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National Cake Day
National Good-bye Cream Day (See 1968)
Meme Du Jour
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1789 – George Washington declared a day of Thanksgiving in honor of the Constitution
1863 – The first national celebration of Thanksgiving
1901 – The 45.52 carat Hope diamond is brought to New York City
1922 – Archeologists enter King Tut’s tomb (Were they cursed?)
1942 – “Casablanca” premiered (The greatest American film of the 20th Century?)
1949 – India becomes a sovereign Democratic Republic
1957 – President Eisenhower suffers a minor stroke
1968 – The rock band Cream (Clapton, Bruce, Baker) played their last concert
1975 – Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme is found guilty of trying to kill President Ford
1979 – Venezuela discovers is has as much oil underground as OPEC
1983 – Almost 6800 gold bars were stolen from London’s Heathrow Airport
1996 – The Sands Hotel in Las Vegas was imploded to make room for the Venetian
2000 – George W. Bush is certified as the winner of Florida’s electoral votes and the winner of the Presidential election
News and The Politics out of D.C.
CLIPS
– FEDERAL JUDGE DISMISSES JACK SMITH’S CASES AGAINST TRUMP
– PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP’S STATEMENT ON THE DISMISSALS
– FASTEST HOUSE DEM, DAN GOLDMAN PRINTED TO CNN TO WHINE ABOUT IT
– JONATHAN TURLEY CALLED THIS A YEAR AGO – HE REMINDED US YESTERDAY
– NBC NEWS BROKE INTO REGULAR PROGRAMMING WITH THE NEWS
– ABC NEWS ALSO CUT IN (CAN’T WAIT TO SEE “THE VIEW’S” REACTION)
– MSNBC CAN’T HANDLE THE DISMISSALS
– COL ALLEN WEST ON TRANS IN MILITARY (AN EPIC CLIP)
– BORDER BOSS TOM HOMAN HAS WORDS FOR DENVER’S MAYOR
– HOMAN IS NOT AFRAID TO ARREST THE MAYOR
– RAND PAUL SAYS DENVER MAYOR BLOCKING FED DEPORTATIONS = INSURRECTION
– McCONNELL ASKED ABOUT 2026 RUN — WHY IS HE STILL IN OFFICE TODAY?
– BIDEN’S BIZARRE TURKEY PARDON EVENT
– ANYONE ELSE EXCITED ABOUT OUR NEXT FDA HEAD, DR MARTY MAKARY?
– MISSING JAMES CARVILLE’S EXPLETIVE-LADEN RANTS? WELL, HE’S BACK!
– THIS IS TASTY – AXIOS CEO MELTS DOWN OVER RISE OF CITIZEN JOURNALISM
– CNN PANEL IS FREAKING OUT ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF ELON MUSK BUYING MSNBC
– WALL STREET LOVED TRUMP’S PICK FOR TREASURY SEC
MORE NEWS OUT OF DC
– WHAT TIME IS IT IN MEXICO, CANADA AND CHINA? IT’S TARIFF TIME!
MSNBC LEGAL ANALYST SAYS TRUMP COULD BE PROSECUTED IN 2029
– TRUMP HAS ENDORSED SOMEONE TO FILL MATT GAETZ SEAT IN THE HOUSE
– EX-REP MONDAIRE JONES ON CNN GETS IT RIGHT ABOUT AG GARLAND BEING AWFUL
– FORMER DOJ ASST AG JEFF CLARK BREAKS DOWN THE JACK SMITH DISMISSAL
– UK AND FRANCE TALKING ABOUT SENDING TROOPS TO UKRAINE IF THE US PULLS OUT
Trolling
General News
MENENDEZ BROTHERS TOGETHER IN COURT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN DECADES
CHICAGO POLITICIAN HAS A POST-WRECK ENCOUNTER WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT
UTAH CULLS 100,000 TURKEYS AS BIRD FLU IS SURGING AGAIN
FDA RECALLS 70,000 POUNDS OF READY-TO-EAT CHICKEN AND PORK PRODUCTS
– READ THE LIST OF PRODUCTS (YUM YUM, GIVE ME MORE ‘SEASONED PORK SNOUT’)
WALMART SAYS BYE-BYE-BYE TO DEI
ARE ILLEGALS LESS LIKELY TO COMMIT CRIMES? THE FACTS SAY NO
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER ODD INTERVIEW FROM THE ‘WICKED’ CAST
Other News Catching My Eye
88% OF GEN Z USING A-I TO DO THEIR WORK
THE COST OF THANKSGIVING THIS YEAR VS 2019
INTERACTIVE MAP SHOWS COUNTRIES WHERE TRIGGERED DEMS WANT TO MOVE
PORCH PIRATES ARE USING A NEW TECHNIQUE TO STEAL YOUR PACKAGE
COULD IT BE TRUE? ALMOST EVERYONE HAS SEEN ‘BLUE MAN GROUP?’
SOUTH KOREAN MAN CONVICTED OF TRYING TO GAIN WEIGHT TO AVOID MILITARY SERVICE