Brian Normoyle

“Our ongoing research on protests in the United States reveals that within the first two weeks of the second Trump administration, protest activity surpassed that of 2017. By the end of March 2025, there had been three times as many protests as had taken place in 2017. ...

"Show me that butthole" is five syllables, if you're ever writing a haiku and don't know how to end it

Who. Fucking. Cares. Enough of this drivel.

Congratulations to far-left extremists, whose ideological purity tests and bad-faith anti-Democratic activism helped seal the fate of the very people they claimed to be fighting for. Again.

Trump failed for the third time to win a majority of US voters. While his Electoral College win was decisive, the popular-vote margin now stands at only 1.64%.

And if 225k of his voters across just three states voted differently or stayed home, he would’ve lost.

That’s no mandate.

Police records reveal new details about sexual assault allegation against Pete Hegseth The incident has roiled Trump’s transition team since the former president announced Hegseth as his nominee for defense secretary.

Records released by the Monterey Police Department offer the most detailed account yet of the steps police took to investigate Pete Hegseth as part of an incident that has been roiling Donald Trump’s team since the former president announced the former Fox host was his pick to run the military.

International Criminal Court issues arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister | CNN The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Hamas official Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri, also ...

JUST IN: ICC issues arrest warrants for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant for alleged war crimes.

Trump has failed for the third election in a row to win a majority of voters. His win was decisive, but not a mandate in any meaningful sense of the term.

Stomach-churning

The NYT printed this in its op-ed section this AM: "A central pillar of American democracy is that no man is above the law. But Mr. Trump isn’t an ordinary man."

Wrong.

America doesn't have a king or a divine ruler. We elect an ORDINARY MAN as president.

I don't want to sound alarmist or anything, but I'm not sure it's a good idea to skip FBI background checks and bury congressional ethics reports about nominees to the most important posts in the federal government.

Do yourself a favor and read this from Fox News contributor Ben Domenech.

I’d like to report a murder

Senators want details of Matt Gaetz ethics probe before his confirmation vote for attorney general Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, says he's open to subpoenaing the House Ethics Committee for information on Trump's pick. Others say the confirmation process will bring things to light.

There is precedent for a House ethics commission to release a committee report even after a member of Congress has resigned. And Senate Republicans who’ll oversee Gaetz’s nomination want to see it.

Far and above any of Trump’s cabinet picks thus far, RFK Jr—a well known anti-vaxxer and conspiracy theorist—is the most dangerous.

Agreed. It’s a too-common view of “all-side”-ers and ostensible free thinkers that readily apparent bullshit, outlandish claims made in bad faith, and fringe conspiracies deserve to be elevated and legitimized through debate. They don’t. Mockery and marginalizing is an effective tool against them.

Personally I think satire is an important form of deprogramming! Mocking and marginalizing conspiracies often works better than debunking or debating them.

Gaetz is the only Republican in Congress more despised by his colleagues than Ted Cruz.

I don’t think there’s any way this report doesn’t eventually see the light of day.

I have no doubt they spent as much money as they did to do exactly that and to do so in magnificent fashion. I’m counting on it, actually.

It was “competitive” until it wasn’t.

House Ethics Panel Was Set to Vote to Release Report Critical of Matt Gaetz The committee has been investigating allegations that Mr. Gaetz, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick for attorney general, engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use.

It’s hard to believe Gaetz would agree to have every skeleton in his closet summoned during Senate confirmation hearings or that Trump would brook the backlash.

This pick signals Trump’s seriousness about recess-appointing his cabinet and skirting the scrutiny of a normal confirmation process.

Excellent starter thread here. And I can confirm the custom feeds feature is outstanding.

The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.

This is so utterly delicious and satisfying.

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/b...

What makes him think he has it in the bag?

Is Susan Collins “concerned?”