Looks like he already caught on as the new Lakers defensive coordinator……

FEC commissioner calls out GOP colleagues for refusing to investigate Trump

Commissioner Ellen Weintraub revealed that there are at least 58 (!!!) instances where the Federal Election Commission heard allegations against Donald Trump and that in at least 28 of those, staff at the Office of General Counsel decided the serially indicted grifter should be criminally investigated — but ALL Republican commissioners refused to approve any of the counsel’s recommendations. “My colleagues purport to be treating the former president and the current president alike, but the data is clear: At the FEC, Mr. Trump is in a category by himself,” Weintraub said. We could have so many more indictments against Trump if certain people were willing to just obey the law and do their jobs.

Election night 2023 was a GOP disaster, and Fox News is pissed—killing off Youngkin’s candidacy before it existed and telling Republicans to set aside their abortion fixation.

Justin Baragona​

Senior Media Reporter
Updated Nov. 08, 2023 3:50PM EST / Published Nov. 08, 2023 3:15PM EST



A year after promising viewers a “red tsunami” in the 2022 midterms, only to be left with egg on their faces after the GOP drastically underperformed, Fox News was once again wondering what went wrong after Democrats romped to victory in statewide elections on Tuesday night.

Despite recent polls showing President Joe Biden deeply underwater with voters and even losing to Donald Trump in several battleground states, the Democratic incumbent governor easily won victory over his MAGA-endorsed opponent in deep-red Kentucky. And over in Ohio, a state Trump won by eight points in 2020, voters overwhelmingly passed an amendment ensuring access to abortion care in the state’s constitution.

The continued drag that undoing Roe v. Wade has had on the GOP was especially apparent in Virginia, where Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin had promised to implement a 15-week abortion ban if the GOP was able to gain unified control over the state’s General Assembly. Instead, not only were Youngkin’s hopes of a Republican sweep dashed, but the Democrats now control both chambers.

Youngkin’s face-plant in Virginia, along with the results in Ohio and Kentucky, left Fox News in a state of shock, huffing so-called “copium” as they desperately searched for answers. In the end, two things were clear at the conservative cable giant by Wednesday morning: Youngkin was no longer presidential material, and it was time for the GOP to learn to love abortion.

With the results pouring in while Fox News star (and chief Republican cheerleader) Sean Hannity was on the air, conservative viewers saw in real-time that it was a bad night for the GOP and its agenda.

While the network had spent the past two days hyping up Biden’s bad poll numbers to lay the ground for Republican victories on election night, a morose Hannity opened his 9 p.m. show by informing viewers that Fox News had already projected that Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear had defeated GOP candidate Daniel Cameron. A short time later, he was also tasked with announcing that the Ohio abortion rights measure had passed.

Throughout the rest of Hannity’s broadcast, the one-time Trump White House shadow chief of staff huddled with his right-wing Fox colleagues to figure out what the GOP could do to actually win elections in a post-Roe environment.

“If we’re really going to be honest about this, and I consider myself pro-life, but I understand that’s not where the country is,” Hannity conceded, adding: “I have to believe that is an indication that the women in America, suburban moms, want it probably legal and rare and probably earlier than at the point of viability.” (Following the GOP’s defeat in the 2012 presidential election, Hannity famously suggested the party should become pro-immigrant in order to compete. That didn’t last long.)

Hannity also groused that Republicans’ push to ban abortion in states across the country, as well as the reversal of the federal right to abortion, meant that “Democrats are trying to scare women into thinking Republicans don’t want abortion legal under any circumstances.”

Former Trump White House press secretary and current Fox News host Kayleigh McEnany, meanwhile, suggested that this was all a matter of messaging. Saying that the GOP should “not just be a pro-baby party,” she called on the party to propose more “pro-mother” bills to appeal to women voters.

“We need a national strategy. Tomorrow, I want the House of Representatives passing legislation for men to pay women child support from the moment of conception, legislation to make the child tax credit apply to the unborn, legislation for women to have access to the supplemental food and nutrition program up to two years after childbirth,” she demanded. “These are things that could be done today that will make a difference! But until we own this issue as a party, we will lose again, and again, and again.”

While the other cable news networks stuck with live special coverage for the rest of the evening, Fox News decided that its audience needed a break from the deflating electoral results for conservatives. After Hannity signed off at 10 p.m., Fox aired its regularly scheduled broadcast of “comedy” show Gutfeld!, which was pre-taped and didn’t make any mention of the elections.

The following morning, it was also clear that Democrats had swept in Virginia, prompting the crew of Fox’s morning flagship show to actively bury Youngkin as a possible 2024 alternative to Trump. At the same time, the denizens of Fox & Friends also urged the GOP to figure out a way to get past the abortion issue.

“Ever since Roe was overturned, pretty much every time the Democrats have run on abortion, they have won, and was last night a harbinger for 2024? Absolutely,” Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy argued.

Meanwhile, Doocy’s colleague Ainsley Earhardt, an ardent Christian conservative, went even further in telling Republicans that they should set aside their anti-abortion principles to win elections and nakedly gain more power.

“Republicans need to look at all of these numbers, and really think about what’s more important. Yes, most people that are Republicans are probably pro-life,” she stated. “And we love our babies. And I love being a mother. But what’s most important? Republicans taking over. And Republicans being able to keep our country!”

Co-host Lawrence Jones added that most voters don’t approve of full abortion bans with no exceptions, urging Republicans to “talk directly to the people” and “give and take on some issues.”

The biggest takeaway on Wednesday morning, though, was that Fox News wanted it known that they were pulling the plug on Youngkin 2024 before it ever began.

The Virginia governor, whose successful gubernatorial bid was heavily boosted by Fox, had been encouraged earlier this year by network founder Rupert Murdoch to launch a last-minute presidential bid. Murdoch’s other media entities had already helped lay the groundwork for a possible White House run while he kept the idea afloat, especially since the other non-Trump candidates had yet to seriously contend with the ex-president.

“What an epic failure by Governor Youngkin. It’s a huge loss for him,” Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade fumed, adding that this had destroyed any chance of him running for president in 2024 and “definitely ’28.” Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy also delivered the message that Youngkin was toast. During a report on Fox & Friends, the younger Doocy said that Tuesday night’s results are “potentially lethal to this theory that Youngkin could ride a red wave in Richmond to a last-minute presidential campaign as a dark horse Trump alternative in 2024.”

Making it even more bittersweet for Youngkin: Fox & Friends had broadcasted live from a Virginia diner the previous morning, looking to gin up support for Youngkin amid his push for a GOP-held legislature to help pass his conservative agenda.

Throughout the rest of Fox’s morning shows, the network’s personalities continued to pound home the narrative that Youngkin has become damaged goods.

“The Virginia state house will be fully under Democrat control,” anchor Harris Faulkner noted. “Youngkin was saying he wanted that not to happen. He wanted one side to flip. The whole Senate [is] up for grabs. None of that happened. That will prevent state Republicans from passing new abortion restrictions.”

It didn’t take long for Younkin to hear that siren call and acquiesce, telling reporters on Wednesday that he’s “not going anywhere” while finally closing the door on the 2024 run.

GOP congressman orchestrating witch-hunt on Biden for "shady business practices" caught actually engaging in shady business practices

As House Rep. and failed Scooby Doo villain James Comer continues his pointless Biden impeachment probe over "shady business practices," new information has surfaced showing that he himself engaged in — you guessed it — shady business practices. Unlike the president, who was a private citizen when he made a $200,000 loan to his brother James, Rep. Comer was not only in office but was on the powerful House Committee on Agriculture — which is extremely relevant since Comer's $200,000 loan to his brother through a shell corporation was for a family farming business.

Comer also reportedly engaged in "land swaps" followed by applications for preferable tax treatment. It really is astonishing how EVERY Republican accusation is in fact a projection of their own guilt.

Funding to keep the government open is set to expire on Nov. 17, and there's no deal on how to avoid it.
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Nov. 9, 2023, 11:48 AM CST / Updated Nov. 9, 2023, 2:45 PM CST
By Sahil Kapur, Scott Wong and Julie Tsirkin

WASHINGTON — House Republicans closed out the week by canceling votes on two party-line funding bills in the span of 48 hours, a setback for new Speaker Mike Johnson and a sign of persisting dysfunction in the chamber ahead of a key funding deadline.

They pulled a transportation-housing bill late Tuesday as some coastal Republicans opposed cuts to Amtrak. And they yanked a financial services and general government measure on Thursday morning that included divisive anti-abortion language.

It's a step backward for Johnson, R-La., who had hoped to show progress on appropriations bills championed by his party's conservative wing in order to secure their votes to pass a short-term bill that would keep the government open beyond the Nov. 17 deadline.

And it shows how ungovernable the House continues to be after right-wing Republicans ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy over complaints about his handling of government funding.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., at the Capitol on Nov. 2, 2023.J. Scott Applewhite / AP

"I don't think the Lord Jesus himself could manage this group," said Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas. He added that he would pray for the new speaker as the House adjourned for a long weekend.

"We’re still dealing with the same divisions we always have had," said another House Republican. "We’re ungovernable."

On Capitol Hill, questions abound about how the new speaker will handle his first big test in a divided government, where he must balance the demands of ultraconservatives with a Democratic-led Senate and president.

"I think there's a honeymoon period here. I'm not sure how long it lasts, maybe 30 days," said Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky. "But with what's going on on the floor today, I think that indicates the honeymoon might be shorter than we thought."

This week, Johnson held multiple meetings with groups of rank-and-file Republicans about a path forward on a short-term funding bill, known as a continuing resolution or CR. He privately indicated his interest in a staggered bill in a meeting with allied Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Rick Scott, R-Fla., two sources said. The proposal would fund the government temporarily and impose two-tiered expiration dates: one in January and another in February.

In meetings with Johnson, some members thought he'd go with a “clean” CR without controversial add-ons to fund the government into January, while others believed the speaker would back a similar two-step CR proposed by members of the far-right Freedom Caucus.

"He wants a simple plan that will pass the Senate," said moderate Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., who met with Johnson on Wednesday along with roughly 20 other lawmakers. "We should do the hard fights on appropriations and the border, and all that stuff. We shouldn't have the hard fight on the CR — let's keep the government open and make it bipartisan."

Republicans said Johnson will need to make a call on a CR strategy by Friday to abide by the 72-hour rule, which gives lawmakers sufficient time to read the legislation before voting on it early next week. Members departed Washington on Thursday afternoon and will return on Monday.

"We've got to get the Senate something, and you'll see us get the Senate something," said conservative Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., who met with Johnson and is pushing for the two-step process that's been termed a "laddered CR."

The GOP also hopes to hammer out some of its differences on the stalled spending bills and to try to move them through the chamber.

Like the financial services measure, several of the remaining House appropriations bills have anti-abortion provisions, which could make it similarly difficult to win the votes of politically endangered Republicans. The issue has sparked fresh anxiety within the GOP after another poor election night earlier this week in which voters in a diverse array of states punished the party for its hard-line opposition to legal abortion.

Before they pulled the financial services bill on Thursday, 165 Republicans voted for an amendment by Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., to cut White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre's salary to $1. The measure failed as 54 GOP lawmakers joined Democrats to vote it down, but it revealed how an appropriations process that must be bipartisan to succeed has become a venue for partisan sniping.

Conservatives also were furious over the failure of another amendment — authored by a key Trump ally, Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla. — that would have barred funding to acquire property for the new planned FBI headquarters. Seventy Republicans joined all but one Democrat in voting no, a roll call that came shortly after the Biden administration announced the new multi-billion-dollar complex would be built in Greenbelt, Maryland.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., poured cold water on a multi-step approach, telling reporters on Thursday a "clean" stopgap bill at agreed-to budget levels is "the only way forward."

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has called for passing a stopgap bill "as quickly as possible" and emphasized on Tuesday that it must be "bipartisan." But he hasn't publicly weighed in on how long he believes the funding should last.

The Senate has also struggled to move appropriations bills after a strong start and a bipartisan path. It has passed just three out of 12 funding bills, fewer than the House's seven. The upper chamber's appropriations process has fallen prey to demands by conservative senators who have used their powers under Senate rules to dramatically slow things down.

"Well, I don't want a shutdown," said Sen. John Kennedy, R-La. "And I'm very optimistic that we will avoid one."
Asked why he's so optimistic when there's no plan, Kennedy said: "I realize that. But it's happened before that we go up to the deadline."

He predicted both chambers would pass a short-term bill in time.

I just taped half the show with Antonio Morales, of The Athletic, fun segment. He's always very good. And then Max will be back on this week as well -- he and I tape tomorrow morning before Lincoln's Zoom call, and Ill get it posted by the evening.

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I'm out at Galen Center tonight for No. 21 USC's home opener against Cal State Bakersfield. The Trojans picked up a nice season-opening victory over Kansas State on Monday night behind strong performances from the guards including freshman Isaiah Collier, who finished with 18 points and 6 assists in his debut for USC.

Feel free to join the conversation and follow along for updates throughout the night. Tip is at 6 p.m. and will be televised by Pac-12 Network.

Isaiah Collier played a game-high 34 minutes and led the Trojans with 19 points in his first game at Galen Center Thursday night against Cal State Bakersfield. USC also received a boost from sophomore Oziyah Sellers, who had a career-high 16 points, to help make up for the absence of standout wing Kobe Johnson. Read a full recap from Thursday's win at the link above, and watch the full postgame press conference videos below.

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Ivanka's old emails threaten to derail Trump's fraud defense

The disgraced ex-president's tenuous legal defense in his $250 million fraud trial — "they were just mistakes, and anyway it's not my job to fact check that stuff" — is on life support after the prosecution presented Ivanka Trump with her own incriminating emails acknowledging that her fathers' assets were not worth $3 billion (lol) but telling the company's lawyers to lie to Deutsche Bank about it anyway.

Oops! Good thing she's got Jared's dirty Saudi blood money to fall back on. Daddy's coffers might be a little light going forward.

Rick Santorum says the quiet part out loud after GOP election losses

Deep in the fetid bog of the Newsmax studios, Rick Santorum emerged from his warren to weep and moan about the devastating GOP losses on election night.

"You put very sexy things like abortion and marijuana on the ballot, and a lot of young people come out and vote...thank goodness that most of the states in this country don’t allow you to put everything on the ballot, because pure democracies are not the way to run a country," said Santorum, who usually is entirely irrelevant but in this moment is proving useful for voicing what most Republican politicians clearly believe but are too smart to actually articulate. The GOP doesn't actually believe in democracy, the will of the people, or freedom for ordinary working Americans. (That's why they keep losing elections.)

The clowns on this site must be so embarrassed. They spit and fume so much but lose at every turn. It just goes to show you that being Putin Puppets has nothing to do with being real Americans. LOL!

Moms For Liberty and anti-trans Republicans suffer massive election defeat nationwide

As if the Democratic shellacking of the GOP Tuesday night wasn't good enough, the dark money-funded hate group "Moms for Liberty" fell flat on its face in its efforts to get anti-LGBTQ and anti-reading candidates onto school boards.

Moms For Liberty goons were soundly defeated in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where the group had spent an outrageous six hundred thousand f*cking dollars on a *school board election* only to see Democrats win every single seat.

They lost bigly in Loudon County, Virginia, too, which had gained national attention as a central battleground in the GOP's fight against trans rights. Virginia Democrats also swept every seat in Fairfax County, where the school board had previously refused to enforce GOP Gov. Youngkin's bigoted anti-trans policies.

It truly helps restore one's faith in humanity to see that, time and time again, most ordinary Americans see right through the bigoted hysteria and reject the cruelty that hate groups like Moms For Liberty have to offer.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer’s Democratic colleagues have some questions following a report on some Comer family deals.


Nov. 9, 2023, 11:48 AM CST
By Steve Benen

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer’s crusade against President Joe Biden has struggled mightily all year, but Republicans’ hopes were buoyed last month by a new revelation.

“We have found a $200,000 DIRECT payment to Joe Biden,” the Kentucky Republican’s panel declared in a message via social media.

The facts proved to be far less interesting than the GOP hoped. Based on the information Republicans uncovered, Joe Biden — in his personal capacity, two years after serving as vice president — loaned his brother James Biden some money. Then, his brother paid him back. In case there were any ambiguities about the purpose of the no-interest repayment, James Biden literally wrote on the check itself, “Loan repayment.”

As we discussed soon after, this just wasn’t that interesting. Indeed, Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell of California noted online soon after, “[Comer] proves Joe Biden generously loaned his family money and they responsibly paid him back. Nice work, detective!”

Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the ranking member of the Oversight panel, added in a press statement, “The more than 1,400 pages of additional bank records just show what these witnesses and thousands of prior pages of records have already established: that the President was not involved in and did not profit from his family members’ business ventures.”

Republicans nevertheless continued to treat this as fascinating — I’m honestly not sure why — acting as if the loan and repayment were evidence of something nefarious. The claims have never made much sense, and after seeing this Daily Beast report, the GOP’s line of attack suddenly looks worse.

According to Kentucky property records, Comer and his own brother have engaged in land swaps related to their family farming business. In one deal—also involving $200,000, as well as a shell company—the more powerful and influential Comer channeled extra money to his brother, seemingly from nothing. Other recent land swaps were quickly followed with new applications for special tax breaks, state records show. All of this, perplexingly, related to the dealings of a family company that appears to have never existed on paper. But unlike with the Bidens, Comer’s own history actually borders a conflict of interest between his official government role and his private family business—and it’s been going on for decades.

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The Daily Beast added, if Comer genuinely believes the Biden family’s transactions clear the “shady business practices” bar, “he might want to consider a parallel inquiry into his own family.”

It’s worth emphasizing that this reporting has not been independently confirmed by MSNBC or NBC News. What’s more, when the Daily Beast sought comment from the Kentucky Republican, Comer’s office did not respond.

But it appears that some of Comer’s Democratic colleagues have taken a keen interest in the allegations. Swalwell asked online, for example, “Why did lead MAGA investigator James Comer channel $200,000 to his brother? What is going on? Will he answer questions and turn over documents?”

Rep. Jared Moskowitz of Florida, another Democratic member of the Oversight panel, raised related points and suggested that the committee “subpoena the records“ related to Comer’s deals.

I don’t imagine we’ve heard the last of this one.

Cool to see and I think we will play well Saturday night. I’d love to be in Eugene and watch us mess their year up!!!

Nearly half the House GOP conference went after Vice President Harris' salary. It was, to be sure, a foolish endeavor, but it wasn’t an isolated incident.


Nov. 9, 2023, 8:14 AM CST
By Steve Benen

A few months before the 2022 midterm elections, The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent noted that if Republicans reclaimed the House majority, GOP leaders hoped to reinstate the so-called “Holman Rule.” He explained at the time, “This obscure rule — which Republicans revived last time they held the majority, until the Democratic majority ended it — would allow Republicans to use spending bills to try to slash the salary of specific federal officials.”

Republicans never lost sight of the priority, and on the first full day of the current Congress, House GOP members approved a rules package that did, in fact, empower members to go after individual officials’ salaries.

The result is a strange hobby for the far-right House majority. Politico reported on some of the more audacious examples.

House lawmakers defeated an effort by Rep. Mike Collins (R-Ga.) to defund the office of Vice President Kamala Harris, one of the highest-level efforts yet to defund prominent federal officials and agencies.

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Note, the measure to go after the vice president’s salary fell short, but 106 House Republicans — 48% of the GOP conference — voted for the effort.

It was, to be sure, a foolish endeavor, but it wasn’t an isolated incident. In fact, those who don’t follow Congress closely might not realize just how frequently House Republicans pull stunts like these.

In late September, for example, the GOP majority went after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s salary. Soon after, Republicans thought it’d be a good idea to go after Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm’s salary, too.

Republicans have gone after Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s salary. And Interior Secretary Deb Haaland’s salary. And EPA Administrator Michael Regan’s salary. And Bureau of Land Management Director Tracy Stone-Manning’s salary. And Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler’s salary.

In a few hours, the House’s GOP majority will take up a measure to go after White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s salary, too.

Just so we’re all clear, none of these efforts will become law. Proponents are well aware of this.

But a striking number of Republican lawmakers apparently find the measures entertaining, which means the public should expect to see quite a few more votes like these — at least until there’s a Democratic majority in the chamber again.

GOP members have already earned a reputation for unseriousness. Some are going out of their way to prove their critics right.

James Comer is going after Joe Biden because he loaned his brother, James Biden, $200,000. If that's the standard, James Comer may want to investigate himself.

Roger Sollenberger​

Senior Political Reporter
Published Nov. 09, 2023 4:51AM EST

House Oversight Committee chair James Comer (R-KY) on Wednesday subpoenaed President Joe Biden’s brother, James Biden, who Comer has implicated in unsubstantiated allegations of “shady business practices” in the Biden family.

Comer has in particular been trying to make hay out of two personal loan repayments from James Biden to his brother, for $40,000 and $200,000—with all transactions occurring in 2017 and 2018, when Joe Biden was neither in office nor a candidate.

But if Comer genuinely believes these transactions clear the “shady business practices” bar, he might want to consider a parallel inquiry into his own family.

According to Kentucky property records, Comer and his own brother have engaged in land swaps related to their family farming business. In one deal—also involving $200,000, as well as a shell company—the more powerful and influential Comer channeled extra money to his brother, seemingly from nothing. Other recent land swaps were quickly followed with new applications for special tax breaks, state records show. All of this, perplexingly, related to the dealings of a family company that appears to have never existed on paper.

But unlike with the Bidens, Comer’s own history actually borders a conflict of interest between his official government role and his private family business—and it’s been going on for decades.

While Comer and House GOP allies have tried to cast the Biden transactions as evidence of unsavory and possibly impeachable offenses, multiple news organizations—including CNN, The Wall Street Journal, FactCheck.org, and the conservative-leaning Washington Examiner—have all thrown cold water on the notion that the payments are evidence of anything other than a brother helping a brother.

That hasn’t stopped Comer. But hypocrisy hasn’t stopped Comer before, either.

Earlier this year, The Daily Beast reported that Comer’s probe into the “weaponization” of government resources resounded with echoes of Comer’s own investigation-meddling scandal. The Daily Beast also reported that Comer’s first blockbuster oversight hearing this year—into abuse of the COVID loan program—also happened to invoke Comer, as well as his brother.

This time, the irony is even richer.

“Even if this was a personal loan repayment, it’s still troubling that Joe Biden’s ability to be paid back by his brother depended on the success of his family’s shady financial dealings,” Comer said in a press release last month.

But Comer’s investigative efforts have so far failed to show that Joe Biden’s loans have any connection to family business dealings—let alone to actions while holding elected office. Comer, however, exercised government influence directly over his family’s industry for nearly 20 years.

Comer has held important positions in agriculture oversight since 2003, while running a family farming business, and those roles overlapped in 2019, the year of the land swaps. He only stepped back from an agriculture oversight role recently, in 2020—one year after the family business pivoted away from farming.

Delaney Marsco, senior counsel for ethics at nonpartisan watchdog Campaign Legal Center, told The Daily Beast that Comer’s overlapping public and private roles raise concerns about whether he may be trying to “game a personal business advantage.”

“Conflicts of interest can occur when members serve on committees overseeing industries in which they are heavily invested or in which their business interests are intertwined,” Marsco said. “Voters have a right to know that lawmakers are using their considerable power in the interest of the public, not to game a personal business advantage.”

A Comer spokesperson did not return The Daily Beast’s comment request.

Comer’s official positions afforded him both insight and power in the agriculture industry, and he held them while he and his family ran a multimillion-dollar farming business.

For instance, in 2018, Comer—a member of the House Agriculture Committee—was selected to negotiate the Farm Bill. He was the first representative from Kentucky to do so in 30 years, according to an office press release at the time.

The press release characterized the position as “an important role in shaping America’s agriculture and nutrition policy,” with Comer calling the bill “the most impactful legislation signed into law this year.”

Comer had held a seat on that committee since he was first elected to Congress in 2016. Prior to that, Comer was the Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner, and before attaining that office he sat on the state legislature’s agriculture committee for eight years. The whole time, Comer, his brother, and his father were running a farming business, with Comer valuing his third of the company between $1 million and $5 million by the time he got to Congress.

But Comer’s family company also has its own curiosities. For instance, it doesn’t appear to exist on paper.

For years, the company Comer ran with his brother and father has been identified in news reports, official statements, Comer’s financial disclosures, and livestock sale bulletins as “Comer Land & Cattle.” But there is no record of an entity by that name in business filings with the commonwealth of Kentucky—or apparently with any other jurisdiction. A statewide search for business officers only associates Comer with three defunct entities—an insurance outfit, “Four Dips, Inc,” and “CFB Foods, Inc”—and the still-active Tompkinsville-Monroe County Chamber of Commerce, where he was a founding member but has since been removed.

Abortion threatens another House GOP spending bill..., again!

Stop us if you've heard this story before, but GOP efforts to fund the government and avert a catastrophic shutdown are being derailed by right-wing extremists cramming anti-abortion poison pills into funding legislation.

This week's stinging electoral defeats are yet another reminder just how deeply unpopular the GOP's rabid, anti-abortion crusade is at the ballot box, a lesson clearly lost on the goons driving the Republican clown caucus bus into ditch after ditch.

Tajwar's column:

Lincoln seemingly refused to acknowledge what EVERYONE was saying about Grinch, will he respond the same when so many are saying his program needs tweaking? We shall see.

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Describing the former secretary of state as “heartless,” Faulkner added that is why she calls “her one of the many now ongoing heart donors on the planet.”

Justin Baragona​

Senior Media Reporter
Updated Nov. 09, 2023 2:48PM EST / Published Nov. 09, 2023 2:41PM EST

Fox News “straight news” anchor Harris Faulkner lashed out against “failed presidential candidate” Hillary Clinton on Thursday, claiming the former secretary of state was “so evil” for making a comparison between former President Donald Trump and Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.
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During a Wednesday appearance on daytime talk show The View, Clinton warned about the dangers of a second Trump administration amid recent polls that find the disgraced ex-president leading President Joe Biden in several battleground states.
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“When I was secretary of state, I used to talk about ‘one and done,’” she said. “What I meant by that is that people would get legitimately elected and then they would try to do away with elections, and do away with opposition, and do away with a free press.”

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Clinton added: “Hitler was duly elected. All of a sudden somebody with those tendencies, dictatorial, authoritarian tendencies, would be like ‘OK we’re gonna shut this down, we’re gonna throw these people in jail.’ And they didn’t usually telegraph that. Trump is telling us what he intends to do.”
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While Clinton’s remarks came after The Washington Post reported that Trump is working up plans to sic the Department of Justice on his political enemies and invoke the Insurrection Act if he’s elected again, it didn’t take long for MAGA influencers to freak out over her remarks.
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And considering how obsessed Fox News has long been with the former first lady, it was just a matter of time before the conservative cable giant entered the fray.
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Faulkner, who last year couldn’t accept that Clinton was not running for president in 2024, took aim at the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee over her remarks during a Thursday conversation with Fox News contributor Jason Chaffetz.
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“Hillary Clinton went there! Of course, she’s a failed presidential candidate herself—twice—getting a lot of heat for an extreme warning about electing former President Trump,” Faulkner huffed. (I guess Hillary getting 3,000,000 more votes didn't count. LOL!)

After airing a clip of Clinton’s comments, the Fox News anchor then suggested it was wickedly vile for Clinton to invoke Hitler because of the current conflict in Gaza.

“She’s so evil,” Faulkner fumed. “Jason, did you catch that? That in the middle of Israel at war with terrorists, to bring up any comparison with Hitler is just heartless! Heartless! I call her one of the many now ongoing heart donors on the planet.”

Agreeing with his colleague, Chaffetz said it was “just delusional” to compare Trump with Hitler, claiming that it “dilutes the atrocities that happened” during the Holocaust. He then went on to gush over Trump’s presidential record, claiming the “world was a peaceful place” during the ex-president’s single term.

“Obviously, she is a little bitter because she was measuring the drapes, thought she would move in and be the next president. But no, she got beat and beat badly,” he added.

Peter Thiel: My Vote for Donald Trump Was a ‘Scream for Help’​

‘F*CKING SCUMBAG’

Noah Kirsch​

Wealth And Power Reporter
Published Nov. 09, 2023 1:30PM EST

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Peter Thiel is better known for bankrupting media outlets than talking to them, but he decided to cooperate for a profile published on Thursday by The Atlantic as a way to box himself in: declaring on the record that he would not give “any money to Republican politicians in 2024.”

In the piece, Thiel said Donald Trump had allegedly called him a “****ing scumbag” after the PayPal founder refused to donate more funds to his campaign.

“Voting for Trump was like a not very articulate scream for help,” Thiel said of his endorsement in 2016. “It was crazier than I thought. It was more dangerous than I thought. They couldn’t get the most basic pieces of the government to work.”

We just wrapped up the Zoom with Riley.

He initially said he expects MarShawn Lloyd to be available, which I then asked a follow-up question if that means he has to clear some tests to be able to play, and he said it's just always a process returning from injury but barring setbacks he expects he'll play.

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Judge reinstates gag order in Trump federal election case​

Reuters
October 30, 20234:44 AM CDTUpdated 7 hours ago

WASHINGTON Oct 29 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Sunday reinstated a gag order she imposed on Donald Trump in the Washington case accusing him of trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat, denying his bid for a stay pending appeal.

The order prohibited Trump from targeting the special counsel prosecuting his case or witnesses who might be called to testify about his efforts to upend his election loss.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan imposed the gag order at the Justice Department's request. She temporarily lifted it on Oct. 20 after Trump's lawyers appealed. She reversed that decision on Sunday evening, according to the court's docket.

A copy of the judge's written decision reinstating the gag order was not immediately available.

"The Corrupt Biden Administration just took away my First Amendment Right To Free Speech," Trump said late Sunday in a post on Truth Social. "NOT CONSTITUTIONAL!"

Trump in the past has called Special Counsel Jack Smith a "deranged lunatic" and a "thug," among other insults. Trump is facing four criminal cases and has made disparaging comments about prosecutors in each of them, as well as against the New York state attorney general who brought civil fraud charges against him.

Trump has pleaded not guilty to charges that he plotted to interfere unlawfully in the counting of votes and block the congressional certification of his 2020 loss to Democrat Joe Biden.