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The Reign of King Felon Von Shitzonus:

John Oliver: Public media

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week

Child Molesters, Liars, Idiots and Other MAGA Grifters:

Robert Reich: Our economy is in danger. Here’s why

Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.

Comments

  1. Surprised MTG quit, just as the GOP will be back up a seat after the TN Special Election.

  4. Untrained, unprofessional, ignorant of legal rights — that’s ICE. We don’t know who they are, whether they have criminal records, are or even citizens — that’s ICE. All we know is that U.S. citizens and legal residents are being arrested without warrants, imprisoned without justification, manhandled and mistreated, in violation of the Constitution and laws — that’s ICE.

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lhZr1KYzn2Q

    When Democrats are back in charge, as they inevitably will be, because it always falls to Democrats to clean up the messes Republicans make, there will be no way to know which ICE agents are professional and trustworthy, and which are rogue, so the only workable remedy — the only way to get rid of the bad ones — is to defund and abolish the entire agency, and rebuild immigration enforcement from scratch. If we don’t do that, no one will have any rights, and none of us will be safe from our own government.

    #DEFUND ICE

  6. 2)Still it will be a little while before a special election is called. I got to hand it to New Zealand, filling a vacancy is easy if it’s a List MP. Once the resignation is published, the Electoral Commission contacts the next candidate on the list, after confirming they are still a member of the party they stood for election last time, asks them if they want the seat. District MP, it’s a special election. They also prohibit floor crossings.

  7. Interesting that construction for the MTA’s Penn Station Access for Metro North could cause reduction of LIRR trains into Penn Station during that period. The two commuter railroads are part of the same state agency, but efficiencies that might come of it have never happened because both are stuck in the ways of their previous private owners. Both LIRR and MNRR for example use 600V Third Rail in most of their electric territory. but how they draw that power is different, and it dates back to the NYC/PRR Rivalry. At least with the new locomotives for diesel territory, they will have a common third rail thermal rating allowing continuous electric mode on Metro North(Current Dual Modes on MNRR go Diesel after clearing the tunnel out of Grand Central.). One step forward, multiple steps back.

    The PSA will be another victim of the MTA Commuter rail network being once owned by three different railroads. The NEC’s Electrified territory is three different voltages. Possibly another attempt at a contact shoe for both over and under-running third rail will be tried, and locomotive hauled trains will be in battery mode.Siemens stepped up with a design for what is the de facto U.S. standard passenger locomotive platform, adapted to meet another challenge. Replacing the Diesel with a battery compartment, and a pantograph for operation on overhead wires.

    https://www.trains.com/pro/passenger/commuter-regional/metro-norths-temporary-penn-access-service-would-require-long-island-rail-road-cuts-amtrak-says/

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_Gate_Line

    https://www.railwayage.com/mechanical/locomotives/siemens-charger-bac-new-metro-north-power/

    With all this, it’s probably too much to ask for the MTA and NJT to do run through operations.

  8. MTG understood the stupidest voters in the Republican party better than most.

    For once I felt seen.

  9. Food for thought, Republicans killing the economy.

    Margin debt, the money investors borrow from brokers to buy securities, hit $1.18 trillion in October (the latest FINRA data available), surging from $1.13 trillion in September. Over the past year, it jumped 45.2%, while the S&P 500 rose approximately 19%. That’s a divergence of 2.4x, meaning borrowed money is growing more than twice as fast as the underlying market.

    That gap between debt growth and market gains has appeared only a few times in modern history: just before 1929, around the March 2000 peak, and ahead of the 2008 crisis.

  10. Why are Bill Clinton and #CrookedHillary attempting to avoid testifying about what they knew about Jeffrey Epstein?

    I’m really looking forward to hearing another “What difference, at this point, does it make?” reply from The Worst Woman In The World.

  12. There seems to be some confusion about what AJ Alito did yesterday. In the previous thread it was claimed that Alito merely directed traffic with an appeal filed by Texas:

    Incorrectly stated. Alito is the assigned justice for the 5th Circuit. It is his responsibility to read emergency applications and assign them to the interim docket, initially at his discretion.

    What was left out was that in doing so, Alito also stayed the three-judge majority opinion.

    IT IS ORDERED that the November 18, 2025 order of the UnitedStates District Court for the Western District of Texas, case No. 3:21-cv-259 is hereby administratively stayed pending further order of the undersigned or of the Court. It is further ordered that a response to the application be filed on or before Monday, November 24, 2025, by 5 p.m. (EST).

    Temporarily, to be sure, but there is nothing incorrect about describing Alito’s action as a “block”. The state was headed one way before Alito acted, and for now it’s heading in the other as a result of Alito’s order. Alito blocked the three-judge panel’s majority opinion, for now.

    Leave it to a silly liberal lawyer on a silly liberal blog to leave out the most important part of Alito’s order.

  14. In the previous thread I pointed out yet another error by a former lawyer whose main job these days apparently is to butcher facts in his bloviating spews. He claimed that MTG will resign from Congress on January 1, when her actual resignation date will be January 5.

    Why do four days make a difference?

    That date just happens to be two days after her congressional pension vests for life..

    Let me break this down for everyone:

    Members of Congress only need 5 years in office to lock in a lifetime federal pension, paid for by YOU.
    MTG was sworn in on January 3, 2021.
    Five years later is January 3, 2026.
    And now she’s conveniently walking away on January 5 with her golden parachute fully secured.

  15. administratively stayed

    Administratively.

    Like an administrator.

    Like an office administrator.
    Once upon a time called a secretary.

    Alito even sucks dicks like a good secretary.

    Whatever was “blocked” it was “blocked” by the appelant making the filing and it was “blocked” the minute they filed. That’s how it works.

  16. And now she’s conveniently walking away on January 5 with her golden parachute fully secured.

    Only the fake doctor living in a moldy blue tarp trailer in a damp wood on an island would descrive an $8,700 per year annuity deferred until age 63 as a “golden parachute”.

    Good gawd. How humiliating.

    Is there anything you get right?

  17. Oh and btw, is she running?

    Of course she is. It’s going to be a glorious MAGA knife fight in 2028. 🍿

  22. 21,
    Rather than assist an able partner in defeating an aggressive tyrant threatening our most important allies, Fat Hitler would rather abandon Europe to start a war for oil in Venezuela.

  23. @22

    I think Drumpf not only wants to be a dictator of America, but of the World too.

    Ukraine, in a fight for Democracy, threatens Donald from becoming the Dictator of World Dominance.

    Ukrain and the European Union stand in his way of world dominance.

  24. What became of the investigation in the house explosion of the South Carolinian judge?

    Like the Epstein cover.

  25. Fat Hitler would rather abandon Europe to start a war for oil in Venezuela.

    The Soviet Union’s wet dream was their desire for the U.S. to abandon Europe and just stick to their hemisphere. Let’s make a deal – you do whatever the fuck you want in N and S America. Cuba? You can have ’em. The Pacific is practically an American lake, save for today behind the first island chain where China is increasingly becoming aggressive. Leave us the fuck alone everywhere else.

    Then all the Soviets would have to do is make a deal with China for the rest. At the end of the Soviet empire China was still climbing out of the mess that Mao made.

    Remember the Russian desire for warm water ports. In Russia, rivers flow the wrong way. And in Ukraine, they flow correctly.

    Today Russia and China compete for influence in Africa. China is winning by far.

    All of that appears to be just fine with orange pants shitter. The fiend fucking loves Pootie and domestic oil reserves.

  26. @25 If Russian shipping gets control of Ukraine’s rivers they’re almost to the world’s oceans; they only have to get through the Dardanelles, transit the Mediterranean, then squeeze through Gibralter.

  30. and yet he keeps winning.

    And winning.

    And winning.

    The repuke party is the orange pants shitter magat party. It’s a hive mind. They may squabble a bit amongst themselves but at the end of the day they bow on command before their incontinent bloated orange king.

    Their lives depend on it.

    yawwwn..

  34. Current and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers are growing increasingly concerned that the work they did slashing government programs and eliminating jobs will come back to haunt them with the possibility of criminal prosecutions.

    Worse still is their growing belief that the billionaire Elon Musk, who recruited them, won’t step up to save them by appealing to Donald Trump on their behalf should things take a turn for the worse.

    https://www.rawstory.com/doge-employees/

    Tough berries, they should’ve known better than to trust Trump or Musk to protect them. Let ’em get what they deserve.

  35. @33 lmao.. fat chance.. Democrats will be “investigated” till fat hitler’s fat ass is kicked from his golden gaudy ballroom (alive or in a coffin) and a Dem takes over (jerkoff dickhead bowman may have to be defeated, which shouldn’t be much of a problem).

  36. DOGE is dead. It only managed to cut a tiny fragment of federal spending. And almost all of that was USAID funding for food and medical relief abroad. What did it accomplish?

    Federal spending this year, under a 100% Republican party line spending plan, will not only be much higher than last year, but it will surpass projections for the fiscal year when Fat Hitler took office. Hundreds of thousands of children are already dead now and millions more will follow from malnutrition and easily treated diseases often related to malnutrition.

    Slow clap for all your “conservative” family members this coming Thursday.
    👏 – – – 👏 – – – 👏 – – – 👏

  37. What a fucking Clown Show. A show of corruption, lies, decit, incompetency, fraud, waste and bullshit.

    USA USA USA USA USA

  41. @ 33

    Release the Epstein files, un-redacted!

    Yes, because the victims – minor girls then – deserve to be named and shamed.

  42. @ 32

    MTG is not, and never will be, an admirable person no matter what she says about Trump now.

    I dunno. A lotta Democrats seemed to like me this past week. Including Rachel Maddow, although I suspect she was really just there to hit on my other daughter.

  43. This would have been interesting had Twitter done it in the run-up to the 2000 US elections, too:

    Faerie 🧡
    @LiquidFaerie

    Breaking:
    @elonmusk just turned on the location spotlight and the entire “Gaza resident” influencer industry & fake IDF soldier industry just imploded.

    Turns out the “eyewitness in Rafah living under bombardment” has been live-tweeting from a comfy flat in Islamabad while the only thing exploding is his mum’s pressure cooker.

    The “Khan Younis nurse who hasn’t slept in 400 days” is apparently posting between shifts at a call centre in Lahore. Babe, the only IV drip you’ve seen is the chai one.

    Congratulations to the “Gaza dad of six hiding in a tent” who’s been rage-sobbing for donations from a rooftop in Dhaka with better Wi-Fi than most of London. Your ‘link in bio’ days are over.

    Shout-out to the “Deir al-Balah poet writing by candlelight” who’s actually in Chelyabinsk, Russia, typing manifestos next to a radiator that’s warmer than the entire sob story.

    Also, a soecial shout out, to the “IDF snipers in Gaza” accounts that are actually posting from a bedroom in London, sipping tea between sobs for your ‘buy me a coffee’ donations. Busted baby.

    The bot farms are naked, the VPNs are crying, and every “northern Gaza survivor” just got outed as a guy in Punjab who’s never met a rocket that wasn’t in Call of Duty.
    …
    9:08 PM · Nov 21, 2025

    In the past two years there have been more starving homeless on Vashon Island than there were in Gaza.

  45. It only managed to cut a tiny fragment of federal spending.

    The DOGE scam spent untold billions to “cut”.. Documented well in this article:

    https://www.rawstory.com/doge-2673797223/

    Elmo was after the regulatory agencies fining it on its safety and pollution catastrophes, data on its competitors and any other data it could feed into its AI scam.

    DOGE was and remains a monkey wrench vandalism theft enterprise.

  46. deserve to be named and shamed.

    So they can be recruited to “entertain” at kreepee dumbfuck and buds’ fav network of vip rooms. yawwwn..

  48. Raw Story is now the HA gold standard, I see. The go-to source for factual information.

    Congratulations, Goldy and Darryl. HA is now the go-to blog for the monosyllabic liberal crowd. It was a 20-year effort with untold thousands of multimedia spoofs of everything you dislike about the other side, but you’ve succeeded in making the majority of the HA liberal spewers believe they are real.

    I miss Michael. Hell, I even miss Lib Sci.

  49. That’s OK. Aaron Rupar oversees plenty of other fake accounts.

    End Wokeness
    @EndWokeness

    Large anti-Trump account “Ron Smith” just self-deleted after it was revealed that the account is based in Kenya

    9:44 PM · Nov 22, 2025
    ·

  50. Why stop there? Let’s vote by tweet.

    Chief Nerd
    @TheChiefNerd

    🚨 SWALWELL: “I want us to be able to vote by phone … I want us to max out democracy.”

    8:33 AM · Nov 22, 2025

  51. If it’s MAGA that’s panicking, why isn’t Raw Story all over it?

    Spencer Hakimian
    @SpencerHakimian

    🚨BREAKING: Panic has ERUPTED amongst MAGA as their FOREIGN BOT FARMS get EXPOSED.

    4:32 PM · Nov 22, 2025

    Oh.

    Raw Story is leaving X — for good reason
    We want to inform you that Raw Story will no longer post on our official editorial account on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
    ·

  52. Raw Story is now the HA gold standard..

    lmao. oh dumfuck you silly little “man”..

    the rs story I cited @ 45 was a reprint from Common Dreams. Oh is that a lefty site? Sure.. But no refutation of the facts cited, just the usual degenerate babbling.

    Darryl is facepalming at you! Well he’s done that from the beginning.

    As for “poly-syllabic”, Bill Buckley is facepalming at you from the grave!

    lmao..

  53. Xitter, the nazi “townhall”, famous for Russian, Chinese, etc. bots babbling about bots..

    Reaching for the irony meter.

  54. I miss Michael. Hell, I even miss Lib Sci.

    awwww.. Now it’s boring us to “tiers”..

    sure, pedo.. rotflmao..

  55. The “gold standard” for the Actual Pedophile Fucktard seems to be random tweets from the Nazi saluting microblog site.

    Which makes for a very unflattering comparison.

  56. 49,
    In less than a day Nazi Elmo turned the feature off after it was revealed that a huge percentage of popular MAGA accounts were posting from locations in India and Nigeria.

    As with all such blunders, Nazi Elmo fired a few senior engineers and then set others to work on building work arounds for the content preferred by discerning Nazis.

    Great posts. Terrific stuff./s

  57. The modern holocaust denier changed bio to ‘Thailand’ yesterday.

    How ironic.

    The over/under on the various Twatters dumbfuck has reposted that are from Russia/China.

    This is why you should have been on TikTok. Live on location video is much harder to male convincing.

    Via text, no one knows you’re a sock puppet

  60. It was glitch in Matrix. I promise muchly that MAGANationX—with nearly 400,000 followers and a bio reading “Patriot Voice for We The People”—is not actually based in Eastern Europe.

  61. Anyone wonder what the reaction would be if a doddering President Biden translated Haibatullah Akhundzada’s plan for partitioning Israel to Bibi and called it a ‘take it or leave it’ peace accord?

  62. @ 59

    Usha made a public appearance yesterday sans wedding ring.

    And #CrookedHillary is never photographed without hers.

  63. @62

    ‘For better or for worse…’

    Seems like she’s got a stronger grasp on the concept of ‘traditional’ marriage than….

    You know you don’t have to have a shit take on everything, right?

  64. Good for Usha.. Dumping jerkoff dickhead BOWMAN..

    kreepee dumbfuck’s great white hope after riserman from FL turned out to have the gravitas of a reptile.

    Russell Vought, teh grim reaper, white xtian nationalist ghoul, is recently divorced. And pants shitter is trying everything it has to get it laid. pants shitter’s card is filling.

  66. @66

    metaphor
    noun
    met·​a·​phor ˈme-tə-ˌfȯr also -fər

    1: a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another

  67. @66 Note to self, eh?

    Why should anyone here give a flying crap about an international criminal?

    Russia is a fan. Ok, they share a border. Russia needs pain killers too, for medical treatment, not recreation.

    Haibatullah Akhundzada and his ilk made their bed, let them lie in it.

    At least 9 billion a month charged to the U.S. taxpayer didn’t make a dent. kreepee dumbfuck if you didn’t know was all for staying there.

    Oh and pants shitter is thirsty for Bagram.. Let’s make a deal!

  68. Earlier this past week we learned that a very recently promoted high ranking DHS official signed a declaration to the court in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia deportation case that he in fact did not author and that contained words the meaning of which he was unable to explain to the court.

    One of the sworn declarations contained in that document included the claim that Costa Rica, the location that government had dangled to attempt to coerce a criminal plea from Mr. Garcia, was no longer willing to accept Mr. Garcia. This weekend we learned that this was a lie and that Costa Rica would be most willing to accept Mr. Garcia.

    Dude got a huge promotion for which he had no prior qualifications for signing a document that might send him to prison, unless Fat Hitler grants him executive clemency, which he will.

  69. That about sums it up.

    Max Berger
    @maxberger.bsky.social

    If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

  70. I’m so old I remember when Fox News freaked out because a Negro filled out a March Madness Bracket when he had a job.

    DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and FBI Director Kash Patel are here in Las Vegas for tonight’s F1 race. Getting a tour of the paddock and checking out this LEGO car.

  72. @43 In the past two years there have been more starving homeless on Vashon Island than there were in Gaza.

    The demented troll has finally lost his last remaining connection to reality. It’s straitjacket and rubber room time for him. He’s now a danger to himself and the community.

  73. It looks like Trump is trying to sell a Ukraine peace plan written by Putin.

    Written down and presented to orange pants shitting dear leader by Pootie’s fan boi stenographer:

    Steve Dummkopf..

  74. Besssent:

    You know the best way to bring your inflation rate down? Move from a blue state to a red state. Blue state inflation is half a percent higher.

    Not only is the statement provably untrue it’s stupid on it’s face. Sure, you could uproot yourself from WA where the median full time worker makes $74k to Alabama where the median is $43K.

    If there’s a job for you in your field. Microsoft Mobile. Databricks Dayton. Starbucks Shreveport. Boeing Bowling Green. Amazon Anchorage. Raytheon Rapid City

  75. An xtian forced birth voter dumping on orange pants shitter for its extrajudicial murders:

    https://youtube.com/shorts/fvPyuTaalWA?si=Cb1ZhNMGSR-RNCNH

    Asked to babble, teh unhinged kreepee dumbfuck of widbee screamed, “dumb, 2 digit iq, XX CUNT.. Everyone south of the border lives to rape white women and traffic drugs.. interdiction is for LOSERS.. Shoot first, last and ask no fucking questions you UNSERIOUS TWAT!!!”

  76. @48 For years, you’ve volunteered to wallow in the HA mosh pit, and you’re complaining about the texture of the mud??? 😅🤣😂

  77. @70 What do you want to bet they flew there on a government plane at taxpayer expense?

    The justification, of course, is they can’t travel commercial because they’re universally despised and there would be incidents at the airport.

    IIRC, they both live on military bases for protection from the public they swore to serve.

  79. One of the most common ways of keeping taxes low is by not having a functioning school system. Funding local police with speed traps and bogus forfeitures also contributes.

  82. More of your tax dollars being spent on settlements.

    U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested a high school student in McMinnville during Friday’s lunch period, according to school officials.

    “This afternoon, we became aware of an incident off school grounds in which a high school student was taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement [ICE] during today’s lunch period,” McMinnville Superintendent Kourtney Ferrua wrote in a message to parents. “Students who were nearby witnessed the event. We are working to verify information through appropriate channels and remain in communication with local partners.”

    The Yamhill County News-Register reported that the family of the arrested 17-year-old student said he is a U.S. citizen.

    ICE did not immediately respond to a request for comment about why it targeted a high school student.

  83. @78

    In between deciding to buy gas for the car or the Great value wheat bread I’ll look for a rental in New Jersey.

  84. @82. Well when you don’t believe in birthright citizenship then you won’t think that he’s American.

    Thats their message.

  87. Good morning.

    This morning President America First, with the full and complete backing of the MAGA Party, is massing troops, naval vessels, and aircraft in the southern Caribbean in preparation for spending billions of U.S. tax dollars and thousands of U.S. lives to invade and occupy a country over open top fishing boats.

    Iraq – $2.8 trillion
    U.S. service member lives lost in Iraq – 4,500

  89. New official stats from DHS just released now show that 40% of the “the bad ones” assaulted and kidnapped by ICE Fat Asses and held in torture facilities since Fat Hitler took over have any criminal charges or convictions of any kind.

    And you know DHS is lying. Because if they lie under oath in federal court routinely, as they certainly do, then you know they lie in the stats they report to the public.

  90. House Republicans this week:
    “This entire White House team has treated ALL members like garbage. ALL. And Mike Johnson has let it happen because he wanted it to happen. That is the sentiment of nearly all — appropriators, authorizers, hawks, doves, rank and file. The arrogance of this White House team is off putting to members who are run roughshod and threatened. They don’t even allow little wins like announcing small grants or even responding from agencies. Not even the high profile, the regular rank and file random members are more upset than ever. Members know they are going into the minority after the midterms.

    “More explosive early resignations are coming. It’s a tinder box. Morale has never been lower. Mike Johnson will be stripped of his gavel and they will lose the majority before this term is out.”

    https://punchbowl.news/article/house/what-mtg-got-right/

  91. Max Berger on Blue sky
    If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America

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