Trump's Former CDC Chief Suggests US Origin for COVID: 'Can't Prove That' COVID-19 was "intentionally engineered as a part of a biodefense program" by the U.S., former CDC director Robert Redfield claimed. 11/18/2024 - 10:18 pm | View Link
‘Who the f--k is this guy?’: Defense world reacts to Trump’s surprise Pentagon pick President-elect Donald Trump’s Tuesday night surprise pick of a conservative commentator and television host as his Pentagon chief shocked ... “Who the fuck is this guy?” ... 11/12/2024 - 2:35 pm | View Link
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Trump’s nominee to run the DEA has withdrawn from consideration after MAGAt lawmakers objected to him (you'll love this) for enforcing COVID restrictions seriously during the height of the pandemic in 2020. Via HuffPost:
Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister, a Florida Republican, said in a statement Tuesday that he had decided to drop out after the “gravity of this very important responsibility set in.”
“To have been nominated to serve as Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration is the honor of a lifetime,” Chronister said in a statement.
I don’t know why any Democrat would allow President Joe Biden’s pardon of son Hunter to turn into any kind of controversy. Even if they disagree with the decision, any media discussion about it only distracts from the cabinet of unqualified horrors Trump wants to put in charge of life-and-death departments.
As we know, Pete Hegseth has some big problems with his nomination to head up the Defense Department, what with the out-of-control drinking, a rape accusation, and financial mismanagement that left his veterans organization broke. Things are so bad, they're doing an interview today (on Fox News. Not like a real interview!) to try to rescue his nomination.
Above, Kon Kan performs, I Beg Your Pardon. Yeah, we have something to say about Our Failed Political Press ™ and the Puritopians' latest obsession.
Lucien Truscott asks, High Road? What fucking high road?"
No More Mister Nice Blog ties the pardon to the Hegseth nomination and concludes they are related in a way.
Juanita Jean's wants to get out the flame thrower.
Notus wants to know what about everyone else's pardons.
Bonus Track: Colossal has photographs from the Northern Lights Photography contest.
The media is currently clutching its pearls over President Joe Biden’s decision to pardon his son, Hunter, saying President-elect Donald Trump will use Biden’s act of clemency to justify bad pardons once he takes office again.
Politico declared Biden’s pardon “a rich gift to those who want to blow up the justice system as we know it,” while The New York Times said Biden’s act “will inevitably muddy the political waters as Mr.