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Sen. Bill Hagerty Drops Truth Bombs and Obliterates MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell’s Every Left-Wing Narrative

In a must-see appearance on MSNBC, Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) went toe-to-toe with Andrea Mitchell, dismantling her far-left narratives with a calm yet relentless barrage of facts.

The former U.S. Ambassador to Japan and staunch Trump ally delivered a masterclass in exposing the weaponization of the Department of Justice (DOJ) and highlighting the hypocrisy of the left-wing media.

Mitchell, attempting to corner Hagerty on the controversial nomination of Matt Gaetz as Attorney General, found herself struggling to keep up as Hagerty systematically dismantled her talking points.

Addressing Gaetz’s nomination, Hagerty didn’t shy away from defending Trump’s bold decision, tying the move directly to the American public’s frustration with the DOJ’s politicization.

Andrea Mitchell:
What is your reaction to Matt Gaetz as Attorney General? Right now, would you support him?

Bill Hagerty:
Listen, Andrea, it’s amazing to me that people are reacting the way they are to what you just showed, because there has been no one better at channeling the American public’s frustration with the weaponization of the Department of Justice than Matt Gaetz. You can understand the President’s frustration with the DOJ.

During his first campaign, they used a fake Clinton dossier to spy on him. Look at what happened in the first Trump administration—this whole fake Russiagate hoax. The DOJ litigated him for years over that.

In 2020, the DOJ went to big tech and had them censor Hunter Biden’s laptop to throw the election toward Joe Biden. Think about what just happened in 2024: the DOJ, with their colleagues around the country, brought five different cases to try President Biden’s top opponent, President Trump. I can understand his frustration in wanting to put an agent of change in place. I’m not surprised at all.

Andrea Mitchell:
I don’t want to litigate everything that happened with Donald Trump because there’s a lot of evidence to support many of the allegations and, in fact, the indictments—Mar-a-Lago, the sloppy intelligence handling.

Bill Hagerty:
I think the American public spoke louder than anybody. They gave him the strongest mandate we’ve seen in 36 years in reaction to all of this.

Andrea Mitchell:
But a Trump-appointed judge cut all of that off, and it wasn’t fully vetted. Let’s just say that was the legal system at work, no question.

Bill Hagerty:
It was not working. It was weaponized.

Mitchell attempted to pivot, bringing up allegations against Gaetz. But Hagerty didn’t flinch, pointing out the media’s fixation on unproven accusations while ignoring the DOJ’s overreach.

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Let Them Eat ‘Prison Sandwiches’: Is This Why Kamala Lost Wisconsin?

In an effort to make Kamala Harris more relatable while she ran for president, her campaign attempted to play up this whole “foodie” persona she supposedly possesses. Her run was such a s**t show, however, that you may have missed it.  

“Her passion for food runs deep,” Bon Appetit said in an article published on its site called “Kamala Harris’s Passion for Food Goes Beyond Politics.”  In an article on Eater.com, the headline reads, “Most politicians fumble when it comes to food. Could Kamala Harris be the exception?” followed by a picture of the vice president flipping burgers on a grill. 

Vogue published an article in October titled “Why It Matters That Kamala Can Cook” and then excitedly wrote about how Harris dry brines her turkey, isn’t afraid of a little bacon grease, and will probably write a cookbook when she’s in office. A September MSNBC headline read “Hail to the chef? Kamala Harris is locking down Food Network voters,” and the website Food Politics published an orgasmic piece called “Kamala Harris is a foodie? Who knew?” 

We saw her make strategic stops at restaurants throughout her campaign, falsely claim she was the first vice president to grow chili peppers (Thomas Jefferson did it first), and then there was that whole awkward exchange about “white guy tacos” with her bizarro pick for vice president, Tim Walz. 

But according to a story published in the New York Post Wednesday night, it seems like the Harris campaign should have turned its focus on food away from what Kamala cooks to what it served the voters who they were vying for in Wisconsin — because the difference is quite stark. 

A union tradesman who spoke to the Post said that an out-of-state group campaigning for the vice president came to Racine County in October, where over 400 workers were building a data center for Microsoft, and served a lackluster lunch while droning on about how Donald Trump is bad. “Prison sandwiches” — that’s what he called them.  

“A co-worker told me that he was working at Racine County Correctional … close to this job site … and he witnessed the inmates making those exact lunches for the other inmates,” the man told the Post. The meal consisted of sandwiches made from a single slice of ham and stale bread, accompanied by a “tiny apple” and chips. That’s hardly a decent meal for a hardworking tradesman.   

The man wasn’t sure who funded the meals, but he assumed it was the Harris campaign. And as we all know by now, the campaign was too busy paying celebrities to show up at rallies to put any of its billion-dollar campaign money into courting the voters who actually mattered. 

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Someone Finally Tells Nancy Pelosi What the Rest of Us Are Thinking. Who It Is Will Surprise You.

When Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman first came on the national scene, I can’t say I was impressed. Granted, the majority of Democrats in office these days don’t impress me, but he seemed extra unimpressive. Lately, however, I’ve gained a little bit of respect for the man. 

Nancy Pelosi hasn’t been making a lot of friends in the Democrat Party lately after throwing Joe Biden under the bus. Last week, while appearing on a New York Times podcast, she blamed the president, who she essentially forced to drop out and stop his reelection bid, for costing Democrats the 2024 presidential election. “Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race,” she said, adding that the plan was for there to be an open primary, but Biden endorsed Kamala Harris before anyone could stop him. 

Some Dems have had little disputes with her here and there over the matter, but Fetterman didn’t mince words today when he called Pelosi out for trying to “have it both ways” in an interview with Politico. But he didn’t stop there. He also suggested that it’s high time for 84-year-old Pelosi to step aside and let a new generation of Democrats take over.  

People like Pelosi, she really tried to — what’s the word I’m looking for? — she embraced this ‘she’s the godmother, she’s the enforcer.’ And now she’s blaming Biden. Well, you can’t have it both ways. You got what you wanted, and now you’re still blaming Biden. I think it’s really ironic that you have a woman at age 84 and she is still hanging on. Why not give a younger generation an opportunity to occupy that seat?

Finally, someone was brave enough to say the quiet part out loud. Look, I’m not an ageist. I, like most of the country, just voted for a 78-year-old man for president. But Pelosi has been in politics since long before I was born, and she’s been a congresswoman since 1987. She literally just won re-election yet again this year with over 81% of the vote in her congressional district. Who the hell is voting for her? I’ve never been to this district myself, and I’m kind of glad because I don’t think I ever want to be surrounded by 261,797 people who think she’s a good idea. 

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CNN Freaks Out Over Trump Making RFK Jr. HHS Chief

CNN freaked out over President-elect Donald Trump making RFK Jr. Secretary of Health and Human Services, with Jake Tapper accusing Kennedy of engaging in “quackery”.

Announcing Kennedy would head up the post on Truth Social, Trump asserted that it was a victory for Americans who have been “crushed by the industrial food complex and drug companies.”

Trump added that Kennedy “will restore these Agencies to the traditions of Gold Standard Scientific Research, and beacons of Transparency, to end the Chronic Disease epidemic, and to Make America Great and Healthy Again!”

This caused heads to explode at CNN, with Tapper raging that RFK was “somebody who has been pushing quackery, who has been pushing lies, who has been pushing conspiracy theories.”

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Trump’s Hegseth Caper and the Delusion of ‘Peace Through Strength’

Well, you can say this much about the Donald’s off-the-wall pick of Fox’s weekend news commentator, Pete Hegseth, for Secretary of Defense: At least it wasn’t a hard-core neocon like House Armed Services Chair Mike Rogers (R-Ala), Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) or the horrid Senator Tom Cotten of Arkansas. Better a cheerleader for patriotism and valorization of the military than war-mongering interventionists like those three blemishes on the Republican brand.

Well, maybe. Yet what this insensible pick also shows, if any more proof is needed, is that Donald Trump is a clueless, lightweight political demagogue who has no intention of bringing the Empire Home. Nor does he have the remotest chance of making the American economy great again. That’s because if you don’t dismantle the war machine and slash the hideously bloated national security budget by upwards of $500 billion per year, the already debt-saturated US economy is going to be KO’d by an exploding public debt.

For want of doubt, however, here is the Donald’s rationale for selecting a guy to run the $1 trillion/2.9 million employee Pentagon who has never managed anything bigger than a household of three successive wives and the accumulation of seven kids:

“Nobody fights harder for the Troops, and Pete will be a courageous and patriotic champion of our ‘Peace through Strength’ policy… Pete has spent his entire life as a Warrior for the Troops, and for the Country… With Pete at the helm, America’s enemies are on notice – Our Military will be Great Again, and America will Never Back Down.

What unmitigated breast-beating rubbish!

For crying out loud, the last thing America needs is another Warrior for the Troops. Instead, what it really needs is a Fearless Slayer of the sacred cows and obese pigs of the military/industrial complex who gorge themselves at the Pentagon’s trough.

Likewise, the pointless, costly Forever Wars stem from too much of the false “strength” of a globe-spanning War Machine that thrives upon inventing enemies, exaggerating threats to national security and provoking conflicts. We are referring, for instance, to the Washington-funded and orchestrated coup in Ukraine during February 2014 that deposed a duly-elected, Russia-friendly President and fostered the hellacious civil war now raging in Ukraine.

The fact is, the very slogan “peace through strength” is a vestigial relic of the Cold War. In today’s world it is utterly irrelevant because subsequent to the Soviet Union’s disappearance into the dustbin of history there remains no rival military superpower which poses a remote threat to the liberty and security of the American homeland. In the year 2024 America doesn’t need “strength” to deter hostile like-sized enemies because, well, there are none.

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The Second Resistance Movement: Why the Campaign Against Trump This Time Is Different

The single most common principle of recovery programs is that the first step is to admit that you have a problem.

That first step continues to elude the politicians and pundits who unsuccessfully pushed lawfare and panic politics for years. That includes prosecutors like New York Attorney General Letitia James and politicians like Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, who affirmed this week that they will be redoubling, not reconsidering, their past positions.

For its part, The Washington Post quickly posted an editorial titled “The second resistance to Trump must start now.” They may, however, find the resistance more challenging both politically and legally this time around.

It is important to note at the outset that there is no reason Democratic activists should abandon their values just because they lost this election. Our system is strengthened by passionate and active advocacy.

Rather, it is the collective fury and delirium of the post-election protests that was so disconcerting. Pundits lashed out at the majority of voters, insisting that the election established that half of the nation is composed of racists, misogynists or domination addicts who long to submit to tyranny.

Others blamed free speech and the fact that social media allows “disinformation” to be read by ignorant voters. In other words, the problem could not possibly be themselves. It was, rather, the public, which refused to listen.

That does not bode well for the Democratic Party. As someone raised in a liberal politically active family in Chicago, I had hoped for greater introspection after this election blowout.

Ordinarily, recovery can begin with “a terrible experience” when someone hits rock bottom.

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Leftists Melt Down As Biden Is Nice To Trump During White House Welcome

President elect Trump visited the White House Wednesday and Joe Biden was actually nice to him, something rabid TDS carriers couldn’t handle.

Trump thanked Biden for facilitating a smooth transition.

Biden was cordial. 

Surprising given the fact that he called Trump a threat to Democracy for four years.

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Woman Accused of Murdering Dad With Ice Ax Over Election Married to Transgender Author, MSNBC, CNN, Daily Beast Contributor

New details have emerged concerning a Seattle woman’s suspected murder of her father on Election Night, including a clearer picture of how the killing unfolded and revelations about the woman and her prominent transgender author partner.

According to The Daily Mail, Corey Burke, 33, who police claim killed her 67-year-old father Timothy Burke with an ice ax in their $800,000 home last Tuesday after a disagreement over house lights, was a “power lesbian” who worked as a training program manager for Jeff Bezos’ space exploration company Blue Origin.

The Mail has more grisly details behind the murder, to which Burke reportedly confessed:

After emerging from the house with blood ‘dripping’ down her face, she confessed to police that she ‘freaked out,’ claiming there was ‘something important about Election Day.’ 

Burke reportedly told detectives that ‘she knew that she could not convince her father to keep the lights off’, so went upstairs and retrieved the murder weapon. 

She then tripped her father and strangled him before attacking him with the ice axe. 

Burke then bit him and hit him several times in the head and side with the blunt and sharp ends of the ice axe, cops say.  His body was found in the basement. 

Burke claimed she knew the killing ‘needed to happen today,’ according to a police report.

She allegedly told police she had to bite her father while choking him because ‘he was too strong.’ Burke added that she felt better once her father ‘went limp.’ 

Burke also told police that as her father labored to breathe after the attack, ‘the defendant sat next to him until he stopped breathing.’ 

The Mail reports the day after the murder Burke whispered, “I killed him,” to an officer and that she’d described killing her father “was really hard, really fu****g hard,” adding “there were points where she felt she wasn’t going to be able to.”

She also mentioned something about wanting to help people “change their attachment to their parents.”

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Trump Taps Pro-Marijuana Legalization Congressman Matt Gaetz For U.S. Attorney General

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) is President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to serve as the next U.S. attorney general—a selection that would put one of the only GOP members of Congress who actively supports and voted for marijuana legalization into the nation’s top law enforcement position.

As Trump works to put together his cabinet, the choice of Gaetz stands out as one of the most positive signals that the state-level cannabis marketplace will not be impeded under his administration. And it also bodes well for the ongoing Biden administration-led marijuana rescheduling effort that Trump has endorsed.

Gaetz was one of three Republican members of the House to approve a Democratic-led bill to federally legalize marijuana, titled the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act in 2022. He also supported a prior version of the legislation despite his concerns with equity-focused provisions.

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