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Felon Tries to Expand Presidential Pardon Power to Free Crooked County Clerk

By Michael Woyton

The convicted felon and adjudicated rapist is trying — unsuccessfully — to pull a fast one.

In a social media post Thursday, Trump wrote that he granted Tina Peters a full pardon “for her attempts to expose Voter Fraud in the Rigged 2020 Presidential Election!”

Peters, as you will recall, was sentenced to prison for nine years in October 2024 on state charges of attempting to influence a public servant, conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, violation of duty and failing to comply with requirements of the secretary of state.

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She was a county clerk in Colorado who provided voting system access to a Mike “Pillowman” Lindell-affiliated expert to try to prove the false claim that Trump lost the 2020 presidential election because of ballot fraud.

The key words about Peters is that she was convicted of “state charges,” not federal charges.

As much as he thinks he is already a monarch with king-like powers the Mar-a-Lago makeup man is not endowed with the ability to pardon someone who has not been convicted of federal charges. It’s in Article II of the Constitution.

Colorado’s Gov. Jared Polis posted on social media that it was a matter for the courts to decide, but added “No President has jurisdiction over state law nor the power to pardon a person for state convictions.”

Colorado Attorney General Philip J. Weiser called Trump’s attempt to pardon Peters “a lawless act” and “an act of intimidation.”

“It has no basis in American law,” he said.

Frankly, if it’s litigated, it would be a total waste of taxpayer money — unless of course the corrupt Supreme Court decides it has the power to rewrite the Constitution.

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This is the way these people need to be confronted and called out for the cruelty they are blithely allowing to happen.

DHS Sec. Kristi Noem was confronted in a congressional hearing Thursday by Rep. Seth Magaziner, D-Rhode Island, with a Purple Heart recipient who had been deported earlier this year.

The congressman asked Noem how many veterans she’s deported and, of course, she lied, saying veterans are not deported.

Noem has to go, and she needs to take ICE with her.

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And if one Trump official getting humiliated in public is good, how about two — on the same day?

Longtime FBI agent Michael Glasheen had more than a bit of trouble answering questions from Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Mississippi, in front of the House Homeland Security Committee hearing Thursday.

Thompson quizzed Glasheen about where in the United States the so-called “domestic terrorist” group antifa is headquartered.

The FBI agent finally managed to say something, which was “We are building out the infrastructure right now.”

Unsurprisingly, when I first watched this video, I said the same thing Thompson then said:

“So what does that mean?”

The back and forth didn’t get any better from that point on.

I’d feel sorry for Agent Glasheen if it wasn’t so obvious that he allowed himself to be set up so easily.

This exchange might very well end up being the first line of his obituary.

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The Enemy of My Enemy … Is Not What You Think

By Michael Woyton

A few women Republican members of Congress have been getting vocal of late, surprisingly, about presidential and congressional leadership.

What has been said, you ask?

Georgia’s Marjorie Taylor Greene was on the TV machine talking about death threats against her family and herself, laying the blame on things that the president has said, and she has accused her party’s leadership of marginalizing GOP women.

And she’s really pissed that the Epstein files haven’t been released.

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Florida’s Anna Pauline Luna is trying to force a House vote on banning stock trading by Congress members and is not pleased that Speaker Mike Johnson is not moving quickly enough on it.

Meanwhile, New York’s Elise “I Wanna Be Governor Now” Stefanik “publicly unloaded” on Johnson, calling him a liar, over an issue in the national defense bill.

And South Carolina’s Nancy “Bathroom Gender Inspector” Mace penned an opinion piece in the New York Times basically saying the problem with Congress not getting anything done is because of, well, the Republicans in Congress.

Mace actually said in her op-ed that “Nancy Pelosi was a more effective House speaker than any Republican this century,” after saying, of course, that Mace agrees with Pelosi on “essentially nothing.”

Is what is happening the beginning of a shift in dynamics for the Grand Ole Party?

I seriously doubt it. You know, leopard and spots, as the saying goes.

Look at the adjudicated rapist and his attitude toward women over the years and, checking notes, as recently as yesterday when he berated yet another woman reporter who dared to ask him a question, which is kinda sorta what reporters do.

ABC News senior political reporter Rachel Scott asked Trump about releasing the full video of the bombing of an alleged drug smuggling boat on Venezuela on Sept. 2.

According to The Independent, the elderly golfer snapped, saying, “You are the most obnoxious reporter in the whole place,” adding that she was a terrible reporter.

That isn’t the first time he’s done that to a woman in her place of business and likely won’t be the last.

Trump has no respect for women — look at his three marriages and the scandals surrounding them. Look at how shaken he seems to be about the Epstein files.

So why should Republican men in Congress treat their women colleagues any different? They are following their leader.

I mean, it’s built into Project 2025, the 900-or-so-page Heritage Foundation handbook for the transition of American democracy to Christian nationalism.

The National Women’s Law Center analyzed the handbook and said that “[a]ttempts to roll back civil rights protections and end the federal government’s efforts to achieve gender justice are embedded throughout the entire plan.”

In the handbook are efforts to limit reproductive rights, penalize unmarried women, gut diversity, equity and inclusion and reduce assistance to low-income families.

These are all designed to harm women, first and foremost, with the bonus being harm to pretty much everyone else.

So how does Johnson react to being called a misogynist by Greene?

He brings his wife to the Katie Miller Podcast — Miller is the wife of ~~Temu Goebbels~~ Stephen Miller, the man running the government while Trump plans a ballroom and hugs his FIFA peace prize — for a sit down chat.

During the interview, Kelly Johnson, the wife, talks about how men are mentally capable of compartmentalizing things and women are not, according to Baptist News Global.

As author Rick Pidcock wrote in his analysis, “Of course, all this is pseudoscientific nonsense.”

He goes on to say, “But a lot of conservatives think it’s fun to imagine men are able to handle pressure and make decisions without being overwhelmed by emotion while that is all too much for women.”

I’ll go even further, a lot of people who call themselves Christians believe that women can only be inferior to men, and that is what this administration is all about.

I don’t believe the likes of Margie Greene, Nancy Mace and Elise Stefanik are ever going to join the Democratic Party.

But I do believe that they see the writing on the walls, that incompetent men have for too long been in charge.

Here’s hoping that conservative people who might just listen to them will come to the realization that, by supporting the convicted felon and the men who will do anything for him, they are working against their best interests.

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Felon Reveals True Self as Racist, Sleepy Grampa

By Michael Woyton

President Donald J. Felon held a cabinet meeting Tuesday in the White House and after a few naps — even while being lavishly praised by his sycophants — he railed against a group of immigrants in Minnesota.

The elderly golfer’s comments came as ICE is ramping up a crackdown in Minneapolis and St. Paul, USA Today reported.

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Referring to the sizable population of Somalis in Minnesota, Trump said, “I don’t want them in my country. Their country is no good for a reason. Their country stinks.”

Way to put a target on a whole bunch of people living in the United States.

He called Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minnesota, “an incompetent person. She’s a real terrible person. She’s garbage.”

The orange Mar-a-Lago makeup man said that the U.S. has to stop taking in “garbage” or the country will “go the wrong way.”

He said Omar and her “friends” are people who do nothing but complain and do nothing for the country in which they live.

Rep. Omar used social media to respond to Trump, calling his obsession with her “creepy.”

She said, “I hope he gets the help he desperately needs,” according to reporting from the BBC.

Local leaders said there are approximately 80,000 people originally from Somalia living in Minneapolis, the vast majority of whom are American citizens.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said he welcomes support in investigating and prosecuting crimes.

“But pulling a PR stunt and indiscriminately targeting immigrants is not a real solution to a problem,” he said.

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Speaking of Gov. Walz, he seems to be living rent free in the MRI-and-cognitive-test-acing leader of the free world’s head.

The adjudicated rapist keeps calling Walz “grossly incompetent” and “retarded.”

I’m pretty confident that Trump specifically picked the R-word because Walz has a son who has a nonverbal learning disorder, along with an anxiety disorder and ADHD.

Yep, in addition to be a full-on racist, Pres. TACO is that cruel.

Walz was asked about the president’s comments on one of the Sunday news shows and said that Trump has “normalized this type of hateful behavior” with the hopes of distracting “from his incompetence.”

Trump’s “retarded” comment didn’t land well with at least one Republican in Indiana and will affect the push to redistrict the state in favor of the president.

Indiana State Senator Michael Bohacek, a Republican, posted on social media that he has a daughter who has Down Syndrome.

“This is not the first time our president has used these insulting and derogatory references and his choice of words have consequences,” he wrote.

Bohacek said he intends to vote no on redistricting.

Oh, and because this is the political climate we currently live in, Bohacek has said his family received bomb threats at their home because of his opposition to the president’s wishes.

And the GOPmagas call the left violent.

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Dems Up Double Digits in Midterms, Marist Survey Says

By Michael Woyton

There’s more bad news for the GOPmagas in Congress with the release of a new poll about the 2026 midterms showing the Democrats with a 14-point advantage.

The NPR/PBS News/Marist Poll found that a majority of registered voters said, if the midterm election was held today, they would support their district’s Democratic candidate for the House of Representatives.

The survey gave Dems a 55 percent lead over the Republicans’ 41 percent. Only 3 percent would back another candidate, and 1 percent were unsure.

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Among voters registered as independents, Democrats received a 61 percent lead over 28 percent of Republicans, Marist said.

This is the first time in more than three years that Democrats were shown to have a notable advantage in a generic ballot poll.

When previously asked in November 2024, voters were divided 48 percent equally.

June of 2022 was the last time the Dems had a noteworthy advantage of 7 percent points.

The Marist poll showed Americans are spreading the blame for the longest government shutdown in history among the Democrats, at 39 percent, President Donald Trump, at 34 percent, and Republicans, at 26 percent.

Trump continues to see his job approval rating slip. It’s now at 38 percent, which is down slightly from 41 percent in September. Fifty-six percent of Americans disapprove of the job he is doing, up from 53 percent previously.

Only 26 percent of Americans said they strongly approve of the job Trump is doing, while 48 percent strongly disapprove, the poll found.

Lowering prices leads the issues Americans believe should be the administration’s priorities — at 57 percent. That is followed, at 16 percent, by controlling immigration, and at 9 percent, by reducing crime.

The NPR/PBS News/Marist Poll was conducted Nov. 10 through Nov. 13. The survey was of 1,443 adults, 18 years of age or older. The margin of error for adults is ±3 points; for registered voters, ±3.1 points.

To see the complete poll, with methodology, go here.

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Some members of Congress who are veterans released a video telling military personnel that they should defy illegal orders.

Watch the video below.

What was President Piggy’s response?

To be clear, the president of the United States is saying that Congress members who are reminding service members of their Constitutional duty should be put to death for treason.

This is not a person who should be anywhere near the Oval Office.

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‘Things Happen,’ Piggy Prez Says About Murdered Journalist

By Michael Woyton

Pres. Donald J. Felon doesn’t seem to be having a good time lately, but the question is whether he realizes it.

It’s almost as if the photo of him walking past an American flag on the ground is symbolic not only of what he’s done to this country but what he’s done and is doing to himself.

The image of the flag lying near the base of an illuminated flag pole on the White House grounds was released Sunday night by Getty Images. It contained the byline “Mandel Ngan/AFP.”

It’s almost as if he is continuing his streak of failures going back to his first bankruptcy.

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And it’s almost as if he doesn’t know what he’s doing and, I don’t know, NEVER SHOULD HAVE BEEN ELECTED PRESIDENT THE FIRST TIME MUCH LESS THE SECOND.

Here are a few recent examples:

He’s having to reduce tariffs on things that have increased in price because he put tariffs on them.

Imports to the United States sharply decreased in August (see the item above).

Margie Q Greene doesn’t love him anymore.

The House voted 427 to 1 to release the Epstein files; the Senate didn’t even bother to vote, saying instead, sure what ev.

A federal court said Trump’s desired Texas redistricting is racial and therefore a no-go.

Turns out when you appoint crappy, but comely lawyers you are not set up for success in prosecuting your political rivals.

Also turns out that when you call a reporter asking a question “Piggy” you end up be portrayed as said pig over and over and over again.

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Here’s Mary Trump’s comments on her uncle name-calling a reporter just doing her job.

The White House issued a statement that basically blamed Bloomberg reporter Catherine Lucey for deserving it. The statement, according to Huffington Post, said, “This reporter behaved in an inappropriate and unprofessional way toward her colleagues on the plane. If you’re going to give it, you have to be able to take.”

What did she ask, you ask?

“If there’s nothing incriminating in the files, sir, what not—”

And that’s where the felon-in-chief pointed his finger at her and said, “Quiet! Quiet, piggy.”

Keeping in classy as usual.

You know what’s also interesting/depressing? I couldn’t find a comment about the name calling from the White House Correspondents’ Association on their website. When are reporters going to stay up for each other? Or are they all afraid of having access taken away from them?

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We all know what Trump thinks of reporters in general.

In an Oval Office meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin “Bonesaw” Salman, the orange adjudicated rapist “angrily dismissed a question about the 2018 murder of Jamal Khashoggi,” the Washington Post columnist.

Trump called Khashoggi “extremely controversial” and said “a lot of people didn’t like that gentleman,” CNN reported.

In spite of the CIA assessing that the Saudi prince “likely ordered the murder,” the elderly golfer insisted bin Salman was not involved in Khashoggi’s brutal murder.

Referring to the Khashoggi, Trump said, “Whether you liked him or didn’t like him, things happen.”

That pretty much says it all.

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Dems Cave on Shutdown — Anyone Surprised?

By Michael Woyton

Pres. George W. Bush once said, “There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.”

Obvious, Shrub hasn’t met the current Democratic Party.

If I were a generous person, I might think that caving in the middle of a government shutdown — over healthcare for millions of Americans and food stamps for millions of Americans — could be a strategy to show the voters that one political party really cares for their constituents and the other only cares for the uber wealthy.

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However, I have no such confidence that there’s a bigger plot ahead and that Senate Minority Leader Charles “Time to Go” Schumer allowed a few members of his caucus to fall on their well-financed swords and vote with the GOPmagas on a bill that would reopen the government.

My gracious, what a sorry situation those of us who lined the streets of the United States in the millions for the recent No Kings protests are seeing for our efforts.

Does anyone think that the party of Trump sycophants was serious in agreeing to a vote on subsidizing the Affordable Care Act?

Did the Democrats really think that THIS was the best deal for which to give in as the government shutdown reached its 40th day, considering all the hardships it has brought?

Sunday night, seven Democratic senators and one independent joined all Republicans except one to advance a bill that would fund the government through January 30 — in exchange for a vote on subsidies for health insurance premiums for Obamacare, the BBC reported.

To emphasize: “in exchange for a vote on” not a “vote for” said subsidies.

And WTF! The government will only be funded through the end of January? Can we assume we’ll have to go through all this BS again at that time?

“A vote on the deal would only be the first procedural step in the new funding agreement,” the BBC reported, “and it would still need to be approved by the US House of Representatives where it is likely to see its own challenges.”

Yeah. One of those challenges is that the House of Representatives isn’t even in session.

The other challenge is that Speaker of still-not-in-session House Mike Johnson has not said whether he will even bother to bring a bill on healthcare subsidies to a vote.

Johnson did, however, suggest House members begin returning to ~~the scene of the crime~~ Washington, D.C. immediately, per ABC News.

He said he will give a 36-hour notice “so that we can vote as soon as possible to pass the amended [continuing resolution] bill and get it to the president’s desk.”

Good luck to all the far-flung Congress members getting back quickly, thanks to the problems with air travel cancellations lately.

Of course, the GOPmagas are all thankful the Dems have come to their senses.

On the other hand, critics of the Democrats’ decision to cave feel the party has lost its mind.

“Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) called it a mistake,” Politico reported. “Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) called it ‘a very bad night’.”

But Rep. Ro Khanna, D-California, was more blunt.

“Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced,” he posted on social media. “If you can’t lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing for Americans, what will you fight for?”

In case you are wondering, Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky voted against advancing the bill, while independent Sen. Angus King and Democratic senators Dick Durbin, Jacky Rosen, John Fetterman, Catherine Cortez Masto, Jeanne Shaheen, Maggie Hassan and Tim Kaine voted in favor of the bill.

If King and the Dems listed above are your senators, you know what to do.

For the rest of us, it’s time to start getting in touch with our representatives.

Here’s how.

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Felon Wants SNAP Recipients To Stay Hungry: This & That

By Michael Woyton

After a judge ruled Thursday that the administration must fully fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program by Friday, Pres. Donald J. Felon did what we all expected him to do.

He had his lawyers appeal the ruling, ABC News reported.

That’s right, the president of the United States wants people who need help buying groceries to continue going without. Plus he doesn’t seem to care that many of those people voted for him.

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The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has asked nonprofits and local governments that filed the original lawsuit to respond by noon, and the president’s lawyers asked the court to issue a ruling by 4 p.m. Friday.

And the GOPmagas still can’t figure out why there was such a rout on Tuesday across the nation.

Voters are finally coming to the conclusion that the grifter-in-chief is not working in the nation’s best interests and is only in it for his benefit.

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Steve Bannon said that if the GOPmagas lose the midterms and the elections in 2028 “some in this room are going to prison, myself included.”

Like that’s a bad thing?

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WTF is wrong with this guy? Seriously, WTF?

Best comment I read on the enterwebs was that this is the way your cat looks at you while you are choking on something.

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The adjudicated rapist continues to lie to Americans that prices on everything are going down and the economy is all hunky and dory.

He even cited as proof Walmart’s promotional Thanksgiving meal basket which is under $40 this year, down from 2024’s price of about $55.

Yes, it’s less … but wait.

Donald TACO isn’t giving us the whole picture.

CNN’s Daniel Dale fact checked Walmart’s offering and found there are significantly fewer items this season than last.

“This year’s basket contains 15 products, six fewer than the 21 products in the 2024 basket. If you’re counting each individual item (like each can of green beans) separately, it’s 22 items this year compared to 29 items last year. In addition, items from Walmart’s “Great Value” store brand make up a greater percentage of this year’s basket than last year’s, which included a larger proportion of name brands,” Dale wrote.

As usual, the devil is in the details.

Among the other findings in the CNN article were the fact that there was a pre-made pecan pie in last year’s basket along with ingredients for a pumpkin pie, and there were both russet potatoes and sweet potatoes last year, but only russets this year.

There’s more in Dale’s article here.

Bottom line: You just can’t believe anything that comes from this administration.

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Dems Turn Out; GOP Says It’s No Big Deal

By Michael Woyton

It was no surprise, after an estimated 7 million people gave up part of a recent weekend to protest on No Kings Day, that politicians and talking heads of the GOPmaga persuasion would down play the meaning.

They called the gatherings “hate rallies” and said the turnout really didn’t mean anything, because those who showed up were just hippies or old people or paid protesters with George Soros-produced signage.

Well, fast forward to Tuesday.

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When the blue wave wouldn’t stop, conservatives rushed to microphones to tell the world that there’s nothing to see here, please move along.

No less than Speaker of the still-not-in-session House Mike Johnson — a man known for saying, “I haven’t heard anything about that” — actually heard about last night’s election results from around the country … and responded with “meh, no biggie.”

Speaking from Capitol Hill Wednesday morning, Johnson took time off from not working to say, “What happened last night is blue states and blue cities voted blue. We all saw that coming.”

He then said “no one should read too much into last night’s election results.”

On CNN, conservative yacker Scott Jennings said the Democrats were “supposed to win” the governor races in New Jersey and Virginia, the Daily Beast reported, and that he hesitated to “overread it.”

He then crowned New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani the leader of the Democratic Party, a comment which elicited scoffing and laughter from other panelists.

The felon-in-chief being the self-effacing man he is took to social media to downplay the turnout and the results and make it all about him.

“TRUMP WASN’T ON THE BALLOT, AND SHUTDOWN, WERE THE TWO REASONS THAT REPUBLICANS LOST ELECTIONS TONIGHT,” he posted, according to ABC News, which added “but not naming the pollsters.”

Regardless of what the red side says about the results, voting rights and election litigator Marc Elias said in his newsletter that it wasn’t time to pop the champagne yet.

“History has taught us that this is precisely when Donald Trump is most dangerous — and when Republicans turn to voter suppression, election subversion and worse. With the 2026 midterm elections less than a year away, Trump is already plotting his next moves,” he wrote.

Among the things we need to be prepared for are Republican claims of voting fraud, trying to ban mail-in and early voting, extreme gerrymandering and asking the courts to legitimize their actions.

Elias stressed that the legacy media, with its “both-sides” coverage, is not standing up to Trump’s authoritarian power grabs and will not protect free and fair elections.

“I don’t know how else to say it, except to repeat what I wrote a year ago: We are on our own,” he wrote.

Elias’s conclusion is that, while last night was a big win, the work continues.

And I, for one, hope “the work” includes urging any reticent senators and congress members to stop being weak-kneed and start working in the country’s best interest.

I’m looking at you Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries.

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Felon Decides Starving Americans Is Good Policy

By Michael Woyton

I wrote Monday that Pres. Donald J. Felon was once again going to ignore what the courts said and his administration was only going to send out about half of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program funds.

Well, it turns out that today — Tuesday — his highness is going to completely ignore the court’s order.

According to CBS News, Trump posted on social media that SNAP benefits “will be given only when the Radical Left Democrats open up government, which they can easily do, and not before!”

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Basically, the grifter-in-chief is punishing people who need help because he wants to give more money to the ultra rich who sure as hell don’t need it and he wants to kick people off of health care by making it much more expensive.

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I also mentioned Speaker of the still-not-in-session House Mike Johnson’s inability to know anything about anything yesterday.

CNN aired clips of his biggest “hits.”

If ignorance is bliss, Johnson must be so very blissful.

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Felon to Make Only Partial SNAP Payments; Says He Does Know Pardoned Billionaire

By Michael Woyton

The lawless administration of Pres. Donald J. Felon has made another move to ignore the judiciary.

Despite being ordered to makes payments to people who receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program funds, or SNAP, the administration said it will only make partial payments to the approximately 42 million Americans who receive food stamps, the New York Times reported.

The plan to ignore what a judge has ordered was revealed in a court filing Monday.

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In what can be best described as a “let them eat cake” strategy, the grifter-in-chief, only hours before the Nov. 1 deadline to send out SNAP benefits, sent photos Friday of his refurbished White House bathroom, complete with expensive marble and fixtures, to social media and then headed down to his Palm Beach country club to host a Great Gatsby-themed costume party, MSNBC said.

And if the administration only pays out about half what United States residents get each month, keep in mind that recipients only receive an average of $187 a month per person, according to NPR.

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I’m sure everyone who is clamoring for Pres. Joe Biden to be investigated for not actually signing with his actual hand the pardons he issued before he left office in January — yes, AutopenGate — will be clamoring for the elderly Florida golfer to be investigated for not knowing who Changpeng Zhao is, but pardoning him anyway.

On “60 Minutes” Sunday, Trump said, “I don’t know who he is,” when asked by interviewer Nora O’Donnell about the billionaire founder of a cryptocurrency exchange who pleaded guilty to money laundering and whose company is involved with the Trump family’s crypto venture, the Times reported.

Well, at least he didn’t call Zhao “the coffee boy.”

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Speaking of “60 Minutes,” Speaker of the still-not-in-session House Mike Johnson was asked, since he was critical of Biden using the autopen, whether it was concerning that the adjudicated rapist said he didn’t know who Trump-pardoned Changpeng Zhao was.

Johnson gave the answer he seems to have about myriad happenings in America: “I don’t know anything about that.”

He’s either the dumbest human being ever to hold the office of speaker of the House or a Christian who cannot for the love of his god tell the truth.

In any event, I sincerely hope who ever runs against him in the midterms puts together a campaign ad of Johnson saying “I don’t know anything about that” over and over and over.

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More bad numbers for the Makeup Man of Mar-a-Lago.

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