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Vanity- Trump and team do not make many mistakes...but can some one explain/simplify something for me? He has chosen already for certain positions in his administration GOP members of the House (Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL), Rep. Elise Stefanik (NY), Rep. Lee Zeldin (NY))...and yet the GOP "majority" in the House is going to be super thin. What is going on here? Do the governors of these states pick the replacement...new election...does the party pick? Probably different for every state. Even Elon Musk has raised this as a serious concern.

New Jersey’s recent earthquake indicated new seismic risks in the densely populated Northeast due to previously unknown faults. Credit: SciTechDaily.com A recent earthquake in New Jersey displayed unusual seismic activity and shaking patterns, impacting areas much farther than expected. Research indicates it happened on an unmapped fault, challenging existing models of earthquake risk in the region. On April 5th, 2024, a magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck northern New Jersey’s Tewksbury township, triggering widespread alarm. Although the region occasionally experiences small tremors, this was the largest since 1884, when an earthquake of approximately magnitude 5 struck under the seabed off Brooklyn. According...

If you’ve spent any time online over the past four days, you’ve probably seen internet users thirsting over Gavin Newsom. But if you chose to crawl into a hole after Tuesday’s election, I will sum up the posts for you: Gavin Newsom is an evil sociopath and he’s hot and he hates Republicans so he must run for president. The reason for this unabashed yearning is, of course, that Donald Trump is the president-elect. Again. How catastrophic his second term will be is still unclear. What is clear, though, is that Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party suffered...

Kamala Harris's campaign has been accused of spending millions of dollars on paying celebrities to endorse her. An account on X, formerly Twitter, known for sharing political news with a right-wing tilt, claimed that the Harris campaign spent $20 million on celebrity endorsements, including to Megan Thee Stallion, Lizzo, Eminem and Oprah Winfrey.

South Dakota Governor Kristi Norm has been rumored as the next Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The former frontrunner to be Donald Trump’s running mate is being reported by CNN based on “two people familiar with the selection.” Until we hear it from Trump, it’s only a rumor. According to CNN: Noem, who previously was a South Dakota representative, will now be tasked with overseeing a sprawling agency that oversees everything from US Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement to the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the US Secret Service. Noem had once been...

1. Chris Christie-Official White House Food Tester President Trump has already had two assassination attempts on his life. Someone needs to test his food before he eats it. 2. Elon Musk-Head of NASA In addition to his duties as Czar of Deregulation and Federal Government Audit, Musk would head NASA 3. Tom Hanks, P.Diddy & Opra Winfrey-Taskforce to the President on Preventing Child Trafficking 4. Anthony Scaramucci-Special Envoy to the Isle of Mann 5. Robert Dinero-Deputy Secretary to HHS overseeing Nursing Home Fall Prevention Regulations 6. George Clooney-Ambassador to Western Siberia 7. Whoopi Goldberg-Ambassador to Lebanon 8. Sunny Hostin-Deputy Dept...

It’s hard to know just how much of the country hates Donald Trump. The easy answer is about half. But that’s probably wrong. Much less than half of the country voted against him last week and it would be a mistake to think that every one of those Americans hates the man. Surely a significant portion of Harris-Walz voters made their decisions simply because they either like Democratic policies or oppose the Republican agenda. If so, it would seem that Trump has an opportunity to unify a bitterly divided nation. Still, there’s an angry, petty and vocal faction on the...

An election conspiracy theory is spreading on social media alleging that billionaire Elon Musk hacked the 2024 election in favor of President-elect Donald Trump using his Starlink satellite internet company. Left-wing conspiracy theorists allege that Starlink, a satellite constellation developed by Musk's SpaceX designed to provide high-speed broadband internet across the globe, was connected to the voting machine supply chain. In 2020, right-wing conspiracy theories nearly upended the peaceful transfer of power after President Joe Biden's victory over then-President Trump. These false claims, some amplified by Trump leading up to the Capitol riots on January 6, 2021, were widely condemned...

*Americans had the opportunity to elect Kamala Harris. And we had failed to live up to her. *[A]s Michelle Obama told us, we were not good enough for her. *Perhaps one day we will be. And Harris, along with Hillary Clinton, can wait in the wings, sipping chardonnay and listening to selections from Oprah Winfrey's book club until we show that we are ready for them to finally come and save us from ourselves. Decades may pass. Even centuries. But surely one day Americans will finally be ready for a completely inept president. *Herds of angry liberals wander the aisles...

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace claimed on Monday’s broadcast of “Deadline” that President-elect Donald Trump did not understand the power of the federal government even though he won a mandate in the presidential election. Wallace said, “It requires us to pull another layer off the onion. I mean, Trump won the popular vote. Trump has a mandate to do whatever he wants. Trump just has to be one inch shy of his worst impulses and he soars into Washington, really, with the mandate.” She continued, “I mean, I think it reveals a deeper phenomenon, I think, that one, he still doesn’t...

President Trump and his band of hyper-talented hero/associates have won a decisive victory over the Progressive/Deep State/Media/Intelligence Agency Machine. Trump and allies need to convert the tactical victory into a long term strategic victory. They need to restore the Republic, eviscerate the administrative state, and start the road back to public trust in our institutions. To do this, they have to restore a healthy economy and a fear of America’s might by our enemies abroad. Three terms of President Barack Obama’s vision for a fractured, divisive, wounded and emasculated America has done a great deal of damage to the nation’s...

The aftermath of President-elect Donald Trump’s decisive election victory last week has offered a window into the mental health struggles of Americans many of whom have been showcasing their personal meltdowns publicly via social media for the past few days. Now a Yale psychiatrist Dr. Amanda Calhoun is advising MSNBC viewers to break off ties with family members who refused to vote for Kamala Harris and to tell them why they are being shunned. Calhoun was a guest on MSNBC host Joy Reid’s program in response to a report that calls to crisis centers from LGBT youth had spiked by...

Thought it might be nice to have a general chat thread here. If Mr. Jim Robinson does not object, I will spin one up most days. (I don't sleep much so will spin one up about 5 or 6 am Eastern most day -- again only if Mr. Robinson does not object.)

BAKU, Azerbaijan — U.S. climate envoy John Podesta urged governments to keep faith in the country’s promise to combat global warming, saying President-elect Donald Trump can slow, not stop, the transition from fossil fuels when he returns to office in January. “For those of us dedicated to climate action, last week’s outcome in the United States is obviously bitterly disappointing,” Podesta said at the summit. “But what I want to tell you today is that while the United States federal government, under Donald Trump, may put climate action on the back burner, the work to contain climate change is going...

Venezuela lost its final glacier this year. The Greenland Ice Sheet is losing, on average, 30 million tons of ice per hour. Ice loss from the Thwaites Glacier, also known as the “Doomsday” glacier because its collapse could precipitate rapid Antarctic ice loss, may be unstoppable. These are just a few of the stark findings from more than 50 leading snow and ice scientists, which are detailed in a new report from the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative. The report summarizes the state of snow and ice in 2024: In short, experts agree, it’s been a horrible year for the frozen...

For years, reforming the Constitution has been a misguided conservative issue. Downplaying the danger of a runaway convention, impatient conservatives have campaigned to ask the states to call a Constitutional Convention (Con-Con) to consider reforms and amendments that might address their many legitimate concerns. Now, leftists are appearing on the reform horizon, calling for major constitutional changes. One impatient leftist is Prof. Erwin Chemirinsky, dean of the Law School at the University of California, Berkeley. His new book, No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States, goes beyond reform and calls for scrapping the Constitution altogether. He...

As Israel continues to hunt down and eliminate terrorists of Hamas and Hezbollah, an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon just eliminated Salim Jamil Ayyash, a notorious Hezbollah assassin responsible for the death of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri. Meanwhile, the IDF also intercepted a ballistic missile over the weekend launched by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels of Yemen. As drone strikes and missiles become more and more frequent, is Iran looking to unleash another chapter of their Ring of Fire? Watch now!

Prosecutors are seeking prison time for five members of a Texas family arrested for roles in the U.S. Capitol breach. In new court filings, the Justice Department recommends one month in prison for Dawn and Thomas Munn, and 21-day prison sentences for three of the couple's adult children. The Munn family, of Borger, Texas, has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge, acknowledging they spent nearly an hour inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, including time in a private Senate conference room. Members of the family are accused of bragging about their roles on Jan. 6, or of misrepresenting the...

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The word 'preposterous' seems like it was created to describe Kamala Harris. Her run in the 2020 Democrat primary was preposterous. Being chosen as Biden's running mate was preposterous. Her tenure as VP with the relentless word salads and the consistent incompetence was preposterous. Her becoming the nominee of the Democrat party despite not having a single primary vote was preposterous. Her campaign for the presidency was preposterous. You may have assumed that the end of her ill-fated campaign would be the end of this absurdity, but you are wrong. Yesterday on one of CNN's Sunday Morning news shows, a...