care what side you’re on—it only cares if you have the appropriate receptors so that it can get into your cells, and from there into somebody else.
https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/bird-flu-doesnt-pose-imminent-pandemic-risk-but-lack-of-transparency-planning-a-cause-for-concern/




Yeah it’s the danger zone, all right! Someone call Kenny Loggins! Yeah it’s insane that our public health is going to be handled by anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theorists. That’s like giving the alcoholic the keys to the liquor cabinet. And to your car. And directions to the nearest cliff. What anti-vaxxers don’t understand about public health is that public health affects LITERALLY everybody on the planet. Yes, for those of you keeping score at home, that’s literally EVERY SINGLE PERSON ON THIS PLANET. And that includes you and me. Yes, the COVID vaccines worked. And an H5N1 vaccine will work. It’s not some stupid psy-op despite what your crazy uncle’s next door neighbor’s caretaker said on a Facebook meme last night.

The H5N1 bird flu virus that has spread worldwide is already better at infecting people than earlier strains. What’s more, a single mutation could allow it to infect the cells lining our noses and throats, making it more likely to go airborne.

This change alone is not enough for the virus to be capable of causing a pandemic. However, if a virus with this mutation swapped genes with a human flu virus, it could acquire pandemic potential almost instantly.

“The more people get infected, the more likely it is that something like this could arise,” says Ian Wilson at the Scripps Research Institute in California. Despite this, Wilson thinks the risk remains low.

A particularly virulent form of H5N1 bird flu evolved in the 1990s, probably in domestic birds in China, and spread worldwide. Around 2020, a new variant of this virus emerged and spread even more widely, reaching the Americas and Antarctica. It has infected domestic poultry in large numbers and is also spreading among dairy cows in the US, causing occasional human cases.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2459077-h5n1-bird-flu-is-closer-to-gaining-pandemic-potential-than-we-thought/




So yes, while the plight of the H5N1 pandemic potential continues to grow, once again, you can rest assured that there’s some very smart and talented people working behind the scenes to make sure that you’re safe. But while the media attempts to link that one case in Fresno, California to the suppliers of raw milk, Raw Farms, that strain is not the one that’s jumping to humans. If H5N1 follows the pattern of COVID – yes, they start out small and become much bigger than we could imagine. Could H5N1 cause the same kind of panic that COVID did? There’s only one way to find out, but so far it doesn’t look like it’s going to cause the same reaction that COVID did. For now. We hope.

H5N1 bird flu, a type of avian influenza, has infected dozens of people in the U.S., and spread to seven states and Canada this year.

As concern grows over whether it could lead to another pandemic or lockdown, California has announced a broad recall of raw milk and cream after the virus was found in some of the dairy.

There have been 32 human cases of bird flu in California this year — including the first U.S. child — according to the CDC. (None are linked to raw milk.) There have been 58 in the U.S. in total.

Almost all human bird flu patients have had contact with infected animals, but three cases in North America are getting particular attention because it’s not known how they were exposed to the virus: the child in California, a teenager in Canada and a person in Missouri.

The Canadian teen remained in critical condition at the end of November, weeks after symptoms started, and was being treated for acute respiratory distress at a children’s hospital in British Columbia after testing positive for H5N1 bird flu, the country’s first human case, the CBC reported.
https://www.today.com/health/disease/bird-flu-pandemic-rcna183174





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Look, we told you what was going to happen if you elect Orange Fuckface a second term. We warned you how bad things were going to get. And he’s just barely getting started. Shit, two years ago, we called that if he got elected for a second term, it would be a venerable revenge-a-palooza. He’s out for blood, and his supporters want violent and bloody revenge for what happened in 2020. And now that he’s heading back to the White House, they will get it. But the most criminally insane part of the election was the ”undecided voters”, and many of those undecided voters waited until the last minute. That being said, we wondered how so many of the gullible were duped this time around, in fact, we had our own analysis on what was going on a few weeks ago. But now many of those “undecideds” have been regretting their choice. And now that we see what his true intentions really are, a lot of people are having second thoughts about their decision. Look, you only get one vote and you wasted it, you can’t take it back. Now look sad, bow your head and say “d’oh”. Yes, the “honeymoon” period for Orange Fuckface may be over as people are turning their anger towards him.

A new CNN poll is showing some positive news for President-elect Orange Fuckface as he continues to prepare for his second administration, but how long will that last?

The new CNN poll, released Wednesday and conducted by SSRS, found that more than half of Americans approve of how Fuckface is handling his transition back to the White House. The poll comes more than a month after Fuckface won a decisive victory over Vice President Kamala Harris.

The poll found that 54 percent of Americans believe Fuckface will do a “good job” in his return to the White House next month and 55 percent approve of how he’s handling the presidential transition so far.

The CNN report stated that the results show Fuckface has “earned a honeymoon period with the public as he prepares to return to the White House after being voted out four years ago amid broadly negative approval ratings of his own.” The report also noted that while Fuckface earned positive ratings on his transition back to the White House, the numbers still trail other presidents.
https://www.nj.com/politics/2024/12/is-it-just-the-honeymoon-phase-for-Fuckface-new-cnn-poll-says.html




Yeah does anyone remember how fucking bad things were in 2020? Is all you care about the damn gas prices? Well, I got news for ya, folks! There’s more reasons to vote than just your fucking wallets, but that only seems to be what you care about. So what are you going to do when Orange Fuckface guts your Social Security and Medicare and you lose all your money because he gutted everyone in the SEC and the IRS? And then RFK Jr and Dr Oz replace actual science with conspiracy theory quackery and people start dying in the streets? Well, don’t come crawling to us! Because we can say “we told you so” followed by a very childish “neener neener”. But while one takeaway from that infamous June debate was that his popularity was plateauing, the actual numbers say otherwise!

THE HONEYMOON BEGINS — To no great surprise, the mood of the electorate seems to be shifting in the transition period as Fuckface prepares to take the reins from President JOE BIDEN following an election that delivered a stinging rebuke to Democratic power in Washington.

In what will be a major feather in his cap, Fuckface is slated to be unveiled tomorrow as Time’s “Person of the Year,” our colleague Meridith McGraw scoops, beating out other nine other finalists including KAMALA HARRIS, ELON MUSK, BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, JEROME POWELL and JOE ROGAN. Having won the distinction back in 2016, Fuckface joins fellow two-term presidents BARACK OBAMA, GEORGE W. BUSH, BILL CLINTON and RONALD REAGAN (among others) as rare two-time recipients.

Now, new polling from CNN offers a window into how voters are feeling with Fuckface 2.0 loading — but serious questions remain about how long the president-elect can sustain the good-vibe feeling once he’s actually back in power.

The breakdown:

Majority rules: 54% believe Fuckface will “do a good job upon his return to the White House next month” and a similar 55% “approves of how he’s handling the presidential transition so far.”
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook-pm/2024/12/11/how-long-can-the-Fuckface-honeymoon-last-00132333




Seriously, that’s about what it feels like! 54%! He still receives a failing grade! Why didn’t you vote for the nice lady who wanted to give you free healthcare? You could have done that! But instead, you chose to vote for this fucking asshole. And look, we might have understood when it was 2016 and it was a much more innocent time. But this is 2024. We know who Fuckface is. We know what he stands for. We know that his intentions are bad. We know the people who he surrounds himself with. None of it is good, and nothing good will happen in January. If you still chose to vote for him despite everything that we now know, well, that’s entirely on you.

When President-elect Fuckface posed for photos with family members after securing a second term on Election Night, Elon Musk was there.

When Fuckface spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the phone following the election, the Tesla CEO joined the call.

And when Fuckface met with House Republicans in Washington on Wednesday as they gathered for leadership votes, the Space X founder was seated in the room among lawmakers.

“Elon won’t go home. I can’t get rid of him. Until I don’t like him,” Fuckface quipped, according to a source in the room.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4991320-donald-Fuckface-elon-musk-republicans/




Even the stock market – the stock market! Is having an “oh shit” moment. Like they didn’t think things were going to be different after they spent 4 years slandering and spiting Biden and Harris? They really thought things were going to be different with Fuckface version 2.0? Well guess what? All his billionaire and big business backers are going to realize that they went too far this time when all of his cuts and tariffs go into place and people start going broke and the shit hits the fan. Yeah it will affect them too. If it indeed causes a second Great Depression, it’ll be infinitely worse than the first one. And when that happens, once again, don’t say we didn’t warn you!

And just like that, half of the stock market's euphoric post-Fuckface-election gain is gone.

Major US indexes sold off sharply on Friday, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq leading the way, as investors came to terms with the fact that they may not get a December rate cut as previously expected.

The turning point came on Thursday, when Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said he and the central bank are in no hurry to cut rates, given the positive signals being sent by the economy.

Stocks turned lower in afternoon trading, and that pressure continued through Friday. The S&P 500 fell as much as 1.6%, and has now given back more than half of its torrid 4% post-election gain. The Nasdaq Composite dropped 2.7% at intraday lows.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/stock-markets-Fuckface-honeymoon-turning-051001086.html





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The 47th president of the United States, Elon Musk, found himself in a bit of hot water this week over his newly proposed Department Of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, and how much damage it could possibly do. It’s basically a way for the billionaire criminal class to launder money in plain sight by firing entire government agencies. Come on, we’re onto their little scheme. Which of course, the personal helper monkey to the actual president – Orange Fuckface – is poised to do some incredible damage to the United States government. But just how much damage? We’ve said in the last couple of weeks, that it's going to be like taking a bull to a china shop – and you get to clean up and put back together what’s left of the broken glass. But of course, we can’t let made up, unofficial government organizations get to the better of us. In fact, one Congressman in particular – Maxwell Frost – has had enough of Elon’s bullshit and is resorting to the offensive. But really – the two biggest social media trolls in the United States – Orange Fuckface and Elon Musk – are going to be the ones in charge of burning this country down, and well, the fire is only getting started. This is going to be a ridiculously long 4 years, isn’t it?

Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) criticized President-elect Fuckface’s choices to lead the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), saying it’s “two billionaires who are cosplaying as government officials.” “Let’s be honest about DOGE and this whole thing, it’s a joke,” he said Thursday evening on MSNBC, noting DOGE is “not an actual department of this government.”

Fuckface tapped tech billionaire Elon Musk and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy to lead the advisory body — a decision that has spurred much controversy.

DOGE was created with the objective to “slash wasteful spending” and help restructure the government. Fuckface has also said that it will “provide advice and guidance” from outside of government. Several legislators from both sides of the aisle have already joined the related caucus, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is already set to chair a subcommittee related to DOGE and its efforts.

“I’m all for making our government more efficient, but we have to look at the proposition here,” said Frost, who was reelected last month for a second House term. “The proposition of these two guys is that to make the government more efficient we gotta fire a bunch of people and take away a bunch of funding.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5026681-maxwell-frost-doge-musk-ramaswamy/




Oh yeah. And while the CEO of 1,000 corporations is only salivating at the thought of annihilating the United States government and turning people’s livelyhoods into a game that you’d see on Facebook is just getting started, who knows what the end game is, and if they could really, actually accomplish what they’re setting out to do on “day one”. But this might be the most bizarre aspect of the whole DOGE endeavor – it’s applicants are literally working for free. That’s right – they will be working for 80 hours a week for zero money. That’s right – no pay, no benefits, no insurance, nothing. You get NOTHING! YOU
GET NOTHING! YOU LOSE! GOOD DAY SIR!

Elon Musk said in a post on the social platform X on Thursday that the brand new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) — an advisory group under President-elect Fuckface focused on slashing government costs and restructuring federal agencies — will require “tedious work” with “zero” compensation.

“Indeed, this will be tedious work, make lots of enemies & compensation is zero. What a great deal!” Musk wrote in the post.

Musk’s post comes as the advisory group, which will also be led by former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, made a post on X on Thursday seeking potential employees for DOGE.

“We are very grateful to the thousands of Americans who have expressed interest in helping us at DOGE. We don’t need more part-time idea generators. We need super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries willing to work 80+ hours per week on unglamorous cost-cutting. If that’s you, DM this account with your CV. Elon & Vivek will review the top 1% of applicants,” the post from DOGE read.
https://thehill.com/business/4990829-musk-doge-will-be-tedious-work-with-zero-compensation/




What……….. and I cannot emphasize this enough………….. the fuck???? Seriously, can you imagine the uproar on Fox if Biden or Kamala proposed an agency to gut government agencies where its’ top 1% applicants got literally nothing? It boggles the fucking mind! And who are these people who are willing to work for nothing? I want some names, because these people need the Will Smith – Chris Rock treatment, damn it! Maybe not so much a pimp slapping, but maybe more of a WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU??? kind of deal. But here’s my favorite part of all of this – Elon says he watched Office Space as preparation for what to do with cost cutting. Uh…. fucking what???? That’s like watching Gator to prepare for a trip to New Orleans.

Billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk, stirred amusement and speculation after describing his unusual preparation for heading the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

"I rewatched Office Space tonight for the 5th time to prepare for @DOGE!" Musk posted on X (formerly Twitter) on November 24. The post left many wondering whether Musk was joking or signaling serious intentions regarding his role in DOGE.

Office Space is a 1999 satirical comedy directed by Mike Judge of Beavis and Butt-Head fame, which critiques corporate culture and the drudgery of office life. The film has become a cult classic, known for its humorous take on bureaucratic inefficiencies, including the iconic scene where frustrated employees destroy a malfunctioning printer.

Musk's reference to the movie suggests a parallel between corporate and governmental bureaucracy, hinting at his intent to address what he sees as inefficiencies within federal operations.
https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-rewatched-office-space-doge-preparation-1990938https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-rewatched-office-space-doge-preparation-1990938




Oh what the fuck. You know, you could have voted for Kamala Harris and we could have had sanity and normalcy prevailing in Washington once again. But nope, you called her vicious names and downplayed everything she did, while elevating the fucking asshole and now this is what we’ve got. This whole thing gets weirder and weirder. By the way, in case you’re wondering the caliber of person that Elon and Vivek are looking for, well… first off, what the fuck does Vivek even do besides go on Fox News 100 times a day? What does Vivek do? Let us know in the comments! But Elon and Vivek say that they’re looking for super high IQ individuals. Uh… got to tell you guys something, you’re not going to find it in this crowd, and if you do, they won’t work for free!
The new Department of Government Efficiency, a group created by President-elect Orange Fuckface with the task of identifying ways to cut federal spending and headed by billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, is already taking resumes.

The request for job applicants was posted Thursday by the new X account for DOGE, which despite its heady mission isn't an official government department. In his statement on Tuesday announcing the effort, Fuckface described Musk and Ramaswamy's role as providing "advice and guidance from outside of government."

It's unclear where the funding for DOGE will come from or the size of its budget, as well as whether Musk, the world's richest person, and Ramaswamy, who has an estimated net worth of $1 billion, will be paid for their efforts. The Fuckface campaign didn't respond to a request for information.

In the meantime, DOGE is starting to hire, according to the post on X, the social media service (formerly known as Twitter) owned by Musk. The account already has 1.2 million followers on the platform.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-Fuckface-doge-government-job-how-to-apply/





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Oh man, I was just getting into that song! Yes, there are some men who just want to watch the world burn, and one of those men is Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Welcome to our segment detailing the plight of the world’s most ridiculous monstrosity on 4 wheels not seen since the DMC DeLorean – the Tesla Cybertruck! Yes, thanks to the Tesla mad man, and his MAGA ass kissing credibility, the stock of the company has sank to unheard of levels. But an even more alarming statistic about the once revered auto maker should be more concerning: Telsa is the least reliable car on the road! In fact, not only is the Tesla Cybertruck the most recalled vehicle on the road, it’s worse than 91% of all cars on the road! You’ve probably been seeing pictures like these pop up on your social media feeds. Most of them are true, like this one. That was AI, ha! Created with Elon’s Grok AI, of course! The thing about the Cybertruck is that it's not a functioning vehicle. It’s basically just an over bloated, expensive, near impossible to maintain status symbol for cryto dude bros who want to look cool, and that’s about it. But the main thing is clear – Elon Musk is probably going to kill a whole lot of us.

Cybertruck owners have discovered that a chunk of these stainless steel electric pickups could “stop producing torque” while thrumming along. The fault was noted by Tesla in a November 5 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recall. Any sudden loss of propulsion might “increase the risk of a collision,” added the filing ominously. The latest recall—the wedge wagon’s sixth this year—requires shop time, not an over-the-air (OTA) update.

Reports of instantaneous loss of e-horsepower due to duff drive inverters—devices that convert DC to AC and control an EV’s motor speed and torque—might alarm the average EV motorist, but to extrovert buyers of Elon Musk’s flagship, it’s evidence of the angular pickup’s edginess, Ivan Drury, the director of insights at car shopping guide Edmunds, told WIRED.

“The people drawn to [the Cybertruck] don’t have quality of construction or safety at the top of mind,” he says. “That this could be a dangerous vehicle to drive is key to its appeal. Nobody’s buying it to use as an actual truck.”

Stomping on the accelerator pedals of the affected Cybertrucks might get their drivers nowhere—a downer, you’d think, for a vehicle that’s faster to 60 mph than a Lamborghini Aventador—but, adds the Hawaii-based Drury, that won’t harm the pickup’s reputation with many wannabe owners.
https://www.wired.com/story/cybertrucks-many-recalls-make-it-worse-than-91-percent-of-all-2024-vehicles/




It’s not about money, it’s about sending a message. And that message from Elon Musk is apparently fuck all y’all! But of course, the actual people who purchase the Cyberbrick aren’t concerned with functionality, they’re just concerned that they got a cool toy. If you want functionality with your vehicle, the Dodge RAM EV or Yukon Denali EV would be more up your alley, and unlike the Cybertruck, they can actually do truck things, like haul things and tow things. And they won’t fail on you after 116 miles because you got yours stuck in the sand! Great way to waste $100,000! Not only that, the Cyberturd is the most disposable vehicle on the road too. But in comparison, not all electric vehicles are bad – some rank at the top of the list and some rank at the bottom. And like a huge percentage of the recalls are due to guess what? Bad software! It’s a tale as old as time. How about this - actually hire good software engineers and pay them what they are worth!

Electric cars are theoretically more reliable than ICEs because they feature substantially fewer moving and lubricated parts. Thanks to this design, they're also much cheaper to maintain and easier to live with. The only major repair that you need to conduct on an EV is having the battery pack's modules replaced when they reach the end of their lifespan . Most new EV manufacturers claim that this will occur sometime after 15 years of regular usage, which is much better than the EVs sold just under a decade ago. The EV industry has made massive advancements in developing electric drive units and energy storage solutions, resulting in today's EVs being more dependable than ever.

This doesn't mean that EVs are fool-proof . There are several new electric vehicles on the market today that don't benefit from the highest reliability ratings and are frequently subject to recalls relating to bad software or manufacturing. Electromobility remains a much newer technology compared to ICEs, which is why this development curve is understandable. It is worth noting that despite these issues, EVs remain more dependable than ICEs, just based on how much simpler their drivetrain systems are.

We've listed the Genesis Electrified GV70 at the top of this list because iSeeCars bundles the EV's reliability with its ICE counterpart. iSeeCars indicates that you can expect the GV70 range to be subject to 22.3 recalls within the next 30 years. Beyond this, we don't have a clear idea of how dependable the EV is in isolation. The Genesis GV70 Electrified scores a 44/100 predicted reliability rating from Consumer Reports, making it the most reliable large EV option featured on this list. J.D. Power also gives it an 82/100 quality and reliability score, which is also one of the highest results that we get to see on this list.
https://www.topspeed.com/least-reliable-evs/




Now to be fair, we’re just in the dawn of the age of the electric car. Yes, we poke fun at Tesla and specifically the Cybertruck because they’re easy targets, and their owner Elon Musk is a mentally deranged psychopath who’s out for absolute power. But those feeling aside, now that the Tesla Cybertruck is out on the road, it’s getting some absolutely crazy reactions from owners, non-owners, and people who just want to mock the ever-loving shit out of it. Which is exactly what we’re doing here, mocking the shit out of it. Even seeing one up close on the road last night, I couldn’t help but notice just how half-assed it is put together. Like even most Lego sets are designed and built so they’re flushed together and it looks natural. The Cybertruck on the other hand doesn’t even look like that. And this is a $100K vehicle we’re talking about here.

“Stay in your lane!”

That’s not just what another driver could have yelled as one of our test drivers struggled to get used to the Tesla Cybertruck’s unique steering on a narrow country road. It’s also how Consumer Reports plans to review the Cybertruck we just purchased.

If you want to clown on the design, watch videos of it taking on ridiculous challenges, or read astute commentary on how it relates to Elon Musk’s role in the 2024 election, you’re covered: Entire subreddits, YouTube channels, and long-form articles are devoted to those aspects of Tesla’s new stainless-clad, trapezoidal truck. But we’re going to stay in our lane and test our new Cybertruck the same way we evaluate every other major new vehicle that goes on sale.

We’ll measure its 0-to-60-mph time and braking distances, we’ll check how easy it is to install car seats, we’ll see how it handles when we put it through a high-speed obstacle avoidance maneuver, we’ll drive it up the rock hill at our track to evaluate its off-road abilities, we’ll tow with it, and we’ll test how many miles it can travel at highway speed before the battery needs to be recharged. We’ll also bring it home and live with it, hauling our families, our trailers, and our weekend projects. (Learn more about how Consumer Reports tests cars.)

Where it does poorly, we’ll say so. Where it outperforms the competition, we’ll give it credit. And, since our tests sometimes uncover problems that automakers fix in production, we might even improve it—like when we measured extremely long braking distances on the original Tesla Model 3, an issue the automaker quickly fixed with a software update. No matter what conclusions we reach, we’ll be better equipped to judge other pickup trucks and EVs based on this experience.
https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/hybrids-evs/tesla-cybertruck-review-a4750335741/




No, there’s not going to be any fire any time soon. But think about this – the people who are set on buying the Cybertruck basically have their minds made up already. And while the “truck” that looks loke a dumpster, chances are that nobody will be setting them on fire. Though there’s plenty that have been in accidents, had things broken, or simply failed. In fact, considering there’s entire subreddits dedicated to the insanity that is the Cybertruck, you’ve probably seen all the stories of the colossal and spectacular failure that it is. In fact, the Cybertruck may beat out the time tested Pontiac Aztek for the most ridiculous vehicle on four wheels in human history. And when you consider the quickest bricked Cybertruck ever, we’re only going to be seeing more of those stories as time goes on!

A soon-to-be Cybertruck owner, Nathan, says his Cybertruck got bricked even before Tesla could deliver it to him. Nathan shared his story on the Cybertruck Owners Club forum.

Here is what he wrote…

“Today was the day I should have gotten a non-foundation Cybertruck Cyberbeast. However, an hour before I was to take delivery, the Tesla showroom called me and said they had some technical issues with the truck, and they wouldn’t release it to me.”

This is an unfortunate level of inconvenience for anyone about to hand over $100,000 of his hard-earned money to a company.

So, what caused Tesla to cancel the delivery one hour ahead of when it was scheduled? Apparently, the Cybertruck got bricked as Tesla was making final preparations ahead of delivery.
https://www.torquenews.com/11826/tesla-sets-new-record-quickest-bricked-cybertruck-zero-customer-driven-miles-cybertruck





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Gather around my fair brothers and sisters! It’s time to take a seat in the pew and pass the collection plate, for the Holy Church Of The Top 10 has convened and it’s time to remind you that the holiest among us are the most full of:



My fair congregation! Please be seated! You know, since the unfortunate selection of the unholy, ungodly Dark One to the highest office in the land, we can’t help but wonder what the end game is for Christian nationalism. Well, we kind of have an idea, but it’s an extremely scary thought and we’re definitely not going there! After all, this is a family show and we try to air on the lighter side of Christianity and religion in general, not the dark kind. But one of the Dark One’s unholy minions who we’ve been trying to dissect is Pete Hegseth. Yes, the one who the unholy Dark One has been tapping to lead the US military and be this nightmare administration’s “border czar”. Of course, he doesn’t worship GAWD or JAYSUS, no. He worships the unholy, ungodly Dark One! Yes, even though he will be the current leader of what’s left of the free world, I of course speak of a man so foul, so depraved and disgusting that his name dare NOT be spoken in my church! But like most people connected to his unholiness, ruiner of all things good and decent, he has a few skeletons in his closet. Most notably his literal NAZI ideology concerning America’s public education. Last we checked, public schools in the US aren’t churches!

Hegseth suggested that the first phase of this insurgency would involve regrouping and reorganizing, with a focus on creating a strong base of supporters from religiously affiliated schools. Once the groundwork is laid, he indicated, the second phase would involve more overt actions to reclaim control over the educational system.

“We call it a tactical retreat,” Hegseth explained, comparing his strategy to the principles of Mao Zedong’s insurgency tactics. “Once the foothold has been taken, once the recruits have graduated boot camp, then we can move to phase two.” He stressed that while school choice was an important policy, the real goal was to cultivate an underground force capable of eventually launching “offensive operations.”

“We’re in the middle of phase one right now, which is effectively a tactical retreat where you regroup, consolidate, and reorganize. And as you do so, you build your army underground with the opportunity later on of taking offensive operations in an overt way,” Hegseth said, adding that his remarks were "metaphorical and all that good stuff," eliciting laughter from the hosts.

Pete Hegseth is a former Fox News commentator and a veteran of the Minnesota National Guard. He has served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay, earning two Bronze Stars for his service. His appointment as Secretary of Defense has raised concerns due to his polarizing views and past controversies.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/pete-hegseth-Fuckface-s-defense-nominee-sparks-outrage-with-call-for-educational-insurgency-against-american-schools/ar-AA1uJiXK




Oh yes, my fair congregation! But yes, boo this man. In fact, while we are supposed to be talking about the hostile takeover of government by the church, we can’t help but point out what a truly scary and frightening individual Mr. Hegseth is. And yes, here it is – just two chucklefucks yoking it up over having to protect the leader of the free world. And yes, we do have to share the same oxygen as these psychopaths. But if you ever want a perfect example of someone who was radicalized by propaganda, look no further than this guy. Yes, it’s insane that a literal Nazi and a guy who has a white power symbol tattooed on his chest is such a radical “Christian”. In fact, he gives actual Christians a bad name.

Shortly before Orange Fuckface nominated him to be Defense secretary, Pete Hegseth ventured to the podcast studio of Shawn Ryan, a former Navy SEAL now serving as the Joe Rogan of conservative military media.

Early in the interview, Hegseth reads aloud the dramatic tagline on the back cover of his new book, The War on Warriors: “I joined the Army to fight extremists in 2001. Twenty years later, that same Army labeled me one.” Later, Hegseth flashes his right pectoral muscle, and the tattoo that, he says, led to the label: a large, inky Jerusalem cross associated with the Christian right.

The backstory to Hegseth’s bitter complaint is this: Just after Jan. 6, 2021, when scores of active-duty troops and veterans participated in the attack on the U.S. Capitol, a fellow member of the Army National Guard flagged Hegseth’s tattoos as evidence he was a potential “insider threat.” Along with the Jersualem cross, Hegseth also has a tattoo that reads “Deus Vult” or “God wills it” — a motto from the Crusades that has been adopted by white supremacists and was seen at the deadly march in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017.

“My orders were revoked to guard the Biden inauguration,” Hegseth says.

“What a punishment,” Ryan responds sarcastically, and the two men laugh.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/12/06/pete-hegseth-defense-religion-christian-00192117




Yeah really, and I cannot say this enough – but fuck that guy and his cause. But of course, we cannot speak ill of the cult! Never, never speak ill of the cult! But remember a couple of weeks ago when I compared their victory celebrations to that of ISIS or the Taliban? Well, if you want to see how a political party morphs into a Taliban or ISIS version of itself, you don’t have to wonder anymore. Because there’s an increasing view on the right that government and church are one in the same, but they really aren’t, in fact, we have this thing called the “United States Constitution” that would prevent such a thing from happening. And these people are scary, they are ruthless, and they are bloodthirsty, and they are coming to a church near you!

In addition to being an unabashed Fuckface cultist, evangelist Lance Wallnau is a self-proclaimed Christian nationalist who is among the most prominent purveyors of Seven Mountains Dominionism, a radical theology that advocates having right-wing Christians control all aspects of society.

Wallnau has made no secret of the fact that he want to see right-wing Christians take over nations all over the world, and he has been equally clear about his intent to take advantage of the reelection of Orange Fuckface to make that happen.

In the days after Fuckface's election victory, Wallnau appeared on a program hosted by evangelist Todd White, and was giddy with anticipation over the opportunities that Christian nationalists will now have to unite with the government to push their agenda globally.

Wallnau proclaimed that with Fuckface taking office, now "the government and the church" can begin "moving together to build the ekklesia" to take control of "the government mountain" globally. ("Ekklesia" is a term used by dominionists to refer to the church as God’s governing body on Earth.)
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/Fuckfaces-election-lance-wallnau-envisions-government-and-church-working-together




And these people should feel bad about themselves. They should experience shame, but they don’t and couldn’t. His Unholiness himself does not experience any shame whatsoever. And his most die hard fans love him for that. But of course, like all good conspiracy theories, it always comes back around to Hitler, doesn’t it? In fact, we have no doubt that his Unholiness will unleash his private army of brownshirts to carry out things that the military wouldn’t do. Unspeakable horrors that we dare not mention! And of course people like our ol’ buddy Joel Webbon are absolutely giddy at the thought of things like this being carried out. Because of course, that speaks more about him and his evil intentions than it does about anything else.

Texas pastor Joel Webbon is a radical Christian nationalist who has been very open about his belief that only Christians who share his Protestant theology should be allowed to serve in public office or express their faith publicly.

Naturally, that means that Webbon believes that all non-Christians, especially Jews, should likewise be prohibited from serving in government, which he made abundantly clear during an episode of his podcast last month.

"In a legislative sense and in terms of public rituals, things that are celebrated—virtues, holidays, all those kinds of things—the public square, legislatively and culturally, it would absolutely, unapologetically play favorites," Webbon declared. "And there would be one favorite, and it would be Anglo-Protestants. That would be the favorite. So, there will be no public Catholic parade, but you could have a public Protestant parade. And there would be no law that says Jews can't live here, but what there would be is anybody to hold public office would have to make a Christian profession of faith ... and they would have to have a track record of it. So, no practicing Jew who hasn't converted to Christianity will be able to serve in public office."
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/christian-nationalist-pastor-joel-webbon-says-jews-cannot-serve-public-office-my





Sigh… yes, his Unholiness is going to wreak some extreme havoc and he hasn’t even taken office yet, 2025 is going to be an insane year! We need a long vacation from this nightmare! Mass has ended, may you go in peace! That’s it this week for:




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“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.” – Gordon Gekko, Wall St. (1987)

When corporate profits are at an all time high, there is nowhere else to go but to make more millions.

There is corporate greed, and then there is:



Gamers are a competitive bunch and one of the more easily swindled and manipulated groups in the realm of capitalism. Particularly in PC gaming, where the hardware that is used can cost more than the next guy’s hardware if has the label “gamer” attached to it. Gaming Youtube channels are well aware of this evil practice. For instance – this motherboard by MSI – the MAG Tomahawk X860, retails for around $299. Whereas, the gaming equivalent – the Asus ROG X860, retails for nearly $500. And then you’re just paying for the name. One company in particular this week has come under fire for manipulating gamers with a deceptively evil practice. That company is NZXT. Recently, the Youtube channel “Gamer’s Nexus” discovered that there’s something sinister afoot about NZXT’s “rent to own” PC scam. In fact, rent to own PCs are common because PCs – one part in particular of PCs being the graphics processing unit, or GPU, being ridiculously expensive. Which is why this process exists. But in fact, if you’re a gamer and you want to buy a new PC, or you’re even considering the rental agreement, then you should probably at least do some research before you click the buy button. There’s a lot of predatory scams out there, and this may be one of the most predatory we’ve seen in a while.

Gaming PC maker NZXT launched a rental program for computers. Inconsistencies and oddities in its performance claims arose, which the company put down to the variable availability of parts day-to-day. Given the inherent shadiness of rent-to-never-own consumer electronics, it wasn't enough to stop Gamers Nexus, a popular gaming site and channel, publicly accusing the company of running a scam. NZXT posted a response claiming GN was "confused" and promising to detail its rental program, which Gamers Nexus quickly denounced and fisked. As summarized by Dexerto:

"NZXT has posted a statement which not only misrepresents facts, but distorts the reality of their predatory rental computer program. The statement ignores major points and introduces several new concerns. Gamers Nexus has become aware of deeper elements connected to this story that GN has begun independently investigating," they said.

"While we will put together coverage of NZXT's inadequate and manipulative response in short order, we are also actively beginning work on a longer form investigation that could take weeks or months to finalize, depending on the depth of the rabbit hole. We will have more for you as it becomes available, starting with a deconstruction of NZXT's statement."
https://boingboing.net/2024/12/09/thinking-of-renting-a-gaming-pc-think-again.html




So if you want to buy a new PC through this arrangement, you have to be aware that the entry level costs are $59 a month for the low end tier PC with an i5 and a low end 3050 GPU, while the high end is $259 a month with an Intel i9, 32GB of RAM, and a 4090 GPU. There is one thing that both of these things have in common: you cannot cancel your subscription. That’s right – you’ll be paying that $59 a month from here to eternity and canceling it is apparently the stuff of nightmares. And by the time you could pay all your monthly payments, you could have bought and built a new PC yourself. But NZXT isn’t the only rental scam that you will soon see.

A new report alleges that PC hardware company NZXT's PC rental program is "shady and manipulative." The video from Gamers Nexus (via The Verge) accuses NZXT of changing prices and parts between "purchase" and "rental" versions of prebuilt PCs with the same (or similar) names.

For context, NZXT's Flex program allows customers to rent prebuilt gaming PCs starting at $59 (though a renter would need to provide a monitor, keyboard, and mouse). Gamers Nexus claims that specs and prices of prebuilt PC models change depending on whether you select "buy" or "rent." The exact prices and specs can change "day to day" according to the video.

For example, the video shows that a "Player: Three Prime" model PC contained an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 if a customer was set to buy it, whereas the rental version contained an RTX 4080 Super. However, the performance estimates--showing expected frame rates in certain games--did not change between the two models, despite containing significantly different hardware. These specs allegedly changed multiple times while Gamers Nexus was completing its report.

The Flex program's alleged issues don't stop there. Gamers Nexus highlights the Flex program's price point. Within nine or so months, the price of renting one of NZXT prebuilds will outstrip the cost of buying the PC (or its component parts) outright, with no rent-to-own option. Additionally, the report calls outs the program's "aggressive" terms of service, which allegedly allow NZXT to sell data created or stored on the rented PC.
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/new-video-claims-nzxt-pc-rental-program-is-a-scam-company-says-its-looking-into-it/1100-6528179/




Yes, they get the whole pie and we get to fight over what’s left of the crumbs, that’s late stage capitalism in a nutshell. But even after being called out for their predatory practices, they still came back with the lamest corporate BS response possible. But the fact that you can’t cancel your subscription once you hit the “buy” button means you’re stuck with a low end PC that could potentially light your house on fire due to its’ shoddy components. And that’s something that nobody wants, and of course, it’s in that terms of service agreement that you probably didn’t read when you signed up for the thing in the first place. But you did it anyways! Now nod your head and say “d’oh”! But this is the kind of thing that screws over gamers in the long run.

Gamers Nexus has released a video deconstructing NZXT’s defense of its Flex gaming PC purchase and rental program. In it, host Steve Burke says the company is still misleading customers, despite adjustments made in response to his previous video in which he called the program “a scam.”

NZXT said in its response this week that it would clarify details about its Flex program, which Gamers Nexus had criticized for having specs that would change sometimes “day-to-day.” The company has appeared to update specs and performance numbers for its purchase builds. But Gamers Nexus reports it still spotted issues like inconsistent FPS numbers and a FAQ that implied NZXT’s for-sale Player: Three Prime build uses an RTX 4090 graphics card, despite its specs saying otherwise.

The FAQ entry Burke mentions seems to be gone now, but as of this writing, there’s still an entry titled “What GPU is right for me?” that lists the RTX 4090 and its benefits. Such inconsistencies are a problem for potential customers, Burke says.

The fact that NZXT misrepresented its product, even after its statement, as having a 4090 when it still had a 4080 Super ... seemingly indicates that even NZXT can’t keep up with its own specs changes. If NZXT can’t keep up with it ... how are they expecting the customer to keep up with it?
https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/7/24315781/gamers-nexus-video-reply-nzxt-defense-misleading-customers-flex-pc-rentals




Gee, you think, Cartman? Don’t think that this controversy isn’t going away anytime soon. But since the advent of PC gaming, gamers are one group of consumers that constantly get played for chumps by predatory manufacturers. Because they think that gamers will buy anything no matter how bad it is if you slap the “gaming” label on it. Just because NZXT admitted that they screwed up doesn’t mean that they are out of the woods just yet. At least they’re taking action now to prevent future damage, but that doesn’t mean that the damage has already been done. It’s great to see channels like Gamers Nexus that are standing up to the predatory corporations out there and looking out for the little guy.

A few days ago, Gamers Nexus released an exposé calling NZXT's gaming PC rental service NZXT Flex a "predatory, evil rental computer scam". This caused quite a stir in online PC gaming communities, and it seems NZXT's taken note, as the company has now issued an official statement about the issue.

In a blog post, NZXT outlines some actions being taken in response, as well as some clarifications about the program. In a YouTube video, NZXT founder and CEO Johnny Hou expands on this and acknowledges the mistakes the company has made, stating, "I want to acknowledge that we messed up."

The problems that Gamers Nexus seemingly identified with the Flex program essentially amounted to a picture of a service that misrepresents products, locks users into an unfair contract and has predatory pricing. For instance, this includes swapping out components for less powerful ones, using the same names for Flex PCs as more powerful non-Flex ones, and showing seemingly misleading or false benchmarks.

At least, this is insofar as the case Gamers Nexus lays out is accurate, and on this front Hou and NZXT have attempted to clarify some potential misconceptions.
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/gaming-pcs/i-want-to-acknowledge-that-we-messed-up-nzxt-addresses-concerns-about-its-controversial-flex-gaming-pc-rental-program-and-commits-to-taking-action/





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Welcome back to our segment that attempts to explain the unexplainable, Conspiracy Corner! Of course conspiracies exist when people simply don’t want to read the article past the headlines and just flat out make shit up. We of course are coming to you live from our underground doomsday shelter from deep within the New Mexico badlands. Undisclosed location, of course! Let me just adjust my trusty tin foil hat for maximum government interference. Ah, there we go! They are trying to read yours and my thoughts, after all! Folks, this week, the plight of the internet conspiracy theorist and their beverage of choice continues to get weirder and weirder. I’m of course talking about the production and consumption of the unpasteurized cocktail known as raw milk. Yes, raw milk is the hot beverage of choice among the hardcore MAGA faithful and the most die-hard internet conspiracy theorists.. Last week, we talked about how the largest purveyor of it in California, Raw Farms, got shut down and recalled for it. This week – it’s been widely known that the current strain of Avian Flu – aka H5N1 – has jumped to cows. If you remember your terminology from the COVID days, that’s what is called a “zoonotic” virus. Look, people, just don’t drink this shit. No matter what, bird flu or not, it’s bad for you!

Raw samples nationwide will now be collected and shared with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in order to test for bird flu, according to a new federal order issued by the agency on Friday.

The new federal order by the USDA includes three new requirements. Raw milk samples must now be shared upon request by dairy farms, bulk milk transporters or dairy processing facilities.

Herd owners with cattle that test positive for bird flu have to provide information that allows health officials to perform contact tracing and disease surveillance. Private laboratories and state veterinarians must now report positive bird flu test results to the USDA.

The decision comes after bird flu virus was found in samples of raw milk from a California farm, which issued a recall of all of its raw milk products earlier this week. The farm was also placed under quarantine by state health officials.

The USDA order marks the start of the agency’s National Milk Testing Strategy, a program intended to boost surveillance of the nation’s milk supply and dairy herds and increase understanding of how bird flu is spreading.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/usda-issues-order-raw-milk-samples-nationwide-tested/story?id=116531943




Yeah so think about this – raw milk is bad for you, you shouldn’t drink it. But that won’t stop the “Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me” party. They’re going to drink this shit whether it contains poison or not, because it’s all about owning us! But the plot twist – H5N1 hasn’t just been detected in cows in California. It’s been detected in cows ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. And never mind what science is saying about H5N1 being one mutation away from being able to jump to humans more easily – MAGA would rather ban scientists and the FDA and USDA. Yeah so when the USDA is requiring bulk testing to find bird flu, that should be an indicator that you shouldn’t be drinking this shit! After all – more people drinking, more people catching the virus, more chances for the virus to mutate. It’s virology 101, people!

The nation’s milk supply must be tested for the bird flu virus H5N1 under a new order announced Friday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

The rules require unpasteurized milk samples from dairy farms, bulk milk transporters or dairy processing facilities to be collected and shared with the USDA for testing upon request from the government.

Herd owners with cattle that tested positive for the virus will also be required to provide epidemiological details to help with contact tracing and disease surveillance under the new rules. It also requires private laboratories and state veterinarians to report positive results that come from tests done on raw milk samples drawn as part of the new strategy.

The announcement comes more than a year after the virus began circulating through dairy cattle — and as criticism mounts about the lack of testing and tracking of animals or people who may be infected with the virus.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5026873-usda-mandatory-raw-milk-testing-bird-flu/




You know, here’s the thing – this shit is bad for you. Don’t drink it! And the guy with the literal worm in his brain – RFK Jr – is not someone who you should listen to on the subject of public health. Yes, the so-called “wellness industry” – is rife with scammers. But here’s one thing we know about raw milk is that you shouldn’t buy it under any circumstances. Just don’t! Don’t listen to so-called “wellness influencers” because a good majority of them simply do not know what they are talking about! And when the words “pretty spooky” appear in an official report, that’s when you should be alarmed. But the alarm that would trigger MAGA into thinking that something’s wrong just flat out does not exit in these unhinged lunatics. They’d just assume ban and defund the inspectors rather than the substance itself. Which is why we can’t have nice things in this country.

With cases of bird flu in milk climbing, the USDA has rolled out new testing requirements for raw or unpasteurized milk across the country. That has left many consumers wondering what it all means for their milk supply at home.

"We've been dealing with this outbreak now for nine months," Dr. Keith Poulsen, the director of the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said. "Anything out there, even in affected dairies, there's really no reason to not market that [traditionally pasteurized] milk because pasteurization — it's 100 years old in 2024 and we have it for a reason — it's a great public health safety net."

While Poulsen said consumers shouldn't be concerned by the safety of pasteurized milk or products made with it, the climbing bird flu cases are another sign that people should be weary of drinking raw or unpasteurized milk.

"For raw products, we just don't know enough about whether that virus can affect people," Poulsen said. "We don't have any evidence that it does so already, but it's pretty early in our investigation into the outbreaks so, for raw milk in general... It's really not a good idea for retail consumption."
https://spectrumnews1.com/wi/milwaukee/news/2024/12/09/dairy-distress--what-usda-s-new-inspections-mean-for-your-milk





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So of course, you know the idea behind this segment is that we have some drinks, and while we’re drinking, we talk about anything in the news as long as it doesn’t relate to politics. Because I don’t if you’ve noticed or not, but there’s some really dark shit in the news right now, and this is our first one since the election. No, no politics at the bar! Only rules we got in this bar – no fighting, no cussing, and no politics! Some mild swearing is allowed, but only if it’s not at someone. And my sober brothers and sisters, don’t worry – we got you covered too! Just grab a glass of your favorite coffee, tea or energy drink and come get wired with us! Well, this week, we’re getting into the holiday spirit, as you know, every year, the Hallmark Corporation drops a shit ton of their wildly and inexplicably popular Christmas movies. But this year – one has not only stood out from above the pack, it’s created an entirely new genre of cinema. I’m of course talking about the new Netflix phenomenon Hot Frosty – it’s about a woman who builds a snowman and wishes for it to turn into a hot dude, and it does. So tell me, bartender, what goes well with a movie about a snowman dude? The Hot Frosty cocktail? What’s in that? Do I dare ask what the secret ingredient is? No thanks, I’ll just stick with my usual Jack Daniels mixed with Jack Daniels. I call it the Double Jack! Now of course, the idea behind Hot Frosty isn’t anything new – it’s long been a staple of holiday movies. But this is a very new and interesting trend in Hollywood among holiday films, something that genre has very badly needed for a long time.

To most viewers, the Hallmark Christmas movie is more of a vibe than a part of the Hallmark brand. And it’s a vibe that Netflix has been more than happy to cash in on, shooting their own Hallmark(-esque) Christmas movies all year long so they can release a steady stream each holiday season. Hot Frosty is the highest profile release in some time, though others have already hit the platform. But Hot Frosty is also very unique: It’s more absurd, more meme-able, and frankly, it’s quite a bit hornier.

The premise of Hot Frosty is exactly what the title implies — a sexy snowman comes to life. If that sounds like a Chuck Tingle novella, that’s because it absolutely is. But this is also a Hallmark-like Christmas movie, so it features a woman who is too focused on her career to find love. This time around that’s Kathy (Lacey Chabert), a widowed cafe owner. Kathy is still mourning her late husband despite her friends insisting it’s time to move on. But when she leaves a scarf on the hottest snowman in the town snowman competition, the fully nude snowman (Dustin Milligan) comes to life in the form of the overly earnest and chronically shirtless Jack.

Kathy is forced to take Jack in when the local police (Craig Robinson and Joe Lo Truglio) make it their mission to track down the “streaker” whose appearance has upset the balance of the normally peaceful town. Viewers won’t be surprised when sparks fly, nor will they bat an eye when Jack’s boyish charm helps him win over the townspeople. But they’ll probably be surprised with just how overstuffed the film is. This is a genre that thrives on simplicity, yet Hot Frosty is practically bursting at the seams with sideplots and supporting characters that don’t do much other than make things more complicated.
https://inbetweendrafts.com/hot-frosty-review-great-news-for-snowman-fetishists/




So… basically Terminator but with snow? Well, there’s much more to Hot Frosty than meets the eye – in fact it’s more than the “inanimate object becomes human who learns how to do human things” cliché that we’ve seen time and time again in movies. In fact there’s a lot more depth to Hot Frosty than meets the eye, which is what makes it one of the more popular movies this festive season. So there is a lot to like about Hot Frosty. Even Ryan Reynolds – Deadpool himself – got in on the Hot Frosty action, by dedicating a commercial from one of his 100,000 business ventures that he owns – Mint Mobile, so yeah it's fun when celebrities get in on it!

The internet has lost its collective mind—admittedly, it doesn’t take much—over a Netflix rom-com called Hot Frosty, which makes this particular piece of silly-sappy entertainment ripe for parody.

Enter the king of snark Ryan Reynolds, who’s also a veteran advertising creative and a shameless promoter of his brand portfolio.

Given the means, motive, and opportunity, the actor-entrepreneur has made a commercial for his Aviation American Gin, hijacking the setup of the well-watched holiday streaming flick in which a widow (Lacey Chabert) brings a swole snowman (Dustin Milligan) to life with a magic scarf.

Reynolds, via the video from his Maximum Effort agency, uses himself as the model for a shredded and shirtless snowman who’s on display in a quaint town square.

This super-chill inanimate object—while missing the corncob pipe and top hat from classic American fables—is hoisting a bottle of premium booze. He gets a visit from a woman who gazes longingly at him and takes off her own scarf. Could a flesh-and-blood transformation be in the works?
https://www.adweek.com/creativity/ryan-reynolds-spoofs-netflixs-hot-frosty-in-new-aviation-gin-ad/




That will get you through the winter! Now of course, with every popular movie there always has to be someone coming out on social media and saying something stupid. Like come on… the plot of the movie is about a snowman who becomes human and experiences human things for the first time! So of course someone who didn’t exist yesterday is going to have some feelings! But come on, do people really care what some random user on the Xitter says? Like, seriously, that IS THE PLOT OF THE MOVIE is that he’s learning out that humans go through these things for the first time! Sheesh, I bet this guy is fun at parties, am I right?

One of Netflix’s newest Christmas films is raising some eyebrows. Starring Lacey Chabert and Dustin Milligan, Hot Frosty tells the tale of a handsome snowman being brought to life thanks to a young widow’s enchanted scarf. As with any cheesy holiday flick, whether on Netflix, Hallmark or anywhere else, there are some pretty ridiculous lines that make you rethink what you’re doing with your time. Hot Frosty is no different.

X user imjustinrandall shared that he watched the film, and while it was “wonderfully ridiculous,” there was one part that was “downright insane.” In the video that he shared, Chabert’s Kathy and Milligan’s Jack are talking, and Jack is still getting acquainted with the world. He said he was checking out the house earlier and checked out the basement for vampires. Now, you’d think that the conversation would continue to go into vampires and their lack of existence, but it went in a completely different direction.




Yeah now that’s what I’m talking about! Now with any inevitable hit, comes of course, the sequel talk and Hot Frosty hasn’t even been out for two weeks! So what’s Hot Frosty 2 going to entail? Well there’s plenty of speculation going around. But one thing we can assure you is that Hannibal Lecter himself, Sir Anthony Hopkins, is a bit of a Christmas movie buff. And he’s a fellow Netflix star with his new movie “Mary”, which Netflix is billing as a Christmas movie, but it really doesn’t have anything to do with Christmas. That’s like advertising McDonalds fries only to replace them with chicken. But yes, he definitely wants a piece of that Hot Frosty action! That came out wrong… or did it? Either way, the hype-o-meter definitely isn’t dying down anytime soon. But he definitely wants a piece of that hot sequel action!

Something of a catastrophic category error seems to have happened at Netflix. For some reason it seems to be billing its new film Mary as a Christmas film, when it doesn’t appear to be anything of the sort.

We all know what elements a film needs to have to be considered festive. A big-city career girl. A plaid-wearing apple farmer. A local school that needs to be saved. Maybe a naked snowman who comes to life to teach a hot widow how to love again. Almost certainly Lindsay Lohan. And yet Mary has none of these. It’s all deserts and angels and babies being born in mangers and king Herod. It really isn’t very Christmassy at all.

Admittedly the archangel Gabriel does keep turning into a scarf and floating about in the film. Maybe it’s the same scarf that magically makes snowmen come to life in Hot Frosty, in which case Mary is clearly part of some fiendish Netflix Christmas cinematic universe and I take it all back. On the whole, though, you wish that Netflix had got a bit more involved and re-nosed Mary as something like Christmas Baby on Candyfloss Lane or Herod: Grouchy Santa.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/dec/09/why-anthony-hopkins-netflix-herod-is-hot-frosty-2-sort-of-mary




Oh by the way, I want to say this is our last trip to the bar for a while. So until we reopen in the spring, I want to say thanks for hanging out and drinking with us!




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Welcome back to our segment that puts all of our post-election coverage in one place – Road To The Shithouse! Yeah we have to face reality that he’s back in the White House. Fuck. Well, this week – we have to talk about the headlines. Of course you know that the two that are currently dominating the headlines this week are Fuckface’s pick to be his “border czar” and head of the US military – Pete Hegseth. Yes, he’s nominating a literal neo Nazi and Christian nationalist extremist to be in charge of the US military. And of course we cannot forget about Elon Musk and his deranged “Department Of Government Effiency”, which, fuck that stupid department and its’ stupid logo! But this week, we have to talk about one of the hallmarks of Fuckface’s campaign – his promise to completely eliminate the Department Of Education. Conservatives, and in particular, Fox News, have been long waging war on education. But could this administration finally be the one to eliminate the bureaucracy? Well, he could… or he could not. And if he doesn’t, well, he’s gonna have to face both of his bosses – Rupert Murdoch and Vladimir Putin – to explain why the plans didn’t go through. As we all know, he claims the government works with the swipe of a pen with his executive orders like he did the last time around, but some of his more extreme promises might not be workable after all. Which would mean that most of his promises are just that – promises.

President-elect Orange Fuckface may break from the Republican Party of old in many ways, but not when it comes to how the party views the federal government's role in education.

"One other thing I'll be doing very early in the administration is closing up the Department of Education in Washington D.C., and sending all education and education work and needs back to the states," Fuckface said in a video posted to social media in October 2023 where he laid out his vision for education. "We want them to run the education of our children because they'll do a much better job of it."

Fuckface's platform also responds to issues that conservatives have rallied around for years by promising to "cut federal funding for any school pushing critical race theory, radical gender ideology, and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content on our children."
The role of the federal government in education

There are limits to how much influence the president or the federal government can exert over local schools.
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/14/nx-s1-5181966/a-look-at-the-potential-impact-of-shutting-down-the-department-of-education




Totally insane that the stupidest among us could be the ones to eliminate the DOE. And by the way, parents of special needs and autistic children who voted for Fuckface – what are you going to do when the fucking asshole eliminates the DOE and weaponizes the government against your local public schools? Bet you didn’t think that one through, did you? And who needs critical thinking when you can just let Fox News dictate your thoughts for you? It’s truly insane that in one minute, Fuckface and MAGA are saying that should have unlimited power with no oversight (what could go wrong there?) and on the other hand, they say they want a “constitutional restoration” and the US Constitution prohibits those kinds of things from happening. Which is it? Pick a lane. But of course, Fuckface hasn’t just backed off on his threats – he’s doubled down.

In a new interview with Time Magazine, Orange Fuckface has reiterated his support for closing down the Department of Education when he takes office in January.

The reporters asked what his plan was on education policy in America, and he noted that the wants to move education issues back to the states. When pressed on "what does moving back to the states mean?" Fuckface responded by stating:

"A virtual closure ofDepartment of Education in Washington."

Orange Fuckface and his Project 2025 backers have long promised to close down the Department of Education despite there being no federally mandated education curriculum in the United States.

Should Fuckface move forward with closing down the Department of Education, he will need approval from Congress to do so. Right now, there is legislation pending in the United States Senate from South Dakota Senator Mike Rounds that would abolish the Education Department, although it has not yet been voted on. It is unclear whether Fuckface will have the votes to pass such legislation.
https://meidasnews.com/news/donald-Fuckface-commits-to-closing-department-of-education




Seriously…. Why???? How did the stupidest among us get so much power? It’s truly insane all of the possibilities that could happen should Fuckface make good on his threat to eliminate the DOE. But a lot of that could be resolved through expanded executive power. Which is insane because absolutely NONE of this mattered before he became president. And one thing we’ve covered on this program is how weird, insane and fucking creepy their obsession with children is. So would eliminating the DOE be beneficial to children? No, it would be beneficial to those who want to privatize school and dictate what our children learn, whether it’s history, biology, or anything else that they might want to fuck with, because right wingers are never satisfied with leaving anything alone and they are becoming increasingly rabid about what conforms to their every being.

President-elect Orange Fuckface’s Agenda 47 campaign pledged to close the Department of Education in Washington, D.C., in an effort to send all education work back to the states.

Although eliminating the department would not only require congressional approval but also a supermajority of 60 votes in the Senate, according to a Washington Post article, local school superintendents recently shared their thoughts on the possible future of education.

“It would take time. This is not something that immediately would take place, even if Congress were to vote to basically dissolve the department,” Sheridan County School District 2 Superintendent Scott Stults said. “I don’t believe that the suggestion is that not only you dissolve the Department of Education, but you also dissolve the money and the money doesn’t go to education. I think the premise behind that is that there should be more local control of where that money goes. I’m always a proponent of local control.”

Agenda 47 is a collection of formal policy plans of Fuckface, many of which would rely on executive orders and significantly expanded executive power in order to be executed, according to USA Today.
https://www.saratogasun.com/story/2024/12/12/news/uncertain-future-local-school-superintendents-share-thoughts-on-us-department-of-education/14292.html




The taxes! The finger thing means the taxes! Well, here’s the thing – since the advent of Rush Limbaugh and Fox News, right wingers cannot and will not leave education alone. And it’s been coming to an absolute peak of stupidity since the COVID-19 pandemic. Conservatives have been fucking with education for so long that we literally have the least informed electorate in United States history coming from the results of the 2024 election. This America First bullshit is going to get a lot of people killed, and this only because Fuckface and his goons have their middle finger aimed squarely at the pulse of the United States. But one thing we do *NOT* need under any circumstances is a “Kid First” policy because that would basically be a step away from teaching kids to be Hitler Youth.

Two weeks after Orange Fuckface was reelected president of the United States, Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota introduced legislation that would carry out one of Fuckface’s signature campaign promises: eliminate the Department of Education.

Even though it has the fewest employees of all 15 Cabinet-level agencies, the Education Department provides essential support to America’s students and 13,000 schools nationwide. Just 4,200 employees work for the department – 2,800 of whom are represented by AFGE Local 252.

“Sen. Rounds’ bill is callous and detrimental. Our members and colleagues provide crucial services for his constituents and all citizens. In fact, because of remote work, some of our members live in South Dakota and are livid that Senator Rounds is threatening their employment for his personal political advancement,” Local 252 President Sheria D. Smith said.

While funding and policy decisions for individual schools are made largely at the state and local levels, the department provides crucial financial support to low-income students and families across the country. It also helps cash-strapped school districts provide programs and services that they would otherwise struggle to provide, particularly those benefiting students with disabilities.
https://www.afge.org/article/afge-opposes-bill-to-eliminate-department-of-education/





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Folks, my next guest has a great new album out called Danse Macabre. You can see them live Dec. 29th/30th at Fontainebleau in Las Vegas and Jan 2nd /3rd at the Yaamava Theater in Highland, CA. Playing the title track from the album, give it up for Duran Duran!



Thank you UCLA! It’s great to be back home after this ridiculously long year of touring! We’re back at the home base next week for our big sendoff and fuck you to the year 2024!

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Top 10 Conservative Idiots #17-15: Wheel Of Corruption: Frozen Empire Edition


Top 10 Conservative Idiots #17-15: Wheel Of Corruption: Frozen Empire Edition

Welcome back to the Top 10 Conservative Idiots! Yoooooooooooooooooooooo!!! What’s up Syracuse, how you guys doing? Sold us out again! You guys doing fucking good? Great! So we’ve only got 3 more Top 10s before the end of the year and our planned extended hiatus. Because like I keep saying, we got to take a break, because this stupid election cycle nearly brought us to the breaking point and it had the worst possible outcome of any election in United States history. One party rule. We’re venturing into uncharted territory here. But we’re taking a break for a while because we definitely need to get our heads straight. Hopefully we still have a country when we come back from our long slumber, but who knows if that’s going to happen? Ugh… this is a totally fucked up situation this country got itself into and it's only going to get worse. So we’ve got just two more Top 10s before our long break with our last being our famous year end round up, and we can’t wait to blow up this shitty year and send it packing into the dustbin of history! Do we have time for the thing? Of course we do! And trust us, we’re going to go into great detail on this subject next week, but we’ve got to talk about Hallmark movies. Some people are obsessed with these fucking things. But none have been the topic of discussion more than one movie that’s been released this year – Hot Frosty. Yes, Hot Frosty is a Hallmark movie made for Netflix about a woman, played by Lacey Chabert, who brings a snowman to life, who inexplicably takes the form of a Chippendale’s dancer. And this movie is a phenomenon. It’s insane what this movie has inspired. And of course, if you don’t have ridiculous merchandise, it doesn’t exist, right? Well, yeah in the spite of all the weirdness going on around the world, why not give it some Christmas cheer? Come on, ho ho ho, right ladies? OK before that gets weird, enough of the intro! We have a lot of idiocy to get to. But first – Stephen Colbert gives his insight on the Hunter Biden pardon:



Come on, kids! Say it with me! It’s time for the WHEEL OF CORRUPTION! YAY!!!! So where do we begin this week? In the number one slot, is Fox News (1). I’m sure by now you’ve all heard the brew ha ha with Hunter Biden finally being pardoned by his dad, and yes it’s causing both the MAGA and Fox world to seethe with anger. Keep seething, assholes! In the second slot this week is of course incoming president Orange Fuckface (2) and this week – while he’s waving his tariffs around in the same way a terrorist or mass shooter would wave around their AK-47s, the president of Mexico quietly put an end to his idiocy, but that won’t stop him. Nothing will stop him. In the third slot this week, speaking of tariffs (3), we need to do some edumacation! Yes, because just like last time when we gave you some fuel for your Thanksgiving dinner conversations, this week, we have to have a discussion about what Fuckface’s insane tariffs are going to do to not just the US economy, but the world economy. And well, none of it is good! Taking the fourth slot this week is Nancy Mace (4). Yes, the worst House in United States history - Fox News sponsored MAGA Qongress, got back to work and it’s great to see that Mike Johnson is getting back to the things that matter – banning trans people from using the proper bathroom. And none were more triggered by it than Nancy Mace – who showed full on mental illness in this process. This country is losing its’ damn mind. In the number 5 slot this week is a new We’re All Gonna Die (5) and what’s going to kill us all this week? Nuclear weapons! And the Moscow mad man himself – Vladimir Putin – has made good on his threat to produce “the deadliest weapon”. So what is it? There is of course only one way to find out! In the number 6 slot this week is of course our weekly visit to the Holy Church Of The Top 10 in “Holy Shit” (6), and this week, with the selection of the Unholy Dark One to his position on the throne (yes, that’s a poop joke), comes with him the return of a most unwelcome group of people – the Prophets! Yes, the MAGA prophets are back and crazier than ever, and we’ll tell you some of their more insane prophecies! In the number 7 slot this week is a new “This Fucking Guy” (7) and this week, we’re profiling former Fox News host and current probably convicted felon who’s the newest member of Fuckface’s cabinet from hell – Pete Hegseth in a new “This Fucking Guy”! Taking the number 8 slot this week is of course our weekly venture into the never-ending void of online tin foil hat nuttery in Conspiracy Corner (8) and this week – the state of California shut down a producer of the drink that is drawing in MAGA conservatives – raw milk, and well, if you are even thinking about indulging in a glass at this point, you’re truly beyond help. In the number 9 (NEIN!!!) slot this week, we have a new I Need A Drink (9) and this week, it’s December, which means that time of year, which means the return of everyone’s favorite Christmas themed convention, SantaCon! But this year, there’s a twist! The jollier-than-thou crowd was traditionally confined to the space of New York City, but it’s branching out all over America! No one is safe from this hard-drinking, hard-partying group of Santas! Finally this week in our ongoing election coverage in Road To The Shithouse (10), we have to talk about the issue that may have steered folks to vote for Fuckface – the trans bathroom issue. And no, media, we didn’t get it wrong, they unleashed a firestorm of hatred. And unfortunately, that’s what the United States is in 2024, and it’s really scary! Finally, to top things off, we have some live music from the great Foster The People! Buy their new album “Paradise State Of Mind” or you’re no friend of this program! Enjoy! And as always don't forget the key!

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Come on, everyone! Say it with me! it’s time for the WHEEL. OF. CORRUPTION! Yay!!!!



Of course you know the rules by now – I spin the wheel and we have to talk about whatever the subject it lands on. Of course if it lands on the guacamole option, you know that it costs $1.50 extra. And the wheel is all new with lots of items on it! I want to preface that we are no longer featuring the A Random Tweet option. Yes, we are actively boycotting content from Elon’s X / Twitter platform. That’s going to be replaced with clips from one of my favorite shows, Curb Your Enthusiasm. So if you see the Larry David option, you know what’s coming! Here’s what is on the wheel this week:

- Guns
- Crime
- Abortion
- Poverty
- Congress
- The Insurrection
- The Economy
- The Democratic National Convention
- Buy A Vowel
- Orange Fuckface
- Midterm Elections
- Clip Without Context
- 5,000
- Nazi Germany
- Fox News
- ‘Merica
- My Pillow
- Bankrupt
- Chance
- Fox News
- Health
- Something Random In The News
- Whammy
- Community Chest
- Death
- Homosexuality
- The US Constitution
- We’re All Gonna Die
- Greed
- Clip Without Context
- Top 10 Investigates
- Beating A Dead Horse
- This Fucking Guy
- Bathrooms
- Intermission
- Holy Shit
- Larry David
- MAGA Cult Cringe
- Double Whammy
- Buy A Vowel
- Conspiracy Corner
- Random Movie Reference
- Guacamole
- 10,000
- People Are Dumb
- I Need A Drink
- Infowars
- Go Directly To Jail
- Random TV Reference
- T-Shirt Cannon
- Infowars
- People Who Somehow Got Elected
- COVID-19
- Lightning Round
- Bonus Spin

Let’s start by giving the wheel a good strong spin, shall we? And it lands on… wait for it… oh hey, one of our patented Clips Without Context!



LMAO! Someone want to tell Patel that the US doesn’t operate under a monarchy and we don’t tolerate that sort of thing? SMDH! Spin it again! And it lands on… Fox News!

Let me ask you something – do you always love it when the bullies get shot down at their own game after making fun of you for so long? I know I do! The term that you’re looking for, I believe, is called “schadenfreude”, which is the German word for taking joy at the suffering of others. So what am I getting at, you might ask? Well, last weekend, Joe Biden put an end to the endless harassment coming from Fox News and MAGA about his embattled son Hunter, by pardoning him, which he should have done before the campaign started. But now that he’s got six weeks left of his term and nothing left to lose, what fucks does President Biden have left to give? None if you ask us! Well, that’s exactly what he did in issuing the pardon. What’s Marjorie Shit For Brains going to do now besides fantasize about Hunter Biden’s dick pics? She might actually have to do her real job for once. Well, needless to say MAGA and everyone who’s drinking the Fox News Kool-Aid is having an absolutely epic meltdown over this pardon and we’re going to just sit back and let the MAGA tears flow freely while they pout over their latest outrage.

The judge who presided over the California tax fraud case against Hunter Biden called out the president for mischaracterizing and minimizing the charges against his son in announcing why he was pardoning him.

"The Constitution provides the President with broad authority to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, but nowhere does the Constitution give the President the authority to rewrite history," U.S. District Judge Mark C. Scarsi wrote in a ruling late Tuesday.

An attorney for Hunter Biden had asked the judge to dismiss the indictment against his client in light of President Joe Biden's pardon on Sunday night, but did not initially submit a formal copy of the pardon, and instead sent a link to the president's statement saying that his son had been "selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted" and was the victim of a "miscarriage of justice."

Scarsi said the president’s “representations” in the statement accompanying the pardon “stand in tension with the case record.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/judge-hunter-biden-case-calls-presidents-pardon-statement-attempt-rewr-rcna182825




Uh…….. fucking what?????????????? Dude, he’s not re-rewriting history here. That’s Fox News’ job to do that! Thank you Syracuse! Well, at least some sanity has prevailed in that former presidents are lining up to give their insight into the pardon. Yes, for those of you lurking, Hunter Biden has a shady history and we’re not passing judgement on that. What we are passing judgment on is that the right judges people on their person. And it’s insane to watch. It’s how utter dogshit people like Marjorie Greene get promoted into positions that they don’t belong in. Imagine if Hunter had been MAGA and saying the shit that they want to hear. Yeah it’s that insane.

Former President Bill Clinton defended Joe Biden’s decision to pardon Hunter Biden on Wednesday, contending that the president’s son was facing tougher consequences than a typical citizen for his crimes.

“I personally believe that the president is almost certainly right that his son received completely different treatment than he would have if he hadn’t been the president’s son, in this kind of case,” the former president said onstage Wednesday at the 2024 DealBook Summit.

Clinton’s defense of Biden’s controversial pardon lands as party leaders grapple from the fallout. California Gov. Gavin Newsom broke with the president on Tuesday, saying he was disappointed even though he understood why Biden decided to grant his son clemency, echoing several other elected Democrats who oppose the pardon and worry about its consequences.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/04/clinton-biden-pardon-hunter-00192605




So what this does is two things – one, it saves Hunter Biden from the prosecution and persecution from Fox News, MAGA, and of course, Fuckface himself, and you just know that they would find some way to kill everyone they don’t agree with. But of course, with every action, there’s a reaction from the “experts”, who always find a way to pee on the parade. But come on, when Fuckface finds a way to pardon the whole J6 rioters who were arrested for breaking into Congress, the right wing media will be patting themselves on the back. Shit, here’s Paul Manafort and Roger Stone at Mar-A-Shithole holding up their pardons like hunting trophies. So yeah… there are times when you should listen to “experts” and times when you shouldn’t.

When President Joe Biden entered office in the wake of the Jan. 6 attack on the United States Capitol, he promised to restore and respect the rule of law. After Hunter Biden got into legal trouble and was ultimately convicted in a case brought by a special counsel appointed by Biden’s own attorney general, the president stood by this promise, vowing repeatedly that he would not pardon his son.

But on Sunday, Biden broke that vow and issued Hunter Biden a full and unconditional pardon for any offenses he may have committed since Jan. 1, 2014. The move spares Biden’s son from serving any time in prison and insulates him from further actions from the incoming Fuckface administration.

In a statement, the president said Hunter Biden was “selectively” and “unfairly” prosecuted. “In trying to break Hunter, they’ve tried to break me — and there’s no reason to believe it will stop here. Enough is enough,” Biden went on to write.

The president’s decision flatly breaks his vow and comes amid intense scrutiny over how justice in the United States is served. Initial reaction ranged from criticizing Biden’s reversal, with Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, calling it a “bad precedent” that will “sadly tarnish his reputation,” to others, including legal experts, noting the odd path that led to Hunter Biden’s conviction.
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/hunter-biden-pardon-inequality-justice-system-Fuckface-rcna182658




Yeah come on, even the judge isn’t buying this shit. But come on, is Biden the one who’s lying? Like Fuckface and his stupid “news” network lie constantly 24 hours a day like it’s a bodily function, and they don’t get called out on it as much as they should. Yeah Biden flip-flops once and Fuckface flip flops like every day on every stupid decision. But how is it we’re the ones who are fighting each other over the subject of pardons? Again, Roger Stone and Paul Manafort held up their pardons like they were hunting trophies. And how is it unconstitutional when it’s literally written in the constitution that the president has pardoning power? Just… it boggles the mind!!!

Two days after President Joe Biden issued a blanket pardon to his son Hunter Biden, the federal judge overseeing the younger Biden's tax charges in California slammed the president's characterization of the case as an improper attempt to "rewrite history."

U.S. Judge Mark Scarsi -- who was appointed by Orange Fuckface -- took aim at President Biden's suggestion that "no reasonable person" would find the charging decisions against his son fair, noting that the "president's own attorney general and Department of Justice" oversaw the case.

"In the President's estimation," Scarsi continued, "this legion of federal civil servants, the undersigned included, are unreasonable people."

"The Constitution provides the President with broad authority to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States … but nowhere does the Constitution give the President the authority to rewrite history," Scarsi said.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/hunter-bidens-gun-case-terminated-presidential-pardon/story?id=116414424





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Let’s spin it again! Come on no whammy no whammy no whammy no whammy no whammy no whammy… STOP! Hey it lands on a Get Out Of Jail Free card! I’ll just put that away for later.



Spin it again! Hey it lands on… Orange Fuckface!

We could have told you that Fuckface was going to be a national embarrassment before he was installed back in the White House. But he is six weeks away from taking office and wreaking the havoc that he promised during the campaign. One country though is fighting back. And it’s that one country that he’s been demonizing the last 10 years – our neighbors to the south, Mexico. It’s no secret that the newly elected president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, is not a fan of Fuckface or the MAGA fascist verse that’s been destroying democracies around the globe the last 15 years. Anyway, the two have been trading blows lately, and it will be really interesting to see how this develops and with Fuckface’s threatening of mass deportations, we’re not going to expect this relationship to end particularly well for anybody. And we also know that, if you’re not glued into the Fox Ministry Of Propaganda, you know that the numbers regarding immigration over the Mexican border are grossly exaggerated. Which is totally on brand for this crew.

President-elect Orange Fuckface declared a win on stopping illegal immigration through Mexico on Wednesday after talking with that country's leader. But Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum suggested Mexico was already doing its part and had no interest in closing its borders.

The two spoke just days after Fuckface threatened to impose sweeping new tariffs on Canada and Mexico as part of his effort to crack down on illegal immigration and drugs — a threat that drew a prompt and terse response from Sheinbaum, who said any U.S. tariffs would be met with reciprocal measures from her government — stressing: "There is no subordination here."

Sheinbaum said on Thursday she did not discuss tariffs in the call with Fuckface. Fuckface said in his social media posts that Sheinbaum had "agreed to stop Migration through Mexico, and into the United States, effectively closing our Southern Border." Sheinbaum indicated on social media, however, that she'd "explained" to Fuckface that Mexico is already "taking care of" migrant caravans, calling it an "excellent conversation," but indicating no major changes in her government's policies.

"I explained to him the comprehensive strategy that Mexico has followed to address the migration phenomenon, respecting human rights. Thanks to this, migrants and caravans are assisted before they reach the border," the Mexican leader wrote. "We reiterate that Mexico's position is not to close borders but to build bridges between governments and between peoples."

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/Fuckface-mexico-president-tariffs-border-immigration/




Oh come on, people! Stop your rabbling! Of course, don’t think that this feud between Fuckface and Sheinbaum is over because it’s only just getting started. We can only imagine the sheer havoc he’s going to wreak on Mexico once he gets his precious “day one” like he’s been threatening. Come on, how much damage can one guy do in 24 hours? Oh, trust us, if MAGA makes good on the promises they’re threatening, there’s a hell of a lot of damage they’ll be able to do the first 24 hours! Of course, if you watch Fox for any length of time, you would see that they’re greatly exaggerating and lying their asses off about what really happens at the US – Mexican border. But of course, anything is a win with Fuckface in charge, it’s criminally insane.

President-elect Orange Fuckface declared a win on stopping illegal immigration through Mexico on Wednesday after talking with that country’s leader. But Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum suggested Mexico was already doing its part and had no interest in closing its borders.

The two spoke just days after Fuckface threatened to impose sweeping new tariffs on Canada and Mexico as part of his effort to crack down on illegal immigration and drugs.

Fuckface said Sheinbaum “agreed to stop Migration through Mexico.” Sheinbaum indicated separately on social media that she told Fuckface that Mexico is already “taking care of” migrant caravans, calling it an “excellent conversation.”

“We reiterate that Mexico’s position is not to close borders but to build bridges between governments and between peoples,” Sheinbaum added.
https://apnews.com/article/Fuckface-mexico-tariffs-sheinbaum-fentanyl-5fd2fc21950f47e5dbaf5c062c4725b7




Yeah, sorry, but Mexico’s position and the position of the new, fascist United States Of Fox News are two totally different things. But if you watch that POS network for any length of time, you would think that a caravan the size of the population of the greater Los Angeles area was crossing the border every other day. But the reality is – the actual number is a lot smaller than that! However, Mr. Art Of The Deal, aka Orange Fuckface, doesn’t see it that way. He listens to the worst people on earth and surrounds himself with the worst people on earth. He could be using his platform for good, but instead, he uses it for pure fucking evil. And of course, if you watch Fox News for any length of time, you probably wouldn’t be sitting in our audience right now.

U.S. authorities made about 46,700 arrests for illegally crossing the border from Mexico in November, down about 17% from October to a new low for Joe Biden's presidency, an official said Tuesday. The arrest tally marked a decline of more than 80% from an all-time high of nearly 250,000 in December and casts doubt on predictions of an increase ahead of President-elect Orange Fuckface's inauguration Jan. 20.

U.S. authorities made about 700 arrests on the Canadian border in November, down from 1,283 in October, according to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the figures are preliminary and not made public.

Last week, Fuckface promised sweeping new tariffs on Mexico and Canada, as well as China, as soon as he takes office as part of his effort to combat illegal immigration and drugs. He railed against an influx of migrants entering the U.S. illegally, eliciting a sharp response from President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico, who highlighted the steep drop this year.

U.S. arrests on the Mexican border fell by about half after Mexican authorities increased enforcement within their own borders in December, then plunged by about half again after the Biden administration introduced severe restrictions on seeking asylum at the border.

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ap-donald-Fuckface-joe-biden-san-diego-mexico-b2658405.html





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Spin it to win it! And it lands on… come on no whammy no whammy no whammy no whammy no whammy… STOP! Ah, one of our patented Clips Without Context!



Uh… dude, this guy wants to lead the fucking UNITED STATES MILITARY! Of course he’s going to be vetted, because the GOP does not own the White House no matter how much they like to think and are convinced they do. SMDH. Fuck these people. Spin it again! And it lands on… the economy!

Last week was Black Friday, and this Black Friday had an extremely different tone from previous Black Fridays. And that is because we could be looking at a whole new economic landscape in January when Orange Fuckface takes over. One of the things he’s been threatening to implement on “day one” is some rather high tariffs against countries that he hates – China, Canada, and Mexico, among others. Never mind that we’re in a global economy and that PC and phone you’re using, or that car you’re driving, or that new kitchen appliance you’re installing might contain parts sourced all over the world. But these tariffs that Fuckface is proposing will have MASSIVE implications and will impact supply chains all over the world. But hey, America first, right? That’s what you voted for. Don’t get me started on that bullshit because I could spend hours on it. But hey, right before the election, people were complaining about the price of groceries and gas. This week? Headlines about how we’ve had the best Black Friday ever and record Thanksgiving travel. Now let’s let the reality of that consumer dopamine rush you got from your Black Friday purchases set in.

President-elect Fuckface made instituting sweeping tariffs one of the cornerstone pledges of his 2024 campaign, a move experts warn could lead to price hikes for many everyday goods.

Why it matters: Voters' frustration with the economy pushed many to support Fuckface, but experts warn levying tariffs could reignite inflation and even spark a trade war.

Driving the news: In social media posts Monday, Fuckface announced a tranche of new tariffs on the U.S.' top three trading partners — Canada, Mexico and China.

Fuckface said that on his first day in office he would sign "all necessary documents" to charge a 25% tariff on all goods coming from Canada and Mexico.
He also added that imports from China be levied a 10% tariff "above any additional Tariffs."
https://www.axios.com/2024/11/30/Fuckface-tariffs-raise-prices-goods




Yeah BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! You know, we used to give George Bush a hard time about his policies, but they weren’t dangerous and reckless like Fuckface’s are. And he wasn’t a sadistic and vindictive asshole like Fuckface and his goons are. But if he made good on these threats like he’s promising, and Elon’s DOGE eliminated the Fed, the FTC, and the SEC, we could be looking at an economic crisis not seen in human history. This would be a DEPRESSION level crisis. And these goons will stop at nothing to enact their evil agenda. It’s an absolute recipe for disaster. Let’s look at cars for instance. Do you like driving foreign brands like BMW, Subaru, Kia, Toyota, Honda? Well guess what – you will be paying big time for them.

President-elect Orange Fuckface's new tariff proposals could hit American and European carmakers hard — and could push prices up for your next car.

A Friday note by S&P Global estimates a 25% tariff on Canadian and Mexican imports, coupled with a 20% tariff on light vehicle imports from the EU and UK, could cost some carmakers 17% of their annual earnings — and as high as over 30% — before factoring in interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization.

Higher tariffs could hit General Motors, Jaguar Land Rover, Stellantis, and Volvo hardest, S&P Global said. Meanwhile, BMW, Ford, Hyundai, and Mercedes-Benz may be less impacted. "Orange Fuckface's re-election will likely intensify the headwinds the global auto industry will face in an already challenging 2025," the authors wrote.

These tariffs could push car prices higher and lead Americans to dig deeper into their wallets for another vehicle. Wells Fargo estimated Wednesday that tariffs could raise the price of cars made in the US by an average of $2,100. For vehicles fully produced in Canada or Mexico, prices in the US may increase between $8,000 and $10,000 higher, Wells Fargo estimated.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/Fuckfaces-tariffs-could-next-car-213742217.html




Damn right! But by the way – for those of you who are panic buying things like monitors, laptops, phones, and PC hardware – take a deep breath and chill out. Yes, it will get more expensive when these things kick in. But there’s going to be a lot of channels and hurdles that he’s going to have to jump through before these could be implemented. It won’t happen magically on day one through an executive order like they are threatening. Because again, we’re dealing with a group of people who don’t know or give a shit how the government works. They only know what they hear from TV news and it perpetually angers them.

President-elect Orange Fuckface has promised a major escalation of the nation’s tariffs.

Fuckface has proposed tariffs of between 60% and 100% on Chinese goods, and a tax of between 10% and 20% on every product imported from all U.S. trading partners.

Economists widely forecast that tariffs of this magnitude would increase prices paid by U.S. shoppers, since importers typically pass along a share of the cost of those higher taxes to consumers.

Fuckface's tariffs would cost the average U.S. household about $2,600 per year, according to an estimate from the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

Some products would likely undergo much more significant price increases than others, experts told ABC News, pointing to items like electronics and toys that rely heavily on imports.
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/Fuckfaces-proposed-tariffs-raise-prices-products-experts/story?id=115893557




Well, duh! We could spend all day talking about how fucking evil all of this tariff shit is and how bad it’s going to fuck up the American economy for a generation or two. But let’s let an actual retail chain describe how it’s going to work for you. For all of you MAGA voters who are just now Googling “are tariffs bad?”, we can answer that question for you: YES THEY ARE BAD and they’re going to get that much fucking worse! This is an idea that should have never been floated in the first place, let alone to the worst president in American history and his billionaire sidekick! And come on, it’s going to affect the mad man of Tesla too. Because his electronics in his electric vehicles will be that much more expensive, not that he cares about that sort of thing!

Best Buy and other similar retailers may be particularly vulnerable to Fuckface’s proposed tariffs since “there’s very little in the consumer electronics space that is not imported,” Barry said.

The company is the importer of record on only 2% to 3% of its products, according to the CEO, who noted most of the production of goods it controls has been moved out of China. Best Buy reported 60% of its costs of goods sold came from China in Q3.

New tariffs could also impact Best Buy’s sourcing from Mexico, a country which accounts for its second-highest total of imports after China.

Last week, Fuckface said he plans to levy a 25% tariff on imports from Mexico and Canada on his first day in office. He also imposed a 10% tariff on goods from China.
https://www.supplychaindive.com/news/best-buy-tariff-strategy-expects-prices-to-go-up/734332/





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Spin the wheel! Come on, no whammy no whammy no whammy no whammy… STOP! And it lands on the guacamole option! Come on out here, Ernesto! Ernesto is of course our sous chef here at the Top 10 and like most good chefs, we found him working in the back of a Chipotle while we were getting some burritos. Ernesto is going to prepare our tableside guacamole which I will be eating through the duration of this program. Here’s your $2, Ernesto! All right, look at that!



Spin it again! And it lands on… bathrooms!

You know, back in the early days of the Top 10, we had a running segment called “The Bathroom Police” detailing harassment of trans people in bathrooms. We may have to bring it back. Now that the dust has settled from the worst election in United States history has settled, the worst House in United States history can get back to work wreaking the havoc that it was designed to do, in order to please a batshit insane news network owner because it’s good for ratings. While the economy was but one issue plaguing the electorate, the real issue that put Fuckface back in the White House has once again reared its’ ugly head – the trans bathroom / sports issue. And while the next iteration of the Fox News MAGA Qongress takes shape, one member in particular is being singled out. That rep is incoming freshman representative Sarah McBride. Why is she being singled out? That’s because Rep. McBride (D – Delaware) is America’s first transgender Congressperson. She’s being targeted by South Carolina rep Nancy Mace (Q – Batshit). And Mace has gone increasingly insane, introducing a series of bills aimed at the incoming representative. But this isn’t just mere insanity, it’s full mental illness on display. But then again, that’s the kind of person who Orange Fuckface attracts to his cause, and none of this will end particularly well.

McBride, a Democrat from Delaware, didn't respond to questions on the topic as she entered the House Democratic caucus meeting Tuesday morning.

Monday night, she responded to Mace in a post on X, saying, "This is a blatant attempt from far right-wing extremists to distract from the fact they have no real solutions to what Americans are facing."

Outside the Republican conference meeting, GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia called McBride a "biological man" and said she had confronted House Speaker Mike Johnson at during the House Republican Conference meeting Tuesday morning about what "men in leadership" would do to address their concerns.

"You know, Sarah McBride ... should not be using any of our restrooms in the Capitol, in our office buildings. But Nancy Mace's resolution doesn't go far enough," Greene said.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/mace-effort-ban-transgender-women-capitols-womens-restrooms/story?id=116009034




Gee, why are we not surprised that Marjorie Shit For Brains chimed in on this? With those two idiots at the helm, it can only go downhill from there, right? Of course it can, and the words “attention fiend” come to mind, because that’s exactly what Rep. Mace is doing. She’s all in on the “look at me” crap because she’s definitely trying to get attention from Fuckface as fast as possible. For something… we don’t know what, exactly. What is Nancy Mace trying to get attention for? Let us know in the comments section! In fact in case you’re wondering, actual trans people aren’t having any of Rep. Mace’s shenanigans. So yeah, keep going there, MAGA Qongress! It won’t end well for you!

A prominent digital rights activist, who is transgender, confronted Rep. Nancy Mace at a public event Thursday, days after the congresswoman from South Carolina introduced a resolution to ban transgender women from using women’s bathrooms in the U.S. Capitol.

Evan Greer, the director of Fight for the Future, stood up during the kickoff panel at “The Summit of the Future of the Internet” at Georgetown University, in Washington, D.C., and displayed an LGBTQ pride flag. Mace was speaking alongside Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna and radio host Charlamagne tha God on the topic “Bipartisan Tech Solutions to Unite a Nation.”

“We have had dozens of trans people die this year because of the hate and lies that you are spreading,” Greer said, to applause from the audience, as she was escorted out of the room. “Are we building an internet with free speech for everyone or just the privileged few?”

Mace responded by misgendering Greer and making a comment about her genitals, which the crowd booed at. A representative for Mace and Project Liberty, the organization that hosted the summit and invited Greer, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Greer’s organization is known for its viral protest efforts against internet censorship and surveillance and in support of net neutrality.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/rep-nancy-mace-confronted-trans-activist-anti-trans-bathroom-rhetoric-rcna181408




Yeah, with those two idiots, what could possibly go wrong? Well, the obvious answer is everything could go wrong and then some. Especially with a case involving trans issues going before the Supreme Court this next week, a hell of a lot could go wrong. But Nancy Mace is clearly not helping her case, and is showing the world what a total fucking idiot she is. And of course, like everything connected to the MAGA camp, the merchandise is available! Yes, they can’t stop hawking products or filing frivolous lawsuits. And we all know that one of those is coming! Yes, in fact, even her interns are concerned that it's all just a ploy to get on Fox News. Well, duh! Where have you been the last 8 years?

A former aide to anti-trans lawmaker Nancy Mace has ripped the South Carolina congresswoman over her bill that would ban trans women from women’s restrooms, calling it nothing more than “a ploy” to get on TV, a claim that Mace has faced before.

“If you think this bill is about protecting women and not simply a ploy to get on Fox News, you’ve been fooled,” Natalie Johnson, who served as Mace’s director of communications in 2021, posted on X in response to Mace’s bill which targets restrooms solely in the U.S. Capitol. Her bill was introduced two weeks after Sarah McBride (D-Del.) became the first openly trans person elected to Congress.

Mace’s legislation is a clear reversal of prior pro-LGBTQ comments she’s made while in office, though it falls in line with current rhetoric that has been credited in part with helping fuel President-elect Orange Fuckface’s reelection campaign.

“I strongly support LGBTQ rights. No one should be discriminated against,” Mace told the Washington Examiner shortly after taking office as a freshman lawmaker in 2021. “Having been around gay, lesbian, and transgender people has informed my opinion over my lifetime.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nancy-mace-criticized-publicy-sellout-with-trans-bill_n_673f79dce4b0fc93e3d120e7#




Yeah there won’t be enough tequila to get me through this abomination of an administration! And before anyone asks, no, this has not made my job easier! In fact, it’s made it that much fucking worse than it’s ever been! There’s too much stupidity to keep up with! Nancy Mace certainly isn’t helping things at all. But hey, merchandising, merchandising! That’s where the real money from the hate crime is made, right? And yes, this anti-trans hatred that’s sweeping the nation is, by definition, a hate crime and we will let it be known! In fact, we may need to have a talk on where this hatred is heading relatively soon.

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) is using publicity from her legislation to prevent transgender women from using women’s restroom facilities in federal buildings to sell merchandise to her followers on the social platform X.

Mace in a post on X is advertising T-shirts for $35.

The post shows a photo of Mace next to T-shirts with the words “come and take it” below a picture of a women’s bathroom sign. On the back it reads “Mace for Congress.”

“Every purchase will help FUEL MY FIGHT to protect women and girls across America. HOLD THE LINE! 🇺🇸⬇️” Mace wrote in the Thursday post.

Earlier this week, the lawmaker said she received death threats for proposing that transgender women use single-sex facilities that correspond to their gender identity in the Capitol.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5004660-nancy-mace-sells-merch-transgender-women/





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Hey everyone, guess what? We’re all gonna die! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! WOOOOO. WOO. WOO. So what’s going to kill us all, this week, you might ask? Why it’s the premiere Russian warlord himself, Vladimir Putin! Yes, what’s big daddy Vladdy up to, you might ask? Well, he’s made good on his threat to bypass a decades old treaty and begin producing what he calls “the deadliest nuke”. Ooh, big threat from such a small, pathetic, petty man! But does anyone remember like 10 years ago when he tried to launch that rocket called Satan I that was a really pathetic attempt at making him seem like he was more powerful than he actually was? And then it turned out to be a huge dud? Yeah we remember that. But the way the media is hyping up Satan II, it seems like he may have learned a thing or two from that last disaster. But considering the fact that he’s most likely propping up the Tesla mad man himself, Elon Musk, it seems like ol’ Pooty has his work cut out for him!

Satellite images from last month appeared to show a failed test launch of the RS-28 Sarmat missile, raising concerns about Russia’s nuclear arsenal.

Satellite images taken at the end of September have led arms experts to believe that Russia has attempted to test its latest intercontinental ballistic missile, the RS-28 Sarmat, but suffered a catastrophic failure.

The 35-metre-long missile - which is capable of carrying nuclear warheads - has been referred to in past reporting by various media outlets in and outside of Russia as "Satan II" and "the world’s deadliest weapon," and is heightening concerns due to its supposed destructive capabilities.

The recent images appear to contain a large crater on a launch site in Plesetsk in northern Russia. The discovery was first posted on social media platform X on September 21 by an open source analyst under the pseudonym "MeNMyRC".
https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/10/04/what-is-satan-ii-the-worlds-deadliest-nuclear-capable-weapon-being-tested-in-russia






Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha… remember that scene from The Dictator where they’re arguing about rocket size vs efficiency? It’s kind of like that. But yeah, we’re making fun of Putin’s ability to launch nukes with global impact. And it could have serious repercussions – like humanity ending repercussions. All because one guy wants to be supreme overlord of earth. But the question of whether or not Mother Russia could launch nukes remains a mystery. In fact, while nearly every single country around the world has some sort of treaty involving the use of nuclear weapons, Russia is the only one with its’ own set of rules regarding the use of nuclear weapons! Yeah, how fucked up does your country have to be in order to impose its’ own set of rules on itself so they don’t launch nukes? How itchy is your trigger finger, Pooty?

Russia’s nuclear doctrine is the set of rules that Moscow imposes on itself for the use of nuclear weapons.

It states that the Kremlin can use its vast nuclear arsenal in response to any aggression that poses “a critical threat” to Russia’s sovereignty or territorial integrity. This open-ended criterion was introduced on November 19 in an update signed off by President Putin two days after the US announced that it would relax restrictions on Ukraine’s use of its long-range weaponry.

The previous version of the doctrine placed the bar for nuclear retaliation far higher, allowing it only if the existence of the Russian state was under threat.

With clear reference to Ukraine and its western allies, the revision also stated that an attack with conventional missiles, drones or other aircraft by a non-nuclear state that is supported by a nuclear-armed one could meet the criteria for a nuclear response.
https://www.thetimes.com/world/russia-ukraine-war/article/will-russia-use-nuclear-weapons-putin-doctrine-ukraine-n85m33src




So yeah here’s the thing you need to know about premiere Russian warlord Vladimir Putin. 1 is that he’s completely deranged. 2. He’s completely drunk with power and out of control. 3. He’s out for total world domination. Combine all three of those ingredients together and you have one extremely toxic cocktail ripe for destruction. The question now is what could happen if the Moscow mad man actually makes good on his threat? Yes, we know he has nukes, but we also know that Russia’s manufacturing capabilities are currently janky as fuck. We also know that he does plan to ready Satan II as fast as possible to use on his enemies in his ongoing illegal occupation and invasion of Ukraine. Truthfully, none of this is good!

Russia is continuing work to put its 'unstoppable' Satan II intercontinental ballistic missile on combat duty, as he plots revenge for Ukraine's use of long-range missiles from the US and UK.

The Satan II missile, also referred to as the RS-28 Sarmat, is designed to deliver nuclear warheads to strike targets thousands of miles away in the United States or Europe, but its development has been dogged by delays and testing setbacks.

In September, Putin faced humiliation after his Satan II missile exploded, obliterating Russia's only test site for hypersonic weapon.

As a result, experts said that the test programme for the rocket could be delayed for years, or could even be aborted after a series of failed launches.

But as Putin continues work on testing his Satan II missile, Moscow warned yesterday that retaliatory actions are being prepared after accusing Ukraine of launching another round of ATACMS strikes into Russian territory.
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/putin-orders-satan-ii-nukes-to-be-ready-as-soon-as-possible/ar-AA1uRpg0




No, dude, we’re not going to die just yet. But what could happen if Russia were to actually launch nukes against the west? For one thing, our program would cease to exist. But so would most of California and the entire west coast. And that’s not a good thing because well over ½ of the population of the United States lives here. In fact, what you may not know is that ol’ Pooty actually threatened to launch nukes against Ukraine that there were meetings held over the fallout that the capital of Kiev could have taken over it. That is some fucking truly frightening shit. And of course, you can’t keep a good warlord out for world domination down. In fact, Russia’s latest missiles could very well take out some western targets and we’d better be prepared for it. Remember the movie Don’t Look Up? We could be very well living that scenario.

President Vladimir Putin gave fresh warnings about the threat of nuclear war in his State of the Nation address in Moscow on Thursday, telling delegates that Russia's strategic nuclear forces were in "a state of full readiness."

Putin said Russia wouldn't let "anyone interfere in its internal affairs", adding there was a genuine risk of conflict if Western nations sent troops to Ukraine, as suggested by French President Emmanuel Macron earlier this week.

Ahead of the talk, a video of a nuclear weapon convoy driving through the streets of Moscow was shared as proof that Russia was preparing its deadliest weapons of war.

Multiple posts on X, formerly Twitter, show a video of what appear to be nuclear weapons being transported in Russia.
https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-does-video-show-russia-preparing-nukes-putin-threats-1874725





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Yeah… fuck you Steve Bannon, may you never get your wish! And you should be rotting in prison. I miss the days when that troglodyte wasn’t polluting my social feeds. Oh well. Spin it again! Hey, it’s time for Holy Shit!

Gather around my fair brothers and sisters! It’s time to take a seat in the pew and pass the collection plate, for the Holy Church Of The Top 10 has convened and it’s time to remind you that the holiest among us are the most full of:



My fair congregation! Please be seated! You know, we live in a very strange time right now, and of course we were all shocked and disappointed that the unholy Dark One is going to once again ascend to the throne. Well, back in the early days of the Dark One’s first abomination of an administration, we used to talk about the prophetic movement unfolding within his inexplicable fandom. We’ve played the clips throughout the years. And after studying this bizarre cult within a cult, there is one thing we can definitely tell you – these people are fucking deranged! Because they don’t worship GAWD or JAYSUS, no, no, no! They worship the unholy, ungodly Dark One! I of course speak of a man who is so foul, so depraved and disgusting, that his name dare NOT be spoken in my church! Yes, even if he’s going to be our leader again, no, I won’t allow it! But here’s the thing, my fair congregation – do you know exactly how we got here? Well, it was nearly 50 years of combining televangelism with GOP politics to tie modern Christianity into some sort of warped QVC cult of personality. And well, its’ been truly insane to watch, especially in the last few weeks!

MAGA evangelical pastors and "prophets" are taking a victory lap celebration for predicting a second Orange Fuckface term after being wrong for the past four years.

Evangelicals who had said that Orange Fuckface would win a second term are telling their followers they were right all along, despite the fact that he lost the 2020 election. Fuckface won both the popular vote and the Electoral College last week when he defeated Vice President Kamala Harris.

Many of these evangelicals have recirculated old videos that show them saying the Lord informed them Fuckface would become president again. They also say that just because two Fuckface administrations are separated by Joe Biden's presidency does not negate the fact that Fuckface will serve a total of eight years in the White House. Some of them had previously argued that Fuckface won in 2020 but that the election was stolen, which is why they think their prophecies still held true then.
https://www.newsweek.com/pro-Fuckface-prophets-take-victory-lap-after-being-wrong-four-years-1985859




That’s the weird thing about this, is that these so-called “prophets” have made an entire religion out of worshipping his Unholiness, the ruiner of all things good and decent. So why are they doing this? Well, because they can. And also, because of the internet. The internet does strange things to people. And of course, it has modern evangelical ministers worried. Really? They’re worried? They helped create this nonsense by voting for him and encouraging to vote for him. But also the idea that the president is a GAWD is so damn weird and insane. Stop it with this nonsense already! The president is not, nor will ever be GAWD!

Evangelical leaders are calling out the danger of endorsing political candidates from the pulpit as the nation witnesses a rise in pro-Fuckface "prophets," who claim God has anointed the former president as the chosen one.

Kimberly Reisman, executive director of World Methodist Evangelism, warned last week that doing so hurts Christians across the country. And Carl Nelson, president of Transform Minnesota, cautioned that many endorsements from church leaders fail to "hold that candidate accountable to the full spectrum of values we represent."

"God can use leaders from all parties, and to equate God's will with the will of any political party or person is exceedingly dangerous and a threat to the overall witness of Christians in the United States," Reisman said in a July 31 statement.

In recent years, a number of influential evangelical figures have come forward and spoken about receiving prophecies about former President Orange Fuckface as a secular messiah who will deliver conservative Christians from cultural exile. Many of them have gone viral, telling thousands and even millions of people that God will reinstate Fuckface in the White House, leaving their followers hanging on to promises of a second Fuckface term.
https://www.newsweek.com/evangelical-leaders-call-out-danger-prophets-god-donald-Fuckface-maga-preachers-pastors-1936620




You know, here’s what we don’t get – PEOPLE LISTEN TO THIS GARBAGE!!! How can someone not look at someone who claims to be a “prophet” for the unholy Dark One, and not think “Wow, that person is a fucking lunatic!”. Well, if you are that type of person, you wouldn’t be in my audience or my congregation to begin with! But, my fair congregation, rest assured to know that this is a uniquely American thing. Remember, we are the generation who was born and raised with television as our babysitter. It’s truly insane to watch people think that the unholy Dark One was “anointed by GAWD” when he was in fact, elected. Did anyone else grow up in the 90s? I did, we knew he was horrible back then!

The total eclipse crossing the United States on Monday is more than a celestial marvel. According to MAGA-minded “prophets” with dubious gifts of divination, the eclipse is a signal of God’s design for America, and another marker that former President Orange Fuckface is heaven’s “anointed” candidate.

Julie Green is a charismatic preacher and self-styled prophet who claims to channel God on the daily, bringing “divine” news to a devoted following from a home studio in Iowa. Green is a viral star on Rumble, where she has more than 200,000 followers, and she’s become a celebrity of the Christianity-meets-QAnon circus known as the “ReAwaken America” tour.

Nevermind that Green’s prophecies are often either vague or preposterous. (She once infamously predicted that Prince Charles would murder his mother in a fruitless attempt to steal the throne.) Green’s influence in MAGA world is strong, and has even included delivering heavenly dispatches to members of the Fuckface family.

On April 4, Green and a prophetic guest named Larry Ballard — who claims he “died in 1968,” returning to life after a serious accident with supposed heavenly insight — unpacked the spiritual symbolism of the coming eclipse.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/eclipse-Fuckface-maga-prophets-1235000663/




Yes, the prophecies of his Unholiness are weird. And there are many of them. But here’s the thing – these people are public figures, whether they want to be or not. But what’s even weirder is that despite all of their worship of the unholy Dark One, they didn’t donate to his campaign! Yes, his biggest fans didn’t give him a single cent! And you can find this all on an easy Google search. So while they may be convincing the flock to follow his Unholiness off the cliff, they weren’t contributing to him. They were basically just fans in name only! Which, again, is even weirder than if they actually gave him some money for the campaign! I will never understand this line of thinking, ever!

MAGA Pastors Johnny Enlow, Hank Kunnenman, Sean Feucht and Dutch Sheets, as well as pro-Fuckface "prophets" Charlie Shamp, Amanda Grace, Lance Wallnau and Julie Green—all of whom do not appear on the FEC's list of Fuckface donors—did not return Newsweek's request for comment.

Although churches and religious organizations are barred from participating in explicit political activities, under the federal tax code, individual members of a church or church leadership can participate in politics in their individual capacity.

"A lot of these Christian leaders don't see their contribution to Fuckface and his political cause as financial. They see their contribution in terms of voter mobilization, in terms of theology and prophecy, and really kind of galvanizing the kind of populist Christian sentiment around Fuckface," Matthew D. Taylor, a senior scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies, told Newsweek.

There has been a rise of Christian prophets in recent years, and some of them have offered their followers predictions on matters related to Fuckface, presidential elections and the COVID pandemic..
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-Fuckface-prophets-not-donating-campaign-1936026




So if anyone tells you that they are a prophet for the Dark One, run! The other way as fast as you possibly can! Save yourselves before it’s too late! Mass has ended, may you go in peace! That’s it this week for:




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Spin it again! Hey, it’s time for This Fucking Guy!



This week’s This Fucking Guy is former Fox News correspondents and current white nationalist shit poster, Pete Hegseth! You might have been hearing his name a lot in the news this week. That’s because Mr. Hegseth has been chosen to be Fuckface’s “border czar”. Yes, the “border czar” – a position that was made up by Fox News, to satisfy a conspiracy theory made up by… Fox News. And yes, they were unsatisfied with having a competent president at the helm and intentionally blew up a bi-partisan border bill that would have ended this conspiracy, otherwise that would have given President Biden a win. They’re still big mad that Fuckface wasn’t president between 2020 – 2024, because that fucked up their plans to go full Nazi. Don’t believe me that they’re going to go full Nazi? This fucking guy who is going to be their new “border czar” has a literal WHITE POWER symbol tattooed on his chest! Can we show that please? Yeah what the absolute fuck!!! He’s such an abusive jerk that even his own mother has called him an abusive jerk. And no, we’re not making this up, either. In fact that was the first thing that came up when we Googled “Pete Hegseth”.

Pete Hegseth, the man tapped by Orange Fuckface to become Defense Secretary, has come under fire from Democrats and other liberal pundits after he was branded as an “abuser of women” by his own mother.

A report from The New York Times featured a 2018 email to the former Fox News anchor from Penelope Hegseth, where she said she had “no respect” for her son and that he needed “take an honest look at yourself.”

The Times reported that in an interview on Friday, Penelope Hegseth had backtracked on the comments and said she had sent her son an immediate follow-up email, apologizing for what she had said.

But social media commentators were quick to react to the report, with former Democratic Representative Bakari Sellers writing: “This letter from Pete Hesgeths mom is…whoa. MAGA will turn a blind eye but this is something.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/pundits-rip-pete-hegseth-own-165043068.html


Of course they will! If there’s one underlying theme about the MAGA party, it’s that they don’t like being told what to do. In fact, they are the real “Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me” party. But of course, they can’t just be satisfied with just one allegation. Nope, not with this crowd. And I fully expect Fox News to pull the same Brett Kavanaugh “we made him cry!!!” bullshit that they did back when that was going on. Holy shit. But MAGA, do you know why we made him cry? Because he’s a fucking REGISTERED SEX OFFENDER!!! They should cry! But nope, you guys went and voted for Fuckface and now he’s stacking his cabinet with REGISTERED SEX OFFENDERS! Ugh!

This morning, a new whistleblower obtained by the New Yorker has come out with a new set of allegations that may be enough to sink Pete Hegseth's nomination as Secretary of Defense. According to the New Yorker, Hegseth was forced to step down from serving as the head of two veterans nonprofit organizations over allegations that he engaged in financial and sexual improprieties.

Between 2013 and 2016, Hegseth was the President of Concerned Veterans for America, a nonprofit group focused on promoting veterans rights in our nation. According to the whistle blower report, Hegseth was repeatedly intoxicated while in his official capacity as president of the charity. It got so bad that he was forced to be carried out of the organization's events because he was unable to walk.

While drunk, Hegseth further had to be restrained by individuals at a strip club as he attempted to join dancers on stage. In addition, the whistleblower report notes that Hegseth and other members of the nonprofit team pursued female staffers in the organization, dividing them into two groups: the "party girls" and the "not party girls."

https://meidasnews.com/news/pete-hegseth-hit-with-a-new-set-of-damning-allegations




Damn right!!! Of course he is pure evil. It’s pretty much par for the course for this new abomination of an administration. And the more you go down the rabbit hole on this guy, the worse it gets. And in fact, you know you’re an abusive POS when you get called out by your Fox colleagues for being an abusive POS, and it showed. But come on, Kamala can’t have a glass of wine around children? Yet, you want this fucking guy to round up “illegal” immigrants and put them in concentration camps? Really, it couldn’t possibly get any worse than this guy. And again, like I said, the more you dig into it and go down the wormhole, the worse it gets!

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Orange Fuckface’s pick for defense secretary, drank in ways that concerned his colleagues at Fox News, according to 10 current and former Fox employees who spoke with NBC News.

Two of those people said that on more than a dozen occasions during Hegseth’s time as a co-host of “Fox & Friends Weekend,” which began in 2017, they smelled alcohol on him before he went on air. Those same two people, plus another, said that during his time there he appeared on television after they’d heard him talk about being hungover as he was getting ready or on set.

One of the sources said they smelled alcohol on him as recently as last month and heard him complain about being hungover this fall.

None of the sources with whom NBC News has spoken could recall an instance in which Hegseth missed a scheduled appearance because he’d been drinking.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/pete-hegseths-drinking-worried-colleagues-fox-news-sources-tell-nbc-ne-rcna181471




Gee, you think? And is anyone else starting to wonder if Fuckface is intentionally nominating these psychopaths as a smoke screen to distract the public when he nominates even scarier people to be in his cabinet once he takes office? Because that is what it seems like. In fact, new allegations may be coming before the end of this segment! You don’t know! But the questions about whether or not Mr. Hegseth is fit to serve are growing. OF COURSE YOU KNOW DAMN WELL HE FUCKING ISN’T! In fact, none of the clowns that Fuckface has nominated aren’t. If you want to see how scary Mr. Hegseth’s views are, check out what he says about [link: https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/pete-hegseths-plan-create-christian-nationalist-educational-insurgency | education], which we covered last week. But he’s too extreme for Newsmax! Newsmax! The pro-Fuckface 24 hour ass kissing network! When you’re too extreme for them, that’s pretty fucking extreme!

Fox News largely ignores Pete Hegseth’s many scandals while Newsmax draws the line
While Fox News employs a familiar tactic when it comes to unflattering stories about the network or MAGA, Newsmax is directly calling on Fuckface to drop the former Fox News star’s nomination.


Fox News largely ignores Pete Hegseth’s many scandals while Newsmax draws the line
While Fox News employs a familiar tactic when it comes to unflattering stories about the network or MAGA, Newsmax is directly calling on Fuckface to drop the former Fox News star’s nomination.


With former Fox News host Pete Hegseth’s appointment as defense secretary suddenly in doubt amid a bevy of startling stories detailing his alleged sexual misconduct, boorish behavior and financial malfeasance, the right-wing network he called home for nearly a decade is doing what it typically does in these instances.

That is, it’s hushing up.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/pete-hegseth-fox-news-defense-secretary-b2658289.html


So will he get confirmed? Probably not. That’s Fox News correspondent and white nationalist supremacist Pete Hegseth, this week’s:




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Their obsession with this shit is weird AF, and hey look, another program I won’t watch! Spin it again! Oh hey it’s time for Conspiracy Corner!



Welcome back to our segment that attempts to explain the unexplainable, Conspiracy Corner! Of course conspiracies exist when people simply don’t want to read the article past the headlines and just flat out make shit up. We of course are coming to you live from our underground doomsday shelter from deep within the New Mexico badlands. Undisclosed location, of course! Let me just adjust my trusty tin foil hat for maximum government interference. Ah, there we go! They are trying to read yours and my thoughts, after all! This week, we have to talk about raw milk again. Yes, the concoction heavily peddled by Mr. Brain Worm himself, RFK Jr, is back in the news again, and it looks like the peddlers of this substance are going to be facing some very stiff punishments. The problem? Well, it looks like avian flu – the current strain known as H5N1 – has jumped to cows. See, if your remember your terminology from the COVID days, this is what’s called a “zoonotic” virus. Meaning that it can jump between species. So why is this a bad thing? Because recent studies have shown that if you drink raw milk, you’re far more likely to catch H5N1 than if you haven’t. So keep drinking that raw milk, conspiracy theorists! You’ll eventually wind up in the hospital for something you didn’t want!

Raw Farm's distribution of raw milk products has been suspended due to the detection of the H5N1 bird flu virus, the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) announced.

Why it matters: "H5 bird flu is widespread in wild birds worldwide and is causing outbreaks in poultry and U.S. dairy cows with several recent human cases in U.S. dairy and poultry workers," per the CDC, which notes 31 of the 57 human cases in the U.S. were in California. All but one of California's cases were traced back to cattle as the exposure source.

State of play: "All Raw Farm operations are currently under quarantine, from herds to bottled product, which means that all raw milk product distribution is suspended," said the CDFA's Steve Lyle in an emailed statement on Monday night.

CDFA dairy inspectors sampled milk from bottled products and bulk milk storage at Raw Farm's bottling facility on Nov. 27 and laboratory test results on Nov. 28 showed the presence of the bird flu virus, per Lyle.

"All milk tested by CDFA remained at the Raw Farm plant and was not released to consumers," added Lyle, who noted earlier tests had returned negative results.
https://www.axios.com/2024/12/03/raw-milk-bird-flu-raw-farm-distribution-suspended




So the question on the table – should we be encouraging MAGA to drink less raw milk or should we be encouraging them to drink more raw milk? Well, if you remember from the COVID days, the more hosts a virus has, the more likely it is to mutate. And also, as we know, almost everything connected to MAGA is highly suspect. But please, conspiracy theorists – keep indulging in your new cocktail of choice, but don’t be surprised if you get the stomach parasites and intestinal diarrhea that comes with it! Seriously, we’re not surprised that the same crowd that willfully ingests horse diarrhea medication is also the same crowd that drinks raw milk. It really is like we’re living in stupid times, doesn’t it?

Bird flu has landed on a California farm that shuns virus-killing pasteurization, leading to a second recall of raw milk and a suspension of operations at the company, Raw Farm in Fresno County.

According to a November 27 alert by the California health department, officials in Santa Clara County found evidence of bird flu virus in retail samples of a batch of Raw Farm's milk, which has been recalled. It is the second time that retail testing has turned up positive results for the company and spurred a recall. The first contaminated batch was reported on November 24. The two recalled batches are those with lot codes 20241109 ("Best By" date of November 27, 2024) and 20241119 (Best By date of December 7, 2024).

In an email to Ars on Monday, Raw Farm CEO Mark McAfee said that none of the company's cows are visibly sick but that it appears that asymptomatic cows are shedding the avian influenza virus.

After the first recall, a representative for Raw Farm said in a video posted to its YouTube account that the risk of bird flu was "not a big deal." In the email on Monday, McAfee seemed to suggest the same.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2024/12/raw-milk-producer-optimistic-after-being-shut-down-for-bird-flu-detection/




Oh come on! You got recalled twice and you’re still “optimistic”? Holy shit. PT Barnum was right about there being a sucker born every minute. Of course, he lived in the 1920s. He never lived to see the MAGA era, though many of us here at the home office suspect he might have voted that way. This is why it’s great to live in California because we are protected from predatory scammers like Raw Farms, though the fact that such a company exists in 2024 is a sad sign of the decline of our society. But even in a state that’s heavily populated by farmers, like Alabama, for instance, where the sale of raw milk is illegal, hardcore MAGA fans, in what seems like an eerie science fiction situation, are going through back door channels to get their fix. It’s literally a “pick your poison” scenario.

Just walking into any old grocery store, Alabama citizens are unlikely to find unpasteurized milk on the shelf next to the whole milk and the 2 percent reduced fat. But if they look hard enough, there’s plenty of this “raw milk” to be found—for “pet consumption only,” of course.

Under Alabama law it is illegal to sell raw milk for human consumption, but local farms can skirt that restriction by labeling the product as strictly for pets.

And there’s a market for it. “Alabama Raw Milk,” a private Facebook group started just a year ago by dairy farmer Kelly Porter, has 5.5 thousand members looking to buy or sell raw milk.

While health experts warn that unpasteurized milk opens up consumers to the risk of numerous pathogens, raw milk supporters argue that foregoing the pasteurization process preserves a number of health benefits to milk including improvements for gut health, asthma, allergies and even allowing people who are lactose intolerant to enjoy milk without issue.
https://www.alreporter.com/2024/11/28/white-lightning-inside-alabamas-raw-milk-secret-society/




You know, here’s where we need some tough parenting here. Look, FDA, you can issue all the warnings and recalls you want. But these are people who not only don’t listen to the experts, they spit in their faces. MAGA are people who don’t like being told what to do. Because, freedom or whatever. And this is exactly what happens when real experts get replaced with quacks. This is the kind of shit you are going to get. We say let’s let MAGA get their intestinal parasites that come with drinking raw milk and when they start overloading our hospital systems, don’t say we didn’t warn you. It will be even crazier when Dr. Oz and RFK Jr take away our healthcare. Bottom line – don’t drink raw milk and don’t listen to idiots who do.

“Now, I’m no stranger to raw milk. Growing up, we didn’t head to the grocery store for a gallon of milk—we went to the barn and got it ourselves. My brother milked the family cow in the morning, and I took care of it in the evening. Afterward, we’d strain out the flies and manure with a cup towel and drink it fresh. That was just life on the farm,” Miller said in the opinion piece.

Currently, the law in Texas does not allow the sale of raw milk in retail stores. However, it can be sold directly from farmers. You can get raw milk from a local dairy farm, have it delivered to your home or pick it up from a farmer’s market.

Health officials have warned for years that raw milk can cause illnesses that range from mild to life-threatening. Between 1998 and 2018, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention documented more than 200 illness outbreaks traced to raw milk, which sickened more than 2,600 people and hospitalized more than 225.

Before the U.S. adopted safety standards in 1924 under what was called the Pasteurized Milk Ordinance, about 25% of foodborne illnesses were related to dairy consumption, according to the Center for Dairy Research. Now, dairy products account for about 1% of such illnesses.
https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2024/12/02/texas-agriculture-commissioner-advocates-for-raw-milk-in-grocery-stores/





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Spin that shit! Come on, no whammy no whammy no whammy no whammy… stop! What? Go directly to jail? NO!!!!



Wait, I’ve got that Get Out Of Jail free card! Spin it again! And hey it’s time for I Need A Drink!

Hey everyone, I don’t know about you, but I could really use a drink!



So of course, you know the idea behind this segment is that we have some drinks, and while we are drinking, we talk about literally anything in the news as long as it doesn’t relate to politics. Because I don’t know if you’ve noticed out there, but there’s a lot of really dark shit happening right now. So I always feel that the best escape from reality is to crack open a nice cold one, or two, kick back, and take your mind off it for a while! And don’t worry, my sober brothers and sisters, we’ve got you covered! Just grab a glass of your favorite coffee, tea, or energy drink and come get wired with us! So the story on the table this week – it’s December! Which means the return of Christmas. Which also means the return of everyone’s favorite convention – SantaCon! Yes, SantaCon – these hard drinking, hard partying Santas don’t care whether you’re naughty or nice, they just wanna get hammered! We’ve previously covered SantaCon before in this segment (see: Idiots #11-16 and Idiots #5-23 ). But this year, there’s a plot twist! Previous SantaCons have been limited to the confines of New York City and Long Island. This year – SantaCon is coming to a neighborhood near you! So tell me bartender, what goes well with a story about SantaCon? Candy Cane Martini? What’s in that? Eh… I’ll pass. I’ll take instead my usual Jack Daniels mixed with Jack Daniels. I call it the Double Jack. But yes, the jolliest convention of the season is coming to a city near you. Should you be grateful or terrified? Well, from past experience, I’d say little column A, little column B.

Town officials have hired a Milford law firm to handle possible legal damages or "adverse impacts" from the SantaCon beach party that draws thousands to Fairfield's shoreline in December.

Fairfield hired the law firm Hurwitz Sagarin Slossberg & Knuff late last month as a possible legal counsel for SantaCon, an annual holiday bash Fairfield University students throw at the private beach rentals, where college students descend for a day of often drunken partying.

With the firm on board, town officials said they will avoid a conflict of interest Town Attorney Phil Pires would have with legal advice on the annual beach party because his law firm — Cohen and Wolf, P.C. — works with Fairfield University.

David Becker, Fairfield's chief operating officer, said the hire of another firm likely wouldn't be necessary without the conflict.
https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/fairfield-university-santa-con-beach-hssk-law-firm-19752189.php




Ha ha ha ha… you know things are fucked up when you have to hire lawyers in advance! It’s going to be a massive shit show! Yeah sure, it’s a good cause – at least it looks good on paper. But of course, while the gathering of way too jolly old St. Nicks is spreading its’ wings beyond the confines of their New York City origins, we can’t forget that the OG SantaCon is still the largest and proudest gathering of Santas and also the craziest! But one SantaCon is having some concerns already about this year’s festivities and that’s a city that’s neighboring to New York, Hoboken, New Jersey! Yes, no one is save from these hard drinking Santas!

The holiday season brings many wonderful things to Hoboken: festive decor, delicious treats, general feelings of splendor and nostalgia. There’s one Hoboken event, however, that’s a little more divisive, and it comes in the form of hundreds of bar-going Santas. Love it or hate it, the SantaCon bar crawl tradition has persisted over the last decade, leaving many Hoboken locals to wonder if it’ll return in 2024. It’s confirmed that HoHoHoboken, a separate bar crawl event organized by Hoboken bar owners, will return on Saturday, December 7th. SantaCon, organized by the national company PubCrawls, is happening on Saturday, December 21st. Here’s what to know about the two events and what to expect from each.
SantaCon, the annual holiday pub crawl tradition tracing back to the 1990s in New York City, began in Hoboken in 2011. It started as a small gathering of friends dressing up as Santa to support a local cause and has grown into a larger event where thousands of participants take to the streets in Santa costumes. Over the years, the event has gained both popularity and criticism due to concerns about public intoxication and disruptive behaviors.

The event in New York takes place around the same time every year in December, often on a Saturday before Christmas. This year’s New York City Santacon is happening on December 14th, 2024.
https://www.hobokengirl.com/santacon-hoboken-2024-hoho-hoboken/




Don’t think I’ve ever seen a drink ordered that way! But if you do find yourself in Mystic, Connecticut – yes, the home of Mystic Pizza, you too can recreate the legendary bar crawl from The World’s End on SantaCon night! But again, we cannot forget that the original one that started it all – the one in New York City, is the OG and the largest! So what’s it going to be like this year? Well, you can expect that the Santas will either be naughty or nice depending on how much they’ve had to drink. And like previous SantaCons, you can bet that Santa will be passed out on the LIRR on their way back home, so it will be fun being the rail conductors and security on that night!

SantaCon is a charitable, non-political, nonsensical convention that takes place annually to spread absurdist joy. In this beloved New York tradition, locals and tourists alike dress up as Santa Claus or other Christmas characters for a lively pub crawl known as SantaCon, short for Santa Convention. Participants join in to celebrate the holiday spirit while enjoying drinks, live music, and nightlife in a fun, festive atmosphere.

As the largest SantaCon in the world, New York attracts around 30,000 participants each year. While some revelers may indulge a bit too much, the overall vibe remains friendly and upbeat. Most attendees see it as an opportunity to party in creative Christmas costumes and enjoy the festive cheer. Additionally, about 15% of the bar bills from participating venues are donated to charity, adding a charitable element to the fun.

At SantaCon in NYC, participants must follow the "Santa Code" to keep the festivities joyful and responsible. This includes wearing a full holiday-themed costume—no "just a hat" nonsense allowed. Santa is respectful to bar staff, pays with cash, and tips well. He's of legal drinking age, spreads joy, and leaves no trace, ensuring all trash goes in the bins.

Santa promotes peace, so if conflicts arise, participants should walk away. He’s kind to children, respectful of the city and its laws, and shows appreciation for the NYPD. Santa also moves promptly between stops, comes prepared for the weather, and knows his limits when it comes to drinking. Most importantly, everyone addresses each other as “Santa,” enhancing the festive spirit!
https://rove.me/to/new-york/santacon




Yeah that’s pretty much what it’s going to be like! But some good news is that the LIRR – embarrassed by past SantaCons, is laying the smack down on this year’s festivities. In fact, the New York police know these Santas aren’t exactly going to be nice. But if the Con comes to your neck of the woods, be prepared to know that these Santas, once they get some booze in them, aren’t going to give a shit what your kid wants for Christmas. And yes, it may be coming to a city near you! But yes, SantaCon is coming to a city near you. So start getting your Christmas carols in order and preparing your cap for a long winter’s nap! Because Santa’s here again!

You better watch out, you better not cry—SantaCon is on its way to cities around the nation next month (yeah, already!). And if you're confused about what that even means, you're not alone. What is SantaCon? And is it coming to your town?

Hearing the name "SantaCon," for those who are already familiar, will likely either evoke a laugh and pleasant response or one of deep annoyance. Immediately, they can remember the images of years past with hundreds upon hundreds of people dressed up as Santa Claus roaming their city's streets.

But where did this polarizing, festive event come from? Let's get into it—after all, here comes SantaCon, here comes SantaCon!

Parade aims to feature only the best products and services. If you buy something via one of our links, we may earn a commission.
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Let’s spin the wheel a final time this week! And it lands on… T-Shirt Cannon!!! Yes, everyone in our fine audience tonight here in Syracuse will get our new No Fascist USA shirt and our Road To The Shithouse logo on it! But I can’t distribute all these t-shirts by myself. In fact, let’s go out to the beautiful brand new Intuit Dome stadium in Inglewood, California, to show you the craziest high-tech t-shirt cannon that’s ever been constructed!



Spin it again! And it lands on… ugh, Road To The Shithouse. Yes, fuck that guy. Ugh.



Welcome back to our segment that puts all of our post-election coverage in one place – Road To The Shithouse! Yes, we have to face reality that Fuckface is going to be inaugurated on January 20th and he is going to have unleashed both his inner asshole and his middle finger at America and particularly those who he wants to see prosecuted for not giving the deranged cult exactly what they wanted on January 6th, 2021. But we’ll save that for next week. This week though, we have to have a frank discussion about the one issue that may have tipped the election in favor of Orange Fuckface. And that is the trans bathroom issue. Yes, that issue. There’s one thing that democrats always underestimate in any given election – is that if the GOP runs on an issue of hate, they win every single time. The 2024 election is no exception to this rule. Orange Fuckface ran on pure hatred and malice. And no surprise, it worked for him big time. But we democrats need to have a frank and brutal discussion about why the GOP keeps winning on hate even though it’s 2024 and we should be in the post-hate world. But nope, it’s still there, it works, and right now it’s a very profitable business.

In the wake of an election in which Orange Fuckface stoked fear about trans people — as in the much-discussed ad that warned “Kamala is for they/them. President Fuckface is for you” — Democrats are now debating how much the issue of trans rights hurt them and how fast they should retreat from it. Which is remarkable, because throughout her brief campaign, Kamala Harris was all but silent on the subject. It’s not clear how much further Democrats could actually retreat.

The party’s decision to focus on the issues that matter to most voters, especially reproductive rights, and set trans rights aside is based on a misconception. The two issues can’t be separated, because trans rights don’t just resemble reproductive rights; trans rights are reproductive rights.

In the last couple of years, as the right wing in the United States has stepped up its attacks on trans people, it has devoted tremendous energy to curbing access to gender-affirming care for minors (and in some cases adults). Supporters of such legislation argue that young people are not qualified to make — or even participate in — decisions they may regret later in life.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/opinion/trans-rights-donald-Fuckface.html




All right, people, look. Can we take a step back, take a deep breath, and collectively pull our heads out of each other’s asses for a minute here? Look, there’s a case going before SCOTUS next week that could have GRAVE implications on the future of trans rights in this country, and knowing how the worst SCOTUS in US history is going to rule, we can imagine that things aren’t going to be good. In fact, this worthless fucking asshole Matt Walsh said that he wants trans rights gone from the planet. That’s literal genocide that he’s referring to! Why are we approaching these Nazi fuckheads with kid gloves on? They want literal genocide! It’s boggling the fucking mind!

In the final weeks of a heated reelection campaign, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz released a television ad with a simple message — “Boys and girls: They’re different.”

In the ad, Cruz accused his Democratic challenger, Colin Allred, of wanting boys to play on girls’ sports teams. Allred released his own ad vehemently denying the claim. Neither mentioned that the Texas Legislature had already banned student athletes from playing on teams that didn’t match the sex they were assigned at birth......

The day after a red wave swept Texas and the nation, these strategists, as well as political scientists and advocates on both sides of the aisle, say focusing on these social issues seems to have mobilized the Republican base.

“This election was when the dam broke,” said Terry Schilling, president of the American Principles Project, a right-wing political advocacy group. “Republicans have now figured out how to win parts of the culture war where Democrats are out of step with the American people.” https://www.texastribune.org/2024/11/08/transgender-ads-motivate-texas-republicans/




Come on, even Batman is facepalming this shit! You probably saw those disgusting ads airing on late night TV or during your football / baseball game of choice and you were probably seething at those disgusting ads for Fuckface airing on TV every single night. Well, guess what? They want you to seethe at this shit. Remember – MAGA voted for Fuckface out of pure spite, malice and hatred for half of the country that voted for Joe Biden over him. But come on, how are the democrats out of step on the culture war? Have you seen Fuckface’s playlist? Have you seen the shitty food he serves? And his supporters are drinking raw milk! But yeah, it’s the democrats who are out of touch. WTF. Well, expect this shit to get worse as we lead up to the 2026 midterms – assuming all elections haven’t been suspended by then.

Advocates for transgender rights are turning to a conservative-dominated Supreme Court after a presidential election in which Orange Fuckface and his allies promised to roll back protections for transgender people.

The justices on Wednesday are taking up the issue of gender-affirming care for transgender minors, which has been banned by Tennessee and 25 other Republican-led states.

The fight over whether transgender adolescents can access puberty blockers and hormonal treatments is part of a broader effort to regulate the lives of transgender people, including which sports competitions they can join and which bathrooms they can use.

Fuckface backed a national ban on such care as part of his 2024 campaign in which he demeaned and mocked transgender people.
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-transgender-tennessee-genderaffirming-minors-ban-9450d58a12c7a15e4c4f5a1a2fe0d6ec




Yeah come on! Why don’t we ask actual trans people what they think about this issue? Like incoming freshman congress WOMAN Sarah McBride? Yeah I thought so. Look, human rights shouldn’t be a footnote on a news network commentary show. They shouldn’t be cannon fodder for elections, having rights should be absolute and something that both parties can agree on. But nope, the right wing has collectively lost their fucking minds in this country and this is what we have to get used to, and what we need to start fighting back on. And with the GOP having one party rule, things are going to get really dark really quickly. Ugh… it just gets worse every single day!

Like most people in the community she fights for on a daily basis, Philadelphia’s Naiymah Sanchez didn’t sleep at all on the night of Nov. 5. It wasn’t only because Orange Fuckface’s second election would intensify her work as trans justice coordinator for the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania. It was also the personal anguish that the 41-year-old transgender woman felt knowing Fuckface had been elected, in part, by spending millions of dollars on TV ads that dehumanized her and people like her in shocking ways American voters had never seen before.

“I took it very personally,” Sanchez — who spent years as an activist around tough issues like combatting prison rape before joining the ACLU-PA in 2017, right after Fuckface’s first election — told me this week. “They voted against me. They wanted to harm me.” She noted how many voters seemed to respond positively to the GOP’s openly anti-trans rhetoric, before adding: “We rest, and then we fight again.”

While Fuckface’s narrow but decisive win over Democrat Kamala Harris is still Topic A, the early fights over the president-elect’s off-the-wall cabinet picks and TV debates over just how anti-democratically the Fuckface regime might govern are still an abstraction to most Americans. It’s very different in the transgender community. There, leaders like Sanchez are having gut-wrenching conversations with people wondering if they need to accelerate major life moves, like gender-affirming surgery or a legal name change, before an openly hostile government arrives on Jan. 20.
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/transgender-rights-2024-election-democrats-20241121.html





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Top 10 Conservative Idiots #17-14: Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap Edition


Top 10 Conservative Idiots #17-14: Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap Edition

Welcome back to the Top 10 Conservative Idiots! Yoooooooooooooooooooooo!!! What’s up Rutgers, sold us out again! And man has it been a white hot minute since we last set foot in the Garden State, hasn’t it? Last time was what? 2018? 6 years! So we didn’t get canceled last week? Phew! The show must go on! And if you didn’t see that spectacle, you can do so here. In case you didn’t know what I’m talking about, last week, we expressed our frustrations at the results of the election. And to do so, we decided to break the F-bomb record set by the Wolf Of Wall Street at 569. And we did it! Now that I got that out of my system, we need to be much more level headed as we wind down the rest of the year and look towards the absolute fucking horror show that’s going to be unfolding the day after the inauguration. Will the United States still be a country then after his first 24 hours? Who knows! Well, we have to talk about the future of our fine program here. Yes, we’ve been doing this program for 8 years and we really did have plans to ride off into the sunset after our upcoming 2024 Year In Review special. Which we were going to do had Harris won the election. But after the election, we considered packing it in ahead of time. But nope, people bought into the Fox News fearmongering bullshit and now we’re stuck with another term of the guy who we’re from now on going to refer to as Orange Fuckface and it’s really, really, really bad. It’s because of this photo here. See? You can’t unsee it! And it’s just been two fucking weeks. But hey, we’ve got cheap gas and our groceries are less expensive and also no trans women in sports. So was it worth turning our country into an authoritarian shit show, MAGA? Let’s see. And yes, Sean Hannity, it’s been two fucking weeks and we’re already that much fucking WORSE off than we were 4 years ago, and this shit show hasn’t even started yet! Well, we’re taking a much needed lengthy hiatus because this election brought us to a breaking point. Mentally and physically, it’s just a time to say “fuck it”. But, that said, we are coming back in April with a new and improved Top 10 that will be much more interactive than our current version! How about that? We can’t let Fuckface get away with this, can we? Yes, it will be insane. And I say… welcome to the burning down of the United States. Grab a seat, grab some popcorn and a beer (or whatever your beverage of choice is) and enjoy the show! OK, enough of the intro, we have a lot of idiocy to get to! But first, John Oliver is back and he talks about one of the biggest talking points of the Fuckface campaign: the banning of Tik Tok, which is completely and grossly unconstitutional. Fuck this administration!:



So where do we begin this week? Well, as you can imagine, the election has given us a metric fuck ton of material to work with. And before anyone asks if that’s made our jobs easier, we can instantly reply with “No, it’s made it that much FUCKING worse.”. By the way, from this point on, we will no longer be referring to him in any way, shape or form as “Donald Trump”. Instead we will be referring to him by his new name – “Orange Fuckface”. Yes, because of the garbage photo. You can’t unsee it! And in the first slot, is of course President Select Orange Fuckface (1). And we are going to go through some of his chosen cabinet positions, and they are infinitely worse than you could possibly imagine! In the second slot this week, we’re going to change things up a bit and give you some edumacation (2)! Yes, we know Thanksgiving is next week, and we know many of you are going to be in very uncomfortable situations involving your friends and family, so we’re going tell you how to make political discussions less volatile, and yes that’s a thing! In the third slot is one of Fuckface’s personal helper monkeys – Mr. Brain Worm (3) himself, RFK Jr. Yes, Fuckface put him in charge of the Department Of Health & Human Services, which is pretty much like giving the alcoholic the keys to your liquor cabinet and to your car, and giving him the directions to the nearest cliff. In the number 4 slot (4) is a rather delicious bit of what the Germans call schadenfreude for you, and that is that everyone’s favorite satire outlet The Onion bought the remaining assets and domain of Alex Jones’ Infowars (4), officially marking the end of one of Fuckface’s helper monkeys, and the beginning of a new one! In the number 5 slot is a new We’re All Gonna Die (5). And yes, we’ve been watching the Bird Flu (H5N1) saga unfold in both California and British Columbia, but with Brain Worm in charge of public health, what could possibly go wrong? A whole lot! In the number 6 slot, is of course our weekly visit to the Holy Church Of The Top 10 in “Holy Shit” (6), and MAGA megachurch pastors all over the country are celebrating the Dark One’s ascending to the throne, and if you think they’re no different than ISIS or Al’Qaeda, well, you’re not wrong! In the number 7 slot this week, we’re profiling neo-Nazi podcaster and prolific internet shit poster Nick Fuentes (7) in a new “This Fucking Guy”, and while we’re normally against doxing, well, fuck that guy! In the number 8 slot this week is our weekly venture into the never-ending void of online tin foil hat nuttery in Conspiracy Corner (8) and this week could two safe havens for neo-Nazis and right wing extremists – Elon’s X and Fuckface’s Truth Social – merge? It’s entirely possible given how poorly his company is doing in the stock market! In the number 9 (NEIN!!!) slot this week, Disney World, aka the Mouse House, has a problem with people spreading their loved one’s ashes at their parks, made worse by the mother of Disney star Ariana Grande, and we’re going to tell you why you shouldn’t do that! Finally this week in Road To The Shithouse – we’re going to tell you why Fox is crafting a government to TV pipeline by having one of their hosts nominated to a cabinet position they are in no way, shape or form qualified for, and it’s going to be a shit show! And to cap things off, we have our original musical guests returning to our show – Bastille! Buy their new album “& (Ampersand)” or you’re no friend of this program! Enjoy! And as always don't forget the key!

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You know, when George Bush stole the 2000 election via the Bush V Gore Supreme Court case in 2001, Rush Limbaugh famously played the classic song “Happy Days Are Here Again”, unironically covered by Judy Garland and Barbara Streisand to signal the GOP being back in power. He played it again in 2016 after Fuckface stole that election. Now that Fuckface is back in power, we think that song no longer applies given the utter shit show he’s about to unleash in January. Instead, I think we can sum this up with a pick of our own – the AC/DC classic Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap! Because all you have to do is declare your undying loyalty to Fuckface, repent your sins nightly on the Fox News multi-level marketing firm family of fine propaganda programs, and you can have any job you want for life and nobody to stop you! That is, unless you say anything that the cult doesn’t want to hear. Then you get busted down to Fox & Friends contributor. George Carlin was right – it’s a big club and we’re not in it! And then you can go as nuts as you want and there won’t be anyone to stop you! But we have to go through some of Fuckface’s cabinets picks, because they are every bit as horrendous as you might imagine, and then some. Last week, we brought one of his first nominees – The Heritage Foundation’s Tom Homan, who is one of the co-authors of the ultra-hideous Project 2025, which is now going to become reality. But he’s infinitely worse than you could ever imagine!

President-elect Orange Fuckface announced late Sunday that Tom Homan, the former acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement who backed his controversial "zero tolerance" policy, will be his administration's "border czar."

"I am pleased to announce that the Former ICE Director, and stalwart on Border Control, Tom Homan, will be joining the Fuckface Administration, in charge of our Nation’s Borders ('The Border Czar'), including, but not limited to, the Southern Border, the Northern Border, all Maritime, and Aviation Security," Fuckface said on Truth Social.

"I’ve known Tom for a long time, and there is nobody better at policing and controlling our Borders," the post continued. "Likewise, Tom Homan will be in charge of all Deportation of Illegal Aliens back to their Country of Origin. Congratulations to Tom. I have no doubt he will do a fantastic, and long awaited for, job."

Homan touts hard-line immigration views and previously vowed to “run the biggest deportation force this country has ever seen.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/Fuckface-announces-tom-homan-incoming-border-czar-rcna179536




Damn right! Look, Fox News gave Kamala shit 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for the last three fucking years about her handling of the “border crisis” that they made up and purposefully blew up so Biden wouldn’t get a victory. Yes, anything that happens at the border now is EXPLICITLY the fault of Fox News, don’t ever let anyone else tell you otherwise. But I’d rather take a million of her, than one Tom Homan – a literal fucking Nazi! And in case Homan’s MAGA credentials weren’t Nazi enough, behind door #2 is Fox News correspondent Pete Hegseth – who has a literal WHITE POWER tattoo on his chest and was indicted for a sexual harassment scandal. Yes, these are the kind of people who, I don’t know, are going to be RUNNING THE FUCKING COUNTRY!

Orange Fuckface’s transition team scrambled Thursday after Fuckface’s incoming chief of staff Susie Wiles was presented with an allegation that former Fox & Friends cohost Pete Hegseth, Fuckface’s nominee to be Defense Secretary, had engaged in sexual misconduct. According to two sources, Wiles was briefed Wednesday night about an allegation that Hegseth had acted inappropriately with a woman. One of the sources said the alleged incident took place in Monterey, California in 2017.

According to the transition source, the allegation is serious enough that Wiles and Fuckface’s lawyers spoke to Hegseth about it on Thursday. A source with knowledge of the meeting said that Hegseth said the allegation stemmed from a consensual encounter and characterized the episode as he-said, she-said.

On Thursday evening, Hegseth’s lawyer Timothy Parlatore said: “This allegation was already investigated by the Monterey police department and they found no evidence for it.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/pete-hegseth-misconduct-allegation-meeting




That’s a good question! Even Captain Picard knows you’re completely full of shit! But his list of shady underlings, er, cabinet members, just continues to get that much fucking worse every single day, and we hate to say “we told you so” but we did and you have to face the consequences now. And don’t worry, when we come back after Thanksgiving, we’re going to have plenty of stories for you about people who voted for Fuckface and now regret it. And we hate to be those people, but here we are. Oh and who’s behind door number 3? Dr. Oz! That’s right! Dr. Oz! It’s good to see that Fox News and TV personalities are well represented in this cabinet!

U.S. President-elect Orange Fuckface said on Tuesday that he had chosen television personality and surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz to serve as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a wide-reaching agency with annual spending of $2.6 trillion.

Fuckface, who endorsed Oz in his unsuccessful run in Pennsylvania for the U.S. Senate in 2022, said he would work closely with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was nominated to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

Oz said in a post on social media website X he was looking forward "to serving my country to Make America Healthy Again under" Kennedy's leadership.

Fuckface said the pair would take on "the illness industrial complex, and all the horrible chronic diseases left in its wake" as well as cutting what he called waste and fraud.

"Our broken Healthcare System harms everyday Americans, and crushes our Country's budget," Fuckface said in a statement.
https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2024-11-19/Fuckface-picks-dr-oz-to-serve-as-cms-administrator




Yeah BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! The “Illness industrial complex”? What the fuck are they smoking? It just gets worse! Which brings me to the last candidate I want to profile this week, who may be the worst of the bunch. Yes. I’m talking about education. You know that the MAGA fuckheads have been threatening to eliminate the Department Of Education for years now, because apparently Rupert Murdoch said so. The government is not his personal property. But guess who was just tapped to run the DOE? Linda McMahon. That’s right – the future of our children is going to be in the hands of a woman whos’ been body slammed one too many times on live television. What the actual fuck are we doing in this country? WTF. I need a drink.

President-elect Orange Fuckface has named his transition co-chair Linda McMahon as his pick to serve as the next secretary of the Department of Education.

The decision, which Fuckface announced Tuesday night confirming CNN’s earlier reporting, took shape after it became clear that McMahon would be passed over for Commerce secretary. Fuckface named his other transition co-chair, Howard Lutnick, as his pick to lead the Commerce Department earlier Tuesday after the Cantor Fitzgerald CEO had thrown his name into the mix for Treasury secretary, sparking a battle with hedge fund manager Scott Bessent.

“Linda will use her decades of Leadership experience, and deep understanding of both Education and Business, to empower the next Generation of American Students and Workers, and make America Number One in Education in the World. We will send Education BACK TO THE STATES, and Linda will spearhead that effort,” Fuckface said in a statement.

McMahon, a major Republican donor and a former pro-wrestling executive, served as the administrator of the Small Business Administration during Fuckface’s first term. She was appointed in 2017 and resigned in 2019 to become the chair of America First Action, a pro-Fuckface super PAC. She is the board chair of the America First Policy Institute, a pro-Fuckface think tank that was formed in 2021 by McMahon, Larry Kudlow and other advisers from the first Fuckface administration.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/19/politics/linda-mcmahon-education-secretary-Fuckface/index.html





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Look, Thanksgiving is next week. We know some people might not be in the holiday spirit right now because the election cycle that just happened was absolutely draining mentally and the absolute worst possible outcome of any election in United States history. We’re so tired of Fuckface and all of his bullshit. We’re tired of seeing him on the news and in our social media feeds 24 hours a day. Many of us are ready to check out or have already checked out of reality. And if you’re doing any sort of traveling to visit your friends or loved ones during the holidays, chances are you are probably going to encounter folks who voluntarily voted for Fuckface. So we here at the Top 10 Home Offices in Santa Ana, California, decided that we want to give you some fuel in case you encounter Fuckface fans on your holiday journey. See, we like to educate as well as entertain. Yes, we know things are bad now, but we want you to be able to talk shit because we know that there’s going to be some political arguments out there that are going to get very heated, very quickly. One good thing we can tell you is that even some of Fuckface’s more extremist picks for cabinet positions are being met with some resistance in Fuckface’s inner circle. So if the conversation about folks like Pete Hegseth or Tom Homan come up, we can tell you this!

Hegseth was tapped last week to become Fuckface’s defense secretary but now those in the president-elect’s inner circle are “quietly preparing a list of alternative” candidates, Vanity Fair reported.

“It’s becoming a real possibility,” a source told the outlet’s special correspondent Gabriel Sherman.

The source said that the Fuckface team was taken by surprise after a serious sexual assault allegation against Hegseth came to light, which led Fuckface’s incoming chief of staff Susie Wiles to question the former Fox News host on a call last week. Hegseth was never charged with a crime and denies the allegations.

“People are upset about the distraction. The general feeling is Pete hasn’t been honest,” a second source told Vanity Fair.

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A “prominent Republican” close to the Fuckface transition team told the outlet that some are also unhappy with the president-elect’s choice due to Hegseth’s lack of qualifications to lead the nation’s defense.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/Fuckface-transition-team-quietly-looking-124003030.html




People are upset? Do you know Fuckface? When have you ever trusted him to do the right thing? And we can imagine that most people’s upcoming Thanksgivings are not going to be anything like the one Snoopy and Woodstock had. In fact, we know there’s going to be some tension. But make no mistake that this election was basically just a hit job to continue funneling more of America’s taxpayer money to the scumbag billionaire class who doesn’t deserve it. Yeah let’s give billionaires more money! In fact, we’re going to show you some classic examples of cause and effect in a minute, because you know we love some cause and effect around here! So when a friend or relative brings up that the president controls prices, you might want to show them this.

A Walmart executive warned that President-elect Fuckface’s plans to raise tariffs on imports could drive the retail giant to increase the price of store items.

“We never want to raise prices,” John David Rainey, the company’s CFO said in an interview with CNBC on Tuesday. “Our model is everyday low prices. But there probably will be cases where prices will go up for consumers.”

Fuckface has proposed a 10 percent to 20 percent tariff on all imported goods, and a tariff of at least 60 percent on Chinese imports. Republicans generally have backed him on the economic front, agreeing that the U.S. should “reset its economic relationship with China.”

The company has reported that two-thirds of merchandise sold in Walmart U.S. and 93 percent of merchandise sold in Walmart Mexico is “made, grown or assembled domestically.” This stemmed from a 2021 commitment to $350 billion effort to invest in home-grown products.
https://thehill.com/business/4998684-walmart-Fuckface-tariffs-prices/




Damn right! Come on, when are we going to trust the CEO of Wal-Mart on anything? So guess what, prices are going up, up, up! But what about your wages? That’s right – you know, that paycheck that we need to do this thing called “living”. Well, examining some cause and effect here, Wal-Mart is going to raise prices. How do we know? Because you can’t trust CEOs to tell you the truth! That’s how Wall St got to stealing all of our money. And by the way, MAGAs, it’s not taxes that are stealing your hard earned income, it’s your boss! Guess what? If you live in my home state of California, you just voted to further enrich *THEIR* pocketbooks! That’s right – there was one of those famous California propositions that voted to increase the minimum wage. Guess what you did? You… wait for it… voted against it! That’s right – you voted to give billionaires more of your money! It’s not the IRS that’s stealing your money, it’s your boss! And he just tricked you!

California voters have rejected Proposition 32, which would have increased California's minimum wage to $18 an hour, CBS News projects.

The ballot measure would have immediately increased the state's minimum wage rate to $17 an hour for employers with 26 or more employees. Beginning Jan. 1, 2025, it would have required workers at those businesses to receive a roughly 5.9% raise to $18, making the state's minimum wage the highest in the nation. For employers with 25 or fewer employees, the minimum wage would have increased to $17 on Jan. 1, 2025, and to $18 by Jan. 1, 2026.

Proposition 32's rejection comes after health care and fast-food workers in the state received a minimum wage boost this year, the latest in a series of hourly pay rate increases in California over the last 10 years.

Nearly 33% of California's labor force have low-wage jobs that pay less than $18 an hour. More than 3 million workers in California, or roughly 16% of the state's labor force, earned less than $17 an hour in 2024, according to Oxfam.
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/california-voters-reject-proposition-32s-minimum-wage-increase-cbs-news-projects/




So when dealing with your friends and family about the state of the economy in the United States, that’s one thing to give them fuel for the fire! Ha ha ha ha ha…. You had the chance to increase your weekly paycheck, but guess what? You actively voted against it! So the answer to why you’re not rich is 100% you. You’re your own worst enemy! And by the way, if you trust the 700 billionaires who are really running the United States of America to do the right thing, guess what? You’re wrong! Well you enjoy posting on Bluesky? One billionaire actually proposed buying Bluesky only to shut it down. But despite Fox News’ constant fearmongering about the economy, it’s doing better than ever. So tell that to your MAGA friends and relatives. Because Fuckface is going to ruin it, maybe forever, and we can say “Ha ha! We told you so!”.

The vibes have officially shifted.

The economy Orange Fuckface said was broken? All it took was him winning, and consumer sentiment among Republicans soared.

Elections? Suddenly Republicans are on board with the reality that they’re secure. House Speaker Mike Johnson said he saw no evidence of fraud in the 2024 campaign.

And the media landscape? Viewership of Fox News has surged since Fuckface’s win despite his harsh criticism of the network in the run up to Nov. 5.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/17/republicans-Fuckface-win-economy-election-security-confidence-00189941





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If the year 2024 could be summed up in one single word, that word is “BREAKING”. It’s literally on every single article, every minute piece of news. Every news is breaking!!! The only thing that’s actually going to be breaking is my monitor when I throw it out the window! Well, the psychopath who’s been put in charge of breaking America’s public health system, Mr. Brain Worm himself, has been in a whole heap of trouble over his proposed plan. But really, when has that ever stopped any of these psychopaths before? It hasn’t. In fact, Mr. Brain Worm himself is so toxic that even the campaign and the incoming abomination, er, administration is trying to distance themselves from him. Even his own cousin, the daughter of JFK and the current ambassador to Australia, Caroline Kennedy, has been trying to warn us about how toxic and dangerous RFK Jr is. But come on, when have you ever expected Fuckface to do the right thing? He never does. If you told him not to jump off that cliff, he’d jump off the cliff and give you the finger while he’s going down. So we’re stuck with this guy unless he lasts a Scaramucci.

Donald Fuckface’s team appeared to be quietly distancing itself from Robert F Kennedy Jr in the immediate aftermath of the election amid speculation that the former presidential candidate could be handed control of US public health agencies. Advisers to the president-elect questioned whether Mr Kennedy, a vaccine sceptic who has also been the subject of a series of bizarre stories involving animals, would make it through a security check for a cabinet position.

It raises questions about what role, if any, Mr Kennedy would be given in the Fuckface administration, as the Republican’s transition team sets about filling thousands of federal posts for his return to the White House. Mr Kennedy had previously said that Mr Fuckface had “promised” him control of the Department of Health and Human Services and public health agencies like the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

However, there is disquiet in the Fuckface team about media attention on the former independent candidate after he was pressed in a post-election interview with NBC about his vaccine scepticism. Mr Kennedy said that he would seek to fix the “huge deficits” in vaccine safety but clarified: “We’re not going to take vaccines away from anybody.”

According to CNN, a source close to Mr Fuckface said: “That is not what we want people focused on today.”

Mr Kennedy, son of the late attorney general Bobby Kennedy and nephew of president John F Kennedy, has also said he plans to remove fluoride from drinking water. The claim prompted criticism from public health experts, who argued it would undo one of the great public health achievements of the 20th century...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/Fuckface-campaign-quietly-distances-itself-144333855.html




Yeah let’s think about this for a minute. The eradication of polio is the single greatest achievements of humanity the 20th and even the 21st centuries. But now, thanks to social media and the advent of anti-vaxxer bullshit, we could undo that. And putting an anti-vaxxer conspiracy theory nutjob in charge of public health is like giving the alcoholic the keys to the liquor cabinet and telling him to go nuts, then giving him the keys to your car and telling him to make a beer run. On top of that, giving him the directions to the nearest cliff! Literally nothing good will come of this, and that’s probably the point. I mean they are going to sink the United States into third world status if any of their hideous talking points actually come to fruition.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who President-elect Donald J. Fuckface has suggested would have a “big role” in his second administration, wasted no time laying out potential public health measures he would oversee if given the chance.

Mr. Kennedy, an environmental lawyer who has no medical or public health degrees and has promoted anti-vaccine conspiracies for years, told NBC News on Wednesday that he would not “take away anybody’s vaccines,” but that he wanted Americans to be informed with the “best information” available so they “can make individual assessments about whether that product is going to be good for them.”

“People ought to have choice,” he said, adding that he has “never been anti-vaccine.”

Mr. Kennedy has been a prominent critic of the childhood vaccination schedule and has frequently linked some vaccines to autism and other health issues. Studies have long shown no such connection.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/us/politics/rfk-jr-Fuckface-health.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YE4.hMMU.S8lV-i0t5YCR&smid=url-share




Seriously, what could possibly go wrong? Well, there is some good news is that we may *FINALLY* be getting some push back with the vaccine issue. Because you know what? Despite what the fearmongering industry may try to sell you – vaccines are very popular. And no, RFK Jr, we don’t want to die from polio or smallpox or any other hideous disease whose eradication was made possible by the use of vaccines. But make no mistake – a lot of people are going to die because of this fucking maniac and the bullshit that he hawks. If you thought COVID was bad? Boy, you ain’t seen nothing yet! Yeah just like the song!

The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected an attempt by Children's Health Defense, the anti-vaccine group founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to protect doctors being investigated in Washington state for allegedly spreading misinformation about the Covid-19 virus.

The emergency application was denied by Justice Elena Kagan on behalf of the court.

“We hope that one day the Supreme Court will clearly state that the Constitution does not permit the government to sanction the public viewpoint speech of physicians,” Rick Jaffe, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said.

Kennedy, whom President-elect Donald Fuckface intends to nominate as the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, was listed as one of the lawyers on the application.

Kennedy's group and other plaintiffs claim that any investigations seeking to sanction doctors for their views on the virus would violate free speech rights under the Constitution's First Amendment.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rejects-rfk-jr-groups-attempt-protect-anti-covid-vaccine-rcna181061




Yeah seriously, putting that guy in charge of anything? How can you not look at RFK Jr and get anything but escaped mental patient vibes from him? But seriously his views on vaccines and other bullshit nonsense medical “cures” like peptides and no fluoride in the water supply are making even the most hardcore members of Fuckface’s inner circle extremely uncomfortable. So yeah, not only is this whole act part of America’s slide into the abyss, but it’s one of those things where you play stupid games, win stupid prizes. And being anti-vaccine while we’re still on the tail end of a once in a century pandemic of a constantly mutating novel virus, if you still follow Mr. Brain Worm and his bullshit, you may want to take a step back and revaluate your life choices!

Donald Fuckface’s team appeared to be quietly distancing itself from Robert F Kennedy Jr in the immediate aftermath of the election amid speculation that the former presidential candidate could be handed control of US public health agencies. Advisers to the president-elect questioned whether Mr Kennedy, a vaccine sceptic who has also been the subject of a series of bizarre stories involving animals, would make it through a security check for a cabinet position.

It raises questions about what role, if any, Mr Kennedy would be given in the Fuckface administration, as the Republican’s transition team sets about filling thousands of federal posts for his return to the White House. Mr Kennedy had previously said that Mr Fuckface had “promised” him control of the Department of Health and Human Services and public health agencies like the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

However, there is disquiet in the Fuckface team about media attention on the former independent candidate after he was pressed in a post-election interview with NBC about his vaccine scepticism. Mr Kennedy said that he would seek to fix the “huge deficits” in vaccine safety but clarified: “We’re not going to take vaccines away from anybody.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/Fuckface-campaign-quietly-distances-itself-144333855.html





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In the world after the 2024 election, where it’s just one horrifying, shitty news story after horrifying, shitty news story, sometimes it helps to engage in a bit of what the Germans call “schadenfreude”. Of course, I’m talking about the story that broke just as we were going live last week – The Onion has purchased all of the assets of Alex Jones’ venerable Infowars outlet. Yes, Infowars – the site run by noted internet conspiracy theorist and social media troll Alex Jones, who became notorious in 2012 when he and his goons heckled, abused, and doxxed the parents of the murdered children at the hands of a crazed gun man at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut under the guise that America was using the shooting as a false flag in order to take guns away. To which we say – nobody is coming to take your guns away. Needless to say, we all here at the Top 10 Home Office in Santa Ana, California, had an absolutely massive gut laugh now that the last vestige of the internet conspiracy theory stronghold is going under. One down, several hundred more to go!

The Onion CEO Ben Collins confirmed that the publication purchased Alex Jones’s Infowars outlet in a Saturday series of posts on the social media platform Bluesky amid Jones’s claims of wrongdoing and illegal activity.

“I just wanted to give a quick update on The Onion’s purchase of InfoWars, which we can’t wait to relaunch as the dumbest website on the internet,” Collins wrote.

“The long and short of it: We won the auction and — you’re not going to believe this — the previous InfoWars folks aren’t taking it well.”

He shared that The Onion, a satirical news website, won the bid for Infowars on Thursday at Jones’s bankruptcy auction, along with the Connecticut Sandy Hook families of victims. Jones previously said the massacre was a “hoax.”

Jones was held liable for nearly $1.5 billion in damages due to his false claims about the 2012 mass shooting in Newtown, Conn.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/onion-ceo-explains-infowars-purchase-034020701.html?guccounter=1




Of course, like the screaming, petulant child Alex Jones is, don’t think for a minute that this sale is final just yet! Because we can’t have nice things in this country like functioning governments, school boards, or kids being able to attend school without getting shot at, Alex Jones is waging war. Yes, war to prevent his site from getting sold. And of course, while mocking everyone for using attorneys, he’s going to hire… *checks notes* more attorneys. For a party that claims to hate trial lawyers, they sure do love them some trial lawyers, don’t they? Well here’s how this is going to play out, and as you can imagine, things are going to get really ugly, really quickly. As is usually the case with the MAGA conspiracy theory crowd. Seriously, would it kill them just once to admit that they lost or they might be completely wrong about something? No? WTF.

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones accused The Onion and Sandy Hook Elementary School families of "collusive bidding" and asked a bankruptcy court judge to halt the sale of his Infowars platform.

Jones, who defamed the Sandy Hook families by calling the 2012 massacre a hoax and the parents of the 20 first graders actors, called The Onion's winning $1.75 million bid "sheer nonsense" because it's half of what the losing bidder offered.

The Onion began a "systematic effort to confuse Mr. Jones's personal public following with messages espousing gun control in a manner such that Mr Jones's personal public following would be utterly confused and misled," Jones said in an overnight court filing.

His request follows a similar push for an injunction by First United American Companies, which is affiliated with Jones through the sale of dietary supplements.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/alex-jones-asks-judge-halt-sale-infowars-site/story?id=116000992




Yeah BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Before we go any further, I just want to say two words: Fuck you, Alex Jones! Just… fuck you! I’ll tell you where you can go shove your lawsuit! But like I’ve been saying – MAGA are the people who want to be the cool kids so badly. They’re equal parts “fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me”, and “WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! Give me that, it’s mine!”. They really do think that the government is their personal plaything. When it’s not a toy. Their actions can have real world consequences! So of course, there’s going to be implications with the sale of Infowars, but Alex Jones, like the screaming child he is, needs to have his toy taken away from him. He is definitely not using it for good.

A losing bidder connected to conspiracy theorist Alex Jones challenged on Monday the Onion's purchase of Jones' Infowars website, saying the parody news site won a rigged bankruptcy auction and offered half as much cash as its bid.

First American United Companies, which is affiliated with Jones' dietary supplements businesses, asked U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez in Houston to disqualify the bid by the Onion and name its own $3.5-million bid as the winner.

Jones was forced to auction his assets, including Infowars, in bankruptcy, after courts ordered him to pay $1.5 billion for defaming the families of 20 students and six staff members killed in the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, by making false claims that the shooting was staged.

First American United Companies said in a court filing that a court-appointed bankruptcy trustee mishandled the auction by giving the Onion credit for backing by the families of Sandy Hook shooting victims, whose lawsuits drove Jones into bankruptcy in 2022.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/alex-jones-affiliated-company-challenges-onions-infowars-purchase-2024-11-18/




Oh come on, people! Stop your rabbling! But come on, doesn’t the person who has more money than the other guy usually win the sale? That’s how capitalism works, right? Come on, you guys are supposedly champions of capitalism. But we do have to say that we’re with the CEO of The Onion in that we think it’s hilarious that the once bastion of MAGA politics and conspiracy theories is now part of the world’s biggest satire site. And while Alex Jones may be a spoiled child, he’ll definitely be in for a rude awakening if he sets foot in front of a competent judge. But there’s definitely going to be an uphill battle for the king of fearmongering.

The Onion’s winning bid for Alex Jones ’ Infowars platform is under review by a federal bankruptcy judge after Jones and his lawyers complained about how an auction was conducted.

The satirical news outlet was announced as the winning bidder on Thursday in an auction that is part of Jones’ personal bankruptcy. Hours later, Infowars headquarters in Austin, Texas and its websites were shut down and Jones was broadcasting from a new studio he had set up before the bankruptcy auction. By Friday morning, Infowars and its websites were back up and running for reasons that were not entirely clear.

At a hastily called court hearing in Houston on Thursday, Judge Christopher Lopez ordered another hearing to be held next week. He wants to know what happened with the auction and how the bankruptcy trustee chose The Onion over the only other bidder — a company affiliated with a Jones product-selling website.

A court hearing is typically held after a bankruptcy auction to finalize the winning bids and sales, and to hear any objections, so the process in Jones’ case hasn’t strayed far from the usual — yet.
https://apnews.com/article/alex-jones-infowars-auction-onion-how-d42e7b2c916205b348628686c8b8dd4a





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Hey everyone, guess what? We’re all gonna die! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOO. WOOOOOOOO. WOOO. WOO. So what’s going to kill us all this week, you might ask? That’s a good question! You know lost in all of the news this week because of the fallout from the 2024 election from hell, is that there’s a new virus that we have to worry about. Well, a new, old virus anyway. That virus is the strain of the flu that’s known as H5N1, or more commonly known as bird / avian flu. If you remember from the COVID days, this strain of the flu is what’s called a “zoonotic” virus. Meaning that it can jump from animals to humans. And this one has jumped to humans. But now, with more than a few cases popping up and nearly all of them are fatal or close to it, the question of whether or not humanity could return to the lockdowns and masks of 2020 is a real possibility? Well is it? This is one of those stories where we STRONGLY urge you to read past the headlines. Because of these things called, you know, details. But here’s the thing, before you scream that the sky might be falling, we urge you to take a deep breath, remain calm, and pull your heads out of each other’s asses, OK? And actually listen to experts instead of listening to idiots on social media, because we’ve told you time and time again not to listen to them, OK? Stop it already!

Colleagues, it’s time to wake up and smell the coffee. Or, for a true reality check, just scan the Department of Agriculture’s frequently-updated map and tables naming the many animals that have tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in the U.S. since May 2022.

Finding influenza A/H5N1 in wild birds and waterfowl and poultry is nothing new, of course. During 2024, however, our country has seen its first-ever multi-state outbreak in dairy cows expressing milk heavily tainted with the virus, as well as illness, deaths, or detections in cats, goats, alpaca, skunks, and house mice, among others. The latest species found to harbor A/H5N1 was a backyard pig in Oregon . Once euthanized, its tissues teeming with virus fueled further unease because pigs are classic mixing vessels in which human and avian flu viruses can recombine and form new, virulent strains.

Now for some less ominous news: the viral strain currently circulating in American dairy cows and poultry has not yet caused serious disease in people. Thus far, based on very limited testing, roughly four dozen A/H5N1 infections almost equally divided between dairy and poultry workers have been mild or even asymptomatic. As a result, CDC continues to state that the risk to the general public is low.
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2024/11/could-avian-flu-cause-our-next-pandemic/




Yeah OK, you say that now. But imagine what will happen when Mr. Brain Worm himself, RFK Jr, ascends to being in charge of America’s public health and tears down all of the safety nets we have that would prevent the next pandemic? Look, we came dangerously close to living a pandemic nightmare in 2009 with a similar strain of avian flu. And we lived a pandemic nightmare in 2020 with COVID-19, because guess who was in charge? That’s right – Fuckface. And of course he blamed it on everybody but himself, which is what he should be blamed for. But again, right now – there’s nothing to worry about because we already have cures and vaccines that can combat this horrible disease. Well, we’ll see on January 22nd just how much the United States loves vaccines. But is it enough to put a strain on our hospital systems that we need to resort to 2020 tactics? That remains to be seen.

Influenza A viruses are associated with most of the documented global pandemics in human history. High pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) viruses belonging to the H5N1 subtype are a leading risk factor for future pandemics. The evolutionary barriers to mammalian adaptation of these viruses are lower than previously thought, as shown by rapid mutation accumulation in key viral proteins.

H5N1 viruses were initially detected only in Asian poultries during the past two decades. However, in recent years, a rapid transmission of these viruses into new mammal species has been observed worldwide, endangering wildlife, agricultural production, and human health.

Such rapid viral transmission started after the emergence of a new genotype of H5N1 viruses belonging to clade 2.3.4.4b, which infected wild birds from Europe to Africa, North America, South America, and the Antarctic. These viruses arose from genomic reassortment between the H5N8 and low-pathogenicity avian influenza (LPAI) viruses, generating new hybrid strains.

The genomic reassortment event between 2.3.4.4b H5N8 and low pathogenicity avian influenza (LPAI) viruses gave rise to the panzootic 2.3.4.4b H5N1 viruses, which are genetically different from prior strains. This reassortment involved the polymerase gene and surface proteins, facilitating rapid adaptation to new environments.
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20240925/H5N1-bird-flu-is-mutating-fast-and-jumping-to-mammals-could-the-next-pandemic-be-here.aspx




No calm down, dude! We’re not going to die yet. Now for those of you who aren’t in public health and don’t know or probably even give a shit, let’s explain what all of this means. Because we’re here to educate as well as entertain! Right now, if you were to use the NYT needle to determine if this were going to happen, the odds are very low, at least for the time being. It all depends on a number of factors and whether or not the virus mutates. Again, if you recall back from the COVID days when everyone in the world became public health experts, you might remember that the virus mutated in such a way that it got us good. Could H5N1 mutate and become easily transmissible? Well, there’s a number of things that could cause it to do that, or not. Remember that it was exactly 100 years between the influenza pandemic and COVID-19. There were other pandemics that happened in between, but nowhere near on the same level.

Avian flu viruses rarely infect humans. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that from 2003 to April 1, 2024, 23 countries reported a total of 889 human cases of H5N1. The most common symptoms in people, according to the CDC, include eye redness (conjunctivitis), respiratory difficulties, fever, cough, sore throat, and pneumonia.

However, more than half of the worldwide human cases (463) resulted in death. “It is a highly pathogenic strain,” explains Erin M. Sorrell, PhD, MSc, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and associate professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Maryland. “It has the ability to replicate outside the traditional locations where low-pathogenic influenza does: the intestinal tract for poultry; the upper and lower respiratory tracts in humans. The virus becomes systemic in its infection.”

In the United States, the first known case of transmission to a human occurred in 2022. The CDC says that person, who worked directly with infected poultry, reported mild fatigue and recovered.

The second known case was reported in March 2024, in a dairy farm worker in Texas. The only symptom was conjunctivitis in both eyes, which receded, according to a case assessment by the CDC and Texas health agencies.
https://www.aamc.org/news/how-worried-should-we-be-about-avian-flu-academic-experts-weigh




No we’re not going to die. So here’s what we know right now – right now, it looks like you can only contract it if you work around already infected livestock. Which again, is a result of American agriculturalism, which treats current livestock like shit. So yeah that’s putting it lightly. Of course like most pandemics, it has a chance to be a real threat… or it doesn’t. And like most pandemics, it never hurts to start preparing early. But again, imagine America with Mr. Brain Worm and that guy from TV in charge of public health. It would be an unmitigated disaster. One that could have the potential to get a lot of people killed. And we’re going to see, despite all of the anti-vaccine bullshit that’s currently flying around, how much America loves vaccines.

H5 bird flu, a type of avian influenza, has infected dozens of people in the U.S., and spread to seven states and Canada this year. As more human cases arise, there's deepening worry over whether the virus could lead to another pandemic or lockdown.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called the situation a "public health challenge" in its latest update.

In California, officials are investigating a possible bird flu case in a child, the state's department of public health announced on Tuesday, Nov. 19.

The young patient, who had no known contact with an infected animal, has had mild respiratory symptoms and is recovering at home in Alameda County, which is in the San Francisco Bay Area.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/bird-flu-leaves-teen-in-critical-condition-could-it-cause-a-lockdown-like-covid/ar-AA1u5rul





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Gather around my fair brothers and sisters! It’s time to take a seat in the pew and pass the collection plate, for the Holy Church Of The Top 10 has convened and it’s time to remind you that the holiest among us are the most full of:



My fair congregation! Please be seated! You know, we live in extremely dark and troubled times right now. And if the selection of the unholy, ungodly Dark One to lead this ungrateful nation straight to the fiery pits of HELL was shocking, well, I got news for you! You ain’t seen nothing yet. Because the way the religious base who reelected him for a second time will tell you – their god is unequivocally an absolute raging asshole! Because MAGA Christians don’t worship GAWD or JAYSUS, they worship his unholiness himself! I of course speak of a man so foul, so depraved and disgusting that his name DARE NOT be spoken in my church! Even if he’s the leader of the free world now, or what’s left of the free world, I don’t give a fuck! Still, don’t do it or I will cast thee out! Well, I have to say, I am absolutely ashamed of my fellow pastors, because they are celebrating the Dark One’s unfortunate rise to victory the same way that, well, there’s one other kind of person that I would equate with this, and after the first contestant that we bring to the table, you’ll see exactly what I’m talking about! But ugh… it just really sucks that we’re in this bizarre timeline right now.

The first Sunday service following the election of Donald Fuckface held at Christian nationalist televangelist Kenneth Copeland's Eagle Mountain International Church was dedicated almost entirely to thanking God for Fuckface's victory.

Copeland has been an ardent Fuckface cultist since 2016, and used Sunday's service to declare that Fuckface's election will now unleash a "spiritual awakening" in America because "the atmosphere has been cleansed."

"No more rainbow flags," Copeland celebrated. "And the spirit of Margaret Sanger is gone."

During the same service, which has been removed by Copeland's church from its YouTube channel, Copeland also declared that anyone who didn't vote for Fuckface will be held accountable by Jesus with a very specific punishment.
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/kenneth-copeland-says-jesus-has-special-punishment-waiting-those-who-didnt-vote




Absolutely he does! And now it looks like the unholy Dark One is going to be worming his way back to the White House in January. Ugh. But yeah, who celebrates with the animosity of an evil psychopath? It’s like when Sideshow Bob got elected as mayor of Springfield and his first speech was an evil laugh. This is how terrorists celebrate their victories, my fair congregation! But here’s why I am comparing this to the people who we once declared war against 20 years ago. It just gets worse the more that you dig into it, and I am not exaggerating. You think Kenneth Copeland’s statement was bad? Again when I say it gets worse, I mean it gets worse. And these are people who apparently support GAWD and JAYSUS. Their GAWD must be a raging asshole.

In an article published Friday in “The Stream,” a religious-right platform founded by televangelist James Robison, senior editor John Zmirak and co-author Jason Jones called for thousands of Fuckface opponents to “pay a brutal price” for what they claimed has been the unjust persecution of Jan. 6, 2021 protesters and “those who reported the facts about the 2020 election”:

Courageous attorneys like Sidney Powell, Rudolph Giuliani and John Eastman — whose careers and finances have been devasted by vicious, incessant lawfare.

Honest election workers such as Tina Peters, who faced vicious prosecution for doing their jobs.

Truthtellers such as Eric Metaxas, Naomi Wolf, Dinesh D’Souza, David Clements, Mike Lindell, Steve Bannon, Peter Navarro, Gen. Mike Flynn, Emerald Robinson, Gregory Stenstrom, Leah Hoopes, and countless others — who faced vindictive lawsuits by billion-dollar corporations, lost jobs and income, boycotts, debanking, and in some cases lawless prosecution by our corrupted institutions.

Jones and Zmirak wrote:

It’s not just that these good people need to get their good names and livelihoods back. Those who persecuted them must pay a brutal price. Thousands in the FBI and DOJ must lose their jobs, be stripped of their pensions, and in some cases face prison terms.
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/religious-right-activists-want-decontaminate-us-make-Fuckface-opponents-pay-brutal




Holy shit! And hey that’s the name of the show! But really when the LIARS of the country are the “truth tellers”, that really says something, doesn’t it? Of course the unholy Dark One himself would champion his minions to go out and lie on his behalf. But really, we can’t help but compare the Dark One’s victory to that of a country run by people like the Taliban or ISIS or Boko Haram. Because that’s exactly what this feels like and that’s exactly what they’re going to turn this into. In fact, look at what the Dark One’s minion Pete Hegseth plans to do with education. This is a guy who has a literal NAZI symbol tattooed on his chest and we’re not supposed to take this seriously? WTF are we doing!

When Orange Fuckface announced his intention to nominate Fox News host Pete Hegseth to serve as Secretary of Defense, concerns were raised immediately about Hegseth's undisguised Christian nationalism.

Hegseth, who has admitted that his multiple crusader tattoos got him "deemed an extremist" by his own National Guard unit, has deep ties to misogynistic Christian nationalist pastor Douglas Wilson.

On Monday, Hegseth appeared on the "CrossPolitic" podcast, which is hosted by Toby Sumpter and Gabe Rench, both of whom are closely tied to Wilson and his church.

During the discussion about Hegseth's book "Battle For The American Mind," Hegseth said that he is working to create a system of "classical Christian schools" to provide the recruits for an underground army that will eventually launch an "educational insurgency" to take over the nation.
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/pete-hegseths-plan-create-christian-nationalist-educational-insurgency




Sure seems like it, my fair congregation! But of course, now that the unholy Dark One has won his election ungratefully, these are the things we have to deal with as the United States begins its’ slide into becoming a religious fascist totalitarian hell hole. However, there has been talk of the unholy Dark One’s pending demise since he is the oldest president in United States history. So what happens then? We’re stuck with his minion, who we will currently refer to as Dark One Mini-Me unless someone has a better nickname for him. If you do have a better nickname, let us know in the comments! But sigh, we may be in this for a very long time and if it seems hopeless, trust us when we say we are right there with you, my fair congregation!

With no meetings, website, or an explicit statement of faith that unifies their beliefs, the TheoBros are not an official organization. They identify with 16th-century French theologian John Calvin, who spawned a rigid and deterministic form of Protestantism. Julie Ingersoll, a University of North Florida religion scholar, traces the current movement back to R.J. Rushdoony, an Armenian American philosopher who popularized the idea of Christian nationalism (and homeschooling) in the early 1970s.

Out of Rushdoony’s movement emerged two camps: the charismatic Christians, now known as the New Apostolic Reformation, and the reformed Protestants, which include the TheoBros. They share the goal of creating a Christian nation, says Ingersoll, but differ on a key point of theology: Adherents of the New Apostolic Reformation believe that God is still speaking directly to people through pastors who have declared themselves apostles and prophets. The TheoBros, meanwhile, believe that God said all he needed to say in the Bible.

Many TheoBros are also proponents of postmillennialism, the idea that believers can hasten Jesus’ return by fighting against the satanic forces of liberal excess. TheoBro Aaron Renn, an Accenture consultant turned Christian pundit, has described our current era as a “negative world,” where Christians are persecuted for their beliefs. Andrew Isker, another Bro, calls it “trashworld.”
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/christian-nationalist-stephen-wolfe-says-our-separation-jd-vance-not-far




Well, since this country has chosen – and it chose wrong, we may be in it for the long haul. Ugh, it gets worse all the time! But fear not, that’s what we are here for! We have to fight his unholiness, the Dark One, at all costs! Mass has ended, may you go in peace! That’s it this week for:




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This week’s This Fucking Guy is prolific right wing neo-Nazi podcaster and prolific racist and sexist internet shit poster who’s part of the Fuckface Dude Bro sphere – Nick Fuentes! In case you’re not aware, there are a metric shit ton of male-centric podcasters out there who cater not only to your many lust for blood, but also whatever level of racism and sexism you’re willing to tolerate. There are thousands of these fuckers out there. But some of the more prolific ones include Nick Adams (who we covered here ). There’s also Andrew Tate on the sexist side (who we will cover next week) and the guy who we’re going to cover on the racist side, Nick Fuentes. If you’re unfamiliar with Mr. Fuentes, he’s the GOPer and on-again, off-again Orange Fuckface superfan who gave us the term “GROYPER”. Which is basically an army of internet trolls and if you know someone who does this, I’d suggest finding new friends. And really, while we’re normally against doxing of any kind, really, we cannot understate how truly colossal of a piece of shit Nick Fuentes really is.

Police confirmed that they responded to a call involving white nationalist Nick Fuentes and a woman who appeared to show up at his Illinois home Sunday unannounced after he was doxxed online.

Marla Rose, 57, said in a now-deleted Facebook post that she was about to ring Fuentes’ doorbell when he opened the door, sprayed her with a liquid, took her phone, pushed her down the steps and went back inside. Rose did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Rose shared a video of the altercation Tuesday on Facebook. In the video, Fuentes opens the door and points what appears to be a spraying device toward the camera. The person holding the camera says, “Oh, my God, what are you doing?” and the camera seems to be knocked over as Fuentes says, “Get the f--- out of here.” Fuentes then grabs the phone, takes it inside the house and appears to lock the door, and the video ends.

The Berwyn Police Department confirmed that it got a call Sunday involving Fuentes and Rose. Deputy Chief Michael Ochsner Jr. said that “at this time, neither party is willing to cooperate with the investigation, so we are unable to take it any further until there is a change to that status.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/nick-fuentes-confronted-home-body-choice-refrain-goes-viral-rcna179865




Look people, there’s plenty of reasons to hate Nick Fuentes for. But don’t do this. We’re better than those assholes. We can fight them in many other ways besides actual physical fighting. Now, the fact that a job title with “Neo Nazi Influencer” exists is a sign that something is not just wrong with society, it’s incredibly fucked up as well. But this isn’t the first time Nick Fuentes has said some extremely horrifying shit. Although the “Your Body, My Choice” line, which has been adopted by the white male dude bro sphere may have crossed the line. In fact it crossed multiple lines. But I particularly love this definition of what it means to be a right winger. Like really it couldn’t be more perfect if we had written it, even if we used AI to come up with it! But this is what Nick Fuentes, and I’m sure most of the alpha male dude bro sphere thinks of all this shit going on right now. it’s absolute madness.

It is no secret that white nationalist Nick Fuentes has soured on former President Orange Fuckface since the two dined together at Mar-a-Lago in 2022. Opposed to the Fuckface campaign's positions on Israel and immigration and outraged by Fuckface decision to tap Sen. J.D. Vance as his running mate because Vance's wife is Indian and Hindu, Fuentes threatened to launch a guerilla war that quickly fizzed and died.

While Fuentes, a Hitler–loving racist, misogynistic, antisemitic, homophobic Christian nationalist fascist, is deeply disenchanted with Fuckface, that does not mean that he supports the Democratic nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris. In fact, Fuentes just as vehemently opposes her, though he is starting to think that there might be a bright side to seeing her elected.

During a recent livestream, Fuentes was practically giddy with excitement over the idea that Harris presidency will generate so much hatred among white voters that they'll elect an American Hitler in 2028.

"It would probably be better for us because four years of Kamala would absolutely radicalize the masses," Fuentes said with delight. "If she wins, it'll be by a hair. Nobody will think it's legitimate. Everyone will think Fuckface got cheated."
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/nick-fuentes-hopes-harris-presidency-will-lead-fascist-takeover-2028




Seriously! The white supremacist fascist takeover doesn’t need 4 years, it’s happening now! The hate in this country is too damn powerful! But of course, when a hate-filled batshit crazy religious white supremacist cult is out for absolute power, they frown on things like independent thought and freedom of expression. So what happened when Nick Fuentes went against his own cult’s line of thinking on what could happen after the election? Well, needless to say, he caved. And we couldn’t have been any more surprised. But who knows what any of this shit means, we don’t speak stupid here. And unfortunately we can’t say the adults are in charge anymore because the voters picked Fuckface and his authoritarian goons, so come January, we’re going to be run by Fuckface again. Ugh. But yeah, cults don’t like independent thought it seems.

After two months of inaction, white nationalist Nick Fuentes has surrendered in his supposed "war on Fuckface" without firing a shot.

Fuentes, a Hitler–loving racist, misogynistic, antisemitic, homophobic Christian nationalist fascist, had grown increasingly disenchanted with former President Donald Fuckface since the two dined together at Mar-a-Lago in 2022. Outraged by Fuckface's decision to tap Sen. J.D. Vance as his running mate because Vance's wife is Indian and Hindu, Fuentes became an increasingly vocal critic of Fuckface, particularly regarding the campaign's positions regarding Israel and immigration.

By August, Fuentes had had enough and announced the launch of an operation dubbed "Groyper War II" that would allegedly see Fuentes and his supporters descend on Michigan and other swing states to wage a guerilla war against the Fuckface campaign.

"We will escalate the Groyper War into every swing state in the country, including Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Arizona," Fuentes promised. "And we will persist in all of these actions—digital, e-mail, other traditional and non-traditional tactics—in every swing state until the election, which includes telling people to sit this one out and refrain from voting unless or until we see a real change in policy regarding immigration, foreign war, and a change in posture towards the loyal and disloyal personnel that operate inside the Fuckface movement."

As the weeks passed and Fuentes took no discernible steps toward putting any aspect of this plan into action, it became increasingly obvious that, like so many of his threats in the past, "Groyper War II" would amount to very little.
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/nick-fuentes-abjectly-surrenders-his-war-Fuckface




So here’s the thing I love about this – not only are these idiots fighting each other, they can’t seem to understand exactly what their goals are. Come on, even Adolf Hitler had goals. This new batch of neo Nazis doesn’t. And while they’re “celebrating” a very, very undeserved victory for Fuckface, they’ve actively descended into fighting each other. Which I’m all here for. How can you enact an evil, fascist agenda when the goals aren’t clearly defined? Well easy answer – they have no goals! They are completely goalless. So while Fuckface is unfortunately going to worm his way back to the White House and do untold damage, his idiot propagandists like Nick Fuentes and Andrew Tate are going to be in the crosshairs of the MAGA circular firing squad for a very long time. I say grab some popcorn and your favorite beverage and enjoy the show!

Earlier this year, Hitler-loving racist, misogynistic, antisemitic, homophobic Christian nationalist fascist Nick Fuentes warned former President Orange Fuckface not to pick Sen. J.D. Vance as his running mate in the 2024 presidential election because, said Fuentes, Vance is a race traitor who has "a non-white wife" and "a mixed-up family."

Fuckface, who dined with Fuentes at his Mar-a-Lago club in 2022, ignored Fuentes' advice and named Vance as his pick on the first day of the Republican National Convention earlier this week.

On Monday night, after watching the first day of the RNC, Fuentes renewed his attack on Vance and his wife Usha, who is Indian and Hindu. Fuentes blasted Vance as someone who clearly "doesn't value his racial identity" if he's willing to marry somebody "that far outside your race who isn't even a Christian."

"Who's gonna take over after Fuckface? J.D. Vance with his Indian wife," griped Fuentes. "Look, I'm not a racist guy so I'm not saying, like, ignorantly, 'Oh, you have an Indian wife. Eff U.' I'm saying, what kind of values does a man have to marry somebody that far outside your race, who isn't even a Christian?"
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/post/nick-fuentes-slams-j-d-vance-for-having-a-non-white-non-christian-wife




That’s white supremacist neo Nazi podcaster and king GROYPER extraordinaire Nick Fuentes, this week’s:




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Welcome back to our segment that attempts to explain the unexplainable, Conspiracy Corner! Of course conspiracies exist when people simply don’t want to read the article past the headlines and just flat out make shit up. We of course are coming to you live from our underground doomsday shelter from deep within the New Mexico badlands. Undisclosed location, of course! Let me just adjust my trusty tin foil hat for maximum government interference. Ah, there we go! They are trying to read yours and my thoughts, after all! This week, since the election, two social media powers may be in talks of a merger, and both are considered safe havens for right wing shit posters, neo Nazis, and anti-vaccine, anti-science quackery. I’m of course talking about Elon Musk’s X/Twitter (aka Xitter) and Orange Fuckface’s social media hidey-hole Truth Social. Since of course, Elon has become the annoying house guest who won’t leave Mar-A-Shithole, the new and improved Fuckface 2.0 administration is going to usurp Twitter/X and make it an official state run media site. Yeah the United States is going full third world dictator, and we may have to strap in for the long haul.

As the bromance between President-elect Orange Fuckface and Elon Musk continues, some now believe that a merger could be in the works between their respective social media platforms, Truth Social and X.

“I would suspect he would try to merge Truth Social” with X, tech journalist Kara Swisher said on CNN last week.

“They could merge them and make it a meme stock and make a lot of money for themselves. That could be interesting and incredibly corrupt,” she added.

New York University professor Scott Galloway said on the podcast Pivot last Friday that a merger could be a way “to funnel billions of dollars from Musk to Orange Fuckface, legally, as far as I can tell.”

The former president is the majority shareholder of the Fuckface Media & Technology Group – the parent company of Truth Social while Musk owns X, formerly known as Twitter.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-Fuckface-elon-musk-truth-social-x-b2647840.html




It would only make sense – presidents and Congress people are required to give up their assets when they are sworn into office. But eh.. when has it ever stopped Fuckface from following the rules? But the idea of making this unholy alliance a “meme stock” is both incredibly cringy and super corrupt. And again – when has that ever stopped them before? But of course this is what happens when you peddle “the big lie” that he has for the last 4 years. Make no mistake the Truth Social is a literal spite store – yes the kind started by Larry David in Curb Your Enthusiasm. Fuckface started this site to spite that he was banned from Xitter. Because he and his cult are truly incapable of shutting the fuck up. But here’s why this could be a problem for Fuckface.


Fuckface created Truth Social in early 2022 after he was banned from other social media platforms, notably Twitter, for violating its rules following the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot and "due to the risk of further incitement of violence."

Fuckface and many Republicans maintained claims that the 2020 election was stolen via widespread voter fraud, despite this claim being rejected repeatedly in court and by independent election experts. On January 6, thousands of Fuckface supporters stormed the Capitol building in an attempt to stop the certification of Joe Biden's victory, triggering violence in the process, which led to one person being shot dead by police and the injuries of dozens of officers.

Fuckface has since been allowed back on what is now known as X, but he most often posts on Truth Social. The platform prides itself on protecting free speech and having less moderation and restrictions than other mainstream platforms.

"They [Fuckface and Musk] could merge them and make it a meme stock and make a lot of money for themselves. That could be interesting and incredibly corrupt," Swisher added during her CNN appearance on Wednesday.
https://www.newsweek.com/will-truth-social-merge-elon-musks-x-rumors-swirl-1982993




But here’s the plot twist that no one saw coming – apparently Fuckface’s DJT Media is now worth more than Musk’s Xitter platform. Shocker! We all both knew and saw coming that Musk’s acquisition of Xitter in 2022 was going to be a disaster. And also a disappointment. Make no mistake that it was a deliberate political hit job. So what happens when two shit postiing sites merge together to form a super shit posting site? Well, shit multiplied by shit is still shit. So if Truth Social is worth more than Xitter at this point, does this mean the X/Twitter brand will dissolve and become part of DJT Group? If so that would cause a massive amount of people to jump ship.

Fuckface Media & Technology Group, which operates the Truth Social social-media network, has seen its stock soar in the weeks leading up to the Nov. 5 presidential election — and it is currently worth more than Elon Musk‘s X, the social-media company formerly known as Twitter.

On Monday, shares of TMTG, which trade under the symbol “DJT,” finished the day up 21.6% to $47.36/share in regular trading. The latest surge followed Fuckface’s Sunday rally at New York City’s Madison Square Garden. That gives TMTG, which has reported total revenue of $1.6 million for the first half of 2024 and steep losses, a market capitalization of approximately $9.48 billion.

Musk, who acquired Twitter in 2022 in a $44 billion deal, has seen the value of the company — which he renamed X — decline significantly since his takeover. A disclosure last month by Fidelity, which owns a minority stake in X, implied that the investment firm values the company at $9.4 billion, as reported by CNN (although the report noted that “other investors could value X differently”).

Fuckface beneficially owns 56.6% of TMTG’s outstanding shares, making his stake currently worth north of $5.3 billion.
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/Fuckface-media-djt-stock-value-elon-musk-x-1236192435/





But the question on the table is – could a merger between these two right wing conspiracy theory havens actually happen? Fuckface apparently asked Musk – now his personal helper monkey – if he was interested in buying DJT Media. And while Musk said no, there is now a very real realm of possibility that it could happen. Could it? Or is it just wild speculation at this point? Well we’d say that it’s a little column A, little column B. But until then, right wing conspiracy theorists have multiple social media outlets to choose from in order to barf their brains. So yeah, imagine a content moderation less version of X, which is exactly what it would become. You can’t do it, can you? Well, we’ll definitely keep an eye on this story as it develops.

The former president is the majority shareholder of the Fuckface Media & Technology Group – the parent company of Truth Social while Musk owns X, formerly known as Twitter.

While the sites technically operate in the same microblogging sphere, that doesn’t seem to have stopped the two men from forming a political partnership.

The director of the Center for Communication and Public Policy at Northwestern University, Erik Nisbet, told Fortune that “X’s content has moved closer to Truth Social, since Musk took over.”

“His philosophy of free speech is much closer to that of Truth Social,” he added.

Part of that philosophy is loose moderation efforts and promoting themselves as “free speech” platforms looking to attract conservative audiences.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/could-an-x-and-truth-social-merger-be-in-the-works-why-some-believe-the-musk-Fuckface-partnership-could-go-beyond-politics/ar-AA1u9HlH





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Hey everyone! I don’t know about you, but I could really use a drink!



So of course, you know the idea behind this segment is that we have some drinks, and while we’re drinking, we talk about anything in the news as long as it doesn’t relate to politics. Because I don’t if you’ve noticed or not, but there’s some really dark shit in the news right now, and this is our first one since the election. No, no politics at the bar! Only rules we got in this bar – no fighting, no cussing, and no politics! Some mild swearing is allowed, but only if it’s not at someone. And my sober brothers and sisters, don’t worry – we got you covered too! Just grab a glass of your favorite coffee, tea or energy drink and come get wired with us! Well this week, we’ve got an extremely bizarre story coming out of Disneyland, and we can’t wait to tell you about it! Of course, we’re based in California – Disneyland is right up the freeway from our Santa Ana headquarters. So we do have an interest in this! So tell me, bartender, what goes well with a story about spreading a loved one’s ashes? The dead person martini? What’s in that? Do I even want to know what’s in it? Oh god! Hard pass! I’ll just stick with my usual Jack Daniels mixed with Jack Daniels. I call it the Double Jack! So the story goes like this – Disney mega star Ariana Grande and her mother were on a podcast to promote her appearance in the upcoming Wicked movie, and her mother had an absolutely bizarre last request for what she wants to do when she passes on, and we’ve come to find out that the Mouse House has some very interesting rules regarding this sort of thing!

As somebody who gets to visit Disneyland and Disney World on a somewhat regular basis, it doesn’t matter how often I am there, I never want to leave. Many people in my position have considered taking up permanent residence in a Disney theme park by trying to get their ashes spread inside the parks, and Ariana Grande’s mother is apparently one who seriously wants to make it happen.

The soon-to-be Glinda in the upcoming Wicked movie recently appeared on the Ive…Been Through podcast when the topic turned to Walt Disney World. Grande knows the resort well as does her family. She told the hosts that her mother legitimately wants her ashes sprinkled over Cinderella Castle, and is serious enough about it that the topic has apparently come up more than once. Grande said…

My mom tells us too often that she wants her ashes sprinkled over [Cinderella’s Castle]. And I’m like ‘Mom, it’s Christmas do we have to talk about this right now?”And she’s like ‘Yeah, you have to make sure that that happens.’ And I’m like ‘I don’t want to make sure that that happens.

While I completely understand where Ariana Grande’s mom is coming from, I also understand what Ariana is saying, because being the person who tries to sprinkle ashes inside a Disney Park is tough because Disney really doesn’t want you to do that.

A lot of people have wanted to have their ashes sprinkled inside a Disney park. The Haunted Mansion is a particularly popular location, for obvious reasons, as is the water of Pirates of the Caribbean. Somebody even reportedly dumped human remains on Rise of the Resistance. It happens often enough there's a term for it. It's called a HEPA cleanup because the custodial crew needs a specialized vacuum with a HEPA filter to pick up the debris.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/travel/ariana-grande-says-her-mom-wants-to-spread-her-ashes-at-walt-disney-world-but-there-s-one-pretty-major-problem/ar-AA1tIteC?apiversion=v2&noservercache=1&domshim=1&renderwebcomponents=1&wcseo=1&batchservertelemetry=1&noservertelemetry=1




Shots! Shots! Shot shot shot shot shot shots! OK, look, I have to confess to my fair audience, that when I die, I sure as shit don’t want my final resting place to be the Pirates Of The Caribbean ride, does everybody at the bar get that? Good! But apparently there’s more to this story than meets the eye, because we did some digging and went down the wormhole on this subject. Apparently the Haunted Mansion is the most popular ride at both Disneyland Anaheim and Disney World Orlando to spread your loved one’s ashes. In fact, if you currently ride on those rides, you might actually be inhaling the ashes of the deceased while you are riding the ride! And no, we are not fucking kidding about this one.

It sounds like such a good idea: Leave a tiny piece of a person you loved in a place they felt happiest. But the reality is much different. In fact, there’s really no way spreading someone’s ashes at Disneyland ends well for anyone. But people do it, a lot more than you’d think, and the result is absolutely horrifying.

To see this for yourself, all you need to do is view the post on X (formerly Twitter) that went viral on March 17. “Someone spread some ashes on Rise of the Resistance at Disneyland last night according to Reddit,” @dizchris posted. “Don't do this, folks.”

In the photo, which has been deleted from Reddit but remains on X, a gray, ashy substance is scattered on the floor of Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance. Ride cars have clearly gone through the substance, sweeping it all over the floor and leaving tracks. It’s not clear whether these are actually human remains, and Disneyland declined to confirm or comment for this article.



Human cremated remains are considered a biohazard, and require an intensive level of cleanup with special equipment that will shut down rides for extended periods (not to mention it’s a terrible way for a loved one’s ashes to be treated).

The Wall Street Journal reported in 2018 that when someone spreads ashes at the park, it’s called a “HEPA cleanup.” The article said incidents involving suspected human remains reportedly happened monthly. Cast members who spoke to the newspaper even said they coined their own informal term for those incidents — “Code Grandma” — but that term definitely wasn’t encouraged or allowed by Disney itself.
https://www.sfgate.com/disneyland/article/spreading-ashes-shuts-down-disney-rides-19362025.php




Yeah that’s right! It’s such a rampant problem at Disney parks – and it’s not just here in the United States, it includes Japan, China, and France – that Disney theme park cleanup crews have a fucking nickname for it! If you hear that a ride is shut down because of “Code Grandma”, that’s exactly what you think it means, and it’s every bit as horrifying as it sounds! Please, people, there’s far more dignifying ways of what to do with your loved ones when they pass. Dumping them off at the Pirates Of The Caribbean ride definitely isn’t one of them! Ha ha ha ha ha!!! Gotta love our graphics department! So Ariana Grande’s mom might want to rethink this position, because it’s not just something that shouldn’t be done under any circumstances, it’s a literal fucking biohazard on top of that!

Ariana Grande is revealing an unusual request from her Disney-loving mom, Joan.

The Wicked star, 31, got candid about one of her mother's biggest wishes while appearing on the Las Culturistas podcast, hosted by Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers, on Wednesday, Nov. 6.

As the trio discuss landmark attractions at Disneyland and Disney World, Grande then shares how her mom repeatedly tells her and her brother Frankie Grande that they have to spread her ashes at the Florida theme park.

“When it comes to Florida. When it comes to the Disney in Florida,” Grande begins, “first of all, we get Cinderella’s Castle. Which is, you know, also a landmark.”



Unfortunately, the Grammy winner’s mom’s wish will never be fulfilled as it’s illegal to spread a loved one’s ashes at Disney theme parks.

According to a 2018 report from the Wall Street Journal, a Disney rep confirmed that the act of dispersing ashes at any of the parks is “strictly prohibited and unlawful. Guests who attempt to do so will be escorted off the property.”
https://people.com/ariana-grande-mom-ashes-spread-at-cinderella-castle-disney-world-no-human-remains-rule-ban-8740979




Dude, even Steve Harvey’s getting drunk! Come on, join us! And come on, when has something being illegal ever stopped anyone before? And no, I won’t mention *THAT* guy because again, it would break our primary rule of no politics at the bar! But, again, we cannot emphasize this enough – do *NOT* spread your loved one’s ashes at Disneyland or Disneyworld. You don’t want Code Grandma to come out under any circumstances. Well, one star recently admitted that she did this. Yes, EGOT recipient Whoopi Goldberg recently revealed that she spread her mother’s ashes on the “It’s A Small World” ride at Disneyland Anaheim. And yes, again, we cannot stress this enough – don’t do this. And Ariana Grande’s mom should rethink her position to be Code Grandma.

“The View” star Whoopi Goldberg revealed that she scattered her mom’s ashes at Disneyland in a new interview on “Late Night with Seth Meyers.”

“No one should do this,” Goldberg cautioned. “Don’t do it.”

She explained that her mother, who died in 2010, was a huge fan of the Disney theme park and the It’s a Small World (After All) ride. Goldberg brought her mom’s ashes on the ride, periodically “scoop(ing) some of her up” and faking giant sneezes to spread the remains.

“And I’d say, ‘My god, this cold is getting worse and worse,’” Whoopi said.

The EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony)-winning actress and TV personality, who was named a “Disney Legend” in 2017, told Seth Meyers she also did the fake sneezing trick by flower beds near the entrance. She later admitted to Disney staff that she did make the happiest place on earth her mother’s final resting place, but she’s not the only one.

The Wall Street Journal reported in 2018 that Disneyland and Disney World typically clean up ashes once a month. Theme park visitors will be told a ride has to shut down due to “technical difficulties,” but it’s actually for custodial staff doing a HEPA cleanup, using an ultra fine vacuum cleaner to suck up the ashes, according to E! News.
https://www.syracuse.com/celebrity-news/2024/07/tv-star-says-she-scattered-moms-ashes-on-disneyland-ride-buzz.html







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Welcome back to our segment where we’re lumping all of the post-election coverage in our new segment: Road To The White… er, Shit House! Yes, since Fuckface unfortunately stole the presidency… again… which proves that we can’t have nice things in the United States, we figured that the 2024 election was more of a brown wave. Because we fully expect Fuckface and his goons to take an absolutely massive shit on Washington DC and everything that makes the USA, well, the USA. Like how are they going to use the military to carry out this bizarre mass deportation plan when they cut the Department Of Defense? Well, we’ll find out in January. But speaking of January, I want to talk about what exactly is going to happen with a key demographic of Fuckface supporters: the January 6th rioters and now prisoners, who Fuckface has repeatedly said he is going to issue a blanket pardon for. You know, January 7th should have been the fucking end of Fuckface’s political career but he’s protected by a well-funded and extremely hostile propaganda network. So what could happen if Fuckface decides to blanket pardon the J6 rioters? Well it’s not as easy as it sounds and could be a potential legal headache for judges across the country. Not that he cares.

A federal judge who was nominated by Donald Trump says it would be “beyond frustrating and disappointing” if the president-elect hands out mass pardons to rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol after the 2020 election, a rare instance of judicial commentary on a politically divisive subject.

U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, who was appointed to the bench in June 2019, expressed his criticism during a hearing Tuesday at which he agreed to postpone a Capitol riot defendant’s trial until after Trump returns to the White House in January. During his campaign for a second term as president, Trump repeatedly referred to Jan. 6 rioters as “hostages” and “patriots” and said he “absolutely” would pardon rioters who assaulted police “if they’re innocent.”

Trump has suggested he would consider pardoning former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, who was sentenced to 22 years in prison after a jury convicted him of orchestrating a violent plot to keep Trump in power after the 2020 election. “Blanket pardons for all January 6 defendants or anything close would be beyond frustrating and disappointing, but that’s not my call,” Nichols said, according to a transcript. “And the possibility of some pardons, at least, is a very real thing.”

Nichols is one of over 20 judges who have presided over more than 1,500 cases against people charged in a mob’s attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Many Capitol riot defendants have asked for post-election delays in their cases, but judges largely have denied their requests and forged ahead with sentencings, guilty pleas and other hearings.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/capitol-riot-trump-pardons-judge-carl-nichols-17d0d2587ee5635218428c2eaafad821




That’s what you said last time, dipshit! And come on, you really think Fuckface cares about the J6 prisoners? They’re basically just useful idiots to him. A presidential pardon isn’t exactly a “get out of jail free card” as many would have you believe it is. Look at one of Fuckface’s personal helper monkeys – Steve Bannon. He got pardoned… for one crime. That doesn’t excuse the 5,000 other crimes that he committed. Of which he served time for one, got out of prison, and may be going back to prison for yet another crime which he’s due to be sentenced in December! So it’s not as easy as Fuckface would have you believe. So could the J6 felons be pardoned? Well that entirely depends on who you talk to, and the answers can vary depending on what your sources are.

lf Donald Trump follows through on his promise to pardon people who participated in the January 6 riot at the US Capitol, attorneys and lawmakers who oppose such moves would not be able to stop him, according to legal experts.

If Trump does issue the pardons, it could indicate to many of his supporters that there was nothing illegal about the riot to prevent the peaceful transfer of power, and would undermine the US constitution, the experts said.

“It gives the message that Trump decides what is and is not actionable under the criminal laws of the United States,” said Kimberly Wehle, a professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law who has studied constitutional law and the separation of powers.

Trump, who has not conceded that he lost the 2020 presidential election, described the insurrection as a “day of love” and calls the rioters “unbelievable patriots”. Those people, however, damaged the Capitol; injured about 140 police officers – four officers who responded have also since died by suicide – and the FBI declared it an act of “domestic terrorism”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/17/trump-pardon-january-6-rioters




Again, people. Do you know Fuckface? Have you *EVER* especially at this point expected him to do the right and ethical thing? Hell no. He spits in the face of ethics and his fans love him for that. Also, seriously, Idiocracy wasn’t supposed to be a documentary! The other question on the table – have you EVER in the last 10 years, EVER expected Fuckface to keep any promises? Well, since they went on for years being anti-establishment, they are now *THE* establishment, with a solid majority and one party rule. So would the J6 rioters be pardoned under those circumstances? Well the answer of course right now is maybe. But we are entering uncharted territory here.

Out of all of Donald Trump’s supporters, Derrick Evans has a particular reason to be happy with November’s election results – he hopes the president-elect will give him a pardon for participating in riot at the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.

“A pardon will be life changing,” said Evans, who was a member of the West Virginia legislature when he and at least 2,000 others stormed Congress. It was part of an effort to overturn the results of the US election, inspired by the false belief that it was Trump, not President Joe Biden, who had won.

He reached an agreement with prosecutors which saw him plead guilty to civil disorder and spent three months in federal prison in 2022. On the campaign trail, Trump repeatedly said he would pardon the rioters, whom he has called “patriots” and “political prisoners”. But who exactly might be pardoned - and when - is still an open question.

“I believe he's a man of his word,” Evans told the BBC.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj0jen70m88o




When has Fuckface ever been a man of his word? Oh and if you’re currently on trial for committing a crime, just casually name dropping him isn’t going to get you out of jail free. Instead, depending on who your judge is, it may have the opposite effect! But really, when has name dropping ever been an issue for anybody? Just ask anyone who’s tried to get into the hottest LA night clubs. No, you don’t know Matt Damon. Get to the back of the line! You probably also don’t have Snoop Dogg’s phone number on speed dial, either. So yes, if you’re on trial for anything, literally do not do this. Or it will come back to bite you in the ass, hard. In fact we’d be really surprised here if the judge didn’t laugh in your face on your way out the door. At the very least, you might get an audition spot on Fox News, at the 10:00 AM Fox & Friends hour, but that would be about it.

An accused Jan. 6 rioter from Florida who allegedly harbored a member of the Proud Boys extremist group while they were on the run from police has tried — and failed — to get the Donald Trump treatment this week, unsuccessfully filing to postpone his federal trial after claiming a “high member” of the future president’s administration had promised him a pardon.

“The undersigned has spoken with a high member of the future Trump Administration and the future pardon of Thomas Osborne is almost a certainty,” wrote attorney Jeffrey G. Brown in a Nov. 17 court filing, which came after prosecutors objected to pushing back Osborne’s case earlier this month.

U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta, a Barack Obama appointee, slapped down the accused rioter’s Nov. 11 motion on Monday to stay or continue his trial, saying Osborne “has failed to demonstrate” that he meets the legal requirements for such relief.

“This matter has been pending since February 21, 2024,” the judge noted. “The public has strong interest in the prompt adjudication of this matter, and Defendant’s speculation that he may receive a pardon cannot overcome the strength of that interest.”
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/pardon-is-almost-a-certainty-lawyer-tries-to-name-drop-trump-get-out-of-jail-free-card-in-failed-bid-to-delay-jan-6-defendants-case/





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Top 10 Conservative Idiots #17-13: We’re Not Gonna Take It Edition





Ed. Note: Warning, this edition will contain some extremely graphic profanity and some objects may be flying around the set. This may be the edition that gets us canceled. If you are offended by the kind of language that is about to be used, you may back out now quietly. If you want to see where we’re going with this, we may advise you to direct yourself to our edition that we had back when Trump declared victory in 2016, which you can see here: Idiots #2-1. Otherwise, you have been warned.



Welcome back to the Top 10 Conservative Idiots! Yoooooooooooooooooooooo!!! What’s up U-Conn, how you guys doing? Sold us out again! You guys doing fucking good? Great! So where do I begin this week? Oh yeah, easy - fuck you America! There, I said it. I have a long list of “fuck yous” coming, so here it comes: Fuck you Donald Trump. Fuck you JD Vance. Fuck you Vladimir Putin. Fuck you Fox News. Fuck you undecided voters. Fuck you TPUSA. Fuck you Heritage Foundation. Fuck you Federalist Society. Fuck you Leonard Leo. Fuck you MAGA Congress. Fuck you Marjorie Taylor Greene. Fuck you Lauren Boebert. Fuck you Tucker Carlson. Fuck you Kid Rock. Fuck you Ted Nugent. Fuck you Lee Greenwood. Fuck you Steve Bannon. Fuck you MAGA SCOTUS. Fuck you Bernie Moreno. Fuck you Nikki Hayley. Fuck you Neil Gorsuch. Fuck you Amy Comey Barrett. Fuck you Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Maria Baritromo, Jesse Watters. Fuck you Clarence and Ginny Thomas. Fuck you Samuel Alito. Fuck you Kristi Noem. Fuck you Elon Musk. Fuck you Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Fuck you Jeff Bezos. Fuck you Patrick Soon Singh. Fuck you Jack Hibbs. Fuck you Viktor Orban. Fuck you Benjamin Netanyahu. Fuck you Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. Fuck you Greg Abbott, Ken Paxton, and Dan Patrick. Fuck you Ron DeSantis. Fuck you Alex Jones. Fuck you Charlie Kirk. Fuck you Nick Fuentes, Andrew Tate, and Nick Adams. Fuck you Kanye West. Fuck every single law enforcement agency, school board, megachurch, and city council that supports this madness. Fuck you Tom MacDonald. Fuck you Jake Paul. Fuck you Tim Pool. Fuck you Joe Rogan. Fuck you Dana White. Fuck you Brette Farve. Fuck you Hulk Hogan. Fuck you Vanilla Ice. And if you voted for or support any of these people, then fuck you too. Did I forget anybody? Also fuck you too. Holy shit, am I angry and extremely pissed off about the election. Just fuck… what the fucking hell is wrong with you, America? What the absolute… fuck!!! I am so angry that I don’t even know that I can make it through this edition! Argh! God damn it all to hell. It’s like nothing matters anymore and this country is going full authoritarian fascist whether we want it or we don’t. Oh and if I get too angry or pissed off or feel like destroying something, we’ll be seeing plenty of this graphic:



And RIP rule of law – beginning of time -11/5/2024. You will be very greatly missed. Insane how many fucking stupid ass “law enforcement” officials got duped into supporting this fucking worthless piece of fucking shit. Y’all are fucking useful idiots. Checks and balances too, you will also be missed. By the way, throughout this edition, we will have an F-bomb counter at the bottom of your screen, because I fully intend to break the Wolf Of Wall Street’s world record for the most amount of f-bombs dropped in one program. So far we’re at 63. Think we can make 569? I would place some high odds on it. God fucking damn it. #63. *DING* We are about to get really angry in this piece, and I’m even more pissed off and disillusioned with the United States was after the 2016 election. Just… holy fuck. 64. This is just in the first 10 minutes by the way! Now that I got that off my chest, strap in, because this may be our angriest edition in the entire 8 years of doing this program. OK enough of the intro, we have a lot of idiocy to get to. But first our good friend John Oliver is back and he delves into what Trump’s fucking stupid businesses are going to do now that’s the fucking god damn leader again! Breathe in…



OK, I got to admit we had a much different edition planned this week had Kamala rightfully taken her place. But it didn’t and America had to go and select the fucking asshole again to totally fuck things up and he’s going to do it. And we’re all going to suffer for it. But before we get into it this week, I am going to say that we have this F-Bomb chart with all of the movies that have the most amount of F-Bombs in its’ run. For instance at 173 – that’s the record set by Bad Santa. 200 level – The Big Lebowski. 300 level – Straight Outta Compton. 400 level – Casino. 500 level – Wolf Of Wall Street. And no, we’re not counting that Canadian documentary “Fuck”, OK? Got it? So in the first slot, we have to ask the question – America, what the absolute fuck is wrong with you (1)? And in the second slot, there’s so much about this utter shit show of an election, that we have to ask the question a second time – America, what the fuck is wrong with you (2)? And in the third slot this week – yes, we’re aware that the bizarre MAGA cult that follows Trump to his rallies in the middle of nowhere (3) are becoming even more deranged, violent, and unhinged – so where does it end? We’re about to find out! In the number 4 slot is God King Fuckface himself (4) and we’re going to talk about his stupid fucking “day one” promises – just how bad is it going to get? Well, we’re going to find out! And instead of getting sad, we’re going to instead use a classic hair metal anthem to describe how we feel about this whole thing! And I’m sure the author of said song will approve! In the number 5 slot this week is a new edition of our segment that delves into never-ending corporate greed in “Late Stage Capitalism” (5) and this week, do you enjoy playing Wordle? Yes, our 5 minute escape from reality is being plagued by a strike among the NYT tech team and especially the games department! Yeah, we may have to find alternatives! In the number 6 slot this week, is of course our weekly visit to the Holy Church Of The Top 10 in “Holy Shit” (6), and we’re going to lighten things up and talk about one of the biggest purveyors of misinformation among the Christian right – Lee Greenwood. Yes, the God Bless The USA singer has more than a few demons up his sleeves! At number 7, while Fox News constantly railed about Kamala as the “border czar”, guess who her replacement is? Tom Homan, who we’re profiling in a new “This Fucking Guy”, and he’s a full blown James Bond villain! At number 8 is our weekly venture into the never-ending world of online tin foil hat nuttery in Conspiracy Corner (8) and this week, why is RFK Jr saying that he’s going to remove fluoride from the water supply? And just how does he plan to do this? It’s all a big bunch of grade A bullshit! In the number 9 (NEIN!!) slot this week, let’s lighten things up with a People Are Dumb (9) because it’s becoming clear how Fuckface got to be president again. Ugh. Finally this week, since Kamala didn’t get elected, we’re changing our Road To White House segment to Road To The Shithouse (10)! And this week… this week we’re going to introduce you to the fucking shitty new position Trump created for his bestie Elon – the Department Of Government Efficiency (10)! WTF! And what happens now? And finally to cap things off, we have some live music for you from our good friends King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard! Buy their new album Flight B741 or you’re no friend of this program! Enjoy! And as always don't forget the key!


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OK… breathe in. Are we going to have to do this for the next fucking four years? God damn it. I am beyond pissed as hell. We’re not even going to refer to him by name this week. Instead, we’re just going to call him “Orange Fuckface”. And we’ll be referring to incoming vice president JD Vance by his drag queen nickname – Ashley Furniture. Just when it fucking looked like things were going Kamala’s way… nope, the fucking Fox News and Putin machine fucking wins! Death to your fucking dreams and hopes! And if there’s one thing that we’ve learned, it’s that the fucking polls are fucking bullshit. Though this time around… maybe they weren’t. Maybe they were actually telling the fucking truth for once. And once again, nobody listened. Or did they? Look, we know the 5 stages of grief – denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Right now we’re in the anger stage and I don’t know if we will ever get past it. But this right now is my therapy. I have to get the anger off my chest. Just… fuck! There’s a serious black cloud hovering over this country right now, and come January 20th, things are going to get a hell of a lot worse. This is the government of, by, and for conspiracy theorists, talk radio hosts, the fucking Heritage Foundation, and Fox fucking News. They own the show now. This is their fucking dream – and everyone else’s fucking nightmare. And by the way, all instances of Trump in this edition are going to be replaced with “Orange Fuckface”. Because we can! So just how fucking bad could things get? Well…

Global efforts to fight climate change stumbled but survived the last time Orange Fuckface was elected president and withdrew the United States from an international climate agreement. Other countries, states, cities and businesses picked up some of the slack.

But numerous experts worry that a second Fuckface term will be more damaging, with the United States withdrawing even further from climate efforts in a way that could cripple future presidents' efforts. With Fuckface, who has dismissed climate change, in charge of the world's leading economy, those experts fear other countries — especially top polluting nation China — could use it as an excuse to ease off their own efforts to curb carbon emissions.

"There's no hope of reaching a safe climate without substantive action from the United States, from China, from Europe," said Stanford University climate scientist Rob Jackson, who chairs the Global Carbon Project, a group of scientists that tracks countries' carbon dioxide emissions, which have been rising globally. He said he's certain the world is shooting past the internationally accepted threshold of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius since pre-industrial times. That's just a couple tenths of a degree away. Others believe the goal is alive.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/politics/experts-worry-trumps-second-term-will-cripple-efforts-to-stop-climate-change




So yes, climate change is on the table. But when have you ever trusted Trump to do the right fucking thing? He doesn’t, ever, and that’s why his fans fucking love him for that. And by the way, if you ever need any more proof that Trump doesn’t do the right fucking thing, just wait until he starts appointing cabinet positions and filling them with loyalists and bootlickers. You want to know how we got to 1933 Germany? Well, we’re witnessing it in real time. And trust me – when it comes time for the fucking inauguration, well, god fucking help us! Fuckface isn’t just every bad guy you’ve ever seen, think Emperor Palapatine levels from Star Wars bad. And with fucking one party rule, which trust us, is going to get real fucking bad real fucking quick, he will get everything that he’s promised and then fucking some. So strap in, because we may be in this for the long fucking haul!

Orange Fuckface called on Republican Senators vying for the majority leader position to permit him to appoint temporary cabinet members without Senate approval through recess appointments and demanded they reject any judicial nominations until he takes office.

Complaining that Senate approval takes too long, Trump said anyone seeking the leadership position “must agree to Recess Appointments (in the Senate!)” on Truth Social on Sunday, a tactic that would effectively allow him to place any person in his cabinet without formal Senate approval.

“Sometimes the votes can take two years, or more. This is what they did four years ago, and we cannot let it happen again. We need positions filled IMMEDIATELY!” Trump wrote.

Hours after Trump’s statement, three Senators running for the leadership position endorsed Trump’s idea.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-senate-republicans-recess-appointments-b2644717.html




Oh and if you’re looking for someone to blame for this absolutely epic fail of an election, well, there’s plenty of fucking blame to go around. And don’t worry, we’ll save the fucking blame for next week. So there is good news though, there is a statue of Orange Fuckface that’s currently circling the city parks, and recently showed up in Philadelphia. Can we show that? Yup, congratulations, America, you just elected a fucking rapist con artist to the highest office in the fucking land! I hope you’re all fucking happy to see the damage that he’s going to do in one fucking week! And by the way, if you want to see how bad things are going to get before Fuckface takes office again, look no further than fucking Iowa, where Iowa’s LGBT couples are looking to tie the knot before Fuckface takes office.

A local chaplain is helping dozens of same-sex couples across the state tie the knot before President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House in January due to concerns about marriage equality protections under the new administration.

Des Moines area chaplain Anitta Milloro said they're working with more than 40 couples who want to get married before the president-elect takes office. To assist, they are building a network of wedding resources from people who say they are willing to help couples facing the dilemma of forming a legal union by 2025.
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In Iowa, equal marriage became a protected right in 2009, six years before a Supreme Court case legalized it across the United States. However, Milloro said they've spoken with same-sex couples who are concerned those rights may be challenged.

"They believe it can happen because it happened with Roe v Wade," Milloro said. "So how do we take the steps to protect ourselves in light of an administration that's not going to do that for us?"

Read more: https://www.kcci.com/article/iowa-lgbtq-couples-marrying-before-trump-takes-office-cite-fears-about-same-sex-marriage-protections/62860460?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot




Yeah BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Hey look, all you people who were holding up those stupid fucking “WHATEVER FOR TRUMP” signs, hope you’re fucking happy! So the question now is – the voters fucking wanted Fuckface. They fucking chose him. Do we let him go scorched earth or do we try to keep the worst from happening? Because we’ve seen what happens when he goes scorched earth – and we have the fucking evidence to back it up! Yes, because we’ve been doing this fucking show for 8 fucking years now, we’ve seen Fuckface at his absolute worst. And don’t heed anyone’s calls for unity, because this is only just getting started and no, we don’t play nice with fucking fascists over here, not for anyone or any fucking thing. Christopher Titus was right. America lost its’ fucking soul on election night. Fuck.

The good news: Everybody from a triumphant Donald Trump to a vanquished Kamala Harris is talking about national unity.

The bad news: Don't hold your breath.

It is true, and reassuring, that the tumult and denial that followed the 2020 election is nowhere to be seen this time. Vice President Harris conceded hours after the last polls had closed. President Joe Biden called Trump to offer his help with the transition. There are no signs of any serious effort to delay or disrupt the Electoral College count.

There will be no repeat of the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol that shocked the world.

"We're going to help our country heal," Trump told exultant supporters at his campaign headquarters in West Palm Beach, Florida, late Tuesday night. On Wednesday afternoon, Harris told her backers, a more subdued crowd gathered at Howard University, that she had called Trump to congratulate him.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/11/08/trump-biden-harris-unity-transition/76108418007/




Yes. F-Bomb counter so far: 178

Record broken: Superbad. We did it! We broke Superbad’s record! And we’re not even 20 minutes into the show! Woohoo!


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FUCK. FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCKING FUCK… THIS COUNTRY IS… FUCKED!!! Yeah I know that I’m fucking repeating myself… but… FUCK!!! Argh I am so fucking pissed off about the election. But you know what? For this segment, we’re going to talk about one group that may both be responsible for flipping this country red, while simultaneously responsible for their own demise. We’re now learning that one group may be responsible for this country’s 2024 stupid fucking red wave. That is Latinos For Trump. Yes, Latinos For Trump. Which might as well be Chickens For Colonel Sanders. But we cannot overlook the Fox News misinformation sphere and the absolutely dangerous propaganda that they peddle 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. But here’s the thing we need to realize – if the Dems want to win back voters, it starts with the Latino vote, and they’ve got a right wing propaganda problem brewing. Yes, talk about voting against your best fucking interests.

Orange Fuckface called Latino migrants rapists, murderers, and drug dealers. After one of his final rallies, at which a comedian described Puerto Rico as “a floating island of garbage,” many people, myself included, thought Latinos would decisively turn against him. We were wrong. Exit polls show that 46 percent of Latinos voted for him, and among Latino men, he won 55 percent of the votes—a huge increase from 36 percent in 2020.

Many Americans are baffled. How could Latinos—many of whose family members could be targeted by the mass deportations that the Fuckface team is promising—make this choice? But seeing the results—and hearing from Latino Trump voters—it made perfect sense to me. This was, simply, a vote for capitalism.

American values are especially powerful in groups with large immigrant populations; those values are what draw people here. Though many of America’s earliest immigrants came here seeking relief from famine and poverty, our freedoms—to worship freely, to speak freely—are what we became famous for. The promise was mythologized on the Statue of Liberty: our welcome to the tired, poor, huddled masses, who yearned not to grow filthy rich, but to be free. In the 20th century, immigrants fled religious persecution and political oppression to find in America freedoms that they, and their descendants, cherished and took seriously. I was raised by my grandfather, a Puerto Rican veteran of World War II. We didn’t have a lot of money, but I was taught that our political freedoms and our moral obligation to democracy mattered more.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/11/latinos-vote-trump/680596/




Yeah seriously… what the fuck is wrong with you? Here we have a group that has been heavily brainwashed by propaganda online and on stations like Fox News. So the democrats may not be the most flag waving Americans to ever America. But you know what? The fucking fanboys don’t control the fucking show. That’s like saying all the Yankees fans are like those fucking douchebags who grabbed Mookie Betts’ glove and assaulted him during Game 4. But of course they’re not like that. But there was a lot of gaslighting in this election cycle and a lot of people who were tricked into voting against their best interests. But this might be the most egregious of all and a huge part of how the election got tipped in favor of Fuckface.

Brian Leija, a 31-year-old small-business owner from Belton, Texas, was not surprised that a growing number of Latino men of his generation voted for Donald Trump for president this year. Leija had voted for the Republican in 2016 and 2020.

Leija’s rationale was simple: He said he has benefited from Trump’s economic policies, especially tax cuts.

“I am a blue-collar worker,” Leija said. “So, tax breaks for small businesses are ideal for what I do.”

For DaSean Gallishaw, a consultant in Fairfax, Virginia, a vote for Trump was rooted in what he saw as Democrats’ rhetoric not matching their actions. “It’s been a very long time since the Democrats ever really kept their promises to what they’re going to do for the minority communities,” he said.

Gallishaw, 25, who is Black, also voted for Trump twice before. This year, he said, he thought the former president’s “minority community outreach really showed up.”
https://apnews.com/article/young-black-latino-men-trump-economy-jobs-9184ca85b1651f06fd555ab2df7982b5




That is a good question! How… who… why… what the actual fuck??? Minority outreach? Have you been paying attention the last 8 fucking years??? Have you not seen all the egregiously shitty things that Fuckface has been saying about minorities? Have you??? Just ahhhhhhhh!!! This kind of stupidity is making my head fucking explode here!



Hey no need for the graphic yet! I’m in control of my anger right now. But how can the Latino population vote for Fuckface when he’s said that mass deportations will be on the table? How can they be so engrained in the fucking propaganda that this can and most definitely will affect them and everyone personally? I just can’t even. But again, this is why we cannot have nice things in this country and it’s because of propaganda.

From Pennsylvania to Florida to Texas, areas with high numbers of Hispanics often had little in common on Election Day other than backing Republican Orange Fuckface over Democrat Kamala Harris for president.

Fuckface, the president-elect, made inroads in heavily Puerto Rican areas of eastern Pennsylvania where the vice president spent the last full day of her campaign. Trump turned South Texas' Rio Grande Valley, a decadeslong Democratic stronghold populated both by newer immigrants and Tejanos who trace their roots in the state for several generations.

He also improved his standing with Hispanic voters along Florida's Interstate 4 corridor linking the Tampa Bay area — home to people of Cuban, Venezuelan, Nicaraguan, Colombian and Puerto Rican origin — with Orlando, where Puerto Ricans make up about 43% of the local Hispanic population. Fuckface was the first Republican since 1988 to win Miami-Dade County, home to a sizable Cuban population and the country’s metropolitan area with the highest share of immigrants.
https://time.com/7174676/trump-made-gains-in-heavily-hispanic-areas-heres-how/


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How?? HOW???? HOW??? How the fuck could Latino voters be that fucking stupid? How brainwashed by the fucking propaganda are they that they actively voted against their best fucking interests? It’s truly insane! No, we don’t need the graphic yet! Remain calm! But we do need to address that this is becoming a massive fucking problem. So how do we win back these voters? Well, the United States is under one party rule and we’re going to be heading into uncharted territory in January. It’s going to take a lot to reverse the ship from jumping off the cliff and we can’t help but feel that social media is tricking people into voting against their best interests. It just sucks right now.

Nowhere is Fuckface’s reshaping of the electorate more apparent than in the states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, the highly coveted "blue wall" that helped propel Joe Biden to victory in 2020.

This time, Fuckface won all three states, crushing Democrats' hopes that Harris could find a path to victory despite early election night losses in the southern states of North Carolina and Georgia.

In his victory speech in Florida, Trump - who is set to win the popular vote too - credited the result to "the biggest, the broadest, the most unified coalition" in American history.

"They came from all quarters. Union, non-union, African American, Hispanic American," he told a roaring crowd. "We had everybody, and it was beautiful."

In Pennsylvania, the prized battleground state, Fuckface benefited from a huge swell of support from the state's growing Latino population.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cze3yr77j9wo




F-bomb count: 240

Record broken: Do The Right Thing


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OK, now that we got the fucking anger out of my fucking system, there’s something that we do need to address here. Fucking hell. Just seriously… fucking hell. Things are getting really fucking ugly out there, and it’s not really that surprising. If it seems like the online hate and harassment coming from Fuckface supporters is getting out of control, you’re not wrong. Things are indeed getting way uglier – both online and IRL. Fuckface supporters have developed an almost stalker-ish motif and they are fucking emboldened by the results of the election. Yup, and we are currently in it for the long fucking haul, so strap in, because these next 4 years are going to suck. So how bad could things get? Well once again, this is one of those things that varies depending on what your sources are. And given what we know about Fuckface’s plans for the military and his plans for dismantling our safety nets, we know things are going to get really bad, really quickly. But if the gun violence prevention folks can see that the proverbial shit is about to hit the fucking fan, so we should be able to also! Yes, Fuckface does enable violent lunatics and it shows!

Some gun violence prevention groups said Wednesday that they plan to double down in their fight for stronger firearm-control laws in the wake of former President Orange Fuckfacee recapturing the White House and promising to roll back President Joe Biden's efforts to curb the national plague.

During his victorious campaign, Fuckface and his running mate, Sen. Ashley Furniture, voiced opposition to most of Biden's executive orders to combat the scourge that the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions found to be the leading cause of death in the United States for adolescents under the age of 19 for three straight years.

"The election of Orange Fuckface is deeply troubling for our safety and freedom from gun violence," Kris Brown, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, said in a statement Wednesday. "And that's why we are doubling down on our work and fighting harder than ever."

Gun violence was a big issue during the campaign. In an ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll released in August, gun violence was ranked eighth in importance among voters after the economy, inflation, health care, protecting democracy, crime and safety, immigration and the Supreme Court.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/deeply-troubling-gun-violence-prevention-groups-react-trump/story?id=115530910




Well duh! We’re all in danger! And why do these fuckers want a civil war? They got everything they fucking wanted! They have one party rule! They have a mad man who’s going to gut the entire fucking government and stack the fucking courts with loyalists and he’s creating a puppet ringmaster fucking cabinet… aahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!



Sorry… I lost my cool for a minute. Holy shit is this going to be a difficult show to get through! When do we get to I Need A Drink? We’re not doing that this week? Damn it!!!! Then get me a nice tall glass of Jack before I lose it! But yes, if you can stomach it, political violence is going to get that much worse, the MAGA crazies are emboldened and they feel like they’ve been given a mandate. And yes, the Q nut calls for public executions are starting – and they’re getting fucking worse.

Now, the 2024 election could cause another flare-up, especially if Fuckface loses. Discussion of violence among right-wing extremists has also already spiked online, and unlike Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump has refused to say he would concede.

Fuckface has, however, employed violent rhetoric himself. On Thursday, he lambasted former Rep. Liz Cheney, an outspoken Republican critic of the former president who he described as a “radical war hawk.”

“Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay?” he said at a campaign event in Arizona. “Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face.”

The polls show a tight race between Fuckface and Harris, suggesting that this time, as in 2020, the results may be decided by narrow margins in a few battleground states. Trump has been priming Republican voters to reject the results if he comes up short, making unsubstantiated claims about voter fraud in Pennsylvania and noncitizens voting on a widespread basis. Billionaire Fuckface supporter Elon Musk has also set up a platform on his social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, for users to “share potential incidents of voter fraud or irregularities you see while voting in the 2024 election.”
https://www.vox.com/politics/381520/2024-election-violence-trump-loses-extremism-civil-war




Here’s the thing – for the last TWO years, we’ve railed about how dangerous a second term of Fuckface could possibly get. But people didn’t fucking listen and now we’re fucking stuck with him. And trust us when we say come January 21st, 2025, the fucking shit is about to hit the fan. Right now, think of this as the calm before the storm. We’re in the eye of the fucking hurricane. Hurricane Donald. Yes, Fuckface himself is getting increasingly more violent with his rhetoric, as he showed last week with his thinly veiled threat against Liz Cheney. Who they replaced with Harriet Fucking Hageman, seen here looking like JD Vance’s drag queen alter ego, Ashley Furniture. And of course, like most terrorists do, you celebrate your fucking win by threatening more fucking violence!

Fuckface ran a campaign that stoked culture war grievances and divisions, and was defined by lies, a desire for vengeance, and, at times, threatening rhetoric. In social media posts he threatened mass arrests of his political opponents in revenge for “stealing the election” in 2020 (though evidence conclusively shows the 2020 election was not stolen). Lawmakers, election workers, school board members, federal agents, and judges have been repeatedly targeted over the years with violent threats by his supporters who believe they were acting on his behalf. Fuckface repeatedly promised his supporters he would “destroy” the deep state, invoking the popular conspiracy theory of a nefarious web of faceless bureaucrats working to destroy the US from within. He cast himself, alongside the people who stormed the Capitol on January 6 over election lies, as “political prisoners,” even “hostages” who were being persecuted by a “tyrannical” Biden administration.

And now that he has won the election, his supporters seem just as thirsty for revenge.

A poster on Patriots.win, a pro-Fuckface forum, shared an AI drawing of Nancy Pelosi with a noose around her neck about to be hanged. Others shared images of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who has been villainized by the right for overseeing the Biden administration’s immigration policy, suggesting he too be hanged “for high treason.” “FACT!” someone else posted. “The gallows await …”
https://www.wired.com/story/donald-trump-far-right-supporters-violent-memes/




You want to know why we’ve been calling MAGA terrorists for 8 fucking years? Well, who else celebrates their win with fucking death threats? ISIS. The Taliban. Al’Qaeda. You know who else wants to ban porn and video games? ISIS. Al’Qaeda. The Taliban. You know who else poses with flags and guns and has giant truck parades? ISIS. Al’Qaeda. The Taliban. You see where we’re going with this. And if you know where we’re going with this, let us know in the comments! Oh yes, we’re fucking going there. And these are the people who call themselves fucking patriots, yet they shit on the Constitution every single chance that they get. But yup, MAGA is out there in full force and it’s only getting worse – so much worse for everyone. Thanks mass media, you elected a mass murderer and his fans are getting emboldened. The shit is about to hit the fan.

Orange Fuckface’s MAGA fan base has been celebrating since his reelection was confirmed Wednesday, with the trolls out in full force.

Several posters on right-wing social media platforms are jubilant, Wired reports, with many speaking openly of taking revenge against liberals and other enemies of Fuckface. One such post read, “There has to be as many traitors executed as he has days in office. Build the gallows, restore the REPUBLIC.”

Other posts include references to using military tribunals and executions, as well as armed raids, with one post saying, “New DOJ must utilize armed raids on Democrat Deep State Homes! Drag their asses out into the street, just like they did to our people!!” Another viral meme had the caption, “RELEASE THE PROJECT 2025 HANDMAIDS TALE RAPE SQUADS.”

“Groyper” founder and influencer Nick Fuentes, a proud white nationalist who infamously had dinner with Fuckface in 2022, openly mocked women and supporters of reproductive rights on Tuesday night.
https://newrepublic.com/post/188099/maga-trump-win-reaction




F-Bomb count: 292

Record broken: The Big Lebowski


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So just how bad will things get the day after Inauguration Day? Which I might add, is a mere 146 days away. So say goodbye to your freedoms kids because it’s going to get that much fucking worse. The absolute worst fucking things you’ve heard Fuckface could do on day 1 will come true. And yes, fucking all of it. And he’ll have fucking one party rule on top of all of that. Come January 21st, the United States will be in uncharted fucking territory. What could he possibly fucking do, you might ask? Well, it’s going to be an absolute fucking shit show. Fuckface has promised to do a lot of what most people would call “damage”, he calls “rebuilding”. And what most people would call “dividing”, he calls “unity”. See? We can play that fucking game too! But the simple fact of the matter is that this is going to get really bad, really quickly. And it’s not fascism that the United States needs to worry about. Instead, it’s oligarchism similar to Saudi Arabia or United Arab Emirates. And the other term is “kakistocracy” which means that the least qualified people are in charge. So we’ve got an oligarkakistocracy situation happening, and it’s going to get really bad.

President-elect Orange Fuckface will reinstate several executive orders from his first administration that were later revoked by President Joe Biden on his first day in office, his incoming chief of staff said.

The New York Times reported that Susie Wiles gave the news to a gathering of Republican donors Monday, though didn’t specify the orders he would reinstate.

During his first few days in office, Biden revoked executive orders issued by Fuckface that tried to strip federal employees of their rights to collective bargaining, due process, and workplace representation.

He also ditched Fuckface Schedule F executive order that let his administration to hire and fire federal employees for political reasons.

In his first 100 days in office, Biden revoked 24 orders made by Fuckface, including on immigration.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-day-one-white-house-plan-revealed-at-private-event/




Yeah damn right, he fucking sucks! Look, we called way back at the beginning of the year just how fucking bad things were going to get! And it’s going to be a fucking bloodbath. You know how someone can spend an entire lifetime or lifetimes building their reputation, and then one jackass with a wrecking ball makes it all come crashing down in one week? Well, Fuckface is that jackass with a wrecking ball, and oh, the fucking damage he is going to do! Yes, all of the worst things you’ve heard Fuckface is capable of will come true, especially when his employers, Fox News, have him convinced that he’s got a fucking mandate and one party rule. We’re going to be venturing into uncharted territory here, folks!

Karoline Leavitt, Fuckface’s national press secretary, told Fox News soon after Fuckface was declared the winner that his day-one agenda would consist of launching mass deportations of undocumented immigrants living in the country.

He may do so by revoking temporary protected status that presently allows migrants to legally work in the U.S. or use local police for deportation programs, reported NPR. But these efforts will likely face many challenges.

According to the American Immigration Council, this would cost $7.3 billion. Efforts to conduct mass deportation would also likely face many legal and logistical challenges.

Fuckface has also pledged that he would order more fracking and use of oil on the first day of his presidency. Fracking emerged as a key issue in Pennsylvania, a state he narrowly carried, as Harris' former opposition to the practice became a sticking point to voters in areas where oil drilling is a key component of the local economy.

"I want to close the border and I want to drill, drill, drill," Fuckface told Fox News' Sean Hannity during a town hall event in December 2023.



With respect to the culture wars, Trump has also pledged to sign executive order for schools pushing "critical race theory" or "gender insanity" on day one.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-first-100-days-1982833




Yeah it’s a venerable super ultra fecta of the worst things you’ve ever heard any AM talk radio host, Fox News host, or podcaster say about what Fuckface would do all rolled into one. It will be a venerable fucking revenge-a-palooza and no one will be spared. You ever wonder what the Nazis thought when Adolf Hitler got elected to Germany’s highest office and how we got Hitler youth? Well guess what? We don’t have to wonder anymore! Ugh, fucking hell. And again, most of this shit, like critical race theory or “gender insanity” – is all grade A bullshit that the right wing made up to scare people! But even Murdoch rag the Wall Street Journal has said that Fuckface has to abide by the rules. Hey, when has that ever stopped them before?

President-elect Orange Fuckface plans to restore multiple executive orders from his first term that President Joe Biden rescinded as soon as he takes office, Susie Wiles, the incoming White House chief of staff, told Republican donors at a private event on Monday.

While speaking with donors at a closed-door conference in Las Vegas, Wiles said Fuckface is prepared to take action on day one by reinstating previous policies through executive orders – though, she did not specify which ones Trump is prioritizing, the New York Times reported.

Biden reversed at least 24 Trump administration policies within his first 100 days in office.

He rejoined the World Health Organization and Paris Agreement, reversed the Muslim Ban, reinstated allowing transgender people to serve in the military, ceased border wall construction and revoked the Keystone Pipeline permit among others.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/susie-wiles-trump-executive-orders-b2645810.html




That’s literally what it’s going to be like on day one. It’s going to be a bull in a fucking china shop and Fuckface will turn and cry on his nightly fucking batphone to Sean Hannity about it. It’s going to be an absolute shit show and a nightmare to watch. But when the GOP burns down the fucking government and installs a puppet regime all because the Mad Man in fucking Moscow and his stupid fucking propaganda arm want it, don’t say we didn’t fucking warn you. And yes, I am swearing a lot, but holy shit, am I pissed the fuck off right now. And again, things are going to get infinitely worse. And since the House, Senate, and SCOTUS are now under one party rule, those stupid fucking talk shows won’t have anyone to blame it on but themselves. Fuck!

Orange Fuckface is expected to take a slew of executive actions on his first day as president to ramp up immigration enforcement and roll back signature Biden legal entry programs, a sweeping effort that will be led by incoming "border czar" Tom Homan and other Republican immigration hardliners, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

The executive actions would give federal immigration officers more latitude to arrest people with no criminal records, surge troops to the U.S.-Mexico border and restart construction of the border wall, the sources said.

Homan, who served as acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from 2017-2018 under Trump, will bring a deep understanding of the U.S. immigration system after a four-decade career that took him from a frontline Border Patrol agent to head of the agency that arrests and deports immigrants in the U.S. illegally.

Fuckface is also is expected to end President Joe Biden’s humanitarian programs that allowed hundreds of thousands of migrants to enter legally in recent years and could encourage those with expired statuses to leave voluntarily, according to the sources, who declined to be identified.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-day-one-deportations-border-wall-scrapping-biden-humanitarian-programs-2024-11-12/




F-Bomb Count: 337

Record Broken: Straight Outta Compton


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Top 10 Conservative Idiots Presents:

“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.” – Gordon Gekko, Wall St. (1987)

When corporate profits are at an all time high, there is nowhere else to go but to make more millions.

There is corporate greed, and then there is:



Welcome back to our segment on the relentless pursuit of never-ending corporate greed, Late Stage Capitalism! Sure, it’s not enough to make $50 billion, you need $150 billion! You need to be able to tank entire countries while you jet off in your penis-shaped rocket to the vast emptiness of deep space! This week, we have to talk about one thing you’re probably extremely sick of by now – the news. Yes, the news – something we used to have until 1997 when it got replaced by opinionated talking heads who are incapable of shutting the fuck up. But one aspect of the news this week was simply lost in all of the craziness surrounding the election. Do you enjoy playing Wordle? Or maybe you also enjoy Connections or any of the other word games published by the New York Times Games division? Well, the tech department at the NYT went on strike last week, prompting many longtime fans and players of NYT games to jump ship in support of the tech department. So if you enjoy playing Wordle, then what else can you play? Well there are some alternatives if you’re willing to look for them and break your long running Wordle streaks!

New York Times tech workers are still on strike after walking out one day before the presidential election. That means they’re still asking people to skip their usual Crossword, Wordle, or Connections routines. But now, the union has released its own offerings for games lovers that could keep them from crossing the digital picket line.

“We know how hard it is to break your Wordle streak, so we have been hard at work making more games for our supporters!” the Times Tech Guild wrote on X on Thursday.

On a page of the guild’s website called Guild Builds, there are currently seven games: Strikle, a riff on Wordle; Connections: Strike Edition; Word Search; Match Strike, a memory-matching game; Frogger 8th Ave (the New York Times office is located on Eighth Avenue); Scabby’s Fair Contract Builder (a reference to labor action symbol Scabby the Rat); and Trivia and Jokes.

The games might not have new versions daily; they’ll be updated “when they can be,” Jen Sheehan, spokesperson for the NewsGuild of New York (which the New York Times Tech Guild is part of), told The Verge. Sheehan added that guild members made all the games except for Strikle, which was made by an “external supporter.” (Strikle first debuted when the guild held a one-day walkout in 2022.)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91224764/striking-nyt-workers-are-asking-you-to-skip-wordle-but-they-made-other-games-for-you-to-play




Yes, it may be time to ditch the NYT Games app. But fear not! The NYT was one of the few sane newspapers left in the country after the 2024 election. But games aren’t the only function of the NYT tech department – they oversee just about everything that happens on the New York Times website, the NYT Games app, and the NYT app. So if you enjoy getting your news delivered to you electronically, then you’d better appreciate everything that the tech team does. But they really could *NOT* have picked a worse time to strike. Especially with Fuckface in charge. Combining the worst time to strike with the worst possible thing to happen to the NYT, well, to quote one of my favorite podcast hosts – it ain’t good, that’s for sure!

The 600 staffers organized with the New York Times Tech Guild—who program essential functions like push alerts, live blogs, homepage designs, and the games—officially walked off the job Monday, and the effect on their employer’s website is already apparent.

The Times’ iconic Needle, a staple of every major election since 2016, may be too buggy to function, according to pollster Nate Cohn. Subscribers are expressing solidarity online by sharing screenshots of their now-broken Wordle/Spelling Bee/crossword streaks, following a guild request for users to boycott the NYT Games app. And the front-page TikTok-style vertical-video promotion of “Our reporters on what to expect” did not last past Monday night.

As for why the Times’ tech workers are acting to upend their own website on the most important news day of the year, this moment has actually been years in the making. Back in 2021, when these employees first announced they were forming a union of their own (one separate from the respective editorial unions that represent the NYT newsroom and its Wirecutter subsidiary), the paper’s leadership refused to recognize the unit, kicking the matter up to the National Labor Relations Board—which soon filed its own complaint against Times management for violating federal labor law by telling other newsroom employees not to express any support for the tech organizers.
https://slate.com/technology/2024/11/new-york-times-tech-guild-strike-election-coverage-nightmare.html




So if you’re wondering if there’s any alternatives to the NYT games you love to play, well there is good news! The striking tech workers made their own versions of the games you love to play, but with a more union friendly theme! While the NYT Games dept are on strike, you can play their versions of the games, without crossing the picket lines. But one thing that the NYT should be aware of though, is that the games dept is undoubtedly its’ most profitable position. It keeps people trekking to the New York Times all year long. Yes, come for the games, stay for the news. Of course, with the news being all Fuckface all the time, you probably want to consider running from that as much as possible.

They’re all very rudimentary versions of the well-worn titles, with a look that makes me nostalgic for browser-based games from the early 2000s. However, games like Connected and Strikle are effectively one-for-one recreations of the NYTimes versions. The daily puzzles released Thursday have a strong connection to the strike, so if you were looking for a hint, there’s that.

No, it won’t keep your Wordle streak going, but at the very least, you can keep your morning habits going while the strike continues. The games page also links to the group’s GoFundMe. The strikers have raised around $145,000 as of writing, with a $150,000 goal. The strikers are demanding the Times agree to a contract without a return-to-office mandate, pay and equity raises to address racial disparities in salaries, and protections against “just cause” layoffs.

The New York Times presents itself as a news organization, but its balance sheets show that its real money maker is its games and software division. This includes the NYT Cooking App alongside its games. The publisher told Axios back in January that users played NYTimes’ puzzles and games more than 8 billion times in 2023—in its latest quarterly earnings report, the Times reported it made $919.6 million on its digital subscriptions (including games and cooking, over the last nine months, a 14% increase from the same period last year. The media company’s news-only subscribers are dwarfed by those who subscribe to other single products or bundles. The Times is still running strong, whereas other news organizations are struggling.
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The bad thing about this – once again, the strikers literally could not have picked a worse possible time to strike. Because with all the craziness surrounding the worst election in United States history, this got lost in the news. Nobody heard about it! It was like on page 18 of the newspaper. With of course Fuckface dominating the news every single day. So there is good news and bad news about the strike – the good news is that the games you love will continue. The bad news is that… unfortunately, nothing got resolved in the strike. Maybe had they waited until after the worst election ever, they might have been noticed. But better we still get our games than never.

The New York Times’ tech employees, who are behind Wordle and Connections among other games and features, will go back to work on Tuesday following a weeklong strike. In a statement published on Monday, the New York Times Tech Guild said union members will “march into the office together in the morning as a symbol of what’s to come for The Times.”

The Tech Guild represents the over 600 workers who manage technology across the digital paper. Union members went on strike the day before the US election, raising concerns about whether the NYT’s vote-tracking tech, like the Needle, would hold up on Election Day. The union and the NYT will continue negotiating on a contract.

“The systems and digital products that worked over the election did so thanks to the hundreds of unit members who worked for months preparing everything to run smoothly,” Kathy Zhang, New York Times Tech Guild unit chair said. “What broke down during this strike broke because our members weren’t at work.”
https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/11/24294023/new-york-times-tech-workers-strike-end





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Gather around my fair brothers and sisters! It’s time to take a seat in the pew and pass the collection plate, for the Holy Church Of The Top 10 has convened and it’s time to remind you that the holiest among us are the most full of:



My fair congregation! Please be seated! You know, I know we’re all shocked, upset, depressed and disappointed in the results of the election, now that the unholy, ungodly Dark One will once again ascend to the throne, which he absolutely in no way, shape or form deserves. And of course, I refer to him as the Unholy Dark One, because he is a creature so foul, so depraved and disgusting that his name dare NOT be spoken in my church! Yes, even if he is the new leader of the supposed free world, I will never speak of or refer to him by his name! Not once, not ever! So the last time we met, we talked about how the Christian right gets the Bible and history totally wrong, every single time. And it’s not a new phenomenon either. It’s been decades leading up to this point! Well, this week, we’re going to take a break from focus on one man who is one of the Dark One’s loyal minions and happens to put his name on the Holy Book. Yes, I’m talking about Lee Greenwood. Yes, you know him as the author of that song that annoys any American who doesn’t live in batshit crazy land – God Bless The USA. While Greenwood claims that his song is apolitical, his actions are anything but. In fact, he’s one of the Dark One’s unholy minions!

Every Fourth of July, a number of beloved songs rise on the Billboard charts. Americans flock to familiar tunes that discuss freedom, independence, fireworks, or the United States in huge numbers, buying and streaming some of the most popular back to the weekly rankings of the most popular tunes in the country. One of the tunes that mounts an annual comeback is Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the U.S.A.,” and 2024 turned out to be no different for the cut.

“God Bless the U.S.A.” reappears on two Billboard charts this week. The country musician’s famous single became a bestseller once again as thousands felt the urge to buy a copy of the decades-old tune.

In the past tracking week, “God Bless the U.S.A.” sold a little more than 3,300 copies, according to Luminate. That sum is much, much larger than the frame prior, when it sold under 400 copies. The patriotic tune experienced a sales surge of more than 800% from one frame to the next.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/hughmcintyre/2024/07/12/god-bless-the-usa-is-up-more-than-800-in-sales-following-americas-birthday/




No, it’s not over. But of course, every single July 4th, we have to go through this bullshit, and I’m seriously thinking of changing my July 4th song to Nine Inch Nails’ The Hand That Feeds, that seems more appropriate given what’s about to happen, my fair congregation! But of course, we have to talk about the Unholy Dark One putting his hands on the Holy Book. Which, if you’ve been following our program, you know he ain’t holy, that’s for damn sure! And of course, the unholy Dark One, always finds opportunities to make a quick buck off his shitty merchandise. So what happened when he sold those god forsaken books? Well guess what signed copies were going for? Sigh… we wonder why we can’t have nice things in this country!

Former President Orange Fuckface-backed "God Bless the USA" Bibles were printed in China, according to the Associated Press, even as the Republican nominee has continuously criticized trade between the U.S. and China.

The "God Bless the USA Bible," named after the Lee Greenwood song frequently played at Trump rallies, touts itself as the "only Bible endorsed by President Fuckface." While the website for the Bible says it is not affiliated with a political campaign, the product has become known as the "Trump Bible," given his role in promoting it.

Global trade records obtained by the AP indicate that about 120,000 copies of the Republican nominee's "God Bless the USA" Bible were shipped from China's eastern city of Hangzhou to the U.S. between early February and late March.

The estimated value of the shipments was less than $3 per Bible, or $342,000 altogether, according to the news outlet. The minimum cost for the "Trump Bible" is $59.99, putting the potential sales revenue at about $7 million.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/10/11/trump-bibles-made-in-china/75625791007/




And not only is the devil walking among us, he’s soon going to be walking straight into the White House, and that is a damn fucking shame! Well, this might be one of the most egregious pieces of news we’ve seen yet about the GBTU singer. Remember when we said his song was apolitical? Well guess what – it isn’t. Not by a long shot! Well, he told who should be the next president of the United States, Kamala Harris, that she could use it in her rallies – but only if she asks nicely in person. To which he probably replied “Ha ha! No fuck you!”. Fart sound of course added for comedic effect. But make no mistake that Mr. Greenwood is firmly in the Dark One’s camp.

In 1984, singer-songwriter Lee Greenwood didn’t overthink it when he added a catchy and inspiring song about his love for America at the end of his upbeat third studio album, You’ve Got a Good Love Comin’. Forty years later, “God Bless the USA” is a classic patriotic pop song, fitting easily next to “The Star-Spangled Banner” or “This Land Is Your Land” at a public event. Though Greenwood continued to make music across the spectrum of country music, American standards have become one of his specialties, and this year, Greenwood’s 1992 album of them, American Patriot, is getting its first release on vinyl.

A younger generation might only know Greenwood for his recent appearances alongside President Donald Trump, but the singer and songwriter, now 81, has been performing for political figures of both parties since the days of Ronald Reagan. Though he appreciates the cosign from Trump on the God Bless the USA Bible—the one that just so happened to fulfill all the requirements for the Oklahoma state superintendent’s recent Bible order that Greenwood says he hasn’t heard of—he told Vanity Fair in a recent video call that his interest is in American unity, not activism. (Superintendent Ryan Walters later amended his Bible request; it no longer requires the Bibles to include US historical documents such as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, which very few Bibles include but appear in the God Bless the USA Bible.)
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/story/lee-greenwood-god-bless-the-usa-bible-interview




Yeah that’s the guy who wrote the most patriotic song to ever patrioted. Well, if you’re wondering, yes, you’re going to be hearing this song until your ears bleed the next four fucking years. So yes, Mr. Greenwood is firmly in the camp of his Unholiness. And of course, his Unholiness doesn’t pay anybody – but did you really expect that at this point? Of course not. But come on, the Dark One is all of the seven deadly sins rolled into one. And now this song will forever be associated with him, and that stupid version of the Holy Book too. We really do live in a bizarre timeline, don’t we, my fair congregation? I mean… I can’t even. This is like that scene from Animal House – “Thank you sir, may I have another?”.

Lee Greenwood, singer of popular song “God Bless the USA,” on Tuesday denied having received any money from President-elect Donald Trump's campaign to use his song.

Trump has used "God Bless the USA" during various appearances, including rallies, since his 2016 presidential campaign. Greenwood performed the song during the Republican National Convention this year and also granted Trump permission to use it as his walkout song at political rallies.

The singer also collaborated with Trump on the “God Bless the USA” bible, which contains the U.S. Constitution and other founding documents.

“And I'm proud to be an American / Where at least I know I'm free,” the song’s lyrics read. “And I won't forget the men who died / Who gave that right to me.”

In a post via X Tuesday, Greenwood explained his partnership with Trump has not involved any money. Allowing Trump to use the song, he said, was a way to support the campaign without donating money.
https://ktxs.com/news/nation-world/lee-greenwood-denies-being-paid-by-trump-campaign-i-have-received-0-presidential-election-politics-god-bless-the-usa-kamala-oprah-endorsement



Fucking hell. My fair congregation, I hope this was a distraction from the shit show. I need to go find the biggest, strongest glass of holy water I can find. Mass has ended, may you go in peace! That’s it this week for:




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This week’s This Fucking Guy is Tom Homan. Yes, since Orange Fuckface stole, er, won the election, Fox News has gone into overdrive about who the next “border czar” – a position they completely made up – is going to be. Well, remember how they went into overdrive attacking Kamala Harris for not being enough of a border czar for their tastes? Guess what! They found a guy to be the next “border czar” who’s a literal fucking Nazi! Yes, meet Tom Homan. In case you’re getting James Bond villain vibes just from looking at him, well guess what? You’re not alone! You are going to be hearing this fucking guy’s name a fucking lot in the next few weeks as the transition of power goes back to Fuckface with a literal one party fucking rule. So what could go wrong, you might ask? Well, a hell of a lot. In fact, the GOP and Fox are going to bring you a literal genocide at the border and it’s not going to be fucking pretty. This guy, Tom Homan, is a hard lined enough fucking asshole that he will make it happen. Ugh, this is going to be a literal nightmare to watch unfold.

President-elect Orange Fuckface announced late Sunday that Tom Homan, the former acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement who backed his controversial "zero tolerance" policy, will be his administration's "border czar."

"I am pleased to announce that the Former ICE Director, and stalwart on Border Control, Tom Homan, will be joining the Trump Administration, in charge of our Nation’s Borders ('The Border Czar'), including, but not limited to, the Southern Border, the Northern Border, all Maritime, and Aviation Security," Trump said on Truth Social.

"I’ve known Tom for a long time, and there is nobody better at policing and controlling our Borders," the post continued. "Likewise, Tom Homan will be in charge of all Deportation of Illegal Aliens back to their Country of Origin. Congratulations to Tom. I have no doubt he will do a fantastic, and long awaited for, job."

Homan touts hard-line immigration views and previously vowed to “run the biggest deportation force this country has ever seen.”

He was an early supporter of the Fuckface administration’s “zero tolerance” policy, which led to thousands of families being separated at the southern border. Trump eventually signed an executive order in 2018 reversing the family separation policy after public outcry.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219702234




Seriously, the Fuckface admin couldn’t have found a literal fucking nazi if one had came and knocked on their door. And Fuckface is making it clear that his administration plans to go absolutely hard authoritarian, and we certainly haven’t seen the worst of it yet. In fact, a lot of people are going to die and go to prison because this fucking lunatic is in charge. Now the question on the table is will Project 2025 come to fruition? The answer is yes – it will, and a whole lot worse. In fact, who knows if the United States is going to exist on January 22nd, it’s going to be a fucking bloodbath. And everything you’ve heard will come true and worse!

When Orange Fuckface announced his intent to name Thomas Homan to a new cabinet position of “border czar” upon retaking the White House in January, the president-elect continued erasing the distance between his agenda and Project 2025, the far-right blueprint crafted by the Heritage Foundation.

Homan, the acting director of U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement during Fuckface’s first term, is a visiting fellow with Heritage and a contributor to the Washington, D.C., think tank’s Project 2025, subtitled the presidential transition project.

The 900-page manifesto expands on Fuckface’s promise to expel tens of millions of undocumented immigrants by detailing how such a massive undertaking could be accomplished through executive and congressional action.

Project 2025 even calls for the kind of cabinet-level immigration post that Homan will fill.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/us-world/article/border-czar-project-2025-19911317.php




Oh he’s pure fucking evil and he hasn’t even got started yet! So yes, there’s going to be a lot of talk about Fuckface’s insane plans to mass deport anyone who so much as breathes at them funny, and it’s going to get really fucking bad, really fucking quickly. So what is that going to look like? Yes, the thought of bringing literal concentration camps to American soil is going to happen whether we want it to or not, and these disgusting douchebags are going to bring them. And as we’ve been saying through this edition, we’re going to be seeing literal tyranny come to American soil. Which is absolutely insane coming from the party who constantly rails about tyranny. Yes, the hypocrisy totally reeks with these sick fucks at the helm!

Veteran immigration official Tom Homan will be in charge of the country's borders following Trump's inauguration in January.

With a decades-long career in law enforcement and at the border, all eyes will be on how he plans to cut down on illegal immigration into the US - a flagship policy of Trump's election campaign.

So how will he approach the task?

Homan - an ex-policeman and former acting US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) director - has described immigration at the US border as "the biggest national security vulnerability this nation has seen since 9/11 and we have to fix it."

Addressing illegal immigrants in the US during the Republican National Convention in the summer, he said: “You better start packing now.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c75l1r0qv0po




That’s putting it lightly. Tom Homan and anyone who plans on working for this sick fuck, are themselves, sick fucks. And guess what? When he starts the job on January 21st, he’s going to rule with an iron fucking fist and damn anyone who stands in his way. Yes, if you’re a democratic governor in this country, he and his stupid raid team are going to plow through your driveway and destroy your car whether you want them to or not. So yes, strap in my friends. Because the worst things you’ve heard about what the Fox News administration is going to do to the border will come true. And it will all be broadcast for you on RT, er, Fox News live every night.

Donald Trump has rehired the highly controversial immigration official Tom Homan, considered one of the key architects of the “zero tolerance” family separation policy during his first administration.

The immigration hardliner served as the acting director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) between 2017 and 2018.

The president-elect wrote on his Truth Social platform overnight that Homan would be in charge of “the Southern Border, the Northern Border, all Maritime, and Aviation Security.”

Homan will be involved in Trump’s stated goal of carrying out the “largest deportation operation in American history” through federal, state, and local law enforcement by invoking the same 1798 law used to carry out mass Japanese internment during the Second World War.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-tom-homan-immigration-border-b2644925.html




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F-Bomb Count: 376

Record Broken: .45 – Hey that’s fitting!


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Welcome back to our segment that attempts to explain the unexplainable, Conspiracy Corner! Of course conspiracies exist when people simply don’t want to read the article past the headlines and just flat out make shit up. We of course are coming to you live from our underground doomsday shelter from deep within the New Mexico badlands. Undisclosed location, of course! Let me just adjust my trusty tin foil hat for maximum government interference. Ah, there we go! They are trying to read yours and my thoughts, after all! Now this week, since Fuckface got “elected” to the White House, again, and he plans to rule with an iron fist, there’s been a lot of talk about one of his most controversial talking points – “Make America Healthy Again”. Well, of course, Fuckface can’t talk since he eats McDonalds 3 meals a day and hasn’t had a sip of water in 15 years. I mean come on, Fuckface looks so disheveled and dehydrated that his skin could break off like ice, is the one to talk. And more specifically the guy who he tapped to MAHA, is anything but. That’s of course RFK Jr. He’s been hawking batshit crazy conspiracy theories and quack cures for years. But this latest talking point is one of his most dangerous. That is fluoride in the water supply. Which was brought to you by Alex Jones, who uses Infowars to sell you bullshit water filters and protein supplements. So this could get ridiculously bad very quickly.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s recent comments on fluoride are prompting questions about its safety and why it's used in drinking water.

Kennedy, a former presidential candidate turned Fuckface supporter who has long shared anti-vaccine views, said on social media earlier this month that Orange Fuckface would push to remove fluoride from drinking water on his first day in office if elected president. Fuckface has previously suggested he'd put Kennedy in charge of health initiatives.

A day later, Fuckface told NBC News he had not spoken to Kennedy about fluoride yet, "but it sounds OK to me. You know it's possible."

In a post on social media, Kennedy claimed fluoride is linked to a slew of health problems.

Dental experts largely disagree.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fluoride-in-water-health/




It sounds OK? And not just batshit fucking crazy? Because anyone who’s not glued into the internet conspiracy theory infosphere and actually lives in, you know, reality, will tell you that this plan sounds absolutely batshit fucking crazy! And nobody started complaining about fluoride in the water supply until batshit crazy raving fucking lunatic Alex Jones first appeared on the scene! And if you’re wondering if this talking point is complete fucking bullshit, well guess what? You are absolutely 100% correct, tell them what they’ve won? Well, they have won a one way ticket to Shit Town! Because RFK Jr and his conspiracy theory quackery are going to get a lot of people killed.

Dentists and health experts say regulated levels of fluoride in public drinking water help protect against tooth decay. Social media posts amplifying claims by former independent US presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that the mineral is an industrial waste product causing adverse health effects including bone and neurological problems mislead about research on the impact of high doses of fluoride.

"In case you didn't know, fluoride has been directly linked to many different neurological issues so the fact that the Trump administration is going to remove fluoride from our water supply is a massive deal," says the speaker in a November 5, 2024 Instagram video.

The clip includes a screenshot of a November 2 X post from Kennedy which claimed Orange Fuckface would back the removal of fluoride from all US water systems due to the purported adverse effects on health.

Over the following days, as election results confirmed Fuckface as the president-elect, other users on Facebook, Instagram, X and TikTok latched on to Kennedy's claims and reignited longstanding misinformation about the harms of fluoride consumption.
https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.36LX6KX




Yeah really! I mean come on… these people just lie and lie and lie some more! Telling the truth is hardly in their best fucking interests. Seriously, take a moment and just imagine this for a minute. Picture RFK Jr in charge of public health. Now picture him gutting the Center For Disease Control (CDC), the Department Of Health & Human Services (HHS), the Federal Drug Administration (FDA), and pulling out of the World Health Organization (WHO). And also imagine him eliminating fluoride – something that occurs naturally – from the water supply completely. A near impossible task. You can’t, can you? Oh wait, you can, because a lot of people are going to fucking die because of this man. But the guy who’s going to be running the show now thinks it’s “OK”? SMDH.

Under a Trump presidency, fluoride will be removed from America’s public water supply, according to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The claim comes from a post on X, shared by Kennedy on Saturday, just days before the 2024 presidential election.

“On January 20, the Fuckface White House will advise all U.S. water systems to remove fluoride from public water," Kennedy wrote. "Fluoride is an industrial waste associated with arthritis, bone fractures, bone cancer, IQ loss, neurodevelopmental disorders, and thyroid disease. President @realOrangeFuckface and First Lady @MELANIAFUCKFACE want to Make America Healthy Again."

In a follow-up post, Kennedy called fluoride a "dangerous neurotoxin."

Water fluoridation, or adding fluoride to drinking water, is a decades-long practice in the U.S.—but Kennedy’s claims have ignited questions about the safety of fluoride in drinking water and what would happen if it were to be removed from the U.S. water supply. Here’s what you need to know.
https://www.health.com/fluoride-drinking-water-rfk-jr-8739559




And you know what? This is all so that fucking asshole Alex Jones can sell his sell his bullshit water filters to the fucking idiots who buy them! And if you think we’re swearing enough, well guess what? I don’t think we’re swearing enough, honey! Well, in case you’re wondering if batshit crazy inspires batshit crazy, well guess what? It’s already inspired one town in Florida, obviously, to act on it. The town of Winter Haven, in the wake of Fuckface’s helper monkey, Mr. Brain Worm, to discontinue the use of fluoride in the water supply. And yes, we were correct in our assumption that a lot of people are going to fucking die because of Mr. Brain Worm. Just wait until January. And my favorite comment is the one in this article. “I only have one brain”. Uh no you don’t.

Winter Haven officials have voted to stop adding fluoride to the city's drinking water out of concern for the potential negative health impact on young children's developing brains.

Commissioners voted 3-2 on Tuesday night to discontinue adding fluoride to the city's water supply by Jan. 1, or "as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter." Mayor Nathaniel Birdsong Jr. and Commissioner Clifton Dollison were the two votes against.

The practice of adding fluoride to water has become a topic of debate after a federal court ruling in the case of Food and Water Watch versus the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in September. The court called on the EPA to strengthen its regulation of fluoride in drinking water as it poses "unreasonable risk of injury to health or environment."

"I can get false teeth if needed. I only have one brain," Winter Haven resident Hannah Bush said.
https://www.theledger.com/story/news/local/2024/11/13/citing-rfk-jr-winter-haven-votes-to-stop-adding-fluoride-to-water/76253779007/




F Bomb Count: 398

Record broken: Alpha Dog. We’ve cracked the top 10, people! Woohoo!


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Of course, you know by now that People Are People, and People Are Dumb! I want to start by saying what exactly makes a People Are Dumb story. A high speed pursuit down the 405? Not a People Are Dumb story. A high speed pursuit down the 405 involving a truck carrying live chickens that crashes into a KFC? Now that’s a People Are Dumb story! And no, we got a lot of requests after the election, but we are *NOT* going to use this for people who voted for Fuckface and then regretted it after they found out what he actually fucking stands for. Nope, we may save that idea for another segment. Unlike Lee Greenwood, we’re keeping this segment apolitical. And not all People Are Dumb stories are stupid criminal stories. We do love them, though! Send us any stupid criminal stories you got! We collect them, trade them with our friends. Anyway, I want to start with this story out of Taiwan where 2 tons of irony crashed into 2 tons of irony. That’s right – a dock crane in Taipei crashed into a container ship carrying – I shit you not – more dock cranes! You really can’t make this one up!

“Out with the old, in with the new” is a popular thing to say around this time of year. While it might usually be in reference to fresh starts, new season clothing or even a neat little bargain you picked up on Black Friday it can also apply to shipping cranes, apparently. At least, it does in Taiwan where a ship delivering new cranes to a port hit and destroyed the old one.

A 230-foot tall ship to shore crane at the Keelung Port in Taiwain was due to be replaced later this year, reports World Cargo News. As such, a vessel arrived into the port earlier this month with a new crane loaded on board.

However, while the Yuzhou Qi Hang docked in Keelung on October 14, the hulking mass of the new crane collided with the out-of-action old crane and knocked it over, as World Cargo News reports:

Video footage from the incident shows that a loaded STS crane on the vessel struck an existing onshore crane while the vessel was berthing. The heavy load vessel Yuzhou Qi Hang, was being assisted by a tugboat and was maneuvering slowly into position when the collision occurred. Three STS cranes were loaded on Yuzhou Qi Hang at the time of its arrival at the port and were intended for the port’s West Coast Container Terminal.
https://jalopnik.com/dock-crane-collapses-after-collision-with-ship-carrying-1851686065




Next up – we go to the town of Stuttgart, that’s in Germany, don’t you know? For this incredibly bizarre and disgusting story. Look, we live in an era of unbridled consumption. Even the Ancient Romans and Greeks got nothing on us. So we are not surprised that a play company in Stuttgart put on a live S&M show – the kind Queensryche sang about in Operation Mindcrime. And yes, we’re also not surprised that people fell violently ill witnessing this disgusting spectacle. For the love of god, if you’re thinking about paying people to watch something like this, uh, don’t. And if you are thinking of attending something like this, uh, don’t.

Eighteen theatregoers at Stuttgart’s state opera required medical treatment for severe nausea over the weekend after watching a performance that included live piercing, unsimulated sexual intercourse and copious amounts of fake and real blood.

“On Saturday we had eight and on Sunday we had 10 people who had to be looked after by our visitor service,” said the opera’s spokesperson, Sebastian Ebling, about the two performances of Sancta, a work by the Austrian choreographer Florentina Holzinger. A doctor had been called in for treatment in three instances, he added.

Holzinger, 38, is known for freewheeling performances that blur the line between dance theatre and vaudeville. Her all-female cast typically performs partially or fully naked, and previous shows have included live sword-swallowing, tattooing, masturbation and action paintings with blood and fresh excrement.
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The version that unsettled audience members in Stuttgart this year supplanted the original musical performance with naked nuns rollerskating on a movable half-pipe at the centre of the stage, a wall of crucified naked bodies and a lesbian priest saying mass.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/10/18-treated-for-severe-nausea-in-stuttgart-after-opera-of-live-sex-and-piercing




Next up – of course, we cannot get out of here without talking about our favorite state in the union – the Sunshine State. Florida. Which of course, is what Homer Simpson famously referred to it as “America’s Wang”. Yes, Florida never fails to bring the crazy week after week after week. A lot of our stories, we can thank our good friends at r/FloridaMan for providing us every week! Let’s start with this story out of Hernando County. Look, if there is one take away you get from our program, let us leave you with this advice – never impersonate cops! Under any circumstances. They ain’t playing. We see these stories all the damn time! And every single time it’s literally the same outcome and just stop it people! Stop it! This story has a twist though!

Plenty of people drive Dodge Chargers and some of them even drive retired police vehicles. That’s all perfectly above board. What normal citizens can’t do is outfit their cars with red and blue lights and then flash them to illegally run a red light. One driver in Florida is learning that lesson the hard way after allegedly doing exactly that in front of a police officer.

Hernando County Sheriff’s Detective William Harsanyi says he witnessed the infraction on October 15 around 8 a.m. The driver of a black Dodge Charger came up behind Harsanyi while the pair traveled on the same road in the same direction. Evidently, the Charger actually pulled up directly behind Harsanyi who was driving his assigned unmarked police cruiser.

As for the bigger picture, authorities say there’s no evidence at this time that (omit) attempted to pose as a police officer in interactions with the public. That said, they’re keeping the door open for further investigation.

The Hernando County Sheriff’s Office is encouraging anyone who might have relevant information to step forward by calling 352-754-6830. While we may never know what (omit) was thinking, one thing’s for sure: playing cop to cut through traffic isn’t just a bad idea—it’s an expensive one.
https://www.carscoops.com/2024/11/dodge-charger-driver-allegedly-impersonates-cop-in-front-of-actual-cop/




Finally this week – we go to the town of Brooksville for this one. And we know that we’re not exactly living in what would call the “safest of times” right now. We can’t even get packages delivered properly to our doors without worrying about theft. Well, one thing you should never do is use your brand new toy as a weapon. And this particular toy happened to be one of the most controversial vehicles of the entire century – the Tesla Cybertruck. And this may be the first time ever that a Cybertruck makes the People Are Dumb list. Oh and this particular story has a twist – it was a *RENTED* Cybertruck. So hope this guy has good insurance. Because this is exactly what makes a People Are Dumb story!

The Tesla Cybertruck is a spectacle on wheels—a massive, angular slab that looks more suited to the set of a sci-fi film than the local Walmart parking lot. But it’s not just about turning heads; as one Florida man found out, it can also be a weapon of vigilante justice. When an unsuspecting owner rented his Cybertruck out through Turo he had no idea that his ride would end up in the middle of a high-stakes confrontation with a porch pirate.

The incident happened in Florida close to the renters home in Brooksville. “About to find out how good TURO’s insurance is… Yesterday my renter saw a porch pirate running to car with his box, accelerated and crashed into said porch pirate making a sandwich with the burglar’s car and a tree,” said the owner, Stefen Phelps, on Facebook.

Video shows the moment when the renter drove up toward his house and saw the pirate leaving the porch before jumping into what looks like a Genesis G80 sedan. With basically zero hesitation, the Cybertruck driver accelerates up to the Genesis, gets beside it, and keeps it from successfully turning left, the only direction available on that particular road. With nowhere else to go, the Genesis driver fails to slow down in time and hits a tree next to the road.
https://www.carscoops.com/2024/11/cybertruck-turo-renter-uses-tesla-pickup-to-smash-porch-pirates-genesis/




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Welcome back to our segment that lumps all of the election coverage of the 2024 election to end all elections in: Road To The White House! Well now that the election is over and Fuckface is coming back to the fucking throne, we’re changing the name to… Road To The Shithouse! And yes, the upside down flags and poop emojis are going to be very necessary! FUCK. FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCKING… FUCK!!!! OK breathe. You know what? This week we’re going to talk about a new and completely unique feature to the Fuckface 47 administration – the Department Of Government Efficiency. Yes, DOGE – named after Fuckface bestie and helper monkey Elon Musk’s joke crypto currency, is going to eliminate a whole lot of jobs. And it’s going to get really fucking ugly, really fucking quickly. But before we get into what the stupid fucking DOGE is going to do, I first want to take a moment to tell you what Fuckface got himself into. He got a really annoying house guest who thinks he is the fucking president. Scary shit.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk was handed a major win Tuesday evening when President-elect Orange Fuckface announced that the Tesla and SpaceX CEO would co-lead a new “Department of Government Efficiency” with Vivek Ramaswamy.

The announcement reinforces the closeness Musk has managed to achieve with Trump, even after the election. But for some people in Trump’s orbit, Musk’s presence has felt overbearing.

Musk has been so aggressive in pushing his views about Fuckface’s second term that he’s stepping on the toes of Trump’s transition team and may be overstaying his welcome at Mar-a-Lago, Fuckface’s home in Palm Beach, Florida, according to two people familiar with the transition who have spent time at the resort over the past week.

The sources said Musk’s near-constant presence at Mar-a-Lago in the week since Election Day had begun to wear on people who’ve been in Fuckface’s inner circle longer than he has and who see him as overstepping his role in the transition. The sources spoke on condition of anonymity because they’re not authorized to speak publicly.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musk-trump-donald-mar-a-lago-appointment-position-rcna179826




Yeah he’s like that extra character that they add in the later seasons of sitcoms when they run out of plot lines. Which is what this next fucking administration is going to do. And let’s not forget to point out the fucking irony here – the party that wants *LESS* government interference is literally creating an entire new post so that Fuckface’s personal helper monkey can have something to do. And this is the kind of bullshit we are going to have to put up with for the next four fucking years. Remember just last week, we were dreaming that he wouldn’t be a threat to democracy anymore, he’d just be a really shitty insult comic. Well, the DOGE is going to do way more damage than you could every possibly fucking imagine, and then some. This is what it’s going to entail.

President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead a new “Department of Government Efficiency” in his second administration.

“Together, these two wonderful Americans will pave the way for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies,” Trump said in a statement.

The announcement of Ramaswamy and particularly Musk, who leads companies with existing, lucrative government contracts, raises immediate questions about potential conflicts of interest. It is not immediately clear how the department – which Trump said would “provide advice and guidance from outside of Government” – would operate, and whether a Congress even fully controlled by Republicans would have the appetite to approve such a massive overhaul of government spending and operations.

Trump had proposed the creation of a government efficiency commission as part of a slate of new economic plans that he unveiled in early September. At the time, he said Musk had agreed to lead it if he were to secure a return to the White House.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/12/politics/elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-department-of-government-efficiency-trump/index.html




Yeah, seriously. Remember that scene in Spiderman: Homecoming when they announced the Department Of Damage Control? It’s literally the real life equivalent of that. And Vivek Ramaswamy… what the fuck does that guy do, exactly? What the fuck does he do? Let us know in the comments! But we can’t emphasize just how much of a fucking nightmare this fucking administration is going to be on this country. Look, Joe Biden was a great president, but we know he wasn’t perfect. It took a lot to get the smell of stupid out of the room. But now that smell of stupid is coming back stronger than ever. So this department is going to be playing literal fucking games with people’s careers and livelihoods. But let’s point out the irony of creating a department to manage “efficiency” doing anything but that.

President-elect Orange Fuckface and Elon Musk have big ambitions for making the federal government leaner and more efficient by reviewing its budget and operations from top to bottom.

Musk, the world’s richest person who owns or runs several companies, has warned that his goals – including cutting at least $2 trillion in federal spending – could cause “temporary hardship” before ultimately creating “long-term prosperity.” His pronouncements are prompting budget experts to scoff, while sending chills down the spines of many federal workers and those who depend on the federal government for assistance or their livelihood.

Details about how the new Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, will operate – and how Musk and his co-leader Vivek Ramaswamy will avoid conflicts of interest – remain scarce. But the duo has spoken openly about areas of the government they’d like to see altered, while Fuckface and Republican lawmakers have a long list of programs and operations they’d like to reform.

It’s important to note that while Fuckface has promised that the initiative will make “drastic changes,” Musk and Ramaswamy will not have any direct power to make spending cuts, regulatory changes or other moves. The group will exist outside of the government and will likely serve to make recommendations to the White House for the president’s annual budget, which outlines the president’s vision but Congress is not required to follow.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/14/politics/elon-musk-doge-trump/index.html




Yeah that’s a good question – what could possibly go wrong? Our fucking government is about to be run by a fucking meme, that’s what! And of course, some fucking eyebrows are being raised about this stupid fucking “department”. But, seriously, come on. Have you ever expected Fuckface to do anything ethical in the 8 years since he wormed his way down that fucking escalator? Of course not, and he’s not about to start now. Just when you think that it couldn’t possibly get any worse, new fucking lows are reached fucking daily with this crew. Think things are fucking bad now? Just wait until Fuckface starts announcing the Fox News fucking dream team cabinet. It’s going to get a whole lot fucking worse.

President-elect Orange Fuckface’s announcement Tuesday that tech billionaire Elon Musk and biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy will lead a newly formed advisory Department of Government Efficiency has alarmed some government ethics experts, who say the pair's deep financial interests could lead to potential conflicts of interest.

Some ethics experts are particularly alarmed that Musk and Ramaswamy's roles have been described as "outside of government" -- an arrangement that could potentially mean they would not be subject to normal financial disclosure rules, despite the major impact their work could have on the federal government.

"Together, these two wonderful Americans will pave the way for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies," Trump said of Musk and Ramaswamy, both of whom were vocal supporters of Fuckface’s reelection campaign.

As outside governmental advisers, Musk -- who owns Tesla, X and SpaceX -- and Ramaswamy -- who founded the biotech firm Roivant Sciences -- might not be subject to federal requirements mandating that officials disclose their financial interests to the Office of Government Ethics.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/ethics-experts-raise-concerns-musk-ramaswamys-department-government/story?id=115838961




F-Bomb Count: 569

Record Broken: We did it! We tied the Wolf Of Wall Street!


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Thank you U-Conn! We are grateful for you allowing us to get our post-election anxiety off our collective chests. Sigh… it’s going to be a long 2 years isn’t it? Fuck! FUCK! Ding! And hey, we did it! We broke the Wolf Of Wall Street’s record, everybody! Next week, we’re in the Garden State – New Jersey – at Rutgers with another edition!

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November 12, 2024

Some Top 10 announcements!

Announcement 1:

Remember at the beginning of the year when we said that this would be our last season? Well guess what? Trump's unfortunate win changed everything.

Our 2024 Year In Review edition is not the end of the Top 10.

We sat down and did some serious soul searching and retooling.

Some changes are coming.

In April 2025, a new era begins.

More announcements soon.
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We have to take an extended hiatus because this election practically brought us to the breaking point. Had Kamala won, things would have been drastically different. But nope. Sadly we don't get nice things in this country.

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November 2, 2024

Top 10 Conservative Idiots #17-12: We Need To Talk About Donny Edition


Top 10 Conservative Idiots #17-12: We Need To Talk About Donny Edition

Ed. Note - due to the recent disruption, this is the edition we meant to post on Halloween, now 3 days late! Enjoy!

Welcome back to the Top 10 Conservative Idiots! BooooooOOOOOOOoooooooOOOOooo!!! What’s up Ann Arbor? First off congratulations to the Los Angeles Dodgers for purchasing the World Series. Yankees, you almost made it. But seriously, anyone who ties this to the election - stop it already! No, Kamala didn't make Aaron Judge bungle that play! WTF. Moving on. So how are my ghouls doing? Are you ghouls doing fucking good? Awesome! And man, did we pick the right city for our Halloween and the pre-election special, didn't we? It has been a white hot minute since we last set foot in Central Michigan, which was what, 2019? So yeah it’s been a while! Good to see everybody on the eve of the election to end all elections! Look, I cannot stress enough how important it is to vote and to get out the vote, because we could be staring down a dictatorship if we don’t get the foul stench of Donald Trump out of the entire country. So this entire edition will be dedicated to exactly that! Because, look, we cannot have a repeat of 2016. Because the second time around, it will be infinitely worse. And I mean infinitely. Just look up Project 2025. But come on, it’s Halloween! Let’s have some fun! In fact, if you notice, my costume is Donald Trump working at McDonalds, like what we reported on last week. Ba da da da da da… I’m *NOT* loving it! Do we have time for the thing? Of course we do! Look, we’re in the post COVID era, and we know that COVID practically decimated the movie industry almost overnight in March of 2020. But this is one of those things where, we know that movie theaters are having a hard time staying open because of COVID and streaming. But Deadpool and Wolverine dominated the box office! You know what won’t dominate the box office? The Viewmaster movie. Yes, since the Barbie Movie became an unexpected box office phenomenon last year, Mattel has decided that every single toy that’s ever been made needs its’ own movie now. And how do you make a Viewmaster movie without it being a 2 hour infomercial? Well that’s basically what it is. The plot is described as “View-Master has inspired generations to embark on boundless adventures, offering a treasure trove of storytelling possibilities for this film”. So you don’t have a plot. We get it. At least He-Man has a plot. Ha ha ha ha, right? OK that’s enough of the intro. We have a lot of idiocy to get to, but first our buddy John Oliver is back, and this week he delves into the history of one of MAGA’s biggest cheerleaders, the God Bless The USA singer himself, Lee Greenwood:



So where do we begin this week? Well, as we said in our opening monologue, this entire edition is going to be dedicated to the election. And it’s truly insane that Fuckhead 45 could possibly be a coin flip away from the election. Holy shit, was this weekend a banner week for conservative idiocy or what? With that in mind, we’re going to dedicate the top slot of course, to the Slobfather himself (1). And while we normally don’t highlight his stupid rallies, the bullshit that was flying at his Madison Square Garden rally in New York City was quite the stuff of pure insanity! And for once, we actually agree with something Charlie Kirk said (don’t worry, we’ll explain later). In the second slot is Trump’s BFF Elon Musk (2). Yes, the Tesla / Space X / X / Boring Company / Starlink mad man may have been communicating with the enemy – premiere Russian warlord and dictator Vladimir Putin – prior to his hostile takeover of Twitter, which means it was nothing more than a political hit job. And speaking of hit jobs, two of the nation’s largest newspapers now run by psychopathic billionaires – the LA Times and Washington Post (3) – both failed to endorse Kamala, and were actually blocked by their owners. Yeah fuck both Patrick Soon-Singh and Jeff Bezos to the hottest of hells! In the number 4 slot this week is also unfortunately that guy who we inexplicably called president (4) and his rallys over the weekend in Traverse City, Michigan, and his appearance on the Joe Rogan show were the stuff of absolute disaster and the ramblings of a guy who is losing his mind on a daily basis. Which leads us to a lot of “what if” scenarios! In the number 5 slot is our segment that explores the never-ending world of relentless corporate greed in Late Stage Capitalism (5) – and this week, Disney is in some extremely hot water over a new push by corporate to move towards fully utilizing AI. Did we learn nothing from the 2023 Writers’ Strike? Of course we didn’t! In the number 6 slot this week is of course, our weekly visit to the Holy Church Of The Top 10 in “Holy Shit” (6) and this week, we’re going to answer the question “Why do people who claim to love the Constitution and the Bible get it wrong every single time?”. We don’t have a definitive, answer, but we can point fingers at the people responsible! Taking the number 7 slot, sigh… we really do have to bring back our segment that explains humor to those who still don’t get it in “Explaining Jokes To Idiots” (7) and look, that right wing “comedian” who spoke at the MSG rally? It’s not just a “joke”, it’s who they are. No. in the number 8 slot this week is our weekly venture into online tin foil hat nuttery in Conspiracy Corner (8) and this week, there’s an increasing number of right wingers, led by Mr. Brain Worm himself, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, who are grasping onto a bizarre new theory that drinking raw milk is good for you. Spoiler alert! No, it is not! In the number 9 (NEIN!!!) slot this week, we have a new I Need A Drink (9) – is this the end of the once beloved supermarket chain known as K-Mart? The store that gave us the “Blue Light Special” and the “Attention K Mart Shoppers” mantra may finally be closing its’ doors for good. Finally this week, And finally, in our weekly roundup of election coverage in Road To The White House (10) - think this election is going to spared from 3rd party madness? Well you're wrong, and there's a couple of new faces who could wreak havoc at the polls! Have we learned nothing from 2016? No. Plus to cap things off, we have some live music from the legendary Knocked Loose! Buy their new album "You Won't Go Until You're Supposed To" or you’re no friend of this program! Enjoy! And as always don't forget the key!

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Here we are. 5 days out from the fucking election. And let me tell you something – I am nervous as all hell. Yes, we need to get our shit together. The fate of the free world is at stake here. So for the sake of this piece, you know we love a good movie reference around here. And I can’t think of no better reference to use than the 2015 psycho mass murder flick “We Need To Talk About Kevin”. But in this case, let’s call it “We Need To Talk About Donny”. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha… somehow putting Trump’s picture on that poster makes it look even more evil! Yes, we need to talk about Donny. While the official Top 10 stance is that we normally shy away from talking about Trump’s rallies and Fox News appearances, because day in and day out, he says some ridiculously crazy shit. But this clip from last Sunday’s rally at New York’s Madison Square Garden may have been one of the most extreme things ever said from any Trump rally in the last 8 years so far. But that’s extremely telling. And it’s who MAGA is. It’s what they’ve been building up to the last 8 years.

Tony Hinchcliffe, a comic and podcast host, was the first speaker at the New York City rally and delivered a routine that mocked Blacks, Latinos and Jews and called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean.”

Pennsylvania, one of the battleground states where polling shows there’s a tight race between Trump and Harris, has the third-largest Puerto Rican population in the county, after Florida and New York. Puerto Rico is also home to over 3 million American citizens, many of whom migrated to the U.S. after Hurricane Maria in 2017. (Puerto Ricans who live on the island are not eligible to vote in the presidential election despite being U.S. citizens.)

Hinchcliffe has mostly made a name for himself in the comedy world for his jokes on "Comedy Central Roast." He’s faced backlash for his jokes before, notably in 2021, when during a standup set he used a slur about fellow comedian Peng Dang. Hinchcliffe was subsequently dropped by his talent agency.

His podcast, "Kill Tony," gets over 2 million downloads per episode, the Wrap reported in March.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/what-to-know-about-the-backlash-over-trumps-madison-square-garden-rally-192819001.html




Yeah, right? We’ve been covering Trump’s schtick for nearly 8 years now, and it’s insane as to what is going on. He’s been on what might call his “revenge tour”. Because if he doesn’t get elected president in the election next week, he’s going down. And he’s taking a lot of people in his camp with him, should Kamala assume victorious! But the closing arguments for the election are painting two drastically different pictures. Harris delivered one in the area of the National Mall in Washington DC known as the Ellipse, where Trump gave his speech in 2020 prior to the January 6th Insurrection. Her speech was filled with hope and inspiration. Trump’s on the other hand, well, very on brand for everything we’ve been seeing the last few months.

Former President Donald Trump should leave the meteorology to the professionals.

After taking jabs at Kamala Harris and his second debate moderators at a North Carolina rally Wednesday afternoon, Trump suddenly turned to Hurricane Helene, the category storm that devastated large swaths of the state earlier this month, leaving 130 people dead and damaging key infrastructure beyond repair.

“I must’ve been the first one, I followed that storm right in,” the former president said. “I saw the devastation, it was a travesty, it was viscous, it was water. The water was the worst we’d ever seen. It was a water hurricane, that’s what it was.”

This may have been a part of Trump’s usual meandering rally ramblings, or he may just be truly unaware of what a Category 4 hurricane entails. Either way, he spent an ample amount of time explaining how a hurricane works to a crowd that just experienced one of the deadliest hurricanes in two decades.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/cognitive-decline-trump-goes-weird-195909091.html




Yeah, seriously, WTF. You know, at this point, if we were in a normal timeline, would be when some guys in white coats come and take Trump aside for a nice little chat. This definitely isn’t a Bluto from Animal House moment. This is the opposite of that. It’s a “what the fuck are we doing as a society” moment. And he can’t hire Fox News approved “doctor” Ronny Jackson to cheat and rig his way out of this one. Ronny Jackson got rewarded for rigging his cognitive test with a permanent job as a Fox News installed member of Congress. What the actual fuck! Rupert Murdoch does not own us. OK, rant over, stay on target! Yes, Trump’s decline is definitely a huge concern and we could be a Big Mac away from a JD Vance dictatorship! And who’s to say he won’t leave?

Democrats and the Harris-Walz campaign are again taking aim at former President Trump’s mental acuity following his 30-minute music and head-popping detour during what was supposed to be a town hall event in Philadelphia Monday night.

Harry Segal is a senior lecturer in the Psychology Department at Cornell University and in the Psychiatry Department at Weill Cornell Medicine. He says Trump’s awkward display at his rally was another clear sign of mental decline.

Segal says: “What’s alarming is how the rate of Trump’s bizarre speech and political decisions have been increasing. He gave an answer about childcare to the Economic Club of New York so incoherent that even his supporters were concerned. Last week he got cognitively lost in a rally and began to talk about the ‘eight circles’ that Biden filled up with journalists. No one on his staff has been able to explain the reference.

“Trump has shown evidence of dementia for the past year as indicated by his strange gait, phonemic paraphasia—when he begins a word and can’t finish it—and decline in the complexity of his words and concepts. This limited capacity explains his poor debate performance, but there are two more disturbing signs of his decline.
https://as.cornell.edu/news/trumps-abrupt-decision-play-dj-sign-accelerating-cognitive-decline-says-cornell-expert




Well, fucking duh! Where were you like four months ago when we could have, you know, done something about it? We are watching Trump in his last legs and he wants to be remembered for all eternity. Well, he will be. But not for the reasons he’s thinking about. He will be remembered for the hate and division he sowed and thrived on, as well as being the tyrannical dictator who overturned Roe V Wade out of spite, despite his minions in Congress lying under oath saying they wouldn’t. Not only is Trump looking more exhausted by the day, he’s also looking dehydrated and disheveled. But seriously, if Trump’s decline is such a concern, why wait until now? Oh yeah it’s because America’s billionaires are out to destroy the country and profit from it, that’s why.

Donald Trump’s racism, sexism, xenophobia and penchant for corruption have long made him unfit for any public office, let alone the presidency. But as he continues his bid for a second term in the White House, there is an unsettling and undeniable shift that is leading many experts, observers and even some Trump supporters to conclude that the former president’s mental acuity and sharpness are also in decline, that his physical health and stamina are waning and that his frustration and anger are boiling over.

Americans from both sides of the political spectrum should be alarmed by Trump’s words and behavior. The nation must confront the fact that beyond his hateful character, he is crippled cognitively and showing clear signs of mental illness.

There’s no need to resort to armchair psychology to interpret what’s apparent. If victorious, Trump would be the oldest president ever inaugurated. In recent weeks, he has canceled an increasing number of public appearances, with Trump’s own campaign citing the candidate’s exhaustion. When he does appear publicly, Trump struggles to complete sentences or sustain coherent thoughts, and has shown a pronounced difficulty concentrating and a tendency to repeat himself, sometimes within the same sentence.
https://lasvegassun.com/news/2024/oct/30/trumps-decline-has-been-alarming/





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We all know what a political hit job is. And that term has been thrown around a lot lately, but there’s one that’s more evident than anything was the hostile takeover of Twitter by the Mad Man of Tesla, Elon Musk. Yes, he’s not just the CEO of X, he’s also the platform’s biggest shit poster! But now, almost 2 years after the takeover, we’re learning more and more about what may have caused him to spend and waste nearly $44 billion on the acquisition. Yes, he may have been talking with the Moscow Mad Man himself, Vladimir Putin. Yes, the fascist slimebag in chief, supreme bad guy of bad guys, and premiere Russian warlord may have been the catalyst for Elon’s hostile takeover of X, and why he’s such a Trump / MAGA fanboy. Yet, remember back in the middle years of the Trump administration, how we were told that we couldn’t question MAGA’s ties to Russia? Yeah, it’s becoming more clear about why we can’t do that – they are all in on it! Yes, we called that shit back in 2017! And it couldn’t be more evident now in 2024, with American democracy on the line!

The news of the past few weeks has included some developments that on their own could seem minor: Since he left office, Donald Trump has held a half-dozen phone calls with Vladimir Putin. Elon Musk is also talking regularly to the Russian leader. A couple of newspaper owners decided their newspapers’ editorial boards shouldn’t make an endorsement in the presidential election.

But for Fiona Hill, the former Trump adviser who is one of the world’s top experts on Russia and Putin, these events create a worrisome pattern.

In an interview with POLITICO Magazine, Hill, like other scholars and historians with an expertise in autocratic regimes, said she sees the American political system already drifting into autocracy, even before Trump is potentially elected. A key sign is that members of the country’s billionaire class are acting more and more like oligarchs.

Thinking about Trump and Putin and Musk as fellow oligarchs helps explain why they all seem so enthralled with each other. As Hill noted, they are part of a very small group of men who control vast fortunes and vast political power that have global reach, and who prefer to deal with each other.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/10/28/fiona-hill-explains-trump-musk-putin-00185820




Yeah BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Remember all the shit we got for questioning why the GOP was suddenly becoming the biggest Russian fanboys? Well, who’s laughing now? And it’s way past time to reopen the investigation. We get charging a lot of people may take some time. Like that scene in the Dark Knight when Harvey Dent takes down half of Gotham’s mafia in a single trial. It would be nice if we could get most of the GOP that way, but that’s wishful thinking at this point. But the fact that Elon’s basically a gateway between the GOP and big daddy Vladdy is well, it’s troublesome to say the least. At least Bernie Sanders gets it!

Elon Musk's alleged conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin have raised national security questions highlighting the U.S. government's reliance on SpaceX, the tech billionaire's astronautics company.

Why it matters: The situation puts the government in the difficult position of choosing to continue its relationship with Musk despite the liability he could pose, or sever ties and lose access to services it relies on.

Driving the news: Musk has been in "regular contact" with Putin since 2022, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

SpaceX has contracts with the Department of Defense, which relies on the company to get its satellites into orbit.
SpaceX also has multiple contracts with NASA which relies on the company's rocket launches to take astronauts into space and bring supplies to the International Space Station.

The big picture: Musk acknowledged while campaigning for former President Trump at a Pennsylvania town hall earlier this month that he has a "top-secret" security clearance, the Journal reported.
https://www.axios.com/2024/10/28/elon-musk-security-clearance-putin




Yes, that is a good question! What could that mean for Elon’s security clearance contracts with the United States government? Come on, you and I both know that it won’t mean a damn thing, because Elon is the richest guy in the world. He can buy and sell his way out of any trial that might come out of this incident. But even the head of NASA is concerned that Elon knows way more about the US’s space operations than he probably should. Is Elon passing these secrets onto the king fascist himself? It’s entirely possible. Especially after we know that Trump kept boxes of top secret documents including the locations of America’s weapons stash in a bathroom at Mar-A-Shithole.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson has expressed concerns over reports that SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Nelson was on stage at Semafor's World Economy Summit on Friday (Oct. 25) when he was asked about an Oct. 24 Wall Street Journal article, which reported that Musk has, in secret, been in regular contact with Putin since late 2022, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February that year. The report cites former U.S., European and Russian officials.

"[SpaceX] have been phenomenally successful … I don't know if that story is true," Nelson said. “I think it should be investigated. If it's true there have been multiple conversations with Elon Musk and the president of Russia, then that would be concerning, particularly for NASA and the Department of Defense," Nelson said in response, Semafor reported.

Musk's SpaceX is a crucial commercial partner for NASA. Its Falcon 9 rockets launch cargo and crew to the International Space Station. Its huge, in-development Starship vehicle is also integral to the agency's bid to put astronauts back on the moon with the Artemis 3 mission in the coming years.
https://www.space.com/nasa-chief-bill-nelson-concerned-elon-musk-putin-talks




Seriously, right? Growing up, we were always taught that Russia was the bad guy. Especially now that they’re headed by a guy who is sowing hate, discord, and distrust all around the world and replacing competent leaders with insane cronies in his quest to become supreme overlord of earth. So you know who wins in this unholy alliance? I’ll give you a hint – it’s not us. And it’s becoming more evident that it’s not fascism that we need to worry about that’s taking over the US. It’s oligarchism. There’s 700 billionaires in the US. There’s 320 million of us. Let’s make them sure in November that we are not their personal property, and the United States government isn’t their personal plaything. Our representatives work for us, not Elon Musk and Fox News.

One night in September 2022, the Ukrainian military launched a drone attack targeting the frigate Admiral Makarov, the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. As the drones closed in, Ukrainian commanders suddenly realized something was wrong. Their communication links with the drones — connected by the Starlink satellite-based internet service — were inoperable.

At that point, the mission was aborted. Some of the drones which had lost connectivity washed ashore without exploding. Most sank into the sea or self-destructed. Ukrainian commanders reported that only two drones returned undamaged.

What would’ve been a dramatic victory for Ukraine had been thwarted by a most unlikely defender. Few knew at the time that that day was a watershed moment in U.S. politics regarding how money and power are leveraged by nongovernment actors.

When, earlier that year, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk purchased Twitter (which he later renamed “X”), it wasn’t expected to significantly impact U.S. government policy. But the purchase — and the criticism he received for it — opened Musk up to a whole new world of politics. This was a world in which he suddenly saw unconventional ways to leverage his wealth to impact policy. He realized he didn’t have to play by the normal quid pro quo rules that other wealthy political funders did.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-musk-putin-russia-2024-election-rcna177588





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Look, people, the election is 5 days away. 5! 5! 5! This is literally the 11th hour! And we’ve got to get our shit together to stop the fascist evil that is currently lurking in this country. But the “undecided” people are definitely not helping. You know who else isn’t helping? Two of America’s largest newspapers – the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post. And you’re probably wondering – “Hey! Aren’t these two papers part of the liberal media?”. Well you’d think so. But since the Los Angeles Times got usurped in 2018 by billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong, it’s been trending way more in the conservative direction than in the past. Same with the Washington Post, which got bought by Jeff Bezos in 2020. Yes, that Washington Post. The same one who’s been screaming at us for 8 years “democracy dies in darkness!!”. Yeah, I have the coffee mug sitting on my desk at our home office in Santa Ana. But it’s insane that the people who’ve been screaming that democracies die in darkness, well guess what? You just killed democracy in broad dayilight. Cause of death? Murder by billionaire.

The Los Angeles Times will not be making a presidential endorsement in this election, the first time the paper has stayed silent on a presidential race since 2004. But the decision not to endorse a candidate was not made by an editor. The paper’s billionaire owner, Patrick Soon-Shiong, stepped in to forbid the paper from doing so.

The move sparked a furor over the lack of editorial freedom (Semafor, 10/22/24; KTLA, 10/22/24; Adweek, 10/23/24). The paper lost 2,000 subscribers, and editorials editor Mariel Garza resigned in protest, along with two other staffers, including a Pulitzer Prize winner (Guardian, 10/25/24).

SNIP According to news reports, the paper had been preparing an endorsement until Soon-Shiong reached across the wall that is supposed to separate the business and editorial wings of a newspaper. He tried to rationalize his decision, according to the Guardian:

SNIP Soon-Shiong, who bought the LA Times from Tronc in 2018, attempted to portray himself as a defender of the free press against attacks from then-President Donald Trump (CNBC, 9/7/18). But Soon-Shiong—a doctor who made a fortune in the for-profit medical industry (New Yorker, 10/25/21)—was not shy about his ambitions for a top health position in the Trump administration (Stat, 11/21/16, 1/25/17).
https://fair.org/home/la-times-non-endorsement-another-sign-of-our-billionaire-dominated-politics/




Yeah BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Look, here’s why this is dangerous. We know that America’s billionaires are out for absolute power and one party rule, because they directly benefit from getting more billions. And we’d like to tell them where they can shove their ill gotten gains. Yes, straight up their asses! Not endorsing either candidate is worse than taking a stand. Both papers would lose subscribers either way. Even if you take a stand, you can say “they took the wrong stand”. But by not taking a stand, you’re basically telling your subscribers to go fuck themselves. Especially your loyal liberal audience. We think we might have a theory about this and we’ll tell you in a second.

The Washington Post has been rocked by a tidal wave of cancellations from digital subscribers and a series of resignations from columnists, as the paper grapples with the fallout of owner Jeff Bezos’s decision to block an endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris for president.

More than 200,000 people had canceled their digital subscriptions by midday Monday, according to two people at the paper with knowledge of internal matters. Not all cancellations take effect immediately. Still, the figure represents about 8% of the paper’s paid circulation of roughly 2.5 million subscribers, which includes print as well. The number of cancellations continued to grow Monday afternoon.

A corporate spokesperson declined to comment, citing The Washington Post Co.'s status as a privately held company.

“It’s a colossal number,” former Post Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli told NPR. “The problem is, people don’t know why the decision was made. We basically know the decision was made but we don’t know what led to it.
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/28/nx-s1-5168416/washington-post-bezos-endorsement-president-cancellations-resignations




Yes, they suck. But look, we can’t help but think this is a deliberate political hit job designed to sow distrust in the two largest newspapers in the country. Two that have been remaining staunchly liberal until this year. And we can totally understand not wanting to be on Trump’s enemies list. Which is to say we do not know how, with everything we know about Donald Trump at this point, to endorse anyone but Harris and Walz. This is dangerous. You play stupid games, you win stupid prizes. And this is absolutely no surprise. The Washington Post lost a shit ton of subscribers and there may be more where that came from. The LA Times? They’re about to lose key staff too!

The world of weird surrounding the 2024 presidential election just got even weirder. Days after SoCal paper of record the LA Times announced that its editorial board would not endorse a candidate for president, a puzzling and contradictory narrative has emerged. Its owner since June 2018, billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong, claims that the issue is its opinion section's leadership, which refused to comply with his directive to draft a policy detail compare and contrast list. They instead “chose to remain silent," he claimed, a statement that past and present Times staffers say is false. Then on Saturday, Soon-Shiong's daughter, 31-year-old Oxford University student Nika Soon-Shiong, threw another position into the mix. She claims that her family decided as a unit not to allow the paper to issue a recommendation for who is most fit to occupy the highest office in the land due to concerns over US support of Israel in the war in Gaza. But according to a spokesperson for her father, that statement—which she has repeated a number of times via social media—isn't true at all.

This isn't the first time that the Soon-Shiong's family business has caused problems for the newspaper. In 2022, over three dozen past and present staffers spoke out about Patrick's alleged efforts to encourage stories on businesses he has an interest in, while Nika was called out for allegedly attacking public safety coverage that she believed was too supportive of the police. The in January, the paper's executive editor, Kevin Merida, abruptly resigned in January after—per the New York Times—Patrick attempted to block reporting into lawsuits against one of his acquaintances. Patrick denies those allegations, while Nika told Politico in 2022 that she disputes the “suggestion that I control the editorial decisions of the paper."
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/la-times-endorsement-kamala-harris-donald-trump-2024-presidential-election




Like fuck you don’t! You’re the CEO! Not the editorial president! You control the business end of the paper. And look, this is the United States of America, not the United States of Fox News. Rupert Murdoch is not the supreme overlord of the United States. We are not his personal property. You can, you know, stand up to him! We have this thing called the 1st Amendment that will protect you. But no, this is how democracies die in darkness – when people become so power hungry that they can’t tell their ass from a hole in the ground. Do you want dictators? Because this is how you get dictators. You can stand up to Trump. Bullies back down when you kick them in the ass. And we need to do that to Trump, hard.

The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post are facing mounting backlash after the papers’ publishers announced no presidential endorsements would be made this year. The L.A. Times is owned by billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong, and The Washington Post is owned by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos. NPR is reporting more than 200,000 people have canceled their Washington Post subscriptions, and counting.

A number of journalists have also resigned, including the editorials editor at the Los Angeles Times, Mariel Garza, who wrote, “How could we spend eight years railing against Trump and the danger his leadership poses to the country and then fail to endorse the perfectly decent Democrat challenger — who we previously endorsed for the U.S. Senate?” unquote. Veteran journalists Robert Greene and Karin Klein have also resigned from the L.A. Times editorial board.

At The Washington Post, David Hoffman and Molly Roberts both resigned on Monday from the Post editorial board. Michele Norris also resigned as a Washington Post columnist, and Robert Kagan resigned as editor-at-large. David Hoffman, who just won a Pulitzer Prize for his series “Annals of Autocracy,” wrote, quote, “I believe we face a very real threat of autocracy in the candidacy of Donald Trump. I find it untenable and unconscionable that we have lost our voice at this perilous moment.”
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/10/29/lat_wapo_harris_endorsements_2024





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Look, I know that the Top 10’s official policy is to not talk about Trump’s rallies or Fox News appearances because there’s like one literally every single day now. And the answer is yes, it does get extremely tedious keeping up with all of the bullshit, which is flying fast and rather furiously. But there’s one aspect of the rallies that hasn’t been covered in the press as much as it should – people are leaving early, and his attendance is dwindling. People have had enough of MAGA hatred and it’s really starting to show, even amongst Trump’s most loyal hardcore followers. And a couple of weeks ago, we brought you the story of Trump stranding his supporters in the Coachella desert in California, but really, to give him the benefit of the doubt, it wasn’t his fault, he can’t help that his fans are shitty, disgusting excuses for human beings. But the fact that even Trump’s most diehard followers are leaving his rallies early, is a sign that maybe the tide is finally starting to turn. And no, Sky News, you don’t get to say that people are leaving Kamala’s rallies early too. It doesn’t work that way. But it all started in Las Vegas a few weeks ago when Harris pointed out Trump’s dwindling crowd sizes.

Vice President Kamala Harris poked at Donald Trump over crowd sizes, his refusal to debate again and his privileged background on Sunday as she hauled in campaign cash in California and held a raucous rally at the same Nevada venue where the Republican nominee had appeared just two weeks ago.

During the presidential debate, Harris appeared to get under the former president’s skin when she said people were leaving his rallies early because of his rambling speeches. And she’s kept it up on the campaign trail.

The vice president told donors at a tony Los Angeles fundraiser that, as she campaigns around the country, her “crowds are pretty big.” And then before a roaring Las Vegas crowd estimated at 7,500, she renewed her jabs at Trump over being reluctant to debate again, saying, “The American people have a right to hear us discuss the issues. And as you say here in Las Vegas, I’m all in. I’m all in.”

Harris’ four-day West Coast trip had dual purposes: She opened and closed it with stops in Sun Belt battlegrounds — Arizona and Nevada — where the vice president is trying to shore up support as Trump pounds her relentlessly over illegal migration. And her mid-stay in California was devoted to hauling in campaign contributions from donors in her blue home state.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/at-a-las-vegas-rally-and-an-la-fundraiser-harris-needled-trump-on-crowd-sizes




Yeah.. why isn’t there a giant cartoon hook grabbing him off stage? Good question! So why are people leaving Trump rallies, early, you might ask? And why isn’t the press covering this? Well for one thing – exhaustion. In regards to Trump’s rally in Traverse City, Michigan – he left them out in the cold for three hours while he went and barfed his brain on the Joe Rogan show. To which we say – 3 fucking hours? I mean even the best talk show host in the world couldn’t keep an audience interested for an entire 3 hours, let alone 15 minutes. And by the time he actually got to the stage, people have had enough. So seriously, it sounds like the last time Kanye West played a live show before he went crazy.

Many of Donald Trump’s supporters left a Michigan rally before he arrived after the former president kept them waiting for three hours to tape a popular podcast interview.

Those who remained at the outdoor rally on an airport tarmac huddled in the cold Friday night as they waited for the former president to touch down in the battleground state.

Trump apologized to the crowd for the delay, which he blamed on an interview with Joe Rogan, the nation’s most listened-to podcaster and an influential voice with younger male voters Trump is aggressively courting.

The interview, taped in Austin, Texas, was released Friday night and ran a whopping three hours, with Trump telling many familiar stories from his rallies and other interviews but also engaging with Rogan on topics like the existence of UFOs.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-leaves-supporters-waiting-for-hours-at-michigan-rally-as-he-recorded-joe-rogan-podcast




Ha ha ha ha… great movie! So this begs the question – why is Trump still polling at 50% in the polls right now? It’s because the 700 billionaires in this country – aka the fuckheads (powers) that be – are trying to manipulate us. They don’t want a free and prosperous America. It’s not in their best interests. They want us divided, miserable, and fighting with each other over petty, stupid bullshit. Hell, even at his extremist rally at New York’s Madison Square Garden, which we covered early in this week’s edition, people were spotted leaving the venue early. I mean come on, of all the reasons you could visit New York City, this is what you choose to get you out of the house? Well guess what, not only did people leave early, they were left stranded before they got in.

Some of Donald Trump's supporters appeared to leave his Madison Square Garden (MSG) rally early, a video shows.

Crowd size and how long folks stay at a rally has been a consistent topic in the run-up to the election on November 5, especially after Kamala Harris said people leave Trump's events "out of exhaustion and boredom" during the pair's TV presidential debate on September 13.

Multiple posts on social media have claimed that people made an early exit from Trump's major rally at MSG in New York on Sunday.

CNN journalist DJ Judd shared photos of people walking up the aisles in between rows of seats at the 19,500-seat arena, which was sold out, according to Reuters.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-supporters-leave-early-madison-square-garden-1975721




I know, right? This is where it gets sad – or in Trump’s words – SAD!, that people are leaving early – it’s because he’s too damn late! Crap, when I was in community college, we got to leave early if the teacher was 20 minutes late. But three hours? And people still stuck around? What are you doing? Are your lives so empty that this is your only form of entertainment? When you could choose to be entertained by literally anything else, you choose this bullshit? What’s wrong with you? 3 hours and Trump should be speaking to an empty venue. Even his most die-hard supporters would head for the gates at that point, so what’s stopping them? WTF! But of course, like nearly everything with these clowns, it’s *NEVER* their fault. It’s always someone else’s fault.

Crowd size has been a frequent topic in the run-up to the November election. Questions about the length of Trump's speeches and attendees leaving early surfaced after Harris took a jab at him during their presidential debate on September 13.

"During his rallies, you'll hear him talk about fictional characters like Hannibal Lecter.... And what you'll notice is that people start leaving early out of exhaustion and boredom," Harris said.

After a town hall Tuesday in Flint, Michigan, just days before the Walker rally, Trump once again confronted reports that people had been seen leaving the event. Video clips circulated on social media, including one shared by liberal commentator Ron Filipkowski, showing attendees walking up the stairs and out of the venue while Trump was speaking.

Trump has repeatedly denied that people are leaving, and during the town hall he said: "We do these rallies—they're massive rallies. Everybody loves—everybody stays until the end, by the way."
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-explains-why-people-are-leaving-rallies-early-1960648





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“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.” – Gordon Gekko, Wall St. (1987)

When corporate profits are at an all time high, there is nowhere else to go but to make more millions.

There is corporate greed, and then there is:



Welcome back to our segment on the relentless pursuit of never-ending corporate greed, Late Stage Capitalism! Sure, it’s not enough to make $50 billion, you need $150 billion! You need to be able to tank entire countries while you jet off in your penis-shaped rocket to the vast emptiness of deep space! This week, another week, another time the corporation known as Disney does something stupid. Yes, lost in the sea of shitty news story after shitty news story, was the Mouse House getting into some hot water over their full embrace and utilization of artificial intelligence. Yes, don’t boo yet. Now, you might be thinking – “Hey wait a minute, wasn’t that the subject of the Hollywood writer’s strike to end all strikes last year?”. To which I would answer, you are correct sir or madam! But in the never-ending quest for profit and to enhance Bob Iger’s bottom line and to fellate the shareholders, which of course reeks of shades of what Boeing is going through right now. But really, nearly all of our current problems can be traced back to billionaire CEOs and the shareholder class. And of course, this is absolutely no exception.

Disney—one of the world’s largest owners of intellectual property—is getting ready to unveil a “major AI initiative” that will focus primarily on post-production and VFX, according to TheWrap.

TheWrap on Thursday reported that, in addition to post and visual effects, the project will also involve parks and experiences, involving “hundreds” of Disney employees.

A source told the media outlet that they didn’t know when the initiative will be announced but added that it is not as expansive as other sources have reported.

The news comes a year and a half after Disney announced the creation of an “AI Task Force” to determine the best ways to implement AI in its production and corporate sectors. The task force was created around the time Disney announced it would lay off around 7,000 workers by the end of the 2023. In the interim, Hollywood endured writers and actors strikes that lasted throughout much of 2023 and were prompted, among other things, by concerns over the future use of AI in film and television.
https://www.tvtechnology.com/news/disney-expected-to-announce-major-ai-initiative




So come on, people! Have we learned nothing from the 2023 Writer’s Strike? Apparently not. But the question is – is AI taking over Disney or is Disney taking over AI? Well, there’s a couple of trains of thought on this. It seems like every company that has a net worth on NASDAQ is taking on their own AI initiatives! To which the rest of us are saying – “OMG! They’re coming for our jobs!!!!”. And yes, MAGA, illegal immigrants aren’t taking over your jobs. Automation and artificial intelligence are! Don’t blame the few, or if you’re watching Fox, 32 million coming over the border to take your jobs. Yes, that’s almost as much as the population of the greater LA area. Surely someone would have seen that! But you know who’s really responsible for your jobs disappearing? Blame the rise of the machines!

Despite the constant backlash Hollywood faces for utilizing Artificial Intelligence in producing content, a new development in the House of Mouse raised concern. Is AI truly taking over Disney? Here's what you need to know.

Is AI Taking Over Disney? Recent Report Details Company's Major AI Initiative

According to a recent report from The Wrap, the Walt Disney Co. is preparing to launch a "transformative AI program" to transform the creative output, primarily its post-production and visual effects.

Although details remain under wraps, an anonymous insider at Disney said that the AI initiative movement will involve "hundreds" of people at the company that would also involve parks and experiences, but not customer-facing.

A Disney spokesman declined to comment on the story.
https://m.imdb.com/news/ni64911595/?ref_=tt_nwr_1




So if you work for the Mouse House, and you’re wondering if this new push towards automation and artificial intelligence will have an impact on your jobs, well guess what? You bet your ass it will! Because, wait for it – the assholes that be are already discussing layoffs when this AI technology is implemented at all levels. And yes, for those of you boycotting the entertainment industry because of AI and greedy-ass CEOs, guess what? Your job is at stake too! And why does their financial position “need to be improved”? Oh yeah it’s because the greedy-ass CEO class needs some new yachts and penis shaped rockets to one-up each other! So yeah, the economy is great if you’re of the billionaire CEO class, it sucks for everybody else, and in the end, everyone gets screwed including you and me!

The Wrap, a media outlet focused on the entertainment industry, reports that Disney is set to announce a major AI-driven initiative. This shift is expected to primarily target postproduction and visual effects but could also impact their parks and experiences.

This development suggests potential major changes in how Disney films (as a remonder, Disney also owns Marvel and Lucasfilm) could be produced in the future. This news may not come as a complete surprise, since Disney CEO Bob Iger has previously spoken about AI, stating that technological progress is inevitable.

However, this news comes amid Disney’s ongoing layoff plans in response to the pandemic: approximately 7,000 employees have been laid off across the group, aimed at improving the company’s financial position. The company was hit hard by COVID, particularly when it comes to its theme parks, cruises, and box office revenue. In September, around 300 more employees were let go.
This AI-driven initiative will likely aim to reduce costs, especially in visual effects and postproduction expenses.

It remains challenging to predict the exact impact, both internally and among VFX vendors. That being said, following Lionsgate’s recent announcement of a deal with Runway, a company specializing in generative AI, this is yet another sign of Hollywood’s shift towards AI.
https://3dvf.com/en/disney-to-shift-focus-towards-ai-in-postproduction-and-vfx-layoffs-ahead/




No they’re not from Dreamworks. But here’s where Bob Iger and other CEOs who are thinking about going all in on artificial intelligence need to know. AI can be used for good as well as evil. It can be used for fake and real. In fact, one example came out of the devastation of Hurricane Helene. Helene, which went nowhere near Orlando, was used by an online group to generate images of Disneyland as if it was flooded. And you know what? It worked… until it didn’t. And you know who suffers in the end when stuff like this gets implemented? It’s not the CEO class. They never suffer, because they have all of the money and they just want more. Nope, it will be us who patronizes the CEO class. Strap in, because we are in it for the long haul!

Florida officials warned residents to stay inside due to potentially deadly flash floods caused by Hurricane Milton, which made landfall in the US state on October 9, 2024. However, online images supposedly showing the Walt Disney World Resort underwater appear to have been fabricated using artificial intelligence, and the company said its park "weathered the storm."

"It is reported that Disneyland has been flooded due to Hurricane Milton," said an October 10, 2024 X post from former Ukrainian deputy interior minister Anton Gerashchenko.

The post, which has since been removed, included three purported images of Disney's Florida park partially submerged in water overnight, including its iconic Cinderella Castle.

The same images have circulated elsewhere on X, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, TikTok and news websites -- including in Spanish, German, Russian, Malayalam, Armenian and Korean.

Many posts credit the Russian state-owned news agency RIA Novosti, which re-shared them on its official Telegram channel, garnering hundreds of thousands of views.
https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.36JU2AM







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Gather around my fair brothers and sisters! It’s time to take a seat in the pew and pass the collection plate, for the Holy Church Of The Top 10 has convened and it’s time to remind you that the holiest among us are the most full of:



My fair congregation! Please be seated! You know this week, we’re going to answer a question that is as old as time itself. That question is – why do the most hardcore religious among us always get it wrong when it comes to the Bible? And also the Constitution? Which that comes courtesy of our good friend, the MAGA alt right pseudo-historian David Barton, who we will get to in a minute. But today’s god fearing Christian folks don’t worship GAWD or JAYSUS! Oh no, they worship the unholy, ungodly Dark One! I of course speak of a man who is so foul, so depraved and disgusting that his name DARE NOT be spoken in my church! So why do the holiest among us always get it wrong, my fair congregation? I mean we do not have a definitive answer to that question. But, we can most certainly point fingers at the people who we think might be responsible for this atrocity. Herein lies the problem – part of it is that they got some of the stupidest people alive elected to positions that they don’t belong in, just so that they can maintain power. The holiest among us are also the most power addicted. And it’s truly insane what they are currently up to!

One of the defining characteristics of Christian nationalist activists is a willingness to misrepresent history, as time after time they spread blatant falsehoods in defense of their right-wing ideology. Often, this is rooted in their own ignorance about the Founding Era and the creation of the Constitution, as right-wing pastor, former mayor and city councilman Rob McCoy demonstrated during a recent appearance on "The Heidi St. John Podcast."

While insisting that the United States was created with "a Christian form of government," McCoy rattled off a series of completely false statements.

"When they did the Constitutional Convention and they were at loggerheads in 1787 and they broke for three days of fasting and prayer—and [Benjamin] Franklin's prayer is remarkable—but they come back and they come up with a brilliant idea of a bicameral legislature," McCoy said. "And they put the Three-Fifths Clause in there because they couldn't deal with slavery at the time but they had a sunset clause all established to get rid of it, and they did the Three-Fifth's Compromise so the slaveholding states couldn't have representation in the lower house if they weren't going to give Black Americans citizenship and the right to vote. So they were working through this."

"The only branch of government we could elect was the lower house, the House of Representatives," he continued. "They made them the most powerful branch of the government, or at least the most powerful half of a branch of the government, by giving them the purse strings. And then the House of Representatives would then appoint the senators for each of their states, depending on the number of representatives, they would appoint their two senators. And then the House of Representatives would also appoint the president—which is where we get the Electoral College—and then the president would appoint the judiciary. So this lower house was very powerful."
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/why-do-christian-nationalists-rob-mccoy-know-so-little-about-constitution




Yes, therein lies the problem, my fair congregation! They think that they own the government and are entitled to power, because those are the hate and lies that they’ve been fed by their pastors, talk radio hosts, and news networks for the last 40 years! And as you know, when you repeat the lie long enough, it eventually becomes fact. Which has caused a lot of people – particularly *COUGH* Rupert Murdoch *COUGH* - to use that to their advantage! But it’s absolutely insane that the holiest among us constantly get facts wrong in favor of extremism. This is what happens when people start favoring conspiracy theories over, you know, facts.

George Pearsons is a right-wing pastor who, in addition to being the son-in-law of televangelist Kenneth Copeland, serves as senior pastor at Copeland's church, where he routinely uses his pulpit to spread Christian nationalist disinformation.

Pearsons, who has insisted for years that God is "not happy" about the 2020 election supposedly being stolen from Donald Trump, used his Sunday sermon to discuss the upcoming presidential election, insisting that the Founding Fathers used the Bible "as the foundation for all U.S. elected officials."

"I remember the day that I heard that from David Barton," Pearsons said. "I remember that day so clearly. It came to me as revelation that the Founding Fathers used Exodus 18:21 as the foundation for all U.S. elected officials. What does it say? It says, 'You shall select from all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth and hating covetousness'; hating greed, hating anything that would even reek of selfishness and wrong motivation for what they do, the job that they do."

Reading from another translation, Pearsons emphasized that "you shall choose" able men as leaders, quickly paraphrasing it to mean that Christians must elected "men and women who are competent, who fear God, who have integrity, and who are incorruptible."
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/george-pearsons-spreads-false-christian-nationalist-history




Now here’s what I want to know – nowhere in the Bible does it say that GAWD created America, absolutely nowhere! Except of course in that Bible endorsed by the unholy Dark One and his sidekick Lee Greenwood, maybe that’s an exception! But of course, they just keep repeating it. Like no matter how many times you tell them they’re wrong, they just keep saying the same thing over and over. It’s like talking to a brick wall. It’s so damn frustrating! How did we get to this point, my fair congregation? The answer is we don’t know! But, like I said, even if we don’t know, we can certainly point fingers at the people responsible! It’s a way too literal circle jerk at this point.

In 2014, Right Wing Watch dubbed Rafael Cruz "the poor man's David Barton" because the speeches he delivers are little more than a recycling of a variety of myths long promoted by Christian-nationalist pseudo-historian David Barton.

Ten years later, Cruz, the father of Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, is still out on the Christian nationalist lecture circuit and he's still spreading Barton-esque lies. Over the weekend, Cruz made an appearance at the 2024 Christians Engaged conference in Texas, where he baselessly claimed that "everything in our government came out of the Bible."

"Did you know that the Bible tells you exactly who to vote for?" Cruz said, citing a passage from Exodus 18 in which Moses, having led the Israelites out of Egypt, was overwhelmed by the responsibility of having to settle all the disputes that arose, and so his father-in-law, Jethro, urged him to select judges who would hear the simple cases while reserving for Moses the difficult ones and thus easing his burden.

"In Exodus 18: 21, God speaks to Moses through Jethro and he says, 'You select from among the people,'" Cruz stated. "Now that word 'select' is the same as 'elect.'"
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/post/rafael-cruz-baselessly-claims-everything-in-our-government-came-out-of-the-bible




Uh… fucking what???? That is a statement that is so stupid, that I cannot even begin to remotely comprehend it. It might be one of the single stupidest things I’ve ever seen in my entire history of doing this program! Not only did they fail American history, they also failed basic English. These are the people who say that we must speak it too. If I were an English teacher and someone said that “select means elect”, they would get an instant fail! And this guy is a SENATOR of the UNITED STATES! What the absolute fuck are we doing in this country, people? Ted Cruz doesn’t belong in the Senate, he belongs in Arkham Asylum! Just… ahhhhhh!!! But lies like this don’t just pop up overnight. It takes years of formation and repeating them before people start believing them. But these people clearly don’t know how anything works!

Last month, Christian nationalist pseudo-historians David and Tim Barton delivered a presentation at the TPUSA Faith's "Believers' Summit" in Florida, during which the father-son duo spread the sorts of disinformation for which they are known, including the debunked claim that the Bible was the most cited source by the Founding Fathers, the falsehood that the Due Process clause came out of the Bible, and the false assertion that John Locke’s “Two Treatises of Civil Government" contained more than 1,500 Bible references.

Like his father, the myths spread by Tim Barton have a tendency to evolve over time so that what began as a misrepresentation eventually become almost unrecognizable. In this case, it was a claim about an 1844 Supreme Court case called Vidal v. Girard’s Executors.

"If you go to 1844, the U.S. Supreme Court had a case that was known as Vidal v. Girard's Executors," Barton said. "In this case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled a unanimous 8-0 decision that you could not be a public school [and] receive government funding and prohibit the Bible, gospel ministers, evangelism from taking place on school campuses."

"If you tried to hinder those things," Barton claimed, "you would lose your government funding because one of the things we were going to make sure our schools did in America was emphasize religion and morality, was teach the Bible."
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/post/tim-barton-and-the-evolution-of-christian-nationalist-lies



Sigh… there you have it, my fair congregation! The reason why we cannot have nice things in this country, and we have only begun to scratch the surface. I need some strong holy water after this one, that was an unfathomable amount of stupid there! Mass has ended, may you go in peace! That’s it this week for:




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Yes, it’s the segment where we in the comedy profession explain humor to the people who just quite don’t get it. And in fact, we want to compare this to an incident that we reported on here a few weeks ago, when our good friend Kyle Gass of Tenacious D made a joke on stage in Australia about how someone should have – and I’m quoting directly – “should have finished the job” when it came to Trump’s “assassination attempt”. Well this week, of course we don’t need to remind you of the MAGA hate fest that went on at Madison Square Garden over the weekend. But of all the hateful things that were said at that rally, there’s one joke in particular that’s been garnering some attention and we’ll explain that in a bit. And it’s caused the Trump campaign to go into serious damage control mode. And we really do miss the days when this would have been a campaign ender. You know, the phrase “stochastic terrorism” gets thrown around these days. But there’s just one side that’s doing it. When you call an entire US territory an “island of garbage” and suggest that the half of the country that doesn’t support Orange Man Baby “need to be slaughtered”, how can you *NOT* take offense? So how is it fair that Tenacious D gets flushed and this guy is allowed to continue? Make it make sense! But with this crowd, it’s never their fault. Not today, not ever!

Donald Trump was the headliner at Madison Square Garden on Sunday. But the more than two dozen warm-up acts showed the country a lot about the party he’s built around him.

Speaking from a podium on the arena floor that read “Trump will fix it,” comedian Tony Hinchcliffe compared Puerto Rico to an “island of garbage,” and made lewd sexual jokes about Latinos. When a Black man stood to cheer him on, Hinchcliffe said the two of them had been at a Halloween party the night before, adding "We carved watermelons together." (On Monday, the Trump campaign distanced itself from Hinchcliffe’s set, providing a statement attributed to senior adviser Danielle Alvarez: “These jokes do not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign.”)

Tucker Carlson said it’s going to be hard for Trump supporters like him to believe the election results if Kamala Harris wins. He also mocked Harris—whose mother was from India and father from Jamaica—for her biracial identity, saying she would be “the first Samoan Malaysian low IQ former California prosecutor ever to be elected President.”
https://time.com/7099205/trump-rally-tony-hinchcliffe/




Yes, Mr. Swanson is absolutely correct here. Freedom of speech is a fundamental right guaranteed to you in the United States Bill Of Rights. And just to preface, before we go any further, we’re not at all defending what Mr. Hinchcliffe said in the slightest. In fact, we’re downright horrified by it. Because here’s the thing – do we really have to explain what a joke is to people? Because whatever this is, definitely isn’t it. But while this was maybe the worst said at the MSG hatefest on Sunday, there were other “jokes” that were far more horrifying. Look, people. This isn’t just a mere “joke” or two. This is who Donald Trump really is. He’s been hinting at this on his social media hidey-hole for years. And it’s not by accident, it’s by design.

Former president Donald Trump hosted a rally where speakers made numerous vulgar and racist remarks inside New York's Madison Square Garden on Sunday.

Speakers at the rally called Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, "the Antichrist" and attacked Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee eight years ago, as a "sick son of a b****."

Speakers also made racist comments about Latinos and Black people, both key voting blocs in the election that is just over a week away. Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe branded Puerto Rico a "floating island of garbage," said Latinos love "making babies" and joked about "carving watermelons" with a Black friend for Halloween, while radio host Sid Rosenberg called the event "a Nazi rally."

Here, Newsweek rounds up some of the most shocking comments made at the rally.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-new-york-madison-rally-shocking-racist-vulgar-comments-jokes-1975718




Yeah BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! So yeah here’s the thing, like we said, it’s not just a gaffe here or there. This is who Donald Trump really is. Like think of it like those scenes in action movies when the bad guy reveals who he really is before the hero finishes him off for good in the final battle to end all battles. Here’s the thing for those defending the insane comments coming from Mr. Hitchcliffe – it’s one thing to say this stuff. Calling an entire US territory – who are United States citizens – an “island of garbage” – is like the equivalent of just flat out burning the flag. Yeah, like Seinfeld! Yes, that episode that was actually banned from TV for a while because of it. I mean, if the networks can ban Seinfeld, why can’t a giant cartoon hook yank losers like this off stage?

Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he’s “never heard of?? the comedian who called Puerto Rico a "floating island of garbage" during his rally at Madison Square Garden.

The comment, made by right-wing comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, spread quickly online, sparking anger and frustration among Puerto Ricans across the country.

“I have no idea who he is,” Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Tuesday.

“Somebody said there was a comedian that jokes about Puerto Rico or something and I have no idea who he is. Never saw him, never heard of him, and don’t want to hear of him," he added.
https://www.salon.com/2024/10/30/doesnt-think-msg-rally-comedian-calling-puerto-rico-garbage-is-a-big-deal/




Seriously. So let me get this straight – Tony Hitchcliffe – a guy who I’ve never heard of until Sunday, gets to continue making racist jokes and suggesting that people be killed, while Trump gets to say that America is a land of garbage on national TV, and nobody calls them out for this? Of course not, and don’t ask Trump to denounce or clarify these statements. Because after 8 years, we’re convinced that Trump is incapable of apologizing or doing the right thing. Or even saying “I’m sorry” because that’s definitely not in his vocabulary. But anyway, maybe next time you should vent your speakers as opposed to filling your rally with ass kissers and Fox News bots. Oh wait, they don’t do that either, it’s always someone else’s fault! And PR rep – you’re absolutely wrong. Those words absolutely 100% do represent the Trump campaign. It’s who they are.

Mere seconds after Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy acknowledged “offensive comments about Latinos and Puerto Ricans and African Americans” were made at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally, his colleague Brian Kilmeade attacked journalists for reporting on those comments.

The Sunday rally’s first speaker was comedian and podcaster Tony Hinchcliffe, who made a series of vulgar jokes about groups the former president’s campaign is actively trying to woo in the days before the election.

That included a remark that Latinos “love making babies, there’s no pulling out, they come inside, just like they do to our country.” Hinchliffe also made a comment about Black people and watermelons, invoking a long-standing racist trope, and called the U.S. territory Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean.”

“This joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign,” senior adviser Danielle Alvarez said in a statement, addressing Hinchliffe’s comment on Puerto Rico.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fox-friends-immediately-walks-back-its-own-trump-msg-racism-claim/ar-AA1t4lJy






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Welcome back to our segment that attempts to explain the unexplainable, Conspiracy Corner! Of course conspiracies exist when people simply don’t want to read the article past the headlines and just flat out make shit up. We of course are coming to you live from our underground doomsday shelter from deep within the New Mexico badlands. Undisclosed location, of course! Let me just adjust my trusty tin foil hat for maximum government interference. Ah, there we go! They are trying to read yours and my thoughts, after all! This week – with all the talk of Donald Trump becoming our next president, god forbid, one member of his possible cabinet isn’t getting the comeuppance, and that is Mr. Brain Worm himself, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. In all seriousness, for a minute, can you imagine putting this stark raving, criminally insane lunatic conspiracy theorist in charge of America’s public health? It would be a literal nightmare scenario. But he is currently endorsing an extremely bizarre trend popping up on the right lately, and that involves drinking raw milk. Yes, raw milk can be the catalyst for a number of debilitating diseases. So really don’t do this, people! But apparently, according to Infowars, the government regulating the dairy industry is going way too far. Which is why we can’t have nice things.

In 2008, as he was running for the Iowa House of Representatives, Jason Schultz was stunned to learn dairy farmers could get in trouble for selling milk.

A local farmer had shown him the cease-and-desist letter he had received from the Iowa Department of Agriculture for selling milk straight from his cows to his friends and neighbors without pasteurizing it — heating it to kill bacteria — first.

So one of the first things Schultz, a Republican, did upon winning was introduce a bill to legalize the sale of so-called raw milk. The bill went nowhere, which wasn’t much of a surprise in a Legislature controlled by the opposite party, though almost no one in either party was interested in fighting a small army of big dairy lobbyists and public health officials who lectured about the dangers of potentially fatal bacteria. Moreover, the state had a long-standing prohibition on the sale of raw milk; indeed, in 1980, Iowa jailed 37-year old dairy farmer Delbert Banowetz for 30 days for the offense.

But Schultz wouldn’t give up, pushing the bill year after year. Very slowly over time he attracted supporters like Esther Arkfeld, a homeschooling mom and dairy owner turned grassroots leader who argued raw milk had health benefits and could help small farmers, too. Last May, Schultz’s bill finally passed, legalizing the sale of raw milk directly from farm to consumer. The vote — 37 to 13 in the Senate and 64 to 35 in the House — wasn’t particularly close.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/03/10/the-alt-right-rebrand-of-raw-milk-00145625




Yeah so of course, again, because of stupid, shitty propaganda, we cannot have nice things in this country. And of course, leave it to the one Congresswoman who literally has the wrong answer to every question ever asked, Marjorie Greene, aka Marjorie Shit For Brains, to once again have the wrong answer to every question. Should you drink raw milk? Absolutely 100% you should not. And should you listen to idiots like Alex Jones? Absolutely 100% you should not. Look, we do have the right to freedom of speech in this country. You get the right to say whatever you want. But I also get the right to mock the ever-living shit of you. See, MAGA, we’re laughing *AT* you, not with you.

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene took a break from spreading lies about Hurricane Helene to dip her toe into a new conspiracy theory.

“Raw Milk does a body good,” wrote the Georgia representative on X Sunday afternoon, posting a photo of a large glass of milk. “Make America Healthy Again!”

The far-right has long touted their devotion to only drinking unpasteurized milk, which skips the process of killing off harmful bacteria and does not in fact do a body good. Greene’s post was hit was a massive fact-check in the community notes section of X, clarifying that “raw milk consumption is linked to a number of foodborne illnesses (e.g., Campylobacter, Cryptosporidium, E. coli, Listeria, Brucella, and Salmonella) that can result in serious complications and death.” X users added a long list of links with evidence of how dangerous drinking raw milk can be.

As Melody Schreiber reported for The New Republic in July, drinking unpasteurized milk can also put the consumer at an unnecessary risk for H5N1, or the bird flu. In states where it is legal to sell raw milk, there were 3.2 times more outbreaks of illness linked to the milk over a span of 20 years.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mtg-takes-break-hurricane-lies-141022873.html




Yes, in fact, one of the biggest sellers and promoters of raw milk, HuHill Farms in Texas, got caught with their proverbial pants down by the state Agriculture Department. So regardless of what you hear in the right wing conspiracy theory sphere, drinking raw milk, shocker, is bad for you! And what’s really insane is that this is the second time that the farm has been warned about selling this shit. You know, the GOP really has become the “Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me” party. Which is the exact opposite of what the Rage Against The Machine song suggests. So yeah of course, my friends – fool me once on drinking raw milk, shame on you. Fool me twice on drinking raw milk, guess what? You got intestinal parasites! I think that’s how the rhyme goes.

For the second time since August, consumers are being warned to avoid drinking raw, unpasteurized milk from a dairy farm in Montgomery County.

And in separate news, there is a new warning out about contaminated frozen waffles from a national company that sells the breakfast food under several local supermarket brand names.

The state Department of Agriculture and Markets this week is urging people to avoid milk from Rob and Shirley Hudyncia's HuHill Farm, due to possible Campylobacter jejuni contamination.

No illnesses have been reported from the milk. But a routine sample of the milk collected by a state inspector was recently discovered to be contaminated.
https://www.timesunion.com/business/article/consumers-warned-raw-milk-bad-pancakes-bacteria-19857719.php




Now here’s the thing – you might be wondering, where is this shit coming from? Well, if the raw milk conspiracy has proven us anything, it’s that if you spend too much time on social media, you’ll probably believe just about anything they put in front of you. And also that the marketing they’re using to prove that raw milk is good for you, is 100% grade A, FDA certified bullshit. And a giant, steaming pile of it at that. So for what could be our next administration, to put a raving lunatic like RFK Jr in charge of public health would be like giving the alcoholic the keys to the liquor cabinet. But really, it also proves that you shouldn’t listen to idiots on social media. Really, just don’t. RFK Jr and Marjorie Greene are the very people your mother told you to stay away from. Listen to mom, kids.

By now, most of us know that ultra-processed foods aren’t so great for us, and that a diet rich in whole foods is correlated with improved heart health. But can an emphasis on foods in their purest form ever be taken too far?

Absolutely, as evidenced by the latest TikTok trend: drinking raw milk. As in, raw milk straight from the cow that hasn’t been pasteurized.

While you’ll find a wide variety of opinions surrounding raw milk, it’s easy to find TikTokers who swear by it for health reasons — they say it has more nutrients and fewer chemicals, it’s easier to digest, the list goes on. If you’re considering adding raw, unpasteurized cow’s milk to your diet (which may require some travel, as raw milk is not legal in every state), read this first.

Maybe, but the benefits don’t outweigh the risks.

“Raw milk contains natural vitamins and minerals. Some studies suggest that pasteurization can reduce the levels of certain heat-sensitive vitamins like vitamins C and B,” explained Zachary Cartwright, lead food scientist at Aqualab. “However, milk is not a significant source of these vitamins, so the overall nutritional impact may be minimal.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/is-raw-milk-safe_l_66c8e05ce4b0b61af203c317





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So of course, you know the idea behind this segment is that we have some drinks, and while we are drinking, we talk about literally anything in the news as long as it doesn’t relate to politics. Because, if you haven’t noticed, there’s a lot of really dark shit in the news right now. So we always feel that the best escape from reality is to belly up to the bar and have a few cold ones. Don’t worry, my sober brothers and sisters, we got you covered too! Just grab a glass of your favorite coffee, tea, or energy drink and come get wired with us! So the topic on the table this week – we’re going to salute the supermarket chain that us 80s and 90s kids are all too familiar with. The store that gave us the Blue Light Special and “Attention K-Mart Shoppers”, K-Mart! Yes, the last known K-Mart store in existence – on Long Island, New York, is finally closing its’ doors for good. So tell me, bartender, what goes well with a story about K-Mart? The Blue Light Martini? What’s in that? It’s just vodka and blue curacao? Nah, I’ll just stick to my usual Jack Daniels mixed with Jack Daniels. I call it the Double Jack. Anyway, the retail chain known as K-Mart is going to be leaving us for good soon. As Walter Sobchak on the Big Lebowski said at the end of the movie “Goodnight, sweet prince!”. But alas, K-Mart, we salute you!

The one-time retail giant known for its blue light specials is shuttering its last full-scale store in the mainland United States.

For years, the store has operated in the posh town of Bridgehampton. But with its closure, Kmart's legacy lives on in a small store down in Miami.

Since news broke last month of the Long Island location closure, shoppers have flocked to the store to take advantage of slashed prices.

"I'm not surprised, it's always this empty," Juliette Fayh, of East Hampton, had told NBC New York. "This is actually the most crowded I've seen it."
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/long-island/last-kmart-closing-long-island/5905522/




Oh yeah that’s the stuff! So we’ve been talking about the retail apocalypse for quite some time now, going all the way back to 2012 when Jeff Bezos’ Amazon began taking over the world. Yes, brands left and right have been knocked off and replaced by Spirit Halloween stores. Ha ha ha ha ha! We expect to hear from Spirit Halloween’s lawyers soon! But a lot of brands that we’ve known for decades have been lost like Bed Bath & Beyond, Borders, and so on. And we’re quite frankly surprised that K-Mart has held on this long. But alas, the big Red K is closing its’ doors for good this week. It was interesting to see the retail chain on its’ last legs.

The time to make final selections at the last full-sized Kmart in the continental United States is nearly up as the once retail giant turned out its signature blue light in New York.

The Bridgehampton store, about 95 miles east of Manhattan, closed its doors for the final time Sunday night, leaving only one smaller store with a limited selection in Miami left in operation. The company has other stores in Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Target is slated to replace Kmart at the Bridgehampton Commons location in the Hamptons, according to The Long Island Business Journal. The Journal reported that the big-box giant purchased the lease on the building from Transformco, the owner of Kmart and Sears, "a few years ago" in anticipation of the store's closure.

Transformco did not respond to a request for comment from USA TODAY on Sunday.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/retail/2024/10/20/kmart-full-sized-store-united-states/75768046007/




Yes, my friends – there is one tiny little bit of hope for those who are still interested in doing some actual shopping, as opposed to the convenience of the one-click buy you get from Amazon. But in doing that, you get the lack of personal interaction that you get from the people who still actually scan products for a living. That gleam of hope in keeping the K-Mart brand alive comes from their last store in Miami, Florida. While the one in New Hampton was their last full size store, this half store is the last remaining shred of a once retail giant. Yes, K-Mart, like Blockbuster, first there were many, now there are few, soon there will be none!

The last Kmart on the U.S. mainland sits at the west end of a busy suburban Miami shopping center, quiet and largely ignored.

All around it are thriving chain stores attracting steady streams of customers in sectors where the former box-store chain was once a major player: Marshalls, Hobby Lobby, PetSmart and Dollar Tree.

But at this all-but-last outpost of a company once famed for its “Blue Light Specials," only an occasional shopper pops in, mostly out of curiosity or nostalgia, then leaves after buying little or nothing.

"I hadn’t seen Kmart in so long,” said Juan de la Madriz, who came to the shopping center on a recent weekday to buy dog food at PetSmart. The architect spotted the Kmart and wondered if he could find a gift for his newborn grandson. He exited 10 minutes later having spent $23 on a stuffed dog and a wooden toy workbench.

“It will be sad if it closes,” he said about the store, “but everything now is on computers.”
https://www.voanews.com/a/in-suburban-miami-kmart-s-last-blue-light-specials-flicker/7838991.html




Yes, many brands have been resurrected through social media campaigning. Could K-Mart be the latest one? Blockbuster Video is hanging on by a thread, with their one lone location still operating in Bend, Oregon. On the other hand, bookseller Barnes & Noble is currently thriving thanks to the percentage of the population that still wants to hang onto brick and mortar retail. While it may be a very fast dying industry, there’s hope that we can still save America’s malls, mini malls, and strip malls. And we need some things to get us out of the house and away from our monitors! But the question remains, my friends – will K-Mart join the dying breed of the market chain retail sect, or will it be resurrected through social media? Only time will tell on that one!

After years of steady decline, Kmart has officially closed its last full-size store in mainland U.S. on October 20, 2024. Located in the posh town of Bridgehampton, New York, the nearly 90,000-square-foot store served the Hamptons community for over two decades.

The closure reduces the big-box discount retailer to only a small-store concept in Miami in the contiguous U.S. and a few locations in Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The once unstoppable retail giant and pioneer of discount shopping opened its first store in 1962 in Garden City, Michigan.

By the 1990s, with its famous “Blue Light Specials” and the catchy "Attention Kmart shoppers!" announcements, it had become a symbol of suburban Americana.

At its peak, 95% of Americans lived within a short drive of a Kmart store. However, the blue light has dimmed over the years as Kmart struggled to keep up with changing times.
https://www.aol.com/end-era-kmart-closes-last-124300699.html





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Welcome back to our segment that lumps all of the election coverage of the 2024 election to end all elections in: Road To The White House! Ooh that was some good reverb there! So look, we’re literally on the eve of the election. It’s next Tuesday! 5 days from now! And we’re going to talk about some actual election stealing probables this week: 3rd party candidates! Look, for those who are watching this election from another country – let me let you in on a little secret about voting 3rd party in the United States. Nobody actually votes 3rd party because they support any of the candidates, which is why, since 1980, none of them actually has a fighting chance to become the next leader of the USA. Instead, voting 3rd party is not just a choice – it’s a spite vote. Yes, in the United States, people vote 3rd party, not because they support the candidate, they vote to take away votes from the one of two people who could actually become president. And it’s purely out of spite. Most famously was Jill Stein of the Green Party in the 2016 election that siphoned votes away from Hillary Clinton. But this year there’s some new faces looking to do some damage to the popular vote. Starting with our buddy, Mr. Brain Worm himself, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Yes, he went all in on the MAGA train a few months ago, but his name is still on the ballot in states like California and Michigan. So how much damage could he do to the actual vote totals? Well, depending on your sources – they range from “a little” to “ a hell of a lot”.

In a pair of orders Tuesday afternoon, the high court denied emergency applications Kennedy filed earlier this month. With ballots printed weeks ago and mail-in voting already underway, his attorneys acknowledged it might be impossible for him to get off the ballot altogether, but proposed his name be stickered over.

As is typical on the court’s emergency docket, there was no opinion or explanation of the decision. No justice publicly recorded any dissent in the Wisconsin case, but Justice Neil Gorsuch indicated he would have granted Kennedy’s request to get off Michigan ballots.

Gorsuch didn’t write a detailed opinion explaining his stance, but said he disagreed for “substantially” the same reasons three federal appeals court judges offered as they explained why they thought the state violated Kennedy’s First Amendment rights by refusing to remove him or take more modest steps, like posting signs at polling places saying he’d dropped out.

The candidate criticized the decision in a social media post. “It is a purely political move in the hope that folks who would have otherwise voted for Trump will throw away their vote by voting for me instead," he said on X. "Don’t let them undermine this election.”
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/10/29/2024-elections-live-coverage-updates-analysis/rfk-jr-wisconsin-michigan-00186150




Uh… what? Is the worm still in your brain? This is a political move? You do know what happened in previous elections, right? I mean come on. Especially with this SCOTUS, I’m really surprised that they ruled that way. So maybe batshit crazy conspiracy theories aren’t your thing. While we have largely avoided the terrible atrocities being committed in Gaza and Palestine, one thing we do have to touch on is that the jealous girlfriend to the democratic and republican party juggernauts is the Green Party an d Jill Stein. Could Stein cause a repeat of what happened in the 2016 elections? Well, unlike the 2016 election – where Stein’s votes hurt Hillary Clinton more than Donald Trump – this year, they could have the exact opposite effect.

A new poll suggests that Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein is drawing more voters from former President Donald Trump than from Vice President Kamala Harris.

According to a Noble Predictive Insights survey released last week, Harris holds a narrow lead over Trump in a hypothetical three-way race. With Stein on the ballot, Harris' lead expands, pointing to a potential spoiler effect similar to what many Democrats blamed Stein for doing to Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.

The poll shows Harris leading Trump 49 percent to 47 percent. However, with Stein in the race, Trump's support dips to 46 percent, while Harris maintains her 49 percent backing, suggesting that Stein draws more support from Trump than from Harris. Though Stein's voter base remains relatively small, at about 1 percent, it could prove crucial in an election that hinges on tight margins in swing states.

The poll surveyed 2,300 likely voters and had a margin of error of +/- 2.1 percent.
https://www.newsweek.com/jill-stein-hurts-donald-trump-more-kamala-harris-poll-suggests-1970765




Well if that’s the case here, I’m all for it! But look, people, one thing you should never ever do, under any circumstances, is throw your vote away. No matter what your reason. Yes, this year, no matter what your opinions on Kamala Harris or Donald Trump are, don’t do something stupid. This week we’ve already highlighted the importance of why not endorsing a candidate matters, and we’ve never had to worry about that until a candidate as insane and unhinged as Donald Trump came along. But throwing away your vote for a candidate like Jill Stein or writing in a vote for someone like Cornel West is jaw-dropping, incredibly stupid. And with the GOP as reckless, drunk with power, and completely out of control as our current one is, and how our democracy is literally hanging by a thread right now, why would you throw your vote away on a fringe candidate? Save that until after Donald Trump and his fascist goons are flushed for good!

Independent presidential candidate Cornel West has asked the Supreme Court to make Pennsylvania polling sites let voters know they can write in his name on Election Day.

West filed that emergency request days before Tuesday's election after failing to get on the ballot in the battleground state.

West is more likely to draw votes away from Vice President Kamala Harris than from former President Donald Trump.

Pennsylvania's top court backed the secretary of state's decision that West lacked the required affidavits for most of his presidential electors so was ineligible.
https://www.aol.com/cornel-west-asks-supreme-court-220938736.html




Seriously, people, don’t you dare do this. Sure, it may be tempting, but come on, with everything we know about Donald Trump and the damage he and his Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society goons do in one week, let alone 4 years, don’t throw your vote away under any circumstances! You can vote in as many surveys and polls as you want. You only get one vote. And on the eve of the election – we ask, no, we beg and plead you, don’t you dare do anything stupid with your vote! And make sure that your vote is processed and counted for. We won’t be safe until the votes are counted and the states have certified that count. Anything can happen between now and then. But whatever you do, under any circumstances, don’t vote 3rd party or vote against Kamala with a write-in vote. You may not like the outcome if you do. And you undecided voters out there – what the fuck are you waiting for? SMDH.

Two weeks remain in the presidential race, and the campaigns are following the classic “persuasion” and “get-out-the-vote” textbook maneuvers. But is there another “under-the-radar” maneuver the campaigns can employ?

Many of you who read my columns know that I constantly write about the quiet power of third-party candidates in close elections. This is why we measure all listed candidates on a state ballot in a close election in our Suffolk University/USA TODAY polls.

According to our latest Suffolk University/USA TODAY poll, the race is essentially tied among likely voters in our 5-way ballot test. Democrat Kamala Harris (45%) leads Republican Donald Trump (44%), Independent Cornel West (1%), Green Party candidate Jill Stein (1%), and Libertarian Chase Oliver (1%), with 5% still undecided and 3% refusing to respond. In our 2-way ballot test, Harris still leads by one point (50%-49%) with 1% undecided.

In 2016, Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Party nominee Jill Stein (yes, the same Jill Stein) each received more votes in the 3 “blue wall” states than the margin by which Hillary Clinton lost.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/10/21/third-party-candidates-pivotal-role/75774720007/





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All right, everyone! Let’s get this Halloween party started! My next guest is a legendary hardcore band from Kentucky. Their new album is called “You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To”. Playing their song “Don’t Reach For Me”, give it up for Knocked Loose!



Thank you Ann Arbor! This was fun! We’ll be back again soon! But first I’d like to leave you with a very important message.

Look, I know that we’ve been bringing you the free funny for 8 years now, but I have to be perfectly blunt and serious with you for a minute. And this may be the hardest thing I’ve ever had to say in the time we’ve been doing this program. Yes, there was a time when we were simply burned out from election coverage, and we were dreading Trump coming out on top against Biden in the rematch, but not anymore. We cannot stress how important it is to vote and to get out the vote. There is too much at stake in this election and we must stop Trump, Fox, the Heritage Foundation, the Federalist Society, and his fascist goons from worming their way back into the White House at all costs. We could be staring down a fascist dictatorship if he wins, and nobody will win in that scenario, we would all lose. In a dictatorship, nobody, and I mean nobody is safe, and that includes you and me, among others. They were literally advocating for mass murder of Trump’s opponents at his Madison Square Garden rally, and they are cheering on mass deportations of anyone they would conceive to be “illegal”, what could possibly go wrong there? Trump has revealed his true intentions, and they are utterly despicable, and truly, truly beyond evil.

Throwing your vote away or voting 3rd party, because of whatever reason you may have, is incredibly irresponsible, reckless, and stupid. In the immortal words of the late, great, Francis Vincent Zappa, “Register to vote, and vote. Otherwise, someone else may decide to do it for you.” Truer words have never been spoken, especially now. Please, for the love of every single god in the book, do the right thing. Vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. Any other answer is the wrong answer. There is no greater reward for this country than flushing Trump and his goons down the sewer for good. Vote, and vote as if your life depends on it. Because right now, it just might. We will be taking next week off, because you don’t need to see our BS during the election until the dust settles. And until the dust settles, we can only imagine the shit show that's going to follow once the votes are cast, and the news will most likely change every 30 seconds, and it will be impossible for us to keep up. We’ll just sit here and twiddle our thumbs and watch amusing dog videos on Instagram until then. Oh look! That terrier is chasing it's own tail! I'd like to close out by saying thanks for being a part of this program for 8 years. We wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for our loyal audience. So until after the election, we’re out. See you on the other side.

See you in two weeks! Also don't forget this Sunday - episode 2 of our spinoff program Holy Shit: The Sunday Sermons!

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October 24, 2024

Top 10 Conservative Idiots #17-11: If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power Edition


Top 10 Conservative Idiots #17-11: If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power Edition

Welcome back to the Top 10 Conservative Idiots! Yoooooooooooooooooooooo!!! What’s up Villanova, how you guys doing? Sold us out again! You guys doing fucking good? Great! I’m sure you know, next week is our last regular Top 10 before the general election. Holy shit, time flies, doesn’t it? Well of course, as is tradition, like we have done with the 2020 and 2016 elections, we’re taking a breather, we’re sitting this one out. Because we don’t need to remind you that, until the dust settles and Kamala is declared the rightful winner, you don’t need to see our bullshit. We’ll just sit here and twiddle our thumbs and stare at amusing dog videos on our Instagram feeds until the dust settles. But in the meantime, until we return, we’ve got not one, but two episodes of our spinoff program Holy Shit: The Sunday Sermons for your enjoyment! In the first episode, we take a look at religious themed movies hitting the box office, and in the second, we’re going to take a look at batshit insane Oklahoma superintendent Ryan Walters going full MAGA Taliban. Plus we’ve got four more to come! OK, do we have time for the thing? Of course we do! OK, who here has been to Sea World? Well, regardless of what you think about the San Diego staple, the park is under fire because a whale had what the press release is calling a “gastric episode”. Yes, you heard that correctly. In the middle of a show, no less. So that’s right – the tourists attending the whale show got covered in, well, whale shit. Which of course is causing the park to do some major damage control. Like, I always love when a story like this breaks and you see the press release from HR that says something like “We always strive to put on the best product we possibly can”. Really? I mean… I’m sure they probably plan for everything, but I’m not sure that whale diarrhea was in their plans. But you can imagine there were some pretty angry tourists who were attending that show. Of course, will this get resolved in time? Maybe, maybe not. But anyway the press release is unintentionally hilarious and it’s definitely worth reading. OK enough of the intro, we have a lot of idiocy to get to! But first the Daily Show’s editorial of the week is from LaVerne Cox, who has some insights into the insane conspiracy-fueled GOP war on the LGBT and especially the T community:



So where do we begin for this week? Well, the number one slot is of course that guy who we inexplicably used to call president, and is scarily a coin flip away from becoming our next one again – Donald Trump (1). He’s had quite the week, and after his batshit crazy town hall last week, what is he hiding about his mental capacity? If that wasn’t rock bottom, what is? WTF! In the second slot is also Donald Trump (2). He’s canceling most of his appearances this week and going full mob boss in regards to his favorite news network hidey hole – Fox News. So what exactly is going on with this guy? Well, we intend to find out! In the number 3 slot this week, we have to talk about a bizarre conspiracy theory that seems to rear its’ ugly head and is mainly nothing more than outrage bait – the notion that trans athletes in sports (3) have an advantage over biological females. But we’re calling their bluff – the people complaining have probably never actually seen a real women’s sporting event, have they? Of course they haven’t. In the number 4 slot this week, we’ve normally been avoiding the polls (4) because there’s just too many of them and it’s impossible to keep up with what’s trending or not, but apparently the betting markets are going all in on Asshole 45, but why? We hope they are wrong. In the number 5 slot this week is the return of our segment on the plight of the world’s most insane monstrosity on 4 wheels – Cyberstruck (5)! Yes, Tesla has been getting into the law enforcement business, and no, it’s not exactly what Elon had in mind. In fact, real police officers think differently! In the number 6 slot this week is of course our weekly visit to the Holy Church Of The Top 10 in “Holy Shit” (6) and this week, could the far right achieve their ultimate goal of a total nationwide abortion ban? Well they’re hedging their bets on this and it’s all the wrong people! In the number 7 slot this week, we’re profiling the extremely controversial far right MAGA worshipping pastor of Cavalry Church in Chino Hills, California, Jack Hibbs (7) in a new “This Fucking Guy”! Taking the number 8 slot this week is our weekly venture into the never ending world of online tin foil hat nuttery in Conspiracy Corner (8), and this week, with the right wing screaming like spoiled toddlers about “election integrity”, the AG of Texas, Ken Paxton, has a scheme of his own. What is it? We don’t know, but it’s there! In the number 9 (NEIN!!!) slot this week is a new I Need A Drink – we have to go across the pond to our good friends in the UK for this story, because a uniquely British sport – Conker – is involved in a massive cheating scandal, which is too weird the more you dig into it! Finally this week, it’s time for our weekly election round up in Road To The White House (10), and this week, Kamala steps out of her comfort zone and invades Trump’s turf when she’s interviewed on Fox News, and she definitely scored some points! Unless, of course, you watch Fox News for more than 5 minutes. Plus to cap things off, we have live music from Imagine Dragons! Buy their new album "Loom" or you are no friend of this program! Enjoy! And as always don't forget the key!

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We don’t need to tell you what an absolutely banner and incredibly bizarre week it’s been for Donald Trump. And this was after last week, which was equally batshit insane. We even planned to have this entire space be about his bizarre town hall appearance where he just stood there and played songs off an iPad for nearly 40 minutes. And come on, nothing gets the party going like Ave Maria, am I right? You don’t know! You don’t know. Also in the news which we don’t even have time for this week, is that Trump launched his own line of cryptocurrency, which, since everyone knows that you don’t read the fine print, 70% of that money goes to Trump family members, because let’s face it, living the private jet Louis Vitton mega mansion lifestyle is hard, yo! And they need money! NOT. But this week, in what was an apparent F-U to Kamala saying that her first job was at a McDonalds, he decided to head to a suburbian McDonalds drive-thru and pretended to cosplay as a McDonalds employee. Which, this might be one of the weirdest campaign stops ever.

Former president Donald Trump briefly manned the fry station during a stage-managed visit to a McDonald's franchise here on Sunday, but he dodged a question about increasing the minimum wage.

Wearing an apron, the Republican presidential nominee lifted fries out of the hot oil, shook them, salted them and placed them into containers for service. He praised the staff and the company, then popped his head out the drive-through window and waved at a crowd that had gathered across the street. He began to hand out paper bags to the cars that had been waiting in line before his arrival. One man said, "Trump 2024!" as he drove away.

The restaurant was closed to the public during Trump's visit, and the motorists whom Trump served were screened by the U.S. Secret Service and positioned before his arrival. No one ordered food. Instead, the attendees received whatever Trump gave them.

Trump was at the fry station for about five minutes and spent about 15 minutes at the drive-through window, much of it taking questions from reporters.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/20/trump-mcdonalds-minimum-wage/




Ba da da da da da … I’m *NOT* loving it! To give Trump the benefit of the doubt, this might be the first time in his entire life that he’s ever done any real, actual work. Even if it’s just for fifteen minutes. Oh and the other thing they probably forgot to tell you – the particular McDonalds franchise in question that he chose was run by a die-hard MAGA fan and was currently closed for health inspection and code violations. Which, come on, if the rumors about Trump’s lack of hygiene and his adult diaper usage are true, that place is practically a level 3 biohazard. Not quite Chernobyl or COVID at the beginning of March 2020 level, but certainly enough that you should at least quarantine and wipe down everything accordingly.

The McDonald's restaurant where Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump briefly worked on Sunday failed its latest health inspection, documents show.

The former president manned the fry station and served takeout to people in the drive-thru lane in Feasterville-Trevose in Bucks County, a key swing voter area in battleground Pennsylvania. The restaurant was closed to the public for Trump's visit.

Trump, a big fan of McDonald's food and a self-professed germophobe, was seen in footage shared by his campaign on social media putting on an apron, frying a basket of fries, scooping fries and serving customers through a drive-thru window.

A report from the Bucks County Department of Health after an inspection on March 27 cited health code violations at the restaurant, including employees not having "hands clean and properly washed."
https://www.newsweek.com/mcdonalds-donald-trump-worked-failed-last-health-inspection-1971998




Oh and by the way, in case you’re wondering, why yes, of course Trump is using this campaign stop to hawk more of his shitty merchandise, in this case – t-shirts. Ha ha ha ha!!! Yes, hello lawsuit! Got to love it when the people in the audience are funnier than you are! Thank you, sir. Moving on, but this campaign stop was certainly divisive. And I always love when the corporate offices have to put out the press release saying that they don’t approve of what that particular franchise owner is doing. But it’s good that corporate stepped in and put a stop to future campaign stops. But they should have done this before it happened. No doubt that particular owner was keeping corporate in the dark. He should lose his license for this.

McDonald’s has been thrust into the 2024 election, gaining particular attention over the weekend when former President Donald Trump served fries at a Feasterville-Trevose, Pennsylvania, location. But McDonald’s had nothing to do with Trump’s visit.

The company operates on a franchise model, which means the vast majority of its locations are independently owned and operated. Although franchise owners have to abide by certain guidelines in their agreements with the parent company, they are free to invite political candidates to serve fries without McDonald’s buy-in.

The company said Sunday in an internal memo to employees obtained by CNN that it did not invite Trump or the attention the election has brought it — but the company spun the spotlight as proof that McDonald’s remains a key part of everyday American life for millions of people.

“As we’ve seen, our brand has been a fixture of conversation this election cycle. While we’ve not sought this, it’s a testament to how much McDonald’s resonates with so many Americans,” the company said in its memo. “McDonald’s does not endorse candidates for elected office and that remains true in this race for the next President. We are not red or blue – we are golden.”
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/21/business/mcdonalds-trump-visit-statement/index.html




Oh by the way, conspiracy theory fuckheads and Fox News hosts– yes, Kamala did work at McDonalds despite what your talk show host overlords tell you. Trump shows up for fifteen minutes pretending to serve large orders of fries to people and right wing media swoons all over him, like Taylor Swift fans at her latest show. And by the way, MAGA conspiracy theorists – no, we’re not “in hysterics” over this latest publicity stunt. In fact, that sound you hear is us laughing *AT* you, not with you because of how stupid you look. In fact, after this stunt, a whole bunch of internet pranksters went and review bombed the McDonalds location on Yelp. Which got so flooded with review bombs that Yelp locked the page and is deleting most of the fake reviews. Which, yes they deserved it, but really, people, don’t stoop to their level. In fact, if you’re thinking of doing this… don’t.

After an influx of reviews and comments, Yelp temporarily disabled users' ability to post about the McDonald's in Feasterville, Pennsylvania, that Donald Trump visited for a campaign appearance.

Noorie Malik, Yelp’s vice president of user operations, confirmed the company's decision in a statement emailed to USA TODAY.

"For Yelp to remain a useful resource to the community, reviews must be based on a genuine, firsthand experience with the business," Malik's statement read. "Due to the increased public attention we saw after former President Trump visited a McDonald’s in Feasterville, PA on Sunday, Oct. 20, we worked quickly to temporarily disable the posting of content to the page and placed an Unusual Activity Alert on Monday, October 21."

It is unclear how long Yelp users will be unable to comment on or review the McDonald's in Feasterville.

"When we see the activity dramatically decrease or stop, our moderators will clean up the page so reviews describing only firsthand consumer experiences are reflected.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/10/23/trump-mcdonalds-pennsylvania-yelp/75807528007/





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We’re just two weeks away from the election. And you’ve really got to wonder with all of this – exactly what the fuck is going on? Donald Trump’s popularity has hit a plateau. He is not gaining any new followers. Yet the polls have him just barely edging out Kamala. But he’s been canceling appearances left and right because his handlers say he’s – and I’m quoting – “exhausted”. His rallies have become absolute shit shows. But you know, this is the cost of keeping your name in the news 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Trump will go and hawk his stupid merchandise – his NFT trading cards, his stupid looking sneakers, his $100,000 watches which look like cheap knock offs that you’d get from a street vendor in Times Square in New York City, his own line of crypto currency… and whatever the fuck this is. The list goes on and on! But when you’re trying to win over voters, you cannot keep canceling appearances, but this is the price you are paying. And there’s definitely something that they’re not telling us about Trump’s health, and Ronny Jackson cannot rig another cognitive test the way that he did the last time (see: Idiots #9-6 ). Sigh, another reason why we can’t have nice things in this country!

Former President Trump's planned appearance at a National Rifle Association event next week was cancelled Thursday, the latest in a slew of scuttled public appearances and interviews by the former president in recent weeks.

Why it matters: With only 17 days to go until Election Day, the spate of cancellations gives voters fewer chances to hear from Trump before heading to the polls in a coin toss race.

Vice President Kamala Harris, on the other hand, has been on a media blitz after enduring criticism from Republicans about a perceived lack of interviews.

And while Harris has ventured into the unfriendly territory of a Fox News interview, Trump has stuck to the safe spaces of conservative outlets.

In the appearances he has made, Trump's rhetoric has grown more violent and nativist. In recent weeks, he has decried his critics as the "enemy from within" and fanned the flames of false conspiracy theories about migrants.
https://www.axios.com/2024/10/18/trump-cancels-interviews-2024




Yeah you gotta wonder if something is up. You know the really scary thing? If somehow the GOP gets back into power, we could potentially be a Big Mac away from a JD Vance dictatorship, and who’s to say he won’t leave office even if he’s forced out? Insanity. But if he’s this exhausted, then why is he even being considered for the most powerful office in the United States? There’s something that they are not telling us, and something definitely doesn’t pass the smell test here. In fact, our good friend Halsey has a new album out this week, so why don’t we name this week’s edition after her previous album “If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power”? Ha ha ha ha ha!!! Good use of that cover there. But yeah, something stinks and we need the GOP to show us their poker face!

Donald Trump reportedly canceled a planned Tuesday appearance with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and former congressmember Tulsi Gabbard for a health-focused virtual town hall, according to his team, citing “changes in Trump’s schedule.”

The switch-up is the latest in a series of canceled or rescheduled appearances in recent days, which fueled reports that the former president, 78, was becoming too “exhausted” to fully campaign in the tight race against Kamala Harris.

The Republican has backed out of planned interviews with CNBC’s Squawk Box, the Shade Room podcast, and NBC.

The campaign has pushed back on this narrative, calling the exhuastion claim “unequivocally false.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-cancels-rally-rfk-gabbard-b2633794.html



Yeah nothing to see here! Please disperse! Just come on, GOP! Just admit you want absolute power and one party rule so we can vote against you already. Seriously, what happens if they get reelected and Trump dies in office or they use the 25th amendment to install JD Vance as dictator for life? It’s truly insane to think what could happen, and there’s nothing good that would come of it. Which is why we have to do everything to stop MAGA at all costs! We’ve only got two weeks to flush Trump and his MAGA turds down the Fox News sewer they came from for good! But come on, Joe Rogan is who you’re going to? That’s your flex? Sigh.

After backing out of several major interviews at the last minute, Donald Trump has one last major appearance on the horizon: The Joe Rogan Experience.

The Republican presidential nominee will be meeting with the former Fear Factor host on Friday, reported Politico. It’ll be the first time that Trump has appeared on Rogan’s podcast.

Over the last several months, Trump has made a concerted effort to reach young, male voters by signing up for a slew of interviews with podcasters, including Twitch ban-ee Adin Ross; the Lex Fridman Podcast; Six Feet Under, hosted by wrestler Mark Calaway (perhaps better known as The Undertaker); and Theo Von’s podcast, This Past Weekend.

Meanwhile, Trump has aggressively dodged more mainstream news appearances, including going so far as to break election tradition by refusing to sit for a 60 Minutes interview in September, which he reportedly backed out of last-minute over fears that the rigorous show would fact-check him.
https://newrepublic.com/post/187405/donald-trump-cancels-events-joe-rogan




Move along people!! There’s nothing wrong with this, except the guy who wants to be president is one Big Mac away from ending his presidency. See? Isn’t this concrete proof that a “garbage in, garbage out” lifestyle is bad for you? And I’m not just talking about the copious amounts of fast food that he eats, either. I’m also talking about his copious amounts of Fox and Newsmax consumption too. That shit rots your mind, while the fast food expands your waistline. Put both of those two things together and it’s a powder keg waiting to go off. But come on, how bad are you hurting for content when you cancel on the brain worm guy and the gun nuts? And Harris is the lazy one? What the actual fuck! That’s his base!

Former President Donald Trump abruptly cancelled an appearance at an NRA event in Savannah, Georgia, fueling public concerns about his mental state.

Trump was slated to headline the “Defend the 2nd” rally on Oct. 22. The Trump campaign cited a scheduling conflict in pulling out of that event, per the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The gun advocacy group later scrapped the entire event.

The cancellation follows an appearance at the Economic Club of Chicago on Tuesday, in which interviewer John Micklethwait repeatedly pressed Trump on his rambling non-answers and topic changes. A day before that appearance, Trump similarly confused an audience at a Pennsylvania town hall when he paused questions for over half an hour to sway along to his playlist on stage.

Trump has been on a cancellation tear, pulling out of several planned interviews in recent days.

Per CNN’s Brian Stelter, Trump reportedly “suddenly scrapped” a planned interview with NBC News senior business correspondent Christine Romans penciled in for Monday morning in Philadelphia. He had previously cancelled a stop by CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” citing another purported scheduling conflict.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/not-able-run-two-weeks-192930945.html





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Normally, something like this would be reserved for our segment Conspiracy Corner, which takes a look at what happens on the dark corners of the internet, like Infowars and RSBN. But we kind of need to talk about it in a more serious light. You may have seen a lot of headlines pop up lately about an online conspiracy that originated on shows like Infowars and Tucker Carlson about trans athletes participating in sports. Yes, it was a big controversy in 2020. But should trans women or trans men be barred from participating in the sports where the genders are different from the ones that they were assigned at birth? Well, the controversy reared its’ ugly head during the Olympics this year when a wrestling match was cut short and boxer Imane Khelif was investigated profusely for being perceived as transgender by internet conspiracy theorists, and it was proven to be not true in the slightest. But we do need to have a serious discussion – how did this get to be such a hot button issue when it wasn’t not even 10 years ago? And also how is it having so much sway on how people vote for a particular candidate? Well it recently reared its’ ugly head in the news again thanks to former NASCAR driver and current Mar-A-Shithole drink server Danica Patrick.

A 2023 Gallup poll found that 93% of Republican respondents believe transgender athletes should only be allowed to compete on teams that match their birth gender, compared to 6% who said they should be allowed to compete on teams that match their current identity.

Meanwhile, 48% of Democrat respondents said transgender athletes should only play on teams that match their birth gender and 47% said they should play on teams that match their current identity.

In a town hall that is set to air on Fox News, former President Donald Trump said he would ban or stop transgender women from playing girls sports.

As for Vice President Kamala Harris, the group Advocates for Trans Equality has endorsed her, saying she has shown an unwavering commitment to advancing the well-being of the transgender community.
https://san.com/cc/transgender-athletes-in-sports-a-sleeper-issue-this-election-wsj/




Yeah BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Come on. This shit is getting ridiculous. And it’s insane that people believe this conspiracy theory bullshit over, you know, facts. And logic. Your odds of encountering an actual trans athlete are like 1/10th of 1%. And the right wing is so hysterical over the trans hatred and conspiracy theories online that they’re unable to separate fact from fiction. But what’s extremely horrible is that if you pay attention to the advertisements this election cycle – nearly every single GOP ad just *HAS* to attack trans athletes in some way. Even though most people who aren’t dialed into the conspiracy theory sphere wouldn’t give a shit about this issue.

Voters consistently say issues like the economy and reproductive rights are their top concerns in this election. But in the closing weeks of the campaign, Republican ads focusing on transgender rights are dominating airwaves all over the country.

Consider the ad below from former President Donald Trump. If you've seen a Trump campaign ad lately, there's a good chance it's this one:

The Trump campaign has recently dropped at least $17 million on ads highlighting Vice President Harris' support during her 2019 presidential campaign for access to gender-affirming medical treatment for transgender people.

It's part of a broader Republican strategy casting the Democratic Party as taking transgender rights to extremes.

According to data compiled by AdImpact for NPR, these ads have aired more than 30,000 times, including in the key swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The campaign has placed a particular focus on NFL and college football broadcast audiences.
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/19/g-s1-28932/donald-trump-transgender-ads-kamala-harris




Oh what the actual fuck. You know there’s just no arguing with people who believe the conspiracy theory bullshit. My advice is to just boo and heckle and ridicule them out of existence. After all, they worship a guy who got famous as a social media troll. The only way to fight the trolls is to troll back and troll back harder. But it’s truly insane and horrifying that a convicted criminal who has a very real chance of becoming president again is using the online hate to his advantage. In fact, look at New York, where the democrats proposed an anti-abortion bill, so conservatives in New York countered with a bill to ban trans athletes. Just…. AH!!!! Stop it already!!!

Democrats pushed to get a constitutional amendment on New York’s ballot because they believed it could energize liberals eager to protect abortion rights. Republicans are now hoping the same amendment will ignite a fire under people upset about transgender athletes participating in girls’ and women’s sports.

Voters will decide Nov. 5 whether to approve the state’s proposed “Equal Rights Amendment,” which has already been the subject of a court fight over its broad language. The amendment, called “Proposition 1” on the ballot, has emerged as one of the more unusual ideological battles of the 2024 election season, partly because of disagreements about what it will do if passed.

On paper, the proposed amendment would expand a section of the state constitution that now says a person can’t be denied civil rights because of their race, creed or religion. The new language will also ban discrimination based on national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, pregnancy outcomes or “reproductive healthcare and autonomy.”
https://apnews.com/article/new-york-sex-gender-discrimination-constitution-lgbtq-a0c6080761df2e341cd7a4be7ce5e761




Sigh… this is going to be a long two weeks until election day, isn’t it? But of course, it’s no secret that Trump plans to go full Nazi if he’s given a second term. In fact they’ve already got anti-trans laws ready to go if he somehow gets elected again. And this is why elections matter, and why voting against your best interests is NO FUCKING JOKE. Because if you vote against your best interests, you will get people who you won’t like in power and you will not be able to get rid of them no matter how hard you try. It is insanity that someone this monstrous could assume power again. We have to stop this man at all costs, because it can and will get ugly.

During a taped town hall of only female voters in Cumming, Ga., with Fox News’s Harris Faulkner, Trump was asked by an audience member how he would handle “the transgender issue” in women’s sports as president.

“It’s such an easy question, and everybody in the room, and you know that answer,” Trump said during Tuesday’s town hall on The Faulkner Focus. “We’re not going to let it happen.”

Trump in his response referenced a viral video of a transgender college volleyball player in California spiking a ball at her opponent. The player was hit with the ball in the shoulder and was unharmed, and the transgender athlete’s team ultimately lost the match in straight sets.

“I never saw a ball hit so hard,” Trump said, referring to the video. His administration, he said, will “absolutely stop” schools from allowing transgender athletes to play on sports teams that match their gender identity.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4936727-trump-bans-transgender-athletes/





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A few weeks ago, we brought you the tale of how the crypto dude bros are planning to use their fake money to influence the election (see: Idiots #17-2 ). Well, of course Trump is attempting to win over the crypto dude bro vote by launching his own line of cryptocurrency. Come on, really? There’s nothing he won’t put his name or face on at this point, and it’s kind of sad. But this week, another new group that’s looking to use electronic fake money to influence the election not seen before in previous elections has emerged – the betting markets. Yes, betting markets. Combining the worst of Las Vegas with the worst of Wall St. into one disgusting, money-losing package. And yes, if you’re wondering, they are going to use their ill gotten gains to try and sway the election towards Trump. Come on, remember when hackers used to use their powers for good instead of evil? Well if you think that the crypto dude bros are certifiably insane, you haven’t seen anything yet!

The betting odds of former President Donald Trump winning next month’s election rose to their highest level since President Joe Biden ceded way to Vice President Kamala Harris in July, though the increasingly popular election betting platform Polymarket reportedly is investigating the source of the massive wagers driving the odds shift amid scrutiny into the eight-figure bets on Trump.

The crypto-based Polymarket gives Trump a 66% chance of prevailing over Harris, the first time his odds have risen over 65% since July 21, the day Biden dropped his reelection bid.

Competitor sites which also take wagers on the election outcome are heavily in Trump’s corner, albeit less starkly than Polymarket, as Kalshi and PredictIt price in roughly 60% and 57% market-implied odds for Trump, respectively.

It’s the latest trend in betting markets toward Trump, as Kalshi favored Harris as recently as Oct. 9, PredictIt as recently as Oct. 8 and Polymarket as recently as Oct. 4.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2024/10/22/trumps-polymarket-election-odds-top-65--as-site-investigates-big-bets/




OK let me get this straight – you’re using unproven technology and fake money to stack the odds of the election in favor of the guy who wants to destroy democracy. Whatever school you graduated from, you obviously failed the civics part of it. Because I’m going to explain something to the MAGA dude bros out there. Markets don’t vote. Odds don’t vote. Land doesn’t vote. And most importantly, the people vote, and you only get one shot at it. And something else you have to realize – population densities. Yes, well over half the country lives in those blue areas Fox News likes to pretend don’t exist. Also too, let me give you a little lesson in Gambling 101 – NEVER, EVER bet against the house. Because the house always wins, and this is kind of the real world equivalent of doing that.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has stretched his betting lead over Democratic rival Kamala Harris as the 2024 White House race enters its home stretch.

Trump's lead comes after a slew of cancelled media interviews and a Univision town hall where he again embraced the Jan. 6 insurrection, calling it a "day of love," and repeating falsehoods about migrants in Springfield, Ohio that led to violent threats.

Democrats have been raising questions about Trump's age and behavior during his rallies, including at a town hall in Oaks, Pennsylvania, that was interrupted by medical emergencies in the audience. On Saturday, Trump fixated on the male anatomy of late golf legend Arnold Palmer during a speech in western Pennsylvania.

The Harris campaign has said Trump is too old and unstable to hold office, echoing the calls that eventually led President Joe Biden to drop out of the race.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/10/21/presidential-betting-odds-oct-21/75769301007/




Well, duh! Thank you Cartman! So how do you explain the betting markets to someone who doesn’t quite understand them? Well, as we’ve already seen, they’re run by some incredibly shady characters who shouldn’t be trusted. Remember when Martin Shkreli rigged the pharmaceutical markets so he could profit off $35 vials of insulin by 10,000%? Guess what – not only is that an example of shady characters doing shady things, that’s also betting against the house. And Shkreli bet against the house and was living large, but he ultimately failed at doing that and got busted. We can’t say the same thing will happen to the betting market bros, but we do believe that is coming, and the SEC and FEC will come for them for election interference should Kamala win.

It seems that there might have been more stories written about the prediction markets than people who actually use them – as we were shocked by how few traders actually bet on these platforms, and the thin trading volume and liquidity which make it extremely difficult to make bets to begin with.

On some platforms, we tried to make bets on several key battleground races – only to find out we couldn’t, because there were zero sellers in those markets. In other markets, the spread – meaning the difference between the bid price and the ask price – was so massive, running upwards of 50%, that it was substantive impossible to buy or sell. (some screenshots of examples are linked). All this means that the so-called price cited by media accounts is merely a phantom figure and not representative of reality, since nobody can buy or sell in these markets in practice. On other platforms, even the largest market– the presidential election odds – feature extremely low volume, generally in the tens of thousands of dollars a day but sometimes hovering in the lower hundreds of thousand of dollars a day, to the point where a single small bet of a few thousand dollars can immediately move the market by several percentage points in real time. It can be substantively impossible for anyone to bet more than a few thousand dollars without immediately moving the markets – which might explain why the betting odds are often so disparate across different prediction market sites, and don’t even move in alignment with each other much less with polling results.
https://time.com/7095708/financial-scam-political-prediction-election/




Yes, my friends, as we have seen, just like a lot of things on the internet, and a lot of bad things on the internet, especially since 2016, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Also, as we’ve seen, if it favors Donald Trump, it’s most likely bullshit. And the betting markets, are guess what – complete and total bullshit. We totally expect a lot of these guys will get nailed by the SEC in the next few months after the election is finally over. You know also, there’s really no way to make elections fun. Yes, they’re tedious, and yes they can be boring at times. But combining electoral polls with the excitement of gambling is a surefire way to lose money. Even Trump knows a thing or two about bankrupting casinos, he bankrupted 4 of them! But this could make for a very interesting SCOTUS case down the road. In the mean time, don’t bet against the house.

People can’t get enough of betting on the 2024 presidential election, and thanks to a recent legal ruling, it’s easier than ever for Americans to vote with their wallet.

On Polymarket, one of the top online exchanges, people have already spent over $1.2 bn betting on the US presidential election. That includes two mystery individuals betting millions on a Trump win.

Betting market odds are suddenly on the lips of US broadcasters and campaign spin doctors, quoted like polls and watched like the weather.

Betting on elections has long been prohibited in the US, but various exchanges and their users have found ways to get in on the action nonetheless.

A federal appeals court ruled earlier on October 2 that prediction market Kalshi could offer contracts on US elections for the time being, leading to more than $3m in political contracts within the first week. Federal regulators at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which concluded last year such contracts run afoul of commodities law, argue this activity still amounts to illegal gaming or gambling, and are seeking further appeals hearings as soon as December.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/election-betting-odds-trump-harris-polymarket-b2632964.html


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Oh man, I was just getting into that song! Yes, there are some men who just want to watch the world burn, and one of those men is Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Welcome to our segment detailing the plight of the world’s most ridiculous monstrosity on 4 wheels not seen since the DMC DeLorean – the Tesla Cybertruck! You may have heard that Elon Musk, you know him best as the CEO of Tesla, Space X, X, the Boring Company, Starlink, and about a hundred other joints, desperately wants to expand the Tesla brand into non-consumer markets. Most specifically, law enforcement. Yes, since Elon has attached himself to the most pro police candidate who’s ever policed, despite the fact that he’s a convicted felon still on trial, he’s selling his cars to law enforcement. But actual police officers, on the other hand, aren’t having any of it. And the reviews are in! Tesla’s law-enforcement specific variants of the Model 3 and Model Y have been called everything from “extremely terrible” to “completely unsuable”. Which, since it's Elon Musk, yeah, we’re not shocked at all that this seems totally on brand for him.

At a rally this past April in Michigan, surrounded by a cadre of law-enforcement officials, Donald Trump suddenly began railing against electric cars. President Joe Biden’s decision to support EVs, he decried, “is one of the dumbest I’ve ever heard.” Minutes later, he was back to praising the sheriffs behind him: “We have to get law and order back. These are the best people in the world,” he said to a smattering of applause.

Support for law enforcement and skepticism of electric cars both abound on the right. Police officers are more likely to identify as Republican than the communities they serve, and their unions widely endorsed Trump in 2020. Meanwhile, the Americans buying electric cars tend to be Democratic. And yet, more and more law-enforcement officers seem to be taken by EVs. When they “get into and experience the [electric] cars firsthand themselves,” Tony Abdalla, a sergeant with the South Pasadena Police Department, told me, “they’re like, Okay, I think I get it now.”

Last month, South Pasadena’s police department became the first in the country with a fully electric police fleet, replacing all of its gas-powered vehicles with 20 Teslas. Four officers, after test-driving Teslas for the department, have already bought one for personal use, Abdalla, who leads his department’s EV-conversion project, told me. South Pasadena is one among a growing number of law-enforcement agencies that are electrifying their fleets.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/08/police-officers-are-falling-love-evs/679471/




Good question! And it doesn’t make even more sense when you realize that his BFF is the one who is making a killing in the EV industry! And not only that, it’s like he intentionally tries to take the wrong answer on literally every issue. Like you could ask Trump “What’s 2 + 2?” and he’d answer “the answer is penguins! Prove me wrong! Prove me wrong!”. But while it may seem great to have a police department be entirely gas free, is the Tesla Model Y really up for duty? The answer, which you may be not at all surprised at – is a big fat no. In fact, most actual police departments are chucking the Model Y in favor of something that can keep up with their demands. After all, how are you going to catch crooks when you spend all of your time charging your car?

Electric vehicles are great at many things, but police work might not be one of them. The Menlo Park police department in California has been testing three Tesla Model Ys, and its takeaways from the trial run show that it might be some time before EVs catch on with mainstream law enforcement agencies.

Menlo Park PD said the Model Y was “nearly unusable” for police work because their interiors aren’t accommodating for officers wearing bulletproof vests and duty belts. That said, they did enjoy some of the vehicle’s driving dynamics.

The department’s report read, “Officers using the vehicles appreciated the acceleration, steering, and vehicle speed compared to the hybrids and remaining gasoline-only patrol vehicles. However, the Teslas presented challenges due to the small interior space, ‘smart car’ features, and low vehicle profile limiting maneuverability.”

Teslas “do not appear to be ‘the patrol cars of the future’ in their current configuration,” according to the report’s conclusion. Officers also cited difficulties charging, and the department would need to invest heavily to upfit any EV for police duty, making the tried-and-true gas-powered workhorses more attractive.
https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/cars/news-blog/ca-police-department-tesla-model-y-not-ready-for-patrol-duty-44509846




Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!! Great movie. Pretty sure Jake and Elwood wouldn’t get very far in a Cybertruck if the movie were to take place in 2024. And yes, Elon, we get it! You hate California! You really hate us, so stop it please! But of course, while this segment isn’t really about the Tesla brand, it is about their most ridiculously over-hyped and overrated product to date – the Cybertruck. Does the Cybertruck have applications in law enforcement other than being a prop vehicle in a Demolition Man sequel? Well, the answer of course is, it varies depending what your sources are. Because once again, since Elon hates California so much, the city of Irvine, which is right next door to our home offices in Santa Ana, gets to be the test bed for Cybertruck cop cars!

A police department in Southern California says it has the country’s first Tesla Cybertruck for police use, but the unusual vehicle won’t see much action.

The Irvine Police Department unveiled the purchase Tuesday in a splashy video on social media, including Facebook and X. The price tag: $153,175.03, including the installation of emergency equipment.

The police department said its Cybertruck would have a limited role: jazzing up anti-drug events at schools through the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program.

"For over three decades, our DARE officers have driven attention-grabbing and one-of-a-kind vehicles that never fail to turn heads and excite students,” the department said on Facebook.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/cybertruck-california-police-department-rcna174599




Yes, move along! Nothing to see here! The Irvine PD just wasted $153K of your taxpayer money for a vehicle that will only be used if you win the Showcase Showdown! Actually, it might scare some pre-teens off of drug use. But that’s about it. But anyway, could South Pasadena’s all electric fleet serve as a model for law enforcement agencies nationwide? Well, maybe if they chose a more competent electric vehicle manufacturer, one could make that case. And come on, doesn’t the Hummer EV look so much cooler as a law enforcement vehicle? And unlike the Cybertruck, it actually works and can hold a lot of stuff, and maybe even a prisoner or two. But anyway, Elon’s definitely selling some snake oil and it’s not going to get better any time soon. But hey… at least you got Cyberstruck!

Some police departments in Southern California are already using Tesla Model Y electric vehicles as patrol cars. Now, Cybertrucks could be next, according to UP.FIT, a Hawthorne-based company that outfits police departments.

“I can confirm that we have several departments in California, specifically Southern California, that have expressed interest in ordering our new UP.FIT Next-Gen Patrol Cybertruck,” Fleet Director James Hedland told KTLA.

That’s all the company can say – for now. Hedland couldn’t reveal which departments have ordered Cybertrucks, due to contracts they have with their clients.

Recently, the company helped Anaheim’s police department by modifying a fleet of Tesla Y patrol cars as part of a pilot program.
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/cybertrucks-could-be-coming-to-your-local-police-department/





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Gather around my fair brothers and sisters! It’s time to take a seat in the pew and pass the collection plate, for the Holy Church Of The Top 10 has convened and it’s time to remind you that the holiest among us are the most full of:



My fair congregation! Please be seated! You know, in the last six years since we’ve been doing this program, we’ve often wondered what the ultimate end game of those who worship the Unholy Dark One was going to be. It certainly wasn’t the end of Roe V Wade, and we all know how the Dark One’s unholy and obscenely corrupt minions that he installed on the highest of courts decided to overturn Roe V Wade purely out of spite because their god king wasn’t the grand exhalted leader of the world, and we know they aren’t going to stop there. Because of course, they don’t worship GAWD or JAYSUS. They instead worship the unholy, ungodly Dark One! I of course speak of a man who is so foul, so depraved and disgusting that his name dare NOT be spoken in my church! The idea of a total abortion ban is absolutely disgusting and I’m really surprised that it’s not a total deal breaker for some. But then again, for the most hardcore supporters of the unholy Dark One, there is nothing that’s going too far, there’s no line that they won’t cross. No subject is off limits for them. But could it happen in our lifetime? It’s possible. But then again we thought the malicious overturning of Roe V Wade couldn’t happen in our lifetimes, either. So yes we need to keep voting blue, everybody!

Just weeks before what religious-right figures have insisted is the most important election in our lifetimes, if not the nation’s history, Donald Trump and a parade of Republican leaders could normally have been expected to show up at the Pray Vote Stand activist conference—formerly known as the Values Voter Summit—to revel in the adoration of the Family Research Council faithful and fire up the activists for the work ahead.

But not this year. While the conference opened last Friday with a prayer asking God to raise up Christians to vote and “take dominion over this earth exactly the way you intended it,” the triumphalist spirit was in short supply at a diminished and relatively downbeat conference.

Family Research Council leaders had a problem.

On the one hand, religious-right groups are spending tens of millions of dollars to elect Trump in hopes of getting four years of Christian nationalist policymaking and hundreds of MAGA-minded judicial nominees who could serve for decades.
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/religious-right-wrestles-trump-disavowing-their-goal-national-abortion-ban




Yes, it may seem like things are grim right now and with the Fox News approved SCOTUS, things aren’t getting better any time soon, and we may be in it for the long haul. But fare not, there is an election in two weeks and we can change the outcome from those who look to destroy this country from within, which is what they have been doing! But then again, when your supporters support the unholy Dark One and everything terrible that he stands for, it seems like all bets are off the table. Again, there’s no telling how far they will go! And of course, like most terrible things happening in this country, every time evil laws are passed, there’s always some Christian group bragging about it behind the scenes! Of course, leave it to the unholy Dark One himself and his minion Joel Webbon to lead the charge!

Webbon, who has a history of making controversial comments regarding the issues of race and religion, said that he has become a one issue voter in the upcoming presidential election, and that issue is which candidate will "deport millions of illegal immigrants." The reason Webbon has settled upon this as his primary issue is because, he claims, this nation belongs to "us and our posterity" and not a bunch of non-white foreigners.

"It comes down to natural affections, natural loves," Webbon said. "And these are categories that Christians have always had for a very, very long time, but we lost them over the last century. We lost them and we started to feel guilty for certain things that the Bible doesn't actually condemn. We were blessed by God, these United States, with much prosperity, much success, much strength and victory and instead of offering to the Lord as a response for all his blessing, offering him gratitude, instead, we chose to respond with guilt."

"And so, out of guilt for all the blessing that he gave us, we decided that we should just give all the blessing away," he continued. "And instead of it belonging to us and our posterity—that is, our children—we decided to give it to strangers. We have spit on the graves of our fathers. We've broken the Fifth Commandment. Read the Founders in their writings. They bled out and died and sacrificed. They didn't do it for India. That doesn't mean they hated India, but they did it for us and our posterity. And for you, the children of your fathers who died for you as their children, to say, 'Dad died for me and the kids, and we're going to take it and give it to strangers,' that is dishonoring dad! That is a breaking of the Fifth Commandment, and you have to be able to talk about that without being called a racist."
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/america-belongs-us-and-our-posterity-says-white-christian-nationalist-pastor-joel




Well, tell me you know nothing about religion and the Constitution and the Bible, without telling me you know nothing about the Constitution and the Bible. Yeah that’s what it feels like with this crowd! It’s truly insane that the American Christian church has lost its’ way since the rise of Rush Limbaugh and Jimmy Swaggart. Now they’re banking on the Dark One and his disgusting overturning of Roe V Wade, despite that the three justices he appointed deliberately and maliciously lied under oath through their teeth saying they wouldn’t. But when people are making completely outrageous claims like this is what our founding fathers would have wanted, they are clearly talking straight out of their ass, and there’s no reasoning with people like that! And Harris would never say that she hates Catholics. When did this conversation start? Just ugh… it’s getting harder to keep up with their BS, my fair congregation!

Former President Donald Trump is promoting a right-wing political group that supports a total abortion ban after the group’s leader Brian Burch dishonestly smeared Vice President Kamala Harris on Fox News as he promoted the group’s new swing-state ad attacking Harris. In contrast, Catholic Vote praised Trump’s selection of J.D. Vance as a “historic moment” and called Vance a “hero.”

Burch claimed on Fox that Harris has “an unmistakable record of deep hostility and hatred for Catholics and what Catholics believe,” a charge he repeated in an email Monday. Responding to Trump cheering on Catholic Vote on social media, the group tweeted, “We’re proud to expose Kamala’s vile hatred of Catholics.”

Burch is lying, of course. Harris serves as vice president to the second Catholic U.S. president. Burch tends to demean the faith of Catholics who disagree with the group’s political positions by producing "dossiers" on them or using square quotes when identifying them as "Catholic." Back when Barack Obama chose Biden as his running mate, Burch called the selection of a pro-choice Catholic “a slap in the face to Catholic voters.”
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/post/trump-promotes-abortion-ban-group-that-claims-vp-harris-hates-catholics




But of course, my fair congregation, make no mistake that the primary goal of the anti-abortion movement is to end it entirely. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200. Also, make no mistake that the anti-abortion movement is really a white supremacist movement but with a different label. They made that pretty clear with Project 2025. And no, Pastor Webbon, the United States Of America doesn’t just belong to you. That’s a terrible statement to make. It belongs to all of us. Yes, even the brainwashed cultists too. And when supposed faith leaders keep selling themselves out for the unholy Dark One, you can bet it’s a sure reason why we can’t have nice things in this country and that there’s a black cloud currently hovering over it.

Earlier this year, far-right conspiracy theorist and self-proclaimed "alpha toxic male" Clay Clark announced that he was working to place a "prophet" in Donald Trump's cabinet if the former president returns to the White House. Clark is positioned to potentially do this because he has forged close ties to Trump's son, Eric, through the "ReAwaken America" tour Clark had been parading around the nation for the last several years.

Launched in 2021 as a "Reopen America" event in Oklahoma that was designed to protest restrictions put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic, the event was such a success that Clark quickly rechristened it "ReAwaken America" and launched a nationwide tour, holding similar events all over the country.

Convinced that a vague 2013 prophecy from the late “prophet” Kim Clement about “a man by the name of Mr. Clark and … another man by the name of Donald” was a prophecy about himself and Donald Trump, Clark's events quickly became a nonstop cavalcade of outlandish conspiracy theories and explicitly violent rhetoric mixed with aggressive Christian nationalism.
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/conspiracy-theorist-clay-clark-organizing-faith-leaders-event-trump




Well believe me, my fair congregation, we will certainly be keeping an eye on this development as it is happening. It’s the shit show that never ends! Mass has ended, may you go in peace! That’s it this week for:




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This week’s This Fucking Guy is Jack Hibbs. You may have heard his name before if you follow the TPUSA verse, or as I like to call them the Toilet Paper Verse. He’s the pastor of Cavalry Church in Chino Hills, of which there’s about a billion Cavalry Churches to choose from. But if your church employs a pastor like this, two things we would suggest. The first is to know what their church’s after hours activities are, and the second is you should probably find a new church. Because this guy has his lips planted firmly on Donald Trump’s ass, and it will probably take a crowbar to pry them off. Which is why we say that any church who tells you who to vote for should immediately lose its’ tax exempt status. This guy is certifiably nuts, and he’s definitely far from the Christian that he claims to be. He’s a Trump worshipper and his MAGA cult credentials are strong. In fact if you ever listen to his podcast for more than a few minutes without wanting to smash your phone into pieces, you’ll definitely pick up a few insane tidbits about the MAGAgelical lifestyle. Like this for instance.

California megachurch pastor Jack Hibbs, a close ally of right-wing Christian nationalist political operatives David Lane and Charlie Kirk, declared on his podcast last week that people who vote for Democrats cannot be Christians. Hibbs’ influence stretches beyond his congregation through his political alliances and online followers; his YouTube channel has 659,000 subscribers. Earlier this year, House Speaker Mike Johnson invited Hibbs to give a prayer to the House of Representatives.

From an edition of his “Real Life with Jack Hibbs” podcast posted Aug 1:

Democrats, sorry. Look, I gotta tell you man, I’m gonna say it again, you cannot be a Democrat and be a believer in Jesus Christ. You can lie to yourself all you want. Jesus Christ is not an abortionist. Jesus Christ does not attack borders and say they don’t matter. The God of the Bible established borders, he says so. The God of the Bible is pro-life, he says so. So, if you’re a Democrat, and you say you’re a Christian, that means you vote Democrat, which means you vote against the Bible. Actions speak louder than words. So, I have no interest in you.

In reality, of course, millions of Christians regularly vote for Democratic candidates, which apparently rankles Hibbs almost as much as conservative evangelicals who vote, something he has been complaining about for years. On last week’s podcast he railed against conservative Christians in California who don’t vote, saying “I have so much more respect for Democrats who go out and vote in huge numbers for their sick, perverse ideology, their godless platform.” Hibbs has previously referred to the Democratic Party as a “death cult.”
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/post/jack-hibbs-claims-democrats-cant-be-christians




Yeah BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Oh come right the fuck on. We’re the death cult? Have you been following MAGA lately? We’re at the point where if Trump instructed his minions to jump off the Grand Canyon, they’d be pushing and shoving to be the first in line. But in case you’re wondering if the line between church and cult is getting weirder and nuttier, look no further than Jack Hibbs and what he said about the Trump “assassination attempt”. Oh come on, if there ever were a reason why churches should be taxed the ever-loving shit out of, look no further than this. And also, if you don’t doubt the Trump “assassination attempt” was staged, they literally had t-shirts made the next day with that stupid picture on them! I mean come on, it’s truly insane what they are saying and getting away with.

Jack Hibbs, a far-right anti-LGBTQ pastor, conspiracy theorist, and Christian nationalist, delivered a special sermon Sunday in response to the failed assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump the day before.

Clad in a "colonial preachers robe" meant to the emulate the apocryphal "Black Robe Regiment" that supposedly rallied the colonists to rebel against England during the American revolution, Hibbs said he only breaks out the garb in "times of tyranny."

We are in just such a time right now, said Hibbs, prompting him to deliver a rather strange sermon in which he referenced a passage from the book of Leviticus instructing priests to anoint the toe, thumb, and right ear of those making a guilt offering with blood, which Hibbs tied to the injury Trump received from the shooting.

"God said all those who represent me in the priesthood, there's to be a sacrificial basin of blood," Hibbs said. "And I want the toe of the priest to be dipped in the blood—the big toe, the right toe—dipped in blood. I want the priest's thumb dipped in blood because his feet and his decision making is covered in my blood. And then take the blood from the basin and put it on your right ear."
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/post/pastor-jack-hibbs-assassination-attempt-was-a-warning-by-almighty-god-that-trump-must-bow-the-knee-to-jesus




Yeah come on! That is totally, criminally insane. Like straight jacket and padded cell insane. And these are the guys who say that “GOD WILL NOT BE MOCKED!!” while they literally mock god by saying stupid shit like this. And if you think mocking god is a problem, wait until you see our sister program Holy Shit: The Sunday Sermons! But hey, we don’t mock god. We mock the “god will not be mocked” people, so that’s mocking inception! Mock-ception? But anyway, Jack Hibbs first gained prominence last year when he admitted that he was the one responsible for flipping the Chino Hills school board to batshit crazy MAGA loons last year. And well, you should never question Christian nationalists, oh no! What will independent thinkers do now?

Jack Hibbs is a far-right anti-LGBTQ pastor, conspiracy theorist, and Christian nationalist who was invited by House Speaker Mike Johnson to deliver a prayer to the House of Representatives last month. That decision understandably did not sit well with several House members who denounced Hibbs' views and questioned why he had been invited to speak in the first place.

Last week, Hibbs appeared on "The Line Up" program to discuss the controversy, where he declared that those who criticize or oppose Christian nationalism are a "systemic cancer" in this nation and are carrying out the agenda of "the Third Reich under Hitler."

"The people that are labeling us as Christian nationalists are the ones who are for the destruction of the gender of a child's biological birth," Hibbs said. "They're anti-family. They're pro-LBGTQ. They are anti-borders."

"They all have this also in common," he continued. "They always mention democracy; they will never mention constitutional republic. They are for everyone's rights and freedoms except those who they disagree with. These are literal cancers in a culture. These people are systematic—can I use their word?—systemic cancers."
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/post/jack-hibbs-says-critics-of-christian-nationalism-are-literal-cancers




Uh oh… independent thought! Cults don’t like that! Yeah it’s like how can they say in one breath that “god will not be mocked” and then in the next minute, they think Trump is Jesus and that democratic thought is a “cancer”? Shit that’s going pure Nazi! And Systematic Cancer, by the way, awesome punk band. I saw them at the Troubadour last week. And if you think we haven’t reached the pinnacle of Mr. Hibbs’ insanity, wait until you see what he said about the recent hurricanes that wreaked havoc on the Gulf Coast. Yes, he actually went there, and yes, he is that crazy. But again, they worship a guy who stared at an eclipse and used a sharpie to draw the path of a hurricane. Also that you don’t have rights if you speak up against the Murdoch cult.

Jack Hibbs, a far-right anti-LGBTQ pastor, conspiracy theorist, and Christian nationalist, posted a video on his YouTube channel earlier this week in which he lashed out at the protests that have sprung up on college campuses around the country in opposition to the ongoing war in Gaza.

Hibbs, an ardent Christian Zionist whose own support for Israel is riddled with antisemitism, declared that these campus activists have no First Amendment right to protest because, by virtue of protesting, they are proving that they are not even real Americans.

"This morning, I turned on the news and I watched the idiocy of the news media—from channel to channel to channel covering Columbia University and NYU—say the same thing: 'You know, they're just expressing their First Amendment rights. This is the First Amendment in action,'" Hibbs sneered. "Those are the words of fools. Fools!"

"We've got people who I believe have forfeited their rights to the First Amendment," Hibbs declared. "They don't have the First Amendment [right] to do what they're doing on over 220 university campuses."
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/post/jack-hibbs-says-campus-protesters-have-no-constitutional-rights




That’s Chino Hills MAGA pastor Jack Hibbs. This week’s:




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Welcome back to our segment that attempts to explain the unexplainable, Conspiracy Corner! Of course conspiracies exist when people simply don’t want to read the article past the headlines and just flat out make shit up. We of course are coming to you live from our underground doomsday shelter from deep within the New Mexico badlands. Undisclosed location, of course! Let me just adjust my trusty tin foil hat for maximum government interference. Ah, there we go! They are trying to read yours and my thoughts, after all! This week, we’re going to talk about Texas. The Lone Star State. Yes, the polls are showing Texas trending increasingly purple, when it was once a hard red state. And the GOP doesn’t want to admit that there’s a very real possibility that Texas could flip for Kamala Harris. But the two guys at the helm of the Lone Star State – governor Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton – are hatching a scheme to keep their jobs, as well as make sure that their employers - Fox News – and their hard right wing stranglehold on that state remains pure. Abbott and Paxton both have decreasing approval ratings, and like fellow Fox News employee Ted Cruz, are not very well liked. Well, remember when Arizona was at the center of a bizarre auditing plot in the 2020 election (see: Idiots #10-12 ). Well, the 2024 Texas election scam, er, scheme, looks to make the Cyber Ninjas look like Cyber MMA trainees. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Well here’s more.

Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo is perhaps best known for spreading the baseless claim on air that Dominion Voting Systems rigged the 2020 presidential election. Her source for that “information” was a viewer who also claimed to be “internally decapitated” and said she spoke with the wind. Along with similar misinformation, this false claim landed Fox in court for defamation, and the company agreed to pay an unprecedented $787 million settlement to Dominion.

But last month, Bartiromo returned to reporting baseless hearsay again, this time to cast doubt on the upcoming election. On August 18, she claimed on social media that the wife of a friend of a friend went to a DMV in Weatherford, Texas, and saw a “massive line of immigrants getting licenses” and a “tent and table outside the front door of the DMV registering them to vote!” Apparently the “same Dems” were registering immigrants to vote outside other DMVs in the area as well. Without explanation or evidence, the post insinuated that something nefarious must be going on because the people at the DMV appeared to be “immigrants.”

Law enforcement and even the local Republican Party completely debunked Bartiromo’s rumor. A spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety, which issues drivers’ licenses in the state, pointed out that assuming people are undocumented immigrants based on solely on their appearance is “kind of racist.”
https://truthout.org/articles/in-texas-racist-conspiracy-theories-fuel-suppression-of-latino-voters/




Uh… kind of racist? You know what we say around here is that if you have to ask, it’s probably racist! I mean… sigh. This is why we can’t have nice things in this country, like functioning elections. And come on, the election is two weeks away and we have to get our shit together! Because everyone knows that if the election is even remotely close, you know damn well that Fox News and the Heritage Foundation are going to make a plan to steal it, and we cannot let that happen under any circumstances, because it’s the end of democracy if that happens! But what the election rah rah poll watching people need to realize – it’s not election integrity. It’s voter suppression. And that industry is currently booming right now as misinformation is running rampant.

Voting rights activists in Texas are accusing the state’s Republican leaders of limiting access to the ballot and cracking down on groups mobilizing and registering voters in the name of election integrity.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, authorized searches over the weekend on the homes of several members of one of the oldest Latino civil rights groups. And on Monday, Republican Gov. Gregg Abbott announced that 1 million people had been removed from the state’s voter rolls.

The officials say the moves were made to guard against the possibility of fraud at the polls, but activist groups insist they are the latest examples of a growing trend of voter suppression that’s been brewing in the state following President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory.


And now with less than 70 days until the election, the groups are warning that voters will have an even harder time casting a ballot in November.
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2024-08-28/activists-fear-voter-suppression-as-texas-election-integrity-probe-hits-home




So here’s the thing – if you live in a heavily red state where the entire government is run by Fox News employees posing as politicians… yes, right wing politicians no longer work for the government, since they spend all of their free time on Fox News complaining about how hard it is to do their actual jobs… how do you know that your vote is counted if you vote against the Murdoch cabal? Well, that’s a very qood question and we don’t have an answer for that. But we do have to say that it will be extremely fun to watch all of the talking points we’ve been force fed about election security and integrity blow up in their faces on November 5th.

The League of United Latin American Citizens in Texas is calling for a federal investigation into an effort by state Attorney General Ken Paxton's office to ferret out illegal voter registration operations, which the civil rights group argues is meant to disenfranchise Latino voters via "police state tactics."

While Paxton's office has recently initiated a series of "undercover operations to identify potential voter registration of noncitizens in Texas," Gabriel Rosales, state director for Texas LULAC, said in a statement Friday that the office had gone too far by targeting the homes of older citizens and LULAC members in South Texas.

"I have been contacted by elderly residents who are confused and frightened, wondering why they have been singled out," Rosales said. "Attorney General Paxton's actions clearly aim to suppress the Latino vote through intimidation and any means necessary to tilt the electoral process in favor of his political allies."
https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/state/2024/08/23/ken-paxton-texas-attorney-general-voter-fraud-investigation-lulac-seeks-federal-probe/74923123007/




Yeah that’s the fucking irony of this whole thing. If you watch Fox News, and actually believe the bullshit they spew on a daily basis, you’d think the sky is falling. But if you actually read, turn off that poisonous network, and think for yourself, you’ll be like “Where is all of this shit happening?”. Because Fox News can scream bloody murder all they want that their precious man baby didn’t win in 2020, and that they won’t let it happen again. The reality is that your chances of finding an actual case of real voter fraud are like slim to nil. We’re talking like maybe 1 case out of 20,000. You have better odds of winning the Powerball and getting struck by lightning. But please, GOP, keep going there. It’s only going to hurt you in the long run.

Texans who may have been wrongly removed from the state's voter registration list or whose voter registrations have been suspended have little time to reverse course, Democratic state lawmakers and civil rights advocates warned Thursday, a few days after Republican leadership announced the purge of more than 1.1 million names from their voter rolls.

States are required by law to regularly update their voter registration lists to remove people who have died or moved or who are found ineligible to vote for other reasons. But Republican Gov. Greg Abbott touted the routine maintenance of the voter rolls in a series of election integrity bills he signed into laws in 2021.

"Texas’ strong election laws removed over 1 MILLION ineligible voters from our voter rolls," Abbott wrote Monday on X.

Numbers released by Abbott’s office show that more than 134,000 voters purged from state voter rolls since September 2021 had confirmed they had moved elsewhere and that 457,000 others had died.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/texas-voter-purge-warning-ballots-abbott-rcna168811





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So of course, you know the idea behind this segment is that we have some drinks, and while we are drinking, we talk about literally anything in the news as long as it doesn’t relate to politics. Because, if you haven’t noticed, there’s a lot of really dark shit in the news right now. So we always feel that the best escape from reality is to belly up to the bar and have a few cold ones. Don’t worry, my sober brothers and sisters, we got you covered too! Just grab a glass of your favorite coffee, tea, or energy drink and come get wired with us! So the subject on the table this week – we have to go across the pond to our friends in the UK. Because a very uniquely British sport that you definitely wouldn’t have heard about called Conker is involved in what could be one of the most ridiculous “cheating” scandals that we’ve ever seen. So tell me, bartender, what goes well with a British cheating story? A very tall glass of British lager? Well, you know I like my beers large and in charge! Let’s go for it! So anyway, this might be one of the single most bizarre cheating stories we’ve ever seen, and it’s something that could only happen to our good friends in the UK. It’s definitely insane.

The winner of the World Conker Championships has been cleared of any wrongdoing after he was found with a steel nut in his pocket.

David Jakins, known as King Conker, won the annual title in Southwick, Northamptonshire, on 13 October for the first time after competing in the competition since 1977.

But when organisers searched his pockets after the runner-up raised suspicions over the way his conker shattered on impact during the final, Jakins, 82, was found to have a metal replica conker, prompting an investigation.

After the scandal generated more media interest than England’s men’s and women’s cricket teams combined, King Conker has been cleared by the organisers, who found no evidence the steel nut was used in the competition.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/oct/20/king-conker-cleared-of-cheating-at-world-conker-championships




Yeah so if you didn’t tell me anything about the sport and I heard the phrase “steel nut”, I would immediately assume you’re making some kind of joke about male genitalia. Because, yes, my mind really is that dirty, folks! Well, here’s where it gets weird, because you know it was going to! Not even one day after being cleared of any wrong doing, the guy who won the title, almost immediately had his title taken back. And the story greatly varies depending on what your sources are. But even Mr. Jakins himself, a guy who’s been an active competitor in the “sport” (term used loosely) since 1977 has claimed that he didn’t do anything wrong. And this is totally weird, and it gets even weirder. Yes, we did go down the Conker wormhole.

A man accused of using a conker made of steel to win a competition "achieved his title fairly", an investigation concluded.

David Jakins, 82, won the men's competition at the World Conker Championships at a tournament in Southwick, Northamptonshire, on 13 October.

His victory was plunged into controversy and he was surprised to find himself at the centre of national headlines when the Telegraph reported claims he cheated by swapping his real conker for a metal one.

Mr Jakins, a conker competitor since 1977, denied using a steel horse chestnut at any point in the tournament, and said he kept a steel conker on him for "humour value".

In a statement, the World Conker Championships said nothing "untoward" was seen by judges or umpires.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3w3151e4wo




OK, we got to admit that’s pretty funny. Yes, he definitely was making a statement about his “balls”, but apparently the judges didn’t exactly find it funny. So who’s right and who’s wrong in the chestnut rolling competition? Well, again, like most things – it depends on your sources. And the answers vary greatly depending on who you talk to. But really, this gives new meaning to the phrase “balls of steel” and we really can’t wait for the forthcoming Netflix documentary. Because this is 2024 and you ain’t famous until Netflix has greenlit a documentary based on your story. I mean come on, they gave us Tiger King for crying out loud. And for someone who’s never heard of the sport until last week – yes, we too have no idea what’s going on!

The Conker World Championships has been embroiled in a cheating scandal after the winner of the tournament was discovered with a steel decoy in his pocket.

Known as “King Conker”, David Jakins secured the 2024 men’s competition title at the international event in Southwick, Northamptonshire, this weekend.

However, the validity of his victory has been called into question after cheating allegations surfaced, accusing him of using a conker made of steel to “obliterate” his opponents.

After the competition, the retired engineer was found to have a steel dummy, shaped and painted to look like a real conker and threaded on identical lace.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/uk/home-news/conker-world-champsionships-steel-dummy-b2629369.html




Yeah come on, shots!!! Speaking of shots… what’s absolutely weird about this story is that one day, the media is saying that Mr. Jakins cheated, and then the next day, they’re saying he was cleared of cheating. Then the next day, they say the stories about the cheating accusations are being withdrawn, and rinse and repeat. See, this is why we need to have some drinks when we discuss weird stories like this, because being drunk off our ass is probably the only way we can comprehend anything because the media never tells anything the way we see it. So did Mr. Jakins cheat? Did he not cheat? It will be interesting to see how this unfolds, and like we said at the beginning – we can’t wait for the Netflix documentary on this. Come on, people watched Tiger King!

A veteran conkers competitor dubbed King Conker has rejected claims he cheated his way to his first men's title after 40 years of trying.

David Jakins won the men's competition at the World Conker Championships during the tournament in Northamptonshire on Sunday.

But the 82-year-old's victory was plunged into controversy and he was surprised to find himself at the centre of national headlines when the Telegraph reported claims he cheated by swapping his real conker for a metal one.

Mr Jakins told the BBC he denied the allegations. Event chairman Jim Packer also rejected the claims, saying: "Somebody's a sore loser, I think."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3e9k72qz7xo





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Welcome back to our segment that lumps all of the election coverage of the 2024 election to end all elections in: Road To The White House! Look, here’s something that we need to explain to MAGA people, who clearly have zero understanding about how being president of the United States actually works. And yes, you have zero clue because you let talk show hosts do all of your critical thinking for you. But one of the things that being president of the United States entails – you occasionally have to get out of your comfort zone to face people who you don’t like. Kamala Harris did just that during her appearance on Fox News last week. Which, of course, if you watch Fox for more than 2 minutes afterward without wanting to throw your TV out the window, then you are obviously a better person than I am, and of course Fox News painted their host as the winner and Kamala the loser. But the Brett Baier interview highlights what might be MAGA’s biggest problem – they never know when to shut the fuck up, and a lot of people who vote that way are simply incapable of it.

On a recent episode of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” the show host took a dig at Bret Baier for his now-viral Fox News interview with Kamala Harris. Colbert went on to call the network the “belly of the beast.” He also commended the Democratic presidential candidate on making it out of the interview and holding her own. However, before he began, he made it clear to his viewers that he was in full support of journalists asking the “toughest questions of presidential candidates.”

He began by highlighting that Baier never gave Harris a chance to answer his questions. Colbert jokingly questioned, “Does he think he is interviewing himself?” He likened the journalist’s demeanor to that of a cat’s, doing a clawing action as he went “meow.” The show host also pointed out Baier misquoting Donald Trump, picking and choosing sections that justified his answer. He joked that it was similar to someone only watching the opening scene of “Jurassic Park” and thinking it would be a lovely place to reside in because of the lush greenery.

Stephen Colbert then stated, “A journalist can’t selectively edit what someone says just to please their audience.” However, he couldn’t resist adding that he could because he was a “late-night host” and “not a journalist.”
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/did-stephen-colbert-bret-baier-185818774.html




Oh just go fuck right the fuck off, Fox News. Yes, MAGA doesn’t know when to shut the fuck up or stick their nose where it doesn’t belong. But at least Kamala is putting an end to the damn question we’ve been hearing from every Fox News host ever since Biden stepped down. And that is that she doesn’t talk to anybody. Uh excuse me??? Where have you been? Oh yeah, like most of MAGA world, Fox News has their lips firmly placed on Trump’s ass, and we all know how much Trump just loves getting his ass kissed, and that’s a pretty disgusting picture! But Fox will never, ever cross over to our side no matter how much it’s the right thing to do or not. And again, Brett Baier, please, for the love of god, shut the fuck up. And also Trump, shut the fuck up.

Bret Baier is defending his aggressive interviewing style during his Oct. 16 sit-down with Kamala Harris on Fox News.

Baier’s interview with Harris sparked discourse (and a “Saturday Night Live” parody, with Alec Baldwin portraying the Fox News anchor) due to Baier’s constant interrupting of the Vice President.

Baier told Vanity Fair that his interruptions were in an effort to “redirect” Harris from her “talking points,” adding that if he didn’t interject, the Democratic candidate for president would “eat up all the time of this interview that was live-to-tape.”

According to CNN, Baier interrupted Harris “at least 38 times in 27 minutes, about twice as often as Baier interjected with Trump (at least 28 times in 36 minutes).” “SNL” satirized the interview with Maya Rudolph’s Harris telling Baldwin’s Baier that he has to “listen” to hear her answers to his questions — to which Baldwin quips: “Well, I can’t because I’m talking.”
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/bret-baier-defends-interrupting-kamala-harris-fox-news-interview-1236185122/




Why yes, that clip is strangely relevant to this conversation! But why are so many people telling us to stay out of enemy territory? Come on, it doesn’t stop Angels fans from showing up to Dodgers Stadium with full Angels gear on. But what I’m loving about this particular interview is that the more they go on Fox News, the more Fox News hates it. And at least Harris is getting out of her comfort zone, and we can’t say the same for Donny, and for the looks of it, Donny seems to be retracting into his bubble and comfort zone more and more the more he cancels his appearances in favor of only going on programs that make him look good to his base.

Former President Trump and his team spend a lot of time blasting Vice President Harris at rallies, on social media and on TV. But lately they've had a new target: Ian Sams, Harris' unassuming spokesperson.

Driving the news: Sams has appeared on Fox News several times in the past two weeks to throw darts at Trump, prompting the ex-president and his staff to fire off dozens of social media posts blasting Sams — and essentially accusing the conservative network of betrayal.

Zoom in: Sams, a longtime Democratic operative, was on Fox four times in five days last week. He brought up Trump's actions on Jan. 6, his refusal to release his medical records and his handling of the pandemic — all while defending Harris on one of Trump's go-to media outlets.

After Sams was on Neil Cavuto's show and said, "We're not seeing Donald Trump do very many interviews," Trump had had enough.
https://www.axios.com/2024/10/24/ian-sams-harris-trump-fox-news




He’s had enough? Come on, have you seen him lately? I cant even. But then again, the cultists are going to cult. At least Saturday Night Live is having a field day with this election and we don’t see them slowing down until it happens. We just hope that this year doesn’t have the same outcome that 2016 and we are very actively praying that it doesn’t! The good news though, is that the ratings are in – and Kamala scored higher Fox News ratings than Donny has in the last few months. An even further sign that his world is imploding around him. It’s just too bad that Donny’s handlers and his favorite news networks can’t see it.

The Fox News interview with Kamala Harris set a record for the 2024 campaign as the most-watched media appearance to date, drawing a total audience of 7.8 million viewers, outperforming Harris’ appearance on CBS’ 60 Minutes (5.7 million viewers), ABC’s The View (3.1 million viewers) and CBS’ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

The interview with Fox News anchor Bret Baier on Special Report made news itself—both for Harris’ decision to speak to Fox, and for the often contentious questioning by Baier, leading Harris to object to the host’s talking over her when she was trying to answer his question.

From 6 to 6:30 p.m. ET Wednesday, Fox News had a total audience of 7.8 million viewers and 1.126 million viewers in the key demographic of adults 25-54, the group most valued by advertisers. That put Fox News far into first place in the time period, ahead of MSNBC (1.6 million viewers and 148,000 in the key demo) and CNN 805,000 total viewers and 161,000 in the key demo).

As the presidential campaign winds into its final weeks, both the Harris and Trump campaigns are calibrating their media strategy, with both candidates mixing traditional broadcast and cable interviews with unconventional choices like sitting down with podcasters—as Harris did recently on the podcast Call Her Daddy.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/markjoyella/2024/10/18/kamala-harris-fox-news-interview-is-most-watched-of-the-24-campaign/






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Thank you Villanova! This was fun! We had a great time in central PA! We’re off to Ann Arbor next week for our Halloween Spooktacular with live music from Imagine Dragons and our last minute election coverage! This is it! Get out the MF vote!!! Do it now!

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October 20, 2024

Top 10 Conservative Idiots Presents: Holy Shit: The Sunday Sermons Season 3 Episode 1: Entertainment In Religion


Top 10 Conservative Idiots Presents: Holy Shit: The Sunday Sermons Season 3 Episode 1: Entertainment In Religion

Gather around my fair brothers and sisters! It’s time to take a seat in the pew and pass the collection plate, for the Holy Church Of The Top 10 has convened and it’s time to remind you that the holiest among us are the most full of:



My fair congregation! I hope y’all are doing well and I hope that you have a copy of our Good Book opened because we are going to explore followers of the good LAWRD JAYSUS and how far their beliefs can take them this week. This is episode 1 of season 3! How about that! We’ve officially made it to 3 seasons everybody! And we’re not holding back, either! Especially since we are almost literally at the 11th hour which could decide the fate of the United States – totalitarian fascism or a free and just democracy? I know which way we’re voting! So anyway we’re going to take a break from talking about that and discuss how religion is infiltrating the Hollywood box office! In the first slot (1), there’s a whole slew of religious themed entertainment for you to choose from, including the return of our favorite nonsensical religious series “God’s Not Dead”! In the second slot this week, we are going to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the god fearing movie that broke the Hollywood box office – The Passion Of The Christ (2). And guess what? With every successful franchise, there’s a sequel! Oh yes, my fair congregation, even JAYSUS can be franchised! Finally, as always, we’re going to close out by answering your prayers from the Holy Shit Hotline To Heaven! Enjoy! And as always don’t forget the key!

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You know, lately, we’ve been accused of talking about one subject way too much. And yes, we feel like we don’t talk about it enough. That subject is of course the religious right steering hard towards far right authoritarianism and America’s march to becoming a religious fascist theocracy. So you know what? We’re going to take a break this week and talk about a fun topic. Since the movie industry took a massive hit when the COVID virus showed up, leave it to America’s far right and religious to worm their way into the box office. But of course these are not people who worship GAWD or JAYSUS, they worship the unholy Dark One! I of course speak of a man who is so foul, so depraved and disgusting that his name dare NOT be spoken in my church! But if you’re a godly MAGA voter who has some time to kill and you want to go see a movie at the box office, why there’s plenty to choose from! Let’s of course start with the return of our favorite far right franchise, God’s Not Dead!

“God’s Not Dead: In God We Trust” (Fathom) and “Am I Racist?” (SDG) won’t register with most mainstream moviegoers, but this weekend they could rank as high as #3 and #4 (in either order), behind “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” (Warner Bros.) and the debuting “Speak No Evil” (Universal). Also in the mix are Lionsgate’s new “The Killer’s Game” and the 8th weekend of “Deadpool & Wolverine.”

Of these, guess which two are top candidates for receiving the rare A+ Cinemascore.

There’s a history of lucrative performances for similar films that appeal to conservative faith-based or MAGA-related audiences (which frequently overlap). The progressive side has its analogs, particularly in Michael Moore documentaries, but for the last decade or more nearly all the preach-to-the-choir breakthroughs come from the right wing of the ideological spectrum.

Most fall far short of the grosses for “The Passion of the Christ” (Picturehouse) or “Sound of Freedom” (Angel). With budgets modest to small, and thrifty marketing with the ability to microtarget potential ticket buyers, this has become a vital market. Sony and Lionsgate lead the way for faith-based releases on the studio side, but it’s also a fertile valley for enterprising independents.
https://www.indiewire.com/news/box-office/gods-not-dead-will-be-a-hit-love-the-lord-and-the-cinemascore-1235046390/




Yeah, remember the Q Anon conspiracy flick Sound Of Freedom (if you don’t, check out our take from Idiots #15-4 )? It seems like religious films always find a way to sneak into the box office, like this. And some of them may make some money, but most usually don’t. Yes, Sound of Freedom was an anomaly just because the producers found a loophole to make money and exploited it! But let’s take a look at another, less successful Christian movie – “The Forge”. But if MAGA Christians are ready to celebrate “The Forge” dethroning “Blink Twice” at the box office, we’re here to remind you that’s not really a flex.

The Kendrick brothers, Alex and Stephen, from Albany, Georgia have been making Christian-based movies for two decades.

They have combined their writing, directing, and acting talents to produce popular movies like “Facing the Giants,” “Fireproof,” “Courageous,” “War Room,” and “Overcomer.”

Folks in Columbus were excited about the release of “Overcomer” in 2019 because it was shot in the Fountain City.

This weekend the Kendrick brothers are debuting their newest film “The Forge” which was shot in their hometown of Albany. Alex says the movie will be shown in over 1,800 theaters nationwide, adding that Sony is prepared to expand that number if the opening weekend goes well.

“The Forge” chronicles the struggles of 19-year old Isaiah Wright, portrayed by Aspen Kennedy. He’s the son of a single mom. He’s been out of high school for a year with no job and no ambition except to play basketball and video games.
https://www.wrbl.com/news/entertainment/debut-of-kendrick-brothers-film-the-forge/




Yeah so that’s basically every teenager that grew up in the video game era. But did anyone see any of those other movies? Anyone at all? I didn’t. Maybe big movies like that aren’t your thing and you prefer to watch movies of the documentary variety. Well, the one that has been lighting up with the MAGA religious right is the inexplicable hit by the Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh called “AM I RACIST?”, to which we always say – if you have to ask, it’s probably racist. But if Matt Walsh is trying to make the “AM I RACIST?” movie into the alt right’s version of Borat, well, he definitely fails because the alt right isn’t exactly good at comedy.

“Decolonize yourself. Do your own white supremacy dismantling, and then you can start to bring in other people,” declares Regina Jackson at a Race2Dinner in Atlanta, part of an ongoing series she co-founded with Saira Rao designed to help white women confront their own racism, white supremacy and xenophobia. Before anyone can respond, the waiter proposes a toast, instructing guests to “raise a glass if you’re racist.” They all oblige — although Jackson, who is Black, quickly puts her glass down and laughs. “Oh, I’m not racist,” she says.

The seemingly klutzy caterer has been interrupting the group all night long, dropping dishes and even pulling up a seat to explain that he’s got his DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) certificate. Many of the guests appear confused and perplexed by his odd behavior. “I’m just on the journey,” he says.

He is on a journey — just not the one he professed to be on. He’s actually the conservative provocateur Matt Walsh, who, with the backing of Jeremy Boreing and Ben Shapiro’s right-wing media company The Daily Wire, spent months filming the documentary Am I Racist?, a comedic and scathing takedown of the DEI movement.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/how-am-i-racist-matt-walsh-1236008035/




Oh come on, is it really “scathing” if he says the same thing we’ve heard from the unholy Dark One supporters a thousand times? No! It just shows they have no original thoughts of their own. But no matter what your poison is at the box office, there is one thing you have to consider. And that is… he’s baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!!!! Yes, for the first time in 20 years, our LAWRD and savior JAYSUS returns to the box office! That’s right, my fair congregation! Next year, JAYSUS returns in The Passion Of The Christ 2: Electric Boogaloo! No, the working title is “RESURRECTION”.

Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ: Resurrection - Part 1 is confirmed, but the sequel looks to be a lot more controversial. In 2004, The Passion of the Christ took the world by storm with particular appeal to American evangelicals, and it was successful in many international markets as well. Principally inspired by the Gospel of John, The Passion of the Christ also incorporated a number of Catholic traditions and even the visions of Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774-1824). Its release became particularly controversial due to charges of antisemitism — not helped by Gibson's own personal controversies.

Since 2004, Gibson has openly talked about the possibility of making a sequel that continues the narrative. The Passion of the Christ was undeniably one of the most important Biblical epics ever made by Hollywood, so it's not really a surprise to see Gibson finally attempt to turn this into something of a loose franchise — especially at a time when franchises tend to have more drawing power than individual actors and directors. But it remains to be seen whether Gibson can pull off another hit, appealing to the same evangelical audience who responded so positively to the first movie.

Though a lot of development promises were made in recent years, the latest news comes as the first solid update on The Passion of the Christ: Resurrection in a long while. The news comes from director Mel Gibson's publicist, Alan Nierob, who offered a small but interesting tidbit to the media in September 2024. "All we can confirm is they were scouting locations recently. Not a lot to discuss at this early stage," said Nierob, hinting that work is plugging along behind-the-scenes. It's still unclear when the movie will begin shooting, or if the promised 2025 release window will hold.
https://screenrant.com/passion-christ-resurrection-movie-news-updates/





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You know, last week I pointed out that the movie theater industry is a dying industry, which is why it’s not shocking that movies pandering to hyper conservative Christian are very slowly making their way into the box office. But one movie coming next year hopes to resurrect box offices. Ah, see what I did there? And that wasn’t AI, by the way. That was a thought of my own concoction! Anyway, yes, my friends, there is one movie that is hoping to save the box office this next year. And that is… JAYSUS! Yes, JAYSUS himself is coming to save the box office. Meanwhile, the movie that started the Christian movie revolution is celebrating its’ 20th anniversary this year. Can you believe that it’s been 20 whole years since the Passion Of The Christ was released? Yeah it’s truly insane how time flies, doesn’t it? Well it’s no secret that Christians love them some blood and guts, which is maybe why they worship the unholy Dark One! I of course speak of a man so foul, so profane and disgusting that his name DARE NOT be spoken in my church! So yes, we do come on 20 years of the Passion, folks!

As we've seen in recent years, horror remains a recipe for success at the box office. Truthfully, it's been that way for decades. Another trend that has emerged in the aftermath of the pandemic is faith-based cinema breaking out in theaters, with the controversial "Sound of Freedom" leading the way. To that end, controversy can sometimes fuel massive ticket sales. 20 years ago, one movie combined every single one of those elements to deliver the biggest R-rated movie of all time. That movie was "The Passion of the Christ."

Directed by Mel Gibson, the film focuses on the last 12 hours of in the life of Jesus of Nazareth, played by James Caviezel. The film begins with Jesus praying after the Last Supper before being betrayed by Judas Iscariot. He is then arrested and taken within the city walls of Jerusalem where leaders of the Pharisees confront him with accusations of blasphemy, resulting in condemning him to death.

"Critics who have a problem with me don't really have a problem with me in this film. They have a problem with the four Gospels. That's where their problem is," Gibson said in his interview with Diane Sawyer in 2006 addressing the controversies that erupted over the film's violence and offensive depiction of Jewish people. Whatever problems critics had with the filmmaker or his film, it hardly mattered in the end.

Read More: https://www.slashfilm.com/1525330/the-passion-of-the-christ-faith-based-bloodshed-box-office-glory-20-years-later/




Yes, so twenty years o f The Passion! Which is pretty crazy when you think about it. I mean when that movie first debuted, it was at the height of the political divide in this country with the Bush administration – and yes, that is a president whose name we can speak in these sacred halls! And of course, the violence in the film proved that today’s modern Christians love them some blood, guts, gore and the fire and brimstone level of Christianity! Yes, my friends, some good old fashioned repentance is always on the table! But is the movie really a miracle as some are calling it? I guess if that’s what your definition of “miracle” is.

In the powerful movie, The Passion of the Christ, chronicling the end of Christ’s life, Jim Caviezel delivers a nuanced, moody performance that doesn’t deny Jesus’ humanity. It helped that Caviezel is a true believer. A devout Catholic, he went to confession and received Holy Communion every day while shooting Passion in Italy.

The 2004 work, directed and co-written by Braveheart and Lethal Weapon star Mel Gibson, brings the Stations of the Cross — 14 scenes depicting His final 12 hours — to the big screen in excruciating detail. The movie harrowingly shows the Agony in the Garden of Olives, His betrayal by Judas Iscariot, His arrest and torture, the carrying of the cross, and His crucifixion and death.

Key moments in Jesus’ life, from the Last Supper to the Sermon on the Mount, and biblical events like Peter’s denial of Christ are seen throughout. It ends with a brief glimpse of the Resurrection. (The Passion of the Christ: Resurrection, a sequel, is reportedly starting production in 2024.)

The film was a box office hit and became the fifth highest-grossing movie of 2004, despite the dialogue being spoken entirely in reconstructed Aramaic, Hebrew, and Latin (with English subtitles). Gibson’s camera never shies away from the savagery and suffering of Jesus’ final hours, lingering on the brutal torture in all its painful, graphic detail.
https://www.tvinsider.com/1128204/the-passion-of-the-christ-20th-anniversary-jim-caviezel-jesus/




But it’s not rock and roll, it’s JAYSUS! And how do you celebrate 20 years of your movie about your lord and savior? With a sequel, of course! Because what good is a multi-billion dollar grossing movie in Hollywood without a sequel? Because you can literally sequalize anything in the movie industry if you put your mind to it! Yes, could this be the start of the Passion-Verse? Jesus! Jesus 2: The Resurrection, Jesus 3: The Awakening! Then there’s an Armageddon movie, a Revelations movie… come on, Hollywood, let’s get on it! And it would certainly be a better franchise than those Left Behind books, am I right?

It can be difficult to grasp, from the vantage point of 20 years later, just how massive Mel Gibson’s The Passion Of The Christ was back in 2004. Releasing in theaters in February, and then sticking around for more than two months (to say nothing of its various recuts and re-releases), the film made more than $600 million at the box office, quickly becoming the most successful R-rated movie of all time. (A title it only lost this past summer, as Deadpool & Wolverine found at least one way they were, in fact, bigger than Jesus.) And now, it’s apparently coming back.

This is per Consequence, reporting on a piece printed in Italpress, which states that Gibson is reportedly in Malta at the moment, holding conversations with Maltese authorities about using the island nation as a filming location for a new movie: The Passion Of The Christ: Resurrection, with an eye toward beginning filming in 2025.

Neither Gibson, nor star Jim Caviezel, who’s set to return for the sequel, have been shy about their ambitions to get The Passion Of The Christ 2 made. Gibson initially announced the project back in 2016, and Caviezel made his own enthusiasm for the return clear in 2018, saying he expected the movie to be “The biggest film in history.” Gibson even gave a glimpse at plot details in 2022, when he suggested that his script for the movie was less grounded than the first film, which got a lot of its appeal from being a straightforward—if brutally violent—depiction of the story of Christ. “That’s kind of getting a little sci-fi out there,” Gibson noted of his scripts, saying the film will partially take place in “the past and in other realms.”
https://www.avclub.com/the-passion-of-the-christ-2-begin-filming-2025




Yes, but sequels are one thing – time, my friends, is another. You know, for years, Passion held the record for the highest grossing R rated movie of all time. But this year, it was dethroned! By whom, you might ask? Our good friend, Deadpool! Yes, my friends, Deadpool & Wolverine is now the highest grossing movie of all time! Does this mean that Deadpool is bigger than Jesus? Well I’m definitely not going to answer that question with a 100 foot pole. But it is interesting to see that many R rated movies have come and gone over the last 20 years, but none can hold a candle to GAWD! Except of course for Deadpool, that is!

Deadpool & Wolverine recently passed The Passion of the Christ at the domestic box office, making it the biggest R-rated movie of all-time in North America. This broken record inspired people on social media to become broken records, repeating the same joke that nothing could be more indicative of American culture. Is that true? Maybe. But, what, exactly does it indicate?

The implied joke is that the United States really loves Christianity and really loves superhero movies, maybe even more. That — like a country musician putting odes to the Good Lord and Grey Goose on the same album — we love the sacred and the profane in equal measure. The Passion is what Americans feel like they should like; Deadpool is what they actually like. Deadpool is partying on Saturday night, The Passion is dutifully heading to church on Sunday morning. And that hyperviolence — whether inflicted via crucifixion or, well, actually, there's a crucifixion in Deadpool 3, too — is the one thing we will consistently turn out to see.

All of that is true. American culture is defined by its relationship to violence — sometimes active, sometimes passive. Our government is defined by inaction, which prevents anyone from doing anything about the tens of thousands of people dying from gun violence each year. Our primary mode of transportation is uniquely violent, too, with car accidents causing more than 40,000 deaths in 2023. We have nearly 800 military bases around the world, and it's rare for the U.S. not to be at war. We incarcerate more people than any other country in the world. The US is a violent country, and it makes sense that our defining R-rated movies would be extremely violent to match.
https://www.thegamer.com/deadpool-wolverine-passion-christ-american-culture/





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My fair congregation! We come now to the end of our fine spinoff program. But before we go, we always have to check in on how GAWD himself is doing with our patented (patent pending) Hotline To Heaven! This is just a free form segment where we answer your burning questions about what exactly the religious right are up to, using expertly sourced clips, about any issue you might have. Any issue at all, really! And yes, we all know that supporters of the unholy Dark One are just as clinically insane as he is! So let’s go to the phones, shall we? Which of course, you can always reach out to us via our social media channel – holychurchoftop10@mstdn.party

Ursula W. from Knoxville, TN writes:

“Heavenly Father,

Who is this Joel Webbon guy and why is he so insane?”

Well, sister Ursula – Joel Webbon is a Christian nationalist extremist pastor from Texas and he’s clinically insane. In fact, we did one of our previous sermons on how extreme his rhetoric is (see: Idiots #17-4 ). And we definitely plan on expanding that for a forthcoming episode But in the meantime, really, don’t vote for anyone who this guy supports! Because he’s certifiably fucking insane and should be locked in a mental hospital before he becomes a danger to himself or others. And yes, he’s a racist. We also hope to the highest of gods that he never gets what he wants, and that Satan has a special circle in hell waiting for him and people like him!











Kevin M. from Atlanta, GA writes:

“Heavenly Father,

I’m in a swing state and I’m getting absolutely bombarded with ads and telemarketing calls, but so many people I know insist on voting for the Unholy Dark One. Why is that?”

Well, brother Kevin – the propaganda is particularly strong in the Peach State. And we honestly don’t have an answer for that. But while we cannot persuade people to vote a particular way, we can certainly give you plenty of reasons why you shouldn’t! And in fact, the Christian right is currently on an ungodly power trip. Mainly fueled by these people – who as the LAWRD JAYSUS suggests, are people who you probably shouldn’t give the time of day to. With friends like these, who needs enemies?











Javier G. from San Diego, CA writes:

“Heavenly Father,

My MAGA friends keep talking about boycotting the entertainment industry. What will they do for fun, then?”

Well, brother Javier, funny you should ask! Because I was sent this clip last week. And after watching it, all I have to say is, they have a lot to learn and this clip of a religious “sitcom” is every bit as cringy and horrible as you would expect!



Alyssa J. from Phoenix, Arizona writes:

“Heavenly Father,

I’m a University Of Arizona student, and last week, Charlie Kirk and his goons had a TPUSA event on my campus. I’m totally disgusted that people I knew went. What do I do?”

Well, sister Alyssa – yes, we totally share your disgust that people went to an event that’s for the Unholy Dark One! But what’s really insane is that if you call TPUSA a cult, they use the classic Pee Wee Herman “I Know You Are, But What Am I?” defense. And you know what? That doesn’t work in real life!





Our last prayer this week:

Evan Q. from Henedrson, Nevada writes:

“Heavenly Father,

Does the right wing even know what witchcraft is? They keep accusing us of that, but I think they don’t know what it is.”

Well, brother Kevin, you are absolutely correct in that assumption!






Thank you my fair congregation! Mass has ended, may you go in peace! We will return on November 3rd with our second edition exploring Oklahoma’s batshit insane war on education!

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October 17, 2024

Top 10 Conservative Idiots #17-10: Wheel Of Corruption & The Purple Crayon Edition


Top 10 Conservative Idiots #17-10: Wheel Of Corruption & The Purple Crayon Edition

Welcome back to the Top 10 Conservative Idiots! Yoooooooooooooooooooooo!!! What’s up Northwestern? Chicago! The Windy City! It is good to be back! What’s the percentage of the audience make up here? I’m guessing – rocket scientists, lawyers, and Cubs fans? Yes, we love the Cubs here! So you might be wondering what’s going to happen in the next few weeks? Well right now, we’ve got just 2 editions remaining until the United States general election. And as we have stated on social media – we’re going dark that week. Because there will be a lot of shit being flung, and you don’t need to see our BS while you’re digging through all the madness. Then we will 2 in November, including our post-election special, followed by 3 in December and that’s it. Yes, we’re going on a very extended hiatus after that. Why? Because as we’ve said before – we’re just burnt out from all of this. And we’re sick of Trump being in our faces 24 hours a day. It’s totally infuriating. But we will be back after that, we don’t know what’s going to happen. Do we have time for the thing? Of course we do! Look, we are just three weeks and two Top 10s away from the general election! And we have to get our shit together! Seriously, how is anyone still undecided at this point? How??? HOW??? You either vote for our current vice president to lead us out of this madness, or you can vote for the worst person in the world and never vote again. And also expect to lose a lot of your rights in the process. Look, we cannot endure another term of this shit. This country is already at breaking point. Yes, I know I usually have something funny planned, but when I see things like this idiot on CNBC going “Yeah we need more information to decide who to vote for!”. Come fucking on!!! We live in the information age, damn it! You have the entire wealth of human information on that screen that fits in your pocket that you can’t stop staring at! So get your shit together! And then there were these idiots. Just… ahh!! Oh man I really can’t wait until we get to I Need A Drink, because if there ever was an excuse for one, it’s now! OK I needed to get that off of my chest. OK that’s enough of the intro, we have a lot of idiocy to get to. But first, our good friend Lewis Black explains to the undecided voters what to do:



Hey everyone, the famous Wheel Of Corruption is back! YAY!!!!! So where do we begin this week? It is all Hurricane Helene, all the time, and if you’re on the Gulf Coast, we’re here for you and here to sort out all the madness! Well in the first slot is of course that guy who we inexplicably used to call president, Donald J. Trump (1). And while we couldn’t question his ties to Russia, there’s an absolutely bombshell new revelation that just dropped, and you won’t believe it, but it seems totally on brand for him! In the second slot this week is Elon Musk (2). Yes, the guy who will be Trump’s cost-cutting czar has hatched a bizarre scheme to pay people for signing his “free speech” petition, but how legal is it? We’re going to say it ranges from “probably to “extremely” depending on your sources. In the number 3 slot this week, folks, we have to have a serious discussion about what misinformation and disinformation (3) is doing to this country. It’s insane that it appears we didn’t learn much since 2016 and it may take years before we actually do. In the number 4 slot this week is the Worst House In US History (4) and it seems like the MAGA Q Fox chuckle fucks in Congress aren’t serious people, given the fact that they’re destroying the one agency that wants to help the Gulf Coast – FEMA, and they can go fuck themselves! In the number 5 slot this week is a new We’re All Gonna Die (5) and after the roof of Tropicana Field, the home of the Tampa Bay Rays, was blown off like a sardine can being opened, how safe are you when the next disaster hits? Well expect things to be worse next time! And in our weekly visit to the Holy Church Of The Top 10 in Holy Shit (6) – WTF is up with Oklahoma? We’re not surprised that Oklahoma’s batshit crazy superintendent Ryan Walters is totally off his rocker forcing the state to kowtow to his ridiculous and completely illegal and grossly unconstitutional Bible demands, but apparently only one Bible meets his requirements, and you’ll never guess which one it is! SMDH. We also add Ryan Walters (Q – Batshit) (7) to the ever-growing list of People Who Somehow Got Elected! In the number 8 slot this week, is of course our weekly venture into the never-ending void of online tin foil hat nuttery in Conspiracy Corner (8) and this week, a growing faction of Q nuts are making the claim that Hurricane Helene is a DOD engineered bioweapon (fuck you Alex Jones!), but is it any more than any previous hurricanes? Probably not. In the number 9 (NEIN!!) slot this week is a new I Need A Drink (9) and this week, we have to talk about some crazy ways to maintain your skin hydration while you’re on that long flight thanks to some insane Tik Tok videos! Yeah, probably don’t listen to these people. Finally this week in Road To The White House (10), we have to talk about third party candidates. Yes, they won’t go anywhere. But if you don’t think they are looking to do some damage to the vote totals, well, you’re wrong. And fuck you, Jill Stein! Plus to cap things off, we have the legendary Pink Floyd frontman David Gilmour joining us! Buy his new album “Luck & Strange” or you are no friend of this program! Enjoy! And as always, don’t forget the key!

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Hey everyone! It’s time for the: WHEEL. OF. CORRUPTION!!! YAY!!!!



Of course you know the rules by now – I spin the wheel and we have to talk about whatever the subject it lands on. Of course if it lands on the guacamole option, you know that it costs $1.50 extra. And the wheel is all new with lots of items on it! I want to preface that we are no longer featuring the A Random Tweet option. Yes, we are actively boycotting content from Elon’s X / Twitter platform. That’s going to be replaced with clips from one of my favorite shows, Curb Your Enthusiasm. So if you see the Larry David option, you know what’s coming! Here’s what is on the wheel this week:

- Guns
- Crime
- Abortion
- Poverty
- Congress
- The Insurrection
- Elon Musk
- Buy A Vowel
- Donald Trump
- Midterm Elections
- Clip Without Context
- 5,000
- Nazi Germany
- Fox News
- ‘Merica
- My Pillow
- Bankrupt
- Chance
- Fox News
- Health
- Something Random In The News
- Whammy
- Community Chest
- Death
- Homosexuality
- The US Constitution
- We’re All Gonna Die
- Greed
- Clip Without Context
- Top 10 Investigates
- Beating A Dead Horse
- This Fucking Guy
- Intermission
- Holy Shit
- Larry David
- MAGA Cult Cringe
- Double Whammy
- Buy A Vowel
- Conspiracy Corner
- Random Movie Reference
- Guacamole
- 10,000
- People Are Dumb
- I Need A Drink
- Infowars
- Go Directly To Jail
- Random TV Reference
- T-Shirt Cannon
- Infowars
- People Who Somehow Got Elected
- COVID-19
- Lightning Round
- Bonus Spin

Let’s get this party started! Come on no whammy no whammy no whammy no whammy… STOP! Oh hey it’s one of our patented Clips Without Context!



Come on, dude… who the hell are you fooling with that jacket? Do you need a bigger private jet? Stuff like this is totally insane and the reason why America’s fastest growing religion is no religion. Spin it again! And it lands on… Donald Trump! Ugh.

It has been an absolutely banner week of idiocy for that guy who we inexplicably used to call president, but as we have learned over the last 8 years, this man has absolutely no bottom. There’s no low he won’t stoop to and no line he won’t cross. For this story, we have to go back 4 years. Anyone remember how bad things were at the height of 2020? Oh yeah, I’m pretty sure that everyone remembers where they were that year. People were dying by the thousands every day. Mostly Trump supporters who refused to abide by lockdown restrictions. We were locked in our homes and couldn’t go anywhere or do anything. But the latest bombshell from Bob Woodward may prove to be the missing link between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin that we may have all been fearing all along. To which we say – come on, where the fuck was this information when we, you know, could have used it? Yes, thank you Northwestern! Anyway, while the rest of the world finally may have had their first shot of beating COVID and a glimpse of hope of things returning to normal, Trump did something so shockingly evil that it’s impossible to comprehend that it was kept hidden from us for nearly 4 years now!

Russia has confirmed that Donald Trump sent the Kremlin sample Covid-19 tests in the early days of the pandemic, after revelations in veteran journalist Bob Woodward’s new book raised further questions about the former US president’s relationship with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

The Trump administration “sent us several samples of test kits,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Thursday, broadly supporting Woodward’s claim. His intervention comes after Trump denied the claims, telling ABC News they were “false.”

Legendary reporter Woodward wrote in “War” that Trump “secretly sent Putin a bunch of Abbott Point of Care Covid test machines for his personal use.”

“Please don’t tell anybody you sent these to me,” Putin said to Trump, according to Woodward. “I don’t care,” Trump replied. “Fine.”
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/11/europe/kremlin-confirms-trump-covid-tests-intl/index.html




Yeah BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! You know, since the 2016 election, we were told 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, by an increasingly hostile and vindictive GOP that we shouldn’t question the GOP’s ties to Russia. Well guess what? The GOP isn’t just up to their neck in this, they’re up to the deepest point in the ocean, because – wait for it – the entire party from top to bottom is in on the corruption! That’s why no one is losing their jobs. It’s all the world’s largest circle jerk, and those of us who aren’t dialed into the cult aren’t part of it! So could this be the proverbial “October surprise” that sinks Trump once and for all? Well, probably not.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin “maybe as many as seven” times since leaving office in 2021, journalist Bob Woodward reports in a forthcoming book obtained by CNN.

Woodward also writes that Trump, while in office, sent Putin Covid-19 testing machines for his private use during the height of the pandemic. The reporting, which the Trump campaign vehemently denied, quickly reignited allegations of an overly cozy relationship between the two leaders that Trump has for years worked to downplay and dismiss.

Trump campaign aide Jason Miller told Woodward for the book that he had not heard of such calls. Campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung was adamant in denying Woodward’s reporting and vicious in leveling personal attacks against the veteran journalist best known for his work at The Washington Post during the Watergate scandal.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/08/woodward-book-trump-putin-calls-00182840




Yeah come on! Remember in the early days of this program when we said that if you’re under investigation for ties to Russia, maybe don’t talk about Russia? Yeah it’d be like telling the guy trying to lose 100 pounds “Go ahead, eat this order of chili cheese fries with mac and cheese on top”! Go ahead, eat the whole thing! You know you want to! But these new allegations are egregious! And of course, again, where were you when we could have used them? Now that Trump isn’t president anymore, this information probably won’t help much. It might sway a few of the non-believers, but it won’t change the mind of any of his cultist followers anytime soon. But of course – both sides have now gone into full “nothing to see here, please disperse” mode.

The Kremlin on Wednesday confirmed a report that former President Trump sent Russian President Vladimir Putin COVID-19 testing equipment during the height of the pandemic.

Why it matters: The Trump campaign categorically denied new revelations in journalist Bob Woodward's book "War," which renewed scrutiny of the relationship between Putin and the Republican presidential nominee.

Catch up quick: Woodward reported in his book that during the early days of the pandemic, Trump sent scarcely available COVID-19 testing machines for the Russian leader's personal use.

Woodward also reported that Trump and Putin have had "as many as seven" personal conversations since Trump left office in 2021.

Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said Tuesday that the allegations were "made up stories" and called Woodward "a truly demented and deranged man."
https://www.axios.com/2024/10/09/trump-putin-covid-testing-equipment-kremlin




What the fuck??? Woodward is the truly demented one? Because he doesn’t kiss the Murdoch and Putin ring enough? And when Trump refused to take questions and play DJ? Don’t worry, we’re saving that for a different entry. But Trump cannot resist saying something that’s extremely hateful at any opportunity. All he does is lie and name call and backstab and point fingers at the wrong people. But really this is all on him. And everything that Trump has done since he left office, is entirely on him. And his cultist minions. But this wasn’t the first time Trump and Putin acted like BFFs. And it’s also a clear indication of which side he’s on should he worm his way back to the White House. It’s truly disturbing, but come on, it’s Trump. What did you expect? The man has no bottom.

With less than three weeks to go until Election Day, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are filling up their schedules with campaign events in the hopes of making a difference in the final days before Nov. 5.

Trump on Tuesday did an interview with the Economic Club of Chicago and Bloomberg News in which he faced questions about Russian President Vladimir Putin. That appearance followed the Kremlin’s recent confirmation that Trump sent COVID-19 testing equipment to Russia during the height of the pandemic, a fact first reported by journalist Bob Woodward in his new book.

When asked during the interview about talking to Putin since leaving the White House, Trump said, “I don’t comment on that.” He added, “But I will tell you that if I did, it’s a smart thing. If I’m friendly with people, if I can have a relationship with people, that’s a good thing and not a bad thing in terms of a country.”
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2024-10-16/he-said-she-said-trump-defends-ties-to-putin-harris-slams-him-for-sending-covid-tests-to-russia




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Ha ha ha ha! Been there, done that! Spin it again! And it lands on… Elon Musk! Double ugh!

Since he outed himself as being a Donald Trump superfan, and also seen here looking like the head cheerleader at a Broncos game, it’s no secret that the Tesla / Space X / X / Boring Company / Starlink CEO Elon Musk has been using his social media presence to actively interfere in the United States election, and it’s starting to show. But last week, Mr. Musk found himself in a bit of hot water with the Federal Election Commission over what may be an extremely controversial plot to pay signees of his constitution approving petition. But come on, people, it’s Elon Musk. Do you really think he’s being honest here? We are going to say the answers range from “probably not” to “extremely” depending on what your sources are. But you don’t know what you’re getting yourself into. You could be signing vital organs away to the X Organ Donors fund. Ha ha ha ha!! You don’t know! You don’t know! So, Elon is offering signees of his petition $47 with the possibility of more payouts of $47 if you refer friends to sign up! Come on, it’s the fucking Constitution Of The United States! It’s not like you’re signing up for a subscription to Disney Plus. But that may be included. Who knows?

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who is backing Donald Trump in the presidential election, on Sunday touted a $47 referral bonus that the billionaire’s political action committee is offering to people for each registered swing-state voter whom they refer to an online petition that requires signers to submit personal contact information.

“For every person you refer who is a swing state voter, you get $47!” Musk wrote in a post on X, the social media site he owns. “Easy money.” If Trump is elected, he would be the 47th president of the U.S.

The petition declares that its signers support “First and Second Amendment rights,” but it contains no details about who the petition will be delivered to, or when, or any demands that the signers have, all core elements of traditional petitions.

Instead, the petition seeks the personal contact information of swing-state voters. Upon signing, all users, regardless of their state, are directed to a page that contains voter registration links for just seven states: Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, Nevada, Arizona, Michigan and Wisconsin.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/07/elon-musk-pac-election-bonus-gun-rights-petition-referrals.html




Oh for crying out loud, man! Easy money. Says the guy who has more wealth than the entire continent of Africa and maybe India combined. WTF. But for those willing to sign his pro gun and pro free speech petition, you gotta ask yourself – is that $47 worth it? We’re going to say most likely probably not. In fact, it’s more of an insult. And why is he specifically targeting swing states? Yes, those 7 that get bombarded with ads every election cycle that could potentially decide the election – Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Ohio, and North Carolina – are the targets, and what exactly Musk wants to prove here, we don’t know.

Topline Elon Musk announced his America PAC will pay $47 for each successful referral of a registered swing state voter to sign a petition "to show support for free speech and the right to bear arms,” as he ramps up his support of former president Donald Trump’s campaign less than a month before the election.

The America PAC, the pro-Trump group largely funded by Musk, on Sunday shared the petition that asks signatories to "pledge support" for the First and Second Amendments but does not make any other call to action—other than promising to pay those who successfully share the petition with registered swing state voters.

The payment will be issued to signatories who refer the petition to registered voters in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin and North Carolina by Oct. 21 (they must also sign for the payment to be made).

Musk on Sunday said the goal of the petition is to get 1 million swing state voters to sign on.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2024/10/07/elon-musks-pac-is-paying-47-for-each-solicited-petition-signature-from-a-swing-state-voter-heres-why-its-controversial/




But here’s the thing that Musk fans need to know in 2024 – there ain’t no such thing as free, anymore, do you get that? Sure, go ahead, sign that petition and collect your $47. But just be aware that it was all a scam to get your personal data so Elon can bombard you with pro-Trump political ads until well after the election is over. Now ask yourself – was that $47 worth it? Elon now has your information for life, and you have absolutely no idea what the terms and conditions of that petition are, because you probably didn’t read it. Yeah, we know how this sort of thing works! But also, we know that, because Elon is a Trump superfan, we know that he has far more sinister things in store. If Trump is Goldfinger, Elon is his Oddjob. And also let me show you the flipside to Elon, Cards Against Humanity. And no, it doesn’t work both ways, either!

Last week, Tesla CEO Elon Musk offered a $47 payment to people who refer registered voters in swing states to sign a petition supporting free speech and gun rights. The billionaire’s political action committee is using the petition to gather contact information in a last push for support of Donald Trump’s campaign.

Responding to that offer, card game company Cards Against Humanity, long a Musk foe, announced it will pay up to $100 to each person who didn’t vote in 2020, who apologizes for that, makes a plan to vote and posts in public the phrase “Donald Trump is a human toilet.” Residents of swing states can earn the most money.

The card game company told the New York Times that more than 1,150 people had been paid through the program as of Wednesday afternoon.

Vote buying in illegal under US law, but Cards Against Humanity’s site claims that it is “exploiting a legal loophole to pay America’s blue-leaning non-voters”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/15/why-vote-buying-is-illegal




Oh come on! Yeah, it looks bad on everyone n o matter who tries something like this. And neither one will win in the end. But you know what? You got your $47 and you’re proving that you support free speech and the 2nd amendment. And Elon’s got your personal data for life – who knows what you agreed to sign up for? Here’s the thing, though – no one’s free speech rights are under attack, unless you’re a conservative trying to ban high school reading material. That’s an entirely different topic altogether. But of course, Elon is desperate for a Trump win, and well, right now, the desperation is definitely starting to reek. But when Trump has “friends” like RFK Jr and Elon Musk at the helm, who needs enemies?

Elon Musk is set to campaign in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania this week after funneling $75m into trying to help Donald Trump win the 2024 election.

The billionaire, one of Trump’s most deep-pocketed supporters, said he plans to give “a series of talks” in the battleground state from Wednesday through Monday.

Musk wrote in a post on X: “If you’d like to attend one of my talks, there’s no attendance fee. You just need to have signed our petition supporting free speech & right to bear arms & have voted in this election.”

Between July and September, the world’s richest man gave almost $75m to his pro-Trump super PAC America, according to election filings. It is one of the key organizations forming the backbone of the Trump campaign’s unorthodox get-out-the-vote strategy, which has relied on outside groups instead of more tightly controlled campaign efforts.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-campaign-critical-swing-095749698.html?guccounter=1





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Chance! Sweet… a get out of jail free card! I’ll just put that away for later!



Spin it again! And it lands on… MAGA Cult Cringe!

OK, people look, we need to have a serious talk. We’re 20 days away from the 2024 general election, and we have to address the 800 pound gorilla in the room that’s actively killing this country. And much of it can be traced back to the 100+ men and women in the Fox News MAGA Qongress – the absolute worst House in American history – are the primary sources of it. We saw this last week when Hurricanes Helene and Milton were pummeling the Gulf Coast and the MAGA chucke fucks infecting Congress actively voted against federal funding for the one agency that was trying to help them. The number one thing that’s actively killing this country right now is misinformation. And its’ equally horrible cousin, disinformation. And we’re not going to sugar coat it either. Misinformation is everywhere. Like we saw with COVID, misinformation is deadly. It killed a million people, mostly right wing Facebook and Fox News addicts, during COVID in 2020 – 2022. And guess what? Unless we actively take time to address the problem, things are going to get infinitely worse! Not only that, people can get very easily duped into believing this stuff, and that’s how lies get repeated. Lather, rinse, repeat, you have a serious mess on your hands.

Governor Roy Cooper spoke alongside with FEMA and other state officials Tuesday morning to provide an update on North Carolina's recovery from Hurricane Helene.

This comes after officials say FEMA workers paused some operations briefly and adjusted recovery efforts in NC due to threats made over the weekend.

According to the Rutherford County Sheriff's Office, William Parson, 44, was armed with a handgun and rifle, threatening FEMA officials outside a grocery store that is functioning as a storm relief site. He faces a criminal charge of "going armed to the terror of the public."

Misinformation has been a source of contention in the aftermath of Helene.

"If you're participating in spreading this stuff, stop it," Cooper said Tuesday. "Whatever your aim is, the people you are really hurting are those in western North Carolina who need help. The safety of our government and volunteer response workers, including FEMA, remains a top priority. I've directed the Department of Public Safety to coordinate law enforcement assistance for FEMA and other responders who need it to help ensure their safety and security, so people can keep getting the help that they desperately need."
https://abc11.com/post/wnc-hurricane-helene-misinformation-fema-threats-hurting-recovery-gov-roy-cooper/15430603/




Yeah isn’t that fucking insane? Wherever misinformation goes, the death threats follow. Thank god we still have some sanity left in this country. But let’s think about this for a minute – only in the United States could a once in a lifetime natural disaster happen, and the people who are in charge are actively rooting against the one organization that’s trying to get people to help. But we cannot deny that the number one thing destroying this country right now is misinformation. In fact even the sane people who we have left in the government, like Roy Cooper, are starting to give the peddlers of misinformation the heave ho and realizing that it’s dangerous.

Ninety-two people remain unaccounted for in hard-hit North Carolina in the wake of the "catastrophic disaster" left behind by Hurricane Helene, Gov. Roy Cooper said Tuesday.

The number will continue to fluctuate as new reports come in and other reports are resolved, Cooper said.

Ninety-five people in North Carolina have died in the storm, officials said. The overall death toll across the Southeast has surpassed 230.

This comes as North Carolina continues to face "a persistent and dangerous flow of misinformation" about recovery efforts, the governor said.

"When people assert that help is not coming to western North Carolina -- which is completely untrue, which is a lie -- the people who are actually on the ground helping feel demoralized," Cooper said.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/92-unaccounted-north-carolina-after-hurricane-helene-dangerous/story?id=114814318




Yeah seriously, that’s what it feels like arguing with people who are lost for good in the internet misinformation sphere. But, switching gears, we also cannot deny that it’s an election year. And we called back 4 years ago, that there were going to be multiple attempts to gaslight this election coming from foreign entities. In fact, the one state that could potentially decide who the 2024 election goes to has been actively swatting misinformation targets like flies to a bug zapper. I’m of course talking about the Keystone State – Pennsylvania. Yes, it must suck being an election worker in that state because you’re being constantly bombarded with the wrong answer to everything.

Pennsylvania is the most pivotal battleground in the race for the White House. With its 19 electoral votes, it is the state where former President Trump and Vice President Harris are spending the most time and money - a combined $436 million between them and their allies.

It's also where the results could take days to count, due to a state law that prevents mail in ballots from being processed early. The anticipated lag, which dragged out Pennsylvania's count in 2020, now has election officials bracing for a repeat of conspiracy theories and violence.

At the helm - lifelong Republican Al Schmidt. He stood up to former President Trump and refused to join attempts to overturn his loss four years ago. As secretary of state, Schmidt is doing everything he can between now and election day to assure residents their votes will count - and to take on the lies Trump continues to spread about Pennsylvania.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pennsylvania-al-schmidt-fights-election-misinformation-60-minutes-transcript/




Yeah seriously, people. Stop it now! Everybody, can we just take a deep breath, chill the fuck out, and pull our collective heads out of our asses, please? We’ve got to get our shit together! I don’t know how many times I have to say this but I will shout it from the rooftops if I have to! THERE IS A MAD MAN IN MOSCOW WHO IS TRYING TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD! And if he succeeds in meddling in the American election and that mad man gets his way? It’s game over! He becomes supreme overlord of earth and you will not like the end result! So yeah let’s stop fighting and then we can concentrate on ending that mad man’s reign of terror once and for all. Then we can get back to fighting.

Scammers are targeting voters across the country, from AI deepfakes on social media to fraudulent news websites or fake links claiming to register you to vote.

As Election Day approaches, we're inundated with political fundraising texts, campaign ads and message about registering to vote and where to vote; but how do you know what's real?

"So, what you want to make sure is that you're not being preyed upon," said Chris Pierson, CEO and founder of cybersecurity company BlackCloak. "If you fall into a population that may be able to vote, might not be able to vote, hasn't registered or just doesn't understand the rules and regulations, and you could be susceptible to a, 'Hey, it's $100 for you, specifically to vote' types of charges."

You never have to pay to register to vote, and the deadline to register online in Illinois is Oct. 20. There is also grace period voter registration in Illinois that is also free, which runs from Oct. 9 through Election Day on Nov. 5, but you must register to vote in person at the Board of Elections office, a permanent polling place or any early voting site starting 15 days before Election Day. You also must vote at the same time you register if you're taking advantage of grace period registration. You can register to vote in Illinois until polls close on Election Day and cast your ballot then as well.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ai-deepfakes-voting-misinformation-fake-fundraisers-other-2024-election-scams-ramp-day-nears/15429430/





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Well, it seems Nick has learned a valuable lesson – when you’re going up against a dangerous and scary cult, and you’re a card carrying member of it… maybe don’t. It won’t end well for you! Spin it again! And it lands on…. Fox News!

The Fox News installed MAGA Qongreess, which I’ve been calling the absolute worst House in United States history, is at it again. Because they’re fueled by news network hysteria and internet conspiracies coming from the #3 worst person in the United States, Alex Jones, these are the kind of things that we have to deal with. And also the reason why I keep saying this is why we can’t have nice things in the United States. Case in point – hurricane relief. We’ve seen not one but two truly massive, once in a century hurricane. So what do those who have had their brains fried by internet conspiracies and are in Congress do? They vote to defund and eliminate the one agency that’s trying to help. Because MAGA are a bunch of sick psychopaths who won’t listen to anything except what their talk show masters tell them to. But because the American people have been lied to for so long by psychotic talk shows and equally psychotic preachers and Fox News, for nearly 60 years now, this is the kind of shit that we have to put up with. And yes, like most things, expect the MAGA chuckle fuck war on FEMA to get worse before it gets better.

The facts emerging from Hurricane Helene’s destruction are heartrending: Businesses and homes destroyed, whole communities nearly wiped out, hundreds of lives lost, hundreds of people missing.

Yet this devastation and despair is not enough for the extremist groups, disinformation agents, hucksters and politicians who are exploiting the disaster to spread false claims and conspiracy theories about it and the government’s response.

According to former President Donald Trump, the federal government is intentionally withholding aid to Republican disaster victims. Far-right extremist groups warn on social media that officials plan to bulldoze affected communities and seize the land from residents. A tale straight from science fiction asserts that Washington used weather control technology to steer Helene toward Republican voters in order to tilt the presidential election toward Democratic nominee Kamala Harris.

The claims, according to experts and local officials dealing with disaster response, say less about the reality of the widespread damage from Helene than they do about America’s fractured politics and the fear and distrust shadowing an election year marked by assassination attempts and escalating global tension.
https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-helene-trump-musk-conspiracy-theories-misinformation-fe81869765d778ac2ff3dc5f9ac18e10




Yeah this is the fucking insane thing is that these two hurricanes – Helene and Milton – are a once in a lifetime disaster. And seriously, an absolute shame and pox on the Fox News MAGA Qongress who are trying to play politics with this disaster. Of course, if you watch that shithole network, they’ll literally blame anyone and anything but their own faults for this. Because the GOP is out for absolute power and one party rule, because fuck you, that’s why! And seriously, why is the GOP tying this shit to spending on migrants? Where is this coming from? And how can we have more migrants than twice the population of Fresno coming over the… ah fuck it, who can decipher their madness anymore?

When Congress approved a temporary measure that replenished the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) disaster relief fund just before Hurricane Helene struck, Republicans supplied all the no votes in both chambers.

Congress passed the stopgap spending bill on September 25 to keep government agencies funded into December, avoiding a shutdown, while pushing final spending decisions until after Election Day. The Senate passed the measure by a 78-18 vote. The House had approved it in a 341-82 vote.

The House Republican majority relied on Democrats to pass the legislation since many in the GOP generally opposed stopgap measures, and said that it did not do enough to rein in government spending.

The bill provided $20 billion for FEMA—the same amount the agency got last year. It also gave FEMA flexibility to draw on money as needed, but it left out billions that had been requested in supplemental disaster funding.
https://www.newsweek.com/how-republicans-voted-against-fema-funding-reacted-hurricane-helene-1965729




Yeah BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! Seriously, how can any sane person look at people like Anna Lunatic and Marjorie Three Names and go “Yeah that’s who I want representing my district!”. Yes, that’s why we cannot have nice things in this country. Remember when we used to have nice things in this country? Like before Rush Limbaugh and Jimmy Swaggart showed up on the scene and proceeded to begin the systematic destruction of America’s institutions? That’s the America that I personally would love to have back! But the madness definitely ain’t stopping anytime soon, folks. But what the few sane republicans, if any, need to realize, is that their days are numbered. The inmates have taken over the asylum and they’re not letting go.

Republicans are fighting a war against misinformation to keep their constituents safe as they brace for Hurricane Milton to make landfall in Florida, including being willing to point the finger at members of their own party — and their presidential nominee.

The Category 4 storm is forecast to touch down overnight Wednesday — even while across the South residents continue to recover from Hurricane Helene — Republicans in the path of the hurricanes have come out forcefully against those in their own party pushing debunked conspiracy theories which could put people in danger.

Republican Rep. Carlos Gimenez of Florida called out Georgia firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Wednesday telling her to get her “head examined” for suggesting someone is “controlling the weather.”

Last week, Greene, without specifying who “they” is, posted, “Yes they can control the weather. It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done.”
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/09/politics/republicans-congress-hurricane-misinformation/index.html




Seriously, as long as Fox News exists and it controls the minds of half the people in Congress, America is literally that guy. We’re also the “THANK YOU SIR MAY I HAVE ANOTHER?” guy from Animal House. It truly is insane to see what the MAGA cult has brought this country to. We have had back to back hurricanes! Each one worse than the one before it! And they’re on that stupid news network complaining about how hard it is to do their jobs and how nobody respects them. Oh womp fucking womp! When you vote to deny FEMA funding to help clean up after a crazy disaster and deny that the next one is going to be worse, we don’t have to take anything you say with even the slightest bit of seriousness, OK?

The chairman of a House Homeland Security subcommittee is asking the Federal Emergency Management Agency to detail what it did to prepare for Hurricane Helene after it became clear there would be catastrophic flooding.

Helene made landfall in Big Bend, Florida, on Sept. 26, causing flooding that devastated North Carolina, Tennessee and other Southern states and claimed more than 200 lives.

In a letter sent Saturday, Rep. Anthony D’Esposito, chairman of the House Emergency Management and Technology Subcommittee, asked FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell for “information regarding FEMA’s advanced forecasting models, its pre-positioning of resources, and its coordination with federal, state, and local partners in response.”

A spokesperson for FEMA confirmed to NBC News that the agency received the letter and will work with Congress on Hurricane Helene efforts.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/house-gop-chairman-demands-fema-accountability-hurricane-helene-rcna174146




Holy shit. Tell me you didn’t read the warnings that predicted this would happen without telling me you didn’t read the warnings that predicted this would happen. God, could the GOP possibly get any dumber than they are right now? Oh yes, it is totally possible. And don’t forget that the republican front runner and his mini-me minion, JD Vance totally support the internet conspiracy theory bullshit on FEMA and other government organizations. The only question remains with nearly 20 days to go until the election – is Florida going to vote to keep the current government it has or flush out the idiots who are actively voting against their best interests? We shall see! We shall see.

On Sunday, Ohio Senator JD Vance doubled down on defending his running mate former President Donald Trump's false claims about the federal response to Hurricane Helene.

After Helene made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane late last month, leaving a trail of destruction along the southeastern United States, Trump, the GOP presidential nominee, began spreading falsehoods about recovery efforts by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

While appearing on ABC News' This Week on Sunday morning, the network's chief global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz confronted Vance about the claims.

"During Hurricane Helene, as we heard, former President Trump suggested the federal government was not only sending FEMA aid meant for the hurricane to migrants but 'going out of their way to not help people in Republican areas.' Do you think that is true?" she asked.

During a campaign rally in Michigan on October 3, Trump said that his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, "spent all her FEMA money, billions of dollars, on housing for illegal migrants, many of whom should not be in our country."
https://www.newsweek.com/jd-vance-doubles-down-trump-fema-claims-1968282






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Spin it again. And hey guess what? We’re all gonna die!



Hey everyone, guess what? We’re all gonna die! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOO. WOOOOO. WOOO. WOO. So what’s going to kill us all this week, you might ask? Well, hurricanes! Now, we usually don’t cover region-specific disasters on this segment, but we are making an exception for Hurricane Milton. And right now, we’ve got dueling hurricanes – Milton and Helene, and each one is more fierce than the one that preceded it. And it’s definitely not like going to your local dueling piano bar. Especially when they play My Dingaling. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!! Because have you seen this shit at all? It’s seriously scary. And if we want to survive the next hurricane, we’d better get to some serious engineering fast! Because if you saw the Tropicana Field in Tampa Bay, which is the home of the MLB’s Tampa Bay Rays, you know exactly what I’m talking about! Yes, the winds were so fierce that they literally tore the roof off of Tropicana Field the same way you’d open a sardine can.

The roof at Tropicana Field, the home of the Tampa Bay Rays, sustained major damage because of high winds associated with Hurricane Milton, which made landfall Wednesday along Florida's Gulf Coast as a Category 3 storm.

Pictures and video on social media showed most of the fabric covering the domed roof torn off.

Capt. Garth Swingle of St. Petersburg Fire Rescue told ABC News that there has been contact with the people inside and that they are safe. It wasn't immediately known whether there was damage inside the stadium.

No injuries at the stadium were reported. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had said earlier in the week that there were plans for the ballpark to serve as a "temporary base camp" to support debris cleanup operations and temporarily house some first responders. The facility was set up to host 10,000 people, with cots arranged on the playing surface.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/41709613/roof-tropicana-field-sustains-major-damage-hurricane-milton




OK, folks, we got to admit that we didn’t have “roof flying off stadium” as part of our 2024 hurricane bingo card! Ha ha ha ha ha!!! So two questions. 1 – what the fuck? And two – if that’s your temporary base camp, how fucked is your city when it comes time for a disaster as huge as Hurricane Milton blowing half your city into the next time zone? Well, depending on what experts you ask, the answers range from “probably” to “extremely”. Leaning more towards extremely. And also maybe a third question – uh… what the fuck? Now the question being asked by the media is – can the Tampa Bays rebuild their roof before the 2025 MLB season starts? And the answer? Probably not.

Owners and tenants of Tropicana Field, ravaged in the face of Hurricane Milton, are facing a short five-month-long window to somehow make the severely damaged home of the Tampa Bay Rays suitable for MLB play.

Hurricane Milton’s powerful winds overnight Wednesday nearly ripped the entire roof off St. Petersburg-owned Tropicana