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Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett tries slamming president-elect Donald Trump’s efforts to increase government efficiency and reduce wasteful government spending through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Crockett refers to Trump’s new team as a “joke” and suggests that Trump is creating a new department (spending money) to reduce wasteful departments (save money). The slamming didn’t … Read more
A prominent Democrat mega donor looks down on the Kamala Harris campaign and suggests that her political career might be over. The donor is John Morgan and he’s talking with Chris Cuomo about how Kamala Harris’ campaign was a complete failure, and she had no chance to win. Morgan tells Cuomo, about Kamala, “if you … Read more
Donald Trump got another victory! Jack Smith officially filed a motion to dismiss the January 6 charges against former President Donald Trump and a judge has formally dismissed the case. The details are below, as stated on the document listed on CourtListener.com. As a result of the election held on November 5, 2024, the defendant, … Read more
Electric vehicles suffered another setback when over 208,000 of them, made by Hyundai and Kia, were recalled. There was a problem that caused the vehicles to lose drive power and have an increased crash risk. The details, provided by CBS News, talked about 145,000 Hyundai and Genesis models, along with some of the IONIQ 5 … Read more
‘Tater Tot, Tater Tot, and Cross-Country Skis’ – Joe Biden mumbled while pardoning a turkey for Thanksgiving. Some folks on social media say Joe hasn’t worked this hard in a while. And of course, he mumbled his way through it. That’s nothing new and we’re all used to it by now. It’s funny hearing the … Read more
Eric Daugherty posted a video showing a conversation between Dan Bongino and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries. They were talking about Patrick Crusius, a criminal who shot up a Walmart in Texas. This video shows part of the exchange between the podcaster and the politician. Keep in mind, Dan Bongino is also a former Secret Service agent … Read more
Republican Sen. Shelley Moore Capito accused the EPA of granting $50,000,000 to a pro-terror group disguised as a climate justice group. Moore was the Vice Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference and Ranking member of the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee. She participated in the weekly Senate Republican Leadership press conference where she discussed … Read more
Oakland could be doomed. The city is spending money from their reserves, and they need some major budget cuts ASAP or they’ll have to declare fiscal emergency. They face a deficit of $93 million and their fiscal year ends in June of 2025. A lot of that budget pays for public safety and the police … Read more
Welcome to the land of wasting money, or laundering it, whatever one comes up first in an investigation. Joe Biden’s administration invested $7.5 billion into EV charging stations, but somehow only built 7 or 8 stations in about 2 years, and now people want to know where all the money went. I say 7 or … Read more
NPR’s new CEO is making headlines and facing criticism over a quote about the “truth” – but it might actually be a bit more complex than people think. The new CEO is Katherine Maher and she used to lead the Wikimedia Foundation, so she’s familiar with technology and publishing, of course. For NPR, many people … Read more
President-elect Donald Trump picked Pam Bondi to serve as the new attorney general once Matt Gaetz pulled out. Bondi was quoted saying that anyone mentioned in the Jeffrey Epstein documents has “no legal basis” for which to keep their names private. Let’s just put it this way, if someone’s name is on the list and … Read more
Sometimes the headlines write themselves. Bill Clinton, the guy who was getting frisky with an intern and cheating on his wife when he was president, thinks DONALD TRUMP is the guy who worked hard to destroy the public’s confidence in the government. Oh no, we have disliked the government for decades now. In fact, if … Read more
Mitch “Mr. Freeze” McConnell will lead a subcommittee overseeing defense spending while he prepares new roles for the future. Perhaps the guy who stands at a podium until someone escorts him away shouldn’t be leading anything besides a round of poker at the retirement home. McConnell will end his role as the longest-serving Senate leader, … Read more
CNN must be running out of nonsense to report on. This time they’re targeting Tulsi Gabbard and how she was briefly on a TSA watchlist. Donald Trump picked Tulsi Gabbard to be the next director of national intelligence, so it’s natural that CNN does reports on her, but are they doing this from a journalist … Read more
FEMA is the face of scrutiny for quite a while, but things just heated up in a bad way and I’m not sure FEMA will recover from this one. Hurricane recovery in North Carolina has been going on for weeks, very slow, and some people are apparently living in tents. North Carolina already got hammered … Read more
Matt Gaetz pulled his name out of the attorney general hat and has already resigned from his position in Congress. Gaetz now reveals that a return to Congress is not in his plans. There’s something else he’ll be working on that aligns with Donald Trump’s goals. Trump picked Pam Bondi to serve as attorney general … Read more
Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is so mad about Speaker Mike Johnson’s recent policy regarding the bathrooms in the United States Capitol. Speaker Johnson has banned biological males from entering women’s only spaces. This was sparked dramatically by Republican Nancy Mace, who’s now receiving death threats from men who identify as women during the culture war … Read more
Democrats who were hoping to see Trump in jail won’t be seeing that anytime soon. And to be fair, I believe there was no chance of Trump being jailed for a crime involving business records anyway. I’m no legal expert, but I don’t think he would be jailed for that – but I suppose if … Read more
The Committee on House Administration posted this press releases on their .gov website. It begins below: WASHINGTON – Today, the Committee on House Administration’s Subcommittee on Oversight Chairman Barry Loudermilk (GA-11) sent a letter to Department of Defense (DoD) Inspector General (IG) Robert Storch, demanding a correction of the DoD’s factually inaccurate January 6 report, … Read more
I wonder if the election results or bad ratings had something to do with this. CNN is facing layoffs and staffers are wondering who’s next to get axed. And Comcast is spinning off MSNBC and several other channels into their own branch. Wondering why? Let’s see what the news reports said. A report on MSN … Read more
She’s got a big heart and some overactive things on the other side of it. This Texas mom named Alyse Ogletree, 36, has taken back the world record for the largest donation of breastmilk by an individual according to Guiness. She donated a massive 89,457.85 ounces of breastmilk to the Mothers’ Milk Bank in North … Read more
Some say this is a form of karma towards anti-Trump DA Alvin Bragg. I’m just wondering how bad it is in their town that criminals are robbing the DA’s assistant now. Like darn, how bad did you let your own city get! Nevertheless, I hope the woman who was robbed is OK. At the same … Read more
No one saw this coming, but Matt Gaetz pulled out. Donald Trump wanted him to be the attorney general, and it seemed to be going in that direction, but Gaetz suddenly pulled out today. Gaetz said he doesn’t want to be a distraction to Donald Trump or his administration when they take the White House … Read more
Speaker Johnson is going to ruffle some feathers with this one. He said, “Let me be unequivocally clear. A man is a man, and a woman is a woman. And a man cannot become a woman.” This comes after he banned biological males from entering women’s only spaces at the Capitol. It seems like we’re … Read more
House Speaker Mike Johnson officially banned males from using the female bathroom at the Capitol. Specifically, the bill says you must use the bathroom determined by your biological sex, not whatever you identify as. Afterall, I identity as a warthog from Halo 3, so where do I pee? Mike Johnson’s ban will affect the first … Read more
House Speaker Mike Johnson has officially banned biological males from using the women’s bathroom, changing rooms, or any of the ‘women only’ spaces at the United States Capitol. Nancy Mace, who strongly supports the ban, is facing death threats over it. The bill basically says if you’re male, then stay out of all the areas … Read more
Donald Trump wants Matt Gaetz to be the new attorney general and that might be bad for Paul and Nancy Pelosi who are notorious for making headlines in the stock market. Think back to 2021 when Matt Gaetz and Josh Hawley were grilling folks about the stock trades, targeting Paul and Nancy Pelosi and also … Read more