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BBC claim details of Trump appointments and those 2 were the most notable:- Elon Musk: Deregulation czar Kennedy: Health czar. A "czar" in US political terms is someone who has a wide remit over policy and not necessarily needed to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate? Shrug...

On Wednesday’s broadcast of NBC’s “Today,” co-host Savannah Guthrie stated that President Joe Biden “had always been something of a centrist.” But he didn’t actually govern like one and “There was a sense that he was trying to do more than, perhaps, people had voted him into office to do.” And that Democrats constantly talk about identity politics. She also stated that people might not have expected Biden to run for re-election at first since he ran to be a transition figure. Guthrie said, “Well, it’s also interesting, too, because Biden ran kind of — first of all, as a...

Where's ol' Serpant Head with his prediction og a Kamala landslide. Btw, I put this topic under, 'Agriculture' due to not being relavent to just about anything.

Despite receiving the backing of a whole host of A-listers, including Beyoncé and Taylor Swift, Democratic candidate Kamala Harris still managed to lose the 2024 election. Donald Trump will soon return to the White House — but he may not be the only one preparing a big move. Over the course of the campaign, a number of top celebs claimed they would up and leave the States if Trump emerged victorious, while film star George Clooney even affirmed he would “get out of politics and go back to television” if the Donald got in. So who might be considering a...

Travis Kelce ruffled some feathers with his post-presidential election message. Taking to Instagram on Wednesday, the Chiefs tight shared a collage of photos featuring his teammates commemorating Kansas City’s 30-24 win over the Buccaneers in overtime on “Monday Night Football.” “Arrowhead at night 🏟️🔥🔥,” Kelce wrote, including a pair of fire emojis. Some felt Kelce’s post was ill-timed after former president Donald Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris to become the 47th president of the United States in Tuesday’s election. “Trav I love you but pls read the room,” someone wrote in the comments.

In a stirring concession speech following last night's election loss, Kamala Harris announced she would work to ensure a peaceful transition of power to the man she called Adolf Hitler for the last year. After losing a lopsided contest to former President Donald Trump — who she spent years warning Americans was the gravest threat to democracy — Harris vowed to accept his victory and help the man she told voters was a ruthless, totalitarian dictator take control of the highest office in the land. "It's my responsibility to make sure this tyrannical despot assumes power," Harris told the crowd...

In the wake of Donald Trump’s victory Tuesday, a broad coalition of public and private sector leaders, including county officials, law enforcement, health care leaders and educators, is pledging to protect Santa Cruz County’s immigrants. In Watsonville, nonprofit organizations are beginning to navigate the potential impacts a second Trump presidency could have on the city’s large undocumented population and how they’ll reassure the community the next four years.

Kamala didn't need the insult added to the injury after Tuesday's election, but boy howdy, she's getting it: Ok so this just got very explosive. A Kamala campaign staffer who saw these posts called me just now and said there is a massive scandal here worthy of an audit. The $20 million debt thing is real. Rob Flaherty, this staffer said, is currently shopping around the Kamala fundraising email list to anyone who wants it to try to raise the money back. This includes other campaigns and outside groups. Flaherty is the deputy campaign manager and reports to Jen O’Malley...

A fired worker at a computer repair store shot his former boss in a broad daylight attack on the Upper West Side Thursday – then escaped through subway tunnels and briefly hid under a train, according to sources and local store owners. The irate shooter blasted the 47-year-old victim once in the shoulder and once in the leg at West 69th Street and Columbus Avenue around 9:20 a.m., police said. The two worked together at the nearby Lincoln Business Machines Incorporated, sources said — and the gunman was a remote worker who had been fired shortly before the shooting, several...

Democrats are looking on nervously as their last-ditch goal of recapturing the House in an otherwise brutal election shows signs of fizzling. Why it matters: The House emerged early Wednesday morning as Democrats' last hope of denying President-elect Trump full control of Congress. Republican and Democratic operatives alike concede that while Democrats still have a technical shot at picking up the House, the GOP has the inside track and could even ultimately grow their five-seat majority. Asked to describe the mood of the caucus, one House Democrat told Axios, "Shock, sadness, anger, frustration, disappointment."

A glum-looking Nancy Pelosi avoided The Post’s questions Wednesday about her role in swapping in Kamala Harris for President Biden as the 2024 Democratic nominee — after getting in a tense discussion with ex-Democratic National Committee chair Donna Brazile ahead of the vice president’s concession speech at Howard University. “Do you think it was a mistake to kick Joe Biden off the ballot?” The Post inquired as the former House speaker left the event. The 84-year-old Pelosi, who was elected Tuesday to a 20th term representing her San Francisco-based district in the House, ignored all inquiries — including one about...

Experts and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are discussing Florida's shift to a Republican stronghold as Republicans dominate major elections and the majority of Floridians voted for President-elect Donald Trump in this election. Florida Atlantic University professor of political science Kevin Wagner says Florida’s shift started several years ago and it’s due to a variety of factors. "Certainly, there was some pretty good evidence that we had people moving from states like California and New York looking for a more conservative environment, and they brought their politics with them when they came to Florida," Wagner said. "That influx...

The Feds raided Alfie Oakes’ Naples, Florida home and farm with a battering ram on Thursday. Alfie Oakes is an outspoken Trump supporter and owner of Seed to Table grocery store. The raid was conducted by the Defense Criminal Investigative Service which investigates criminal behavior with the Department of Defense. --snip-- According to reports, the Feds used a battering ram to bust the door down at Alfie Oakes’ home while his wife and daughter were home. IRS agents were seen carrying boxes out of Alfie Oakes’ home.

Over the course of the last decade, President-elect Donald Trump broke both national political parties. He first stormed into the 2016 Republican primaries with both an agenda and a style that sharply cut against GOP conventions. Since then, the Democratic Party has defined itself by opposition to him, rather than its own values and platform. President Joe Biden’s victory in 2020 looks, now more than ever, like an electoral brake tap in a race away from the establishment. In this election, there was no greater symbol of the aimlessness of the two parties’ old guards than the Cheney family and...

REMARKS OF PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP – AS PREPARED FOR DELIVERY INAUGURAL ADDRESS FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2017 WASHINGTON, D.C. As Prepared for Delivery – Chief Justice Roberts, President Carter, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, fellow Americans, and people of the world: thank you. We, the citizens of America, are now joined in a great national effort to rebuild our country and to restore its promise for all of our people. Together, we will determine the course of America and the world for years to come. We will face challenges. We will confront hardships. But we will get the job...

Republican Dave McCormick defeated incumbent Democratic Sen. Bob Casey in Pennsylvania’s Senate race, The Associated Press projected, marking the 53rd Senate seat Republicans have captured in winning back the majority. Pennsylvania saw one of the most expensive Senate races in the country this cycle — and McCormick had early backing from national Republican operatives during the state’s GOP primaries. But Casey has deep ties in Pennsylvania, a state where the Senate race played out alongside huge focus from presidential candidates. Casey's campaign on Thursday said it's not conceding yet. Spokesperson Maddy McDaniel wrote in a statement: "As the Pennsylvania Secretary...

Officials in a number of states are responding to reports of racist texts received by residents in the days after the 2024 election. The text language corresponds with the text reportedly received by an employee at ABC affiliate 13News Now in Norfolk, Virginia, which read: "You have been selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation. Be ready at 12 pm sharp with your belongings. Our executive slaves will come get you in a brown van. Be prepared to be searched down once you've enter the plantation. You are in plantation group W." Reports of mass "disparaging" texts were also...

It was a historic comeback. After four years in the political wilderness, former President Donald Trump handily beat Vice President Kamala Harris in an election that will likely see him win all seven swing states, besting the polls while the GOP won a majority in the Senate, and potentially could take the House. Initial results and exit polling tell the story of an American electorate shifting to the right across the board.

It was a beautiful birthday dinner for our Sailor:)Happy Blessed birthday to him! With many more to come!

With the conclusion of the US election, the thrill has set in for half the country: that we have a chance to re-secure our nation and its ideals. The other half of the nation, however, is in shock and even in a state of mourning.Meanwhile, in only two days, the drumbeats of “resistance” from that half of the country have begun to sound: Rep Eric Swalwell encouraged his allies on X not to “Go[...] quietly”. This is dangerously inflammatory language, and it warns of a potential Democratic resistance to a peaceful transfer of power.Insta-marches have begun — as I warned,...