Former President Donald Trump announces he is running again

Former President Donald Trump announces he is running again

Donald Trump, who tried to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election and inspired a deadly riot at the Capitol in a desperate ...

Last night felt like Ford announcing they’re rolling out the Pinto again. - Julius Kim tweet

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• Biden Reveals Russian Missile 'Unlikely' to Be Behind Deadly Explosion in Poland
• NATO aircraft tracked missile that crossed into Poland
• Ukraine asks U.S. for big drones, hoping to overcome opposition
• 'It's Dangerous': George Conway Accuses Trump of Blackmailing Dept. of Justice With Threats of Violence if He's Indicted

After an leading an unsuccessful coup, he ran for president. 

This statement is true about both Hitler and Trump. - duty2warn tweet

So, How Are Car Sales Going In Russia?

President Vladimir Putin urged the Russian government on Wednesday to control car prices, as one industry head said Western sanctions could send annual sales crashing to below 1 million for the first time since records began.

Auto sales have fallen over 60% so far this year, and may end up being less than a quarter of what they were a decade ago, according to Maxim Sokolov, head of Russia's top carmaker Avtovaz.

If we are going to ignore Donald Trump this time, then we have to ignore Maggie Haberman, too. - Amee Vanderpool

What does Haberman mean by growing visibly? Growling maybe.

Republican Shenanigans

• Trump Announces 2024 Presidential Run to 'Make America Great and Glorious Again' (MAGAGA?)
• Ivanka Skipped Trump Speech — And Minutes Later Announced She Was NOT Joining Campaign
• National Review Savages Trump Over 2024 Announcement: 'Once Was an Experiment, Twice Would Be Perverse'
• Trump's Former Chief of Staff Shreds 2024 Bid DURING His Speech: 'He's the Only Republican Who Can Lose'
• Roger Stone, Who Called Ivanka an 'Abortionist B*tch,' Attends Trump's 2024 Announcement
• Pompeo dings Trump: GOP needs leader who doesn’t claim ‘victimhood’
• McConnell Argues MAGA Candidates Lost Because They ‘Frightened’ Independent Voters With ‘Chaos’ and ‘Excessive Attacks’
• Michael Flynn must testify in Georgia election interference investigation, judge says

IT'S OFFICIAL. Donald Trump announced he will be seeking additional funding for his bank accounts yesterday. - EditorOfEric tweet

Mitch McConnell Beats Down Rick Scott

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) says he has the votes necessary to repel a challenge from Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) for the top Republican leadership position.

Senate Republicans met for three hours on Tuesday, where Scott made the case that a change in leadership is needed. Afterward, McConnell emerged and hardly seemed concerned about an upcoming vote on the matter, which may happen as early as Wednesday.

It’s gonna be wild to see a US Presidential candidate get indicted for espionage. - Melvin White tweet

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Rock The Voter News

• Student Loan Defaults Will Increase ‘Historically’ Without Debt Forgiveness, Biden Administration Says
• Michelle Obama says she had to ease nation into a first lady with Black hair: ‘Let me keep my hair straight. Let’s get health care passed’
• 90 percent of all US counties experienced climate disaster: research

To those saying that the DOJ cannot investigate a presidential candidate: Hillary Clinton would like a word. - trom771 tweet

Trump Sheds Another Mega-Donor

A GOP mega-donor said that he would no longer support former President Trump after his announcement of a third presidential bid on Tuesday night.  

Stephen Schwarzman, the CEO and co-founder of the investment firm Blackstone, told Axios in a statement that the Republican Party should nominate someone else in 2024 who will represent a new generation of leaders. 

The House and Senate should pass a resolution that if you are being investigated for violating the Espionage Act you can't run for president. Just saying. - Victoria Brownworth tweet

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Business/Tech News

• Thanksgiving meals 20 percent more expensive than last year: report
• House committee announces hearing into FTX collapse featuring Bankman-Fried
• Facebook Tells Its Fact-Checkers to Lay Off Trump If He Runs for President
• Musk to Twitter employees: Commit to ‘hardcore’ hours or leave

Say what you want about this flawed old site, twitter is going to be THE f*cking place to be the day that Donald Trump is finally indicted. - Jeff Tiedrich tweet

When Your Chief Financial Officer Points His Finger At You.

Former Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg testified Tuesday that Donald Trump personally green-lighted untaxed benefits that are the center of a Manhattan criminal trial against several of the ex-president’s eponymous companies — including a gratis residence in New York City. “The rent was authorized by Donald Trump,” Weisselberg said less than two hours into his time on the stand in State Supreme Court in Manhattan. The septuagenarian, who sported a deep gray suit and pale blue tie, spoke matter of factly.

You know how fast Timothy McVeigh was charged? He was in custody, charged federally with the Oklahoma City bombing, in *two days.* He was indicted in under four months.  - Elie Honig

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Odd News

• NASA capsule on way to moon after launch by giant new rocket
• Broncos Linebacker Suing The Chargers And NFL After Sustaining ACL Tear On A Sideline Mat At SoFi Stadium
• 5 Calif. Law Enforcement Cadets in Critical Condition, 17 Injured After Being Hit by SUV While Running
• World's largest coloring book unveiled at Texas dog walking event
• Houston woman has the world's largest feet

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Train travel in the 1890s if you were filthy rich.

Peace.

Trump v DeSantis: Republicans split over 2024 run and predict ‘blood on the floor’

Trump v DeSantis: Republicans split over 2024 run and predict ‘blood on the floor’

Terri Burl was an early member of Women for Trump. As chair of her local Republican party branch in northern Wisconsin, she twice campaigned...

Can’t wait to see Trump make an ass of himself tonight. - Mike Sington tweet

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• Marjorie Taylor Greene says she isn't afraid of a GOP civil war: 'We're going to fight it out'
• Pence Refuses to Say Whether He Thinks Trump is Fit to Serve — After Former President Encouraged a Mob to Hunt Him Down
• Jan. 6 Committee Threatens 'Next Steps' When Trump Blows Off Deposition Deadline
• West Virginia couple charged with hate crime in pair of racist attacks: 'I'm going to shoot you for talking to my wife'
• Russia launches missile strikes throughout Ukraine targeting infrastructure
• US official: Russian missiles crossed into Poland, killing 2

Russia launched missiles that killed two people in a Nato country and if that really does start WW3, it's going to literally be the entire world vs Russia. - BlackKnight10K tweet

Why would Putin send bombs into Poland on the day of his favorite asset’s big announcement? - NotHoodlum tweet

The King of Grifters
During Donald Trump’s presidency, the governments of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Turkey, China and Malaysia spent hundreds of thousands of dollars at Trump International Hotel in Washington at the same time they were trying to influence U.S. foreign policy, according to investigative findings released Monday by the House Oversight and Reform Committee.

They won't arrest Trump during his announcement tonight. No, they'll wait until after the speech while he's waiting in the drive-thru at Hardee's. - Liam Nissan tweet

Republican Shenanigans

• New Poll Shows Trump Behind DeSantis by Double Digits in Key Republican Primary States
• Fox News Political Analyst Brit Hume Says Trump Is Losing His Grip on the Republican Party: ‘His Star Has Faded’
• Pompeo says expected Trump announcement won’t affect his own 2024 plans
• Greatest Self-Own Ever? Kari Lake's Election Whine Gets Mocked On Twitter
• ‘Stop The Steal’ Organizer Ali Alexander Claims He Can Time Travel and ‘Will’ Kari Lake to Win in AZ
• House Republican Says He's Challenging McCarthy for Speakership: 'It's a New World'
• Lindsey Graham Declines to Endorse Trump Right Now: ‘I’ll Tell You After Georgia’
• Donald Trump defeats niece Mary Trump in lawsuit over inheritance

I’d like to congratulate my fellow entertainers Kari Lake and Dr Oz for not having to give up show business. - John Fugelsang

Does The Republican National Committee Need A New Leader? ROFLOL.

Ronna McDaniel is planning on running for reelection as the Republican National Committee chair despite reported calls for a replacement.

McDaniel indicated she would run for reelection during a call on the midterms with RNC members, Politico reported.

Republicans Blindsided That People Who Vote Believe in Democracy. - Andy Borowitz

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Rock The Voter News

• 'How Can I Say This Tactfully?' Biden Roasts Trump-Republican Losses On World Stage As 'Message' To Allies and Rivals
• Biden's granddaughter to get rare White House wedding
• Democrats sue for Saturday voting in Georgia Senate runoff

Wait, the State of Georgia is not allowing early voting on a Saturday before the runoff election because of a holiday commemorating Confederate general Robert E. Lee’s birthday?!?!?

Are you f’ng kidding me? - JoJoFromJerz tweet

Manchin Fears Larger Democratic Majority Would Mean Fewer Opportunities To Be Dick. - Andy Borowitz

Georgia Is Sure Neck Deep In Trump

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is set to testify Tuesday morning before the special grand jury investigating possible 2020 election inference by former President Donald Trump and his allies, a source familiar with the arrangements told NBC News.

One year ago, I signed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law – a once-in-a-generation investment in our nation’s infrastructure and competitiveness.

Since then, we turned "infrastructure week" from a punchline under my predecessor into "infrastructure decade" on my watch. - President Biden tweet

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Business/Tech News

• $600M returned to airline passengers under new federal rules on cancellations
• Rod Stewart says he turned down $1M to perform at World Cup in Qatar
• Tesla, Mercedes EVs ranked worst in annual reliability survey by Consumer Reports
• Scott Galloway Predicts Elon Musk’s Bizarre Behavior Will Result in Twitter Going 'Down’ in the Next Week: He 'Has Absolutely No Guard Rails'
• Tulsi Gabbard Joins Fox News as a Contributor

guy with 8 followers: Mr. Elon sir, have you thought about replacing all data centers with an electrochemical potato battery.

Elon Musk: working on it now. - Ashwin Rodrigues tweet

Anyone Taking Bets That This Texan Is A Republican?

A 38-year-old Texas attorney is facing felony charges for allegedly attempting to sneak abortion-inducing drugs into his wife’s beverages for weeks after learning about her pregnancy. A Harris County grand jury returned a true bill indicting Mason Herring on one count each of assault of a pregnant person and assault – forced induction to have an abortion, court documents obtained by Law&Crime show.

Why are Trump Republicans such bad losers? You'd think they would've had enough practice by now. - Middle Age Riot

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Odd News

• Is tonight the night that NASA’s massive SLS rocket finally takes flight?
• Steve Jobs' Birkenstock sandals auctioned for more than $200,000
• Man Shoots Himself in Leg While Target Shooting in NH
• Florida woman used sword to 'defend' parking spot: police
• Feds: Cocaine worth $450,000 seized from wheelchair wheels

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Four seasons.

Peace.

She got quite a bump on the head. We kinda thought there for a minute she was gonna leave us.

U.S. House control hangs on tight races after Democrats win Senate

Control of the U.S. House of Representatives hinged on Monday on several tight races that could secure a majority for Republicans following midterm elections that saw President Joe Biden's Democrats beat expectations and retain the Senate.

Damn, and I was really hoping for 50000 hours of hearings on Hunter Biden's laptop. - Rick Wilson tweet

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• Biden has 'open conversation' with China's Xi over nuclear war, Russia's Ukraine invasion
• Mike Pence Piles on 'Reckless' Trump: 'Endangered Me and My Family'
• Supreme Court clears way for Jan. 6 panel to access records of Arizona GOP chair
• Ginni Thomas joins conservatives pressing to delay House, Senate GOP elections
• Arizona Election Protesters Demand 'Military Step In' — Claim Capitol Rioters Are Being 'Tortured in Cages'

Republicans didn't go to war with Trump after he tried to have them assassinated but somehow losing the midterms is the last straw. - BlackKnight10K tweet

Russia Is Busy In Their Cyberwar With Us

Thousands of smartphone applications in Apple and Google's online stores contain computer code developed by a technology company, Pushwoosh, that presents itself as based in the United States, but is actually Russian, Reuters has found

PENCE: Trump endangered my family.

ALL OF US: Ours too, but we did something about it. - Jeremy Newberger

    

Republican Shenanigans

• NBC News Now Projecting Republicans to Win House by Razor Thin Margin
• Trump Goes All in On Election Conspiracy Theories: Kari Lake's 'Easy Election Win' Being Systematically 'Drained Away'
• Ted Cruz Blames Mitch McConnell for Republican Losses in Scorching Rant: ‘Mitch Would Rather Be Leader Than Have a Republican Majority’
• Trump Wants Americans To Pay His ‘Expenses’ Including Legal Fees in Suit Blocking Jan. 6 Committee Subpoena
• Trump Pushed IRS Investigations Into Political Enemies Like James Comey, Andrew McCabe According to John Kelly
• Mo Brooks Savages Trump as ‘Dishonest, Disloyal, Incompetent, Crude’ While Boosting DeSantis For 2024 Run
• 'He's Way Too Old': Focus Group of GOP Voters Overwhelmingly Back DeSantis Over Trump
• Frank Luntz Gets Defensive Over His Bad Midterm Predictions By Blaming CNN: ‘Stop Focusing on Who’s Up and Who's Down!’

Pence is an accomplice to Trump’s crimes. Let’s never forget that. - Scott Dworkin tweet

Imagine What We Don't Know About Trump's Finances...and He's Still Running Loose.
A watchdog group on Monday asked the U.S. Federal Election Commission to probe a $20 million transfer between two groups tied to former President Donald Trump, alleging the money was illegally sponsoring Trump's aim to return to the White House.

Hey Georgia…you re-elected a woman who followed Parkland High School shooting survivors through DC while verbally taunting them.  She also said Obama should have been dragged out of the White House and hung on the White House Lawn. That who you want representing you?  SAD! - Richard N. Ojeda, II tweet

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Rock The Voter News

• Schumer Says He's Meeting With McConnell, Reveals Plan to Get Mitch to Ditch 'MAGA' Extremists: 'Work with Us to Get Things Done'
• Pelosi says House Democrats are asking her to 'consider' another leadership bid
• Michelle Obama Talks Losing Hope After Trump Elected and Sadness Over Obama Admin's Shortcomings: ‘We Ourselves Were Not Enough’

In 1791, the Second Amendment was written. 

In 1847, the bullet was invented. 

Thus, the Second Amendment only applies to muskets. - Andrea Junker tweet

Why Is Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Still On The Bench?

In an unwritten dissent on Monday, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas showed that he would have blocked enforcement of a subpoena issued by the House Jan. 6 Committee for the phone and text records of Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward.

Republicans passed laws prohibiting counting early votes until after the polls close, then they cry about how long it takes to count votes. They think you’re stupid. - MuellerSheWrote tweet

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Business/Tech News

• China refiners slow down Russian oil purchases as sanctions near - trade
• Poland says to take over Gazprom's Polish assets
• Treasury targets electronics supply chains in new sanctions against Russia
• U.S. Supreme Court rejects StarKist's tuna price-fixing class action appeal

Mike Pence is getting his own CNN town hall on Wed

Casey DeSantis got her very own puff piece on CNN yesterday

New York Times showered praise on DeSantis calling him “supercharged”

Nothing to see here

Just the media promoting ChristoFascists at the expense of our democracy. - Lindy Li tweet

The cleanup on aisle 45 is going well. - John Collins

The Crypto Crash

Amid the fallout of the implosion of FTX, once the second-largest cryptocurrency exchange, at least $1bn in investor assets appears to be missing, according to multiple reports.

On Saturday morning, Reuters reported that FTX was missing at least $1bn in client funds, according to two anonymous sources who held senior positions at FTX and said they had been briefed on the company’s finances. 

just to confirm i'm understanding the FTX collapse: over a million people put $1 billion in assets into a crypto company, founded in the bahamas, by a 28 year old. am I understanding this right. - Rob DenBleyker tweet

Wow, Forbes Sure Knows How To Pick The Losers

The cure for anything is saltwater — sweat, tears or the sea. - Isak Dinesen

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Odd News

• Look for bright, colorful shooting stars as Leonid meteor shower peaks this week
• World Population to Reach 8 Billion People This Week
• Toy Hall of Fame inducts Lite-Brite, Masters of the Universe, top
• Annual Ala. peanut parade turns into a 'chaotic scene'
• Earbud piece was stuck in British man's ear for five years

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The White Pocket at Vermillion Cliffs in Arizona. Yes, I know, it looks like a brain.

Peace.