Drudge Retort: Recent Comments

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** The most shady shenanigans are through non-public company World Liberty Financial Inc (WLFI) which issues its own alt-coin $WLFI:
www.youtube.com - Trump pardon of billionaire (Changpeng Zhao / Binance) sparks concerns (60 Minutes video: 14min)

Zhao is now citizen of UAE. Despite being the largest crypto exchange, the location of Binance HQ is unknown, after being kicked out of China, Japan, Singapore and UK.

Justin Sun, owner of BitTorrent and founder of TRON blockchain and TRX crypto and USDD stablecoin, provided initial outside stake of $75M in WLFI in 2024, and has bought more since. In February 2025, SEC has suddenly dropped lawsuit brought against Sun for illegal sale, fraud and market manipulation of unregistered securities.

How crypto laundromats work:

www.icij.org - Crypto giants moved billions linked to money launderers, drug traffickers and North Korean hackers - 2025-11-17

www.icij.org - From Dubai to Toronto, inside the crypto-to-cash storefronts fueling money laundering's new frontier - 2025-11-17

www.icij.org - The Russian crypto guru's Hollywood gambit - 2025-11-17

www.icij.org - From trading bans to total embrace, a global guide to crypto regulation | Governments are struggling to rein in a volatile industry worth more than $3 trillion - 2025-11-17

www.icij.org - Kyrrex exploited technology and shell companies while serving suspected fraudsters and pro-Russian military activists - 2025-11-20
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Posted by CutiePie at 2025-11-20 04:56 AM | Reply

BTW, Trump Media CTO is Vladimir Novachki, a Macedonian who is in the US on H-1B visa requested by Trump. He already cashed in more than $1.25M and has shares valued about $5M at current stock price.
www.propublica.org -

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#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-11-17 05:22 PM
Ha... losing money in the Casino bidness was good training for losing money in the media bidness.

Mistake #1 - thinking that DJT/Trump Media is a "media business"
Mistake #2 - thinking that Trump and his cronies are "losing money"

Only the stupid "investors" who, for some reason, keep betting on Trump "brand" as if it ever paid off for outsiders, lose money by financing Trump's scams.

TMTG was never meant to be profitable - it's just another vehicle to draw/launder money from and increase the circle of Don's "affiliates" for other [scam] ventures - DJT's revenue for last 12 months was puny $3.6M; the 2024 salary and 'bonus' of figurehead CEO Devin Nunes alone was $1.6M and his other comp. was valued at >$44M when fully vested.

Trump Media Stock Crashing Hard... Donald Trump's social network, Truth Social, is on life support.

Whoever wrote this doesn't understand financial 'anatomy of the scam' - stock is crashing not because company is "losing money" or is "unlikely to make a profit" but because the value of the stock is tied to the value of crypto bought with invested and/or borrowed cash. But with more than $150M in cash + $2.5B in [crypto] assets it will take a long time to die even as crypto keeps crashing, so company is dying all right, but is hardly "on life support" yet - still years and a lot of money to burn / drain from people who think they invested in a rising brand.

That's what "Bitcoin/crypto treasury" companies are all about - they are 'zombie stocks' that speculate on mix of crypto 'coins' to rise in price. Paying attention to their "losses" is missing the point of "enterprise."

Same with Trump's Son #1 and Son #2 companies, like American Bitcoin (ABTC), Dominari Financial/Securities/Holdings (DOMH) etc.

Eric Trump, freshly-minted crypto evangelist, is pushing crypto hard because that's their newest scam and their income and wealth depend on higher values of major crypto 'projects' like Bitcoin and Ethereum as well as their own alt-coins like $WLF:

finance.yahoo.com -
|------- "It's the greatest hedge against inflation ... against corruption ... against poorly managed monetary systems around the world. That's why you see this global influx into bitcoin. It's probably become the greatest asset of our time" - Eric Trump at Yahoo Finance's Invest event.

Trump has made no secret of his big bet on cryptocurrency. Alongside his brother Donald Jr., he co-founded American Bitcoin (ABTC), a crypto mining firm that went public in September and now sports a market value of roughly $4 billion. ...
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Eric also has a tin ear:
www.mediaite.com - 'Out of Touch': Eric Trump Roundly Mocked for Comment About Drinking Wine and Trading $500 Million in Bitcoin - 2025-11-13

These public companies are intended for chumps who think Trumps are their ticket to riches and can somehow affect the value of "crypto treasury" company instead of mostly tracking the value of crypto holdings and shareholders' cash being drained by them. **
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Posted by CutiePie at 2025-11-20 04:53 AM | Reply

Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida indicted

Original Sources:

USDOJ Press Release

Congressional Report

If convicted, US Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick faces up to 53 years in prison.

Are you kidding me?

How many years did Dummkopf Trumpf get for 34 counts of business fraud committed over a lifetime?

And Congress wants to censure Del. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI).

No surprise that Women of Color are under attack under the malevolent Trumpf junta.

On a different thread a drudge.com contributor used the term "white toxicity."

And how.

Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-11-20 04:34 AM | Reply

The Economist Magazine Predicts Dire, Ominous Year Ahead

fwiw ...

Sigue, Sigue, Sputnik ( www.youtube.com ) just showed up on the playlist here.

For me, that means ...

It's time to say good night for the evening.

Good Night to y'all.

And have a great tomorrow!

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-20 03:29 AM | Reply

The Economist Magazine Predicts Dire, Ominous Year Ahead

@#2 ... are now going ...

Wow, I really, one of these days, need to learn how to use this keyboard.

-- it should have been - -

are not going

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-20 03:23 AM | Reply

The Economist Magazine Predicts Dire, Ominous Year Ahead

Predictions are just that.

Predictions.

OK, that dose of reality aside...

What might Pres Trump be doing to avoid or minimize the future described in the summary?

Bland words on news shows are now going to change the outcome. (shout out to Sec Bessent: why do you seem to wallow in just continually making a fool of yourself?)

What actions are being done?

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-20 02:43 AM | Reply

The Economist Magazine Predicts Dire, Ominous Year Ahead

FTA: "The reason why the editors at The Economist are so accurate is because the ultra-wealthy elite have an enormous amount of influence over the course of human events. If [the ultra-wealthy elite] are absolutely determined to make something happen, there is a good chance that it is going to happen. Ominously, it appears that they are anticipating a great deal of global chaos in 2026."

"The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse"

Conquest: ICC-indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu sits astride the White Horse for his vainglorious conquest of the defenseless Palestinian people, killing 69,513 of them, mostly women and children, while maiming and wounding another 170,745. His reckless and homicidal pogrom in Gaza has turned Israel into both a Pariah nation and a Rogue state.

War: ICC-indicted war criminal Vladimir Putin rides the Red Horse for bringing war to Ukraine and Russia. Since his brutal February 2022 invasion, combined binational casualties have exceeded well over 1,000,000 people. With his pitiless security services, this KGB veteran-cum-tyrant is also waging a lethal internal war on his own people and dissidents like the late Alexei Navalny.

Famine: The Black Horse of Famine schlepps good-for-nothing oligarch Felon Musk, who happily cut US programs that led to the deaths of thousands of people in the Third World from malnutrition and disease. And like a parasite, Musk is still active in the orbit of the nefarious Trumpf junta siphoning off America's wealth through unmonitored super-lucrative government contracts.

Death: Double divorced, twice impeached, felony-convicted sexual predator Dummkopf Trumpf clumsily rides the Pale Horse of Death. Republican strategist Rick Wilson cogently and aptly authored Everything Trump Touches Dies and MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell christened him "America's Dracula." Now we know Dummkopf Trumpf is the Chief Executive Pedophile of the US and his "BBB" will cause the deaths of thousands of vulnerable Americans when they start losing their medical coverage and SNAP benefits.

Originally published by Coriolanus at Daily Kos and updated.

Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-11-20 02:39 AM | Reply

DOJ May Have Accidentally Handed Democrats Five House Seats

From the thread summary ...
... the wholly pointless Democrat-inspired shutdown for nearly 50 days that created massive doubt in the voters' minds of both parties. ...

Oh, I am not yet convinced of that.

Election Day seemed to show a rather firm understanding in the voters' minds.

There seemed to be quite little doubt.

What's your current trolling alias got to the contrary?

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-20 02:35 AM | Reply

@#9 ... It smells soooooo buttery....

Occasionally,I like to sprinkle some grated parm cheese on the hot popcorn, instead of butter.

I do that for a change, as popcorn-munching seems to be more the norm of late.

Maybe I should start a thread along the lines of ...

How do you like your popcorn?

Unfortunately, I'm out of posts for today ...

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-20 02:25 AM | Reply

DOJ May Have Accidentally Handed Democrats Five House Seats

I'm watching Ken Burn's The American Revolution.

Ballwasher would have been a Tory. A sycophantic turd convinced he was the embodiment of freedom while, in reality, he's a defender of pedos, rapists, thieves and every other depraved pile of s*&^ the crown (*cough* GOP *cough*) elevated.

An ignorant jerkoff so busy looking back he doesn't understand what lies ahead.

Posted by jpw at 2025-11-20 02:20 AM | Reply

@#8 ... moaning about having fewer fascist cow farmers dragging us back to the 1860's.. ...

I disagree with that assertion.

Strongly disagree.

I have respect for the farmers in the Country.

They feed us all. Period. Full Stop.

While I may have a political disagreement with them here and there, I will not ascribe the "fascist" appellation to them.

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-20 02:19 AM | Reply

Juanita Broadrick
Kathleen Willey
Paula Jones.

Jagoff a-hole.

#29 | Posted by BellRinger

Yet you support Epstein's wingman...

F*&^ off you rancid piece of s(*&.

Posted by jpw at 2025-11-20 02:16 AM | Reply

Israel Attacks Refugee Camp in Lebanon, Killing 13

Stopped reading here and won't click the link.

It carries on in much the same vein.

Posted by REDIAL at 2025-11-20 02:16 AM | Reply

At least 19 Palestinians were killed and dozens more wounded on Wednesday as Israeli forces launched multiple attacks across the Gaza Strip, targeting several residential areas and civilian locations.

Israeli warplanes bombed a group of civilians near the Shujaiya junction on Salah al-Din Street, east of Gaza City, killing one person and injuring more than ten others.

Muhammad Bin Salman (MBS) must have departed the White House, so Israel can resume its Islamicide in Gaza and the West Bank. The IDF will most likely kill 70,000 Palestinians before the end of the year.

So much outrage on drudge.com about Muhammad Bin Salman (MBS) being feted by Dummkopf Trumpf in the White House and zero outrage about these mass murders.

Source: IDF Continues Ethnic Cleansing

Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-11-20 02:15 AM | Reply

DOJ May Have Accidentally Handed Democrats Five House Seats

@#1 ... According to Judge Brown's opinion, "it's challenging to unpack the DOJ Letter because it contains so many factual, legal, and typographical errors." ...

Why do I seem to see similar comments about the Trump DoJ in other cases?

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-20 02:14 AM | Reply

It's all any of you have these days.

#5 | Posted by BellRinger

If you act like a bloated bag of s(*&, you'll get the response owed to a bloated bag of s*&^.

Posted by jpw at 2025-11-20 02:13 AM | Reply

Halligan’s big grand jury revelation at Comey’s hearing

If the political parties continue to break down the norms in their quest for power, they will find that they win a lot of battles but lose the war for the American republic. This was exemplified in the wholly pointless Democrat-inspired shutdown for nearly 50 days

Stopped reading here and won't click the link.

Ballwasher strikes again.

Posted by jpw at 2025-11-20 02:11 AM | Reply

@#3 ... There's going to be a popcorn shortage. ...

Yup, that my view as well.

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-20 02:06 AM | Reply

CDC data confirms US may lose measles elimination status

What if someone bypasses the law?

#3 | Posted by Petrous

Where was the initial outbreak in the US this year and who were the culprits?

Posted by jpw at 2025-11-20 02:03 AM | Reply

House Votes to Release Epstein Files

@#179 ... Which reminds me: what ever happened to the Top Secret papers Trump didn't return to the government? ...

An excellent question.

Anyone have an answer?

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-20 02:02 AM | Reply

House votes to overturn provision of shutdown-ending bill

@#1 ... House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., also told reporters he was blindsided by the provision and that he found it "way out of line."

"I don't think that was a smart thing to do," he said last week. ...

OK, please excuse me for saying this but ...

Spkr Johnson using the word "smart" in a sentence to describe why he might have been "blindsided" is not something I'd prefer the Spkr of the House (third in line for the Presidency) to utter.

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-20 01:57 AM | Reply

House votes to overturn provision of shutdown-ending bill

More from the article ...

... Lawmakers voted unanimously in a rare bipartisan vote to reverse language passed in the government funding bill that would allow senators to sue the federal government for hundreds of thousands of dollars if their phone records are subpoenaed or obtained without prior consent or knowledge.

That language was negotiated in bipartisan talks in the Senate, but was added to the funding bill without House Republicans' knowledge, many of them say " including Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., the top House lawmaker tasked with funding the government.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., also told reporters he was blindsided by the provision and that he found it "way out of line."

"I don't think that was a smart thing to do," he said last week. "I don't think it was the right thing to do, and the House is going to reverse it." ...

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-20 01:52 AM | Reply

NASA wants you to know 3I/ATLAS is an interstellar comet

More from the article ...

... But the object's closest approach to the Sun came in late October during the US government shutdown. So, while enough people went to work to ensure that the hardware continued to do its job, nobody was available at NASA to make the images available to the public or discuss their implications.

So today, NASA held a press conference to discuss everything that we now know about 3I/ATLAS, and how NASA's hardware contributed to that knowledge. And to say one more time that the object is a fairly typical comet and not some spaceship doing its best to appear like one.
Extrasolar comet

3I/ATLAS is an extrasolar comet and the third visitor from another star that we've detected. We know the comet part because it looks like one, forming a coma of gas and dust, as well as a tail, as the Sun heats up its materials. That hasn't stopped the usual suspect (Avi Loeb) from speculating that it might be a spacecraft, as he had for the earlier visitors. NASA doesn't want to hear it. "This object is a comet," said Associate Administrator Amit Kshatrya. "It looks and behaves like a comet, and all evidence points to it being a comet." ...

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-20 01:44 AM | Reply

Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida indicted

@#1 ... Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement. "No one is above the law, least of all powerful people who rob taxpayers for personal gain. ...

OK, in this instance I agree with AG Bondi 100%.

Now, , current instance aside, if she would only focus upon Pres Trump, and fulfill her oath to the Constitution, instead of apparently being a toadie of Pres Trump ...

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-20 01:36 AM | Reply

Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida indicted

More from the article ...

... The Democrat is accused of stealing Federal Emergency Management Agency overpayments that her family health care company had received through a federally funded COVID-19 vaccination staffing contract, federal prosecutors said. A portion of the money was then funneled to support her campaign through candidate contributions, prosecutors allege.

"Using disaster relief funds for self-enrichment is a particularly selfish, cynical crime," Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement. "No one is above the law, least of all powerful people who rob taxpayers for personal gain. We will follow the facts in this case and deliver justice." ...

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-20 01:33 AM | Reply

Halligan’s big grand jury revelation at Comey’s hearing

There's going to be a popcorn shortage.

Posted by REDIAL at 2025-11-20 01:28 AM | Reply

Halligan’s big grand jury revelation at Comey’s hearing

@#159 ... MTG? ...

OK, I now understand.

thx for the follow-up.

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-20 01:28 AM | Reply

Then there's this ...

Former Trump Lawyer Calls for Pam Bondi to be Disbarred
www.yahoo.com

... Former Trump White House Attorney Ty Cobb told MS NOW anchor Chris Jansing on Wednesday that both Attorney General Pam Bondi and interim US Attorney Lindsey Halligan should be disbarred over how the evidence and charges were presented to the grand jury in the case against ex-FBI Director James Comey.

U.S. District Judge Michael Nachmanoff questioned earlier in the day "whether the entire grand jury ever saw the two-count indictment that a magistrate judge received after the grand jurors rejected one of three charges" presented by Halligan, reported Politico of the day's proceedings.

The case was already under heavy scrutiny as a judge warned Monday of apparent "government misconduct" in charging Comey. ...

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-20 01:25 AM | Reply

Halligan’s big grand jury revelation at Comey’s hearing

... The hearing Wednesday morning in the case against former FBI Director James Comey ended with a revelation by prosecutors and a conundrum: if a full grand jury never reviewed the final set of charges handed up against Comey, are they void? ...

So, the Trump DoJ wants to prosecute a person because the person is viewed as an enemy of Pres Trump, and not because of the evidence presented?

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-20 01:21 AM | Reply

Can you explain?

MTG?

Posted by REDIAL at 2025-11-20 01:20 AM | Reply

Trump and Vance not invited to Dick Cheney’s funeral

@#157 ... Empty G ...

I don't understand "Empty G."

Can you explain?

thx.

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-20 01:18 AM | Reply

#3: 600 Americans were fired for criticizing the good-for-nothing Charlie Kirk and Empty Suit Marco Rubio revoked the visas of a few foreigners in the US for making light of the dead hatemonger: www.reuters.com

Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-11-20 01:17 AM | Reply

'Quiet, piggy': Trump Responds to Reporter after Epstein Question

... the president turned to her and said: "Quiet. Quiet, piggy."...

So, he was not able to answer that simple question.

The President of the United States was not able to answer a simple question asked by a reporter.

Wow.

No, I think this goes beyond "Wow."

imo, it is in the

Friggin' Wow!!!

territory.

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-20 01:14 AM | Reply

TX: Governor Abbott Proclaims US Muslim Groups Terrorists

Here's why Texas Governor Greg Abbott made his idiotic ukase:

1) Either he didn't like seeing Muhammad Bin Salman enjoying himself in the White House (a wealthy Muslim who probably funds mosques in the US and other places);

2) Through FOIA, Texas reporters have been pressing for the release of emails between Greg Abbott and Felon Musk: x.com

Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-11-20 01:04 AM | Reply

'Quiet, piggy': Trump Responds to Reporter after Epstein Question

It's his insistence that history remember him that makes me wonder what villainy a cornered, amoral gent like him would set in motion to wriggle out of his numerous kerfuffles.

Posted by dutch46 at 2025-11-20 12:54 AM | Reply

Trump and Vance not invited to Dick Cheney’s funeral

Good point.

Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-11-20 12:49 AM | Reply

TX: Governor Abbott Proclaims US Muslim Groups Terrorists

Robin Trower, formerly of the band Procol Harum.

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-20 12:48 AM | Reply

Reputed to be "the top lawyer of last resort," CAIR should hire this distinguished attorney to sue Texas and Governor Greg Abbott: hls.harvard.edu

I'm sure this distinguished legal expert will impartially see the injustice and idiocy of the Texas proclamation and volunteer his services for free.

Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-11-20 12:47 AM | Reply

Bridge of Sighs
en.wikipedia.org

fwiw ...

...The Bridge of Sighs (Italian: Ponte dei Sospiri, Venetian: Ponte de i Sospiri) is a bridge in Venice, Italy. The enclosed bridge is made of white limestone, has windows with stone bars, passes over the Rio di Palazzo, and connects the New Prison (Prigioni Nuove) to the interrogation rooms in the Doge's Palace. It was designed by Antonio Contin, whose uncle Antonio da Ponte designed the Rialto Bridge. It was built in 1600.[1]

Etymology

The view from the Bridge of Sighs was the last view of Venice that convicts saw before their imprisonment.

The bridge's English name was bestowed by Lord Byron in the 19th century as a translation from the Italian "Ponte dei sospiri",[2][3] from the suggestion that prisoners would sigh at their final view of beautiful Venice through the window before being taken down to their cells.[4][5] ...

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-20 12:45 AM | Reply

Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs (1974)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
The sun don't shine
The moon don't move the tides
To wash me clean

Sun don't shine
The moon don't move the tides
To wash me clean

Why so unforgiving and why so cold?
Been a long time crossing bridge of sighs

Cold wind blows
The Gods look down in anger
On this poor child
...

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-20 12:42 AM | Reply

Trump and Vance not invited to Dick Cheney’s funeral

Were US flags flying at half-staff since the death of VPOTUS Dick Cheney?

He wasn't important like Charlie Kirk.

Posted by REDIAL at 2025-11-20 12:38 AM | Reply

Trump and Vance not invited to Dick Cheney’s funeral

Were US flags flying at half-staff since the death of VPOTUS Dick Cheney?

Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) ordered the flags flown at half-staff for the casualties caused by the 7 Oct 2023 Palestinian raid into Israel: Another Reason Why Dems Lost in 2024

Here is a photo of POTUS Jimmy Carter's funeral.

Anyone missing?

Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-11-20 12:37 AM | Reply

More from the article ...

... With few bills to consider -- and no quick fix for the problem of skyrocketing health insurance premiums -- the House has instead devoted time to lawmakers' demands to punish each other for their personal and political transgressions in showy spectacles on and off the chamber floor. ...

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-20 12:36 AM | Reply

what might those MAGA folk now be saying?

Empty G might get interesting.

Posted by REDIAL at 2025-11-20 12:33 AM | Reply

'No Company Is Going to Be Immune' If AI Bubble Bursts

@#155 ... if he ever wants this thing to go away. ...

That's the main issue that I see here.

Pres Trump, and his MAGA base had been the ones screaming to release the Epstein Files.

So, as the Trump admin seems to be using shenanigans to avoid releasing the Epstein Files, what might those MAGA folk now be saying?

Maybe, "Thank-you, Sir. Please do more.?"

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-20 12:31 AM | Reply

@#12

Oops, forgot to clear the copy 'n' paste buffer from a different thread.

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-20 12:25 AM | Reply

'No Company Is Going to Be Immune' If AI Bubble Bursts

Pink Floyd - Cymbaline (1969)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjVyd00NNDs

Some early Pink Floyd, back when they did a lot of movie soundtrack work.

Lyrics excerpt ...

https://genius.com/Pink-floyd-cymbaline-lyrics

...
[Verse 1]
The path you tread is narrow
And the drop is sheer and very high
The ravens all are watching
From a vantage point nearby
Apprehension creeping like a tube train up your spine
Will the tightrope reach the end?
Will the final couplet rhyme?

[Chorus]
And it's high time, cymbaline
It's high time, cymbaline
Please, wake me

[Verse 2]
A butterfly with broken wings
Is falling by your side
The ravens all are closing in
There's nowhere you can hide
Your manager and agent
Are both busy on the phone
Selling coloured photographs
To magazines back home

[Chorus]
And it's high time, cymbaline
It's high time, cymbaline
Please, wake me

[Verse 3]
The lines converging where you stand
They must have moved the picture plane
The leaves are heavy around your feet
You hear the thunder of the train
Suddenly, it strikes you
That they're moving into range
And Doctor Strange
Is always changing sides
...

Nvidia's strong forecast calms AI bubble jitters, for now
www.reuters.com

... Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Wednesday shrugged off concerns about an AI bubble as the company surprised Wall Street with accelerating growth after several quarters of slowing sales.

The chipmaker's stellar third-quarter earnings and fourth-quarter forecast calmed, at least temporarily, investor nerves over concerns an AI boom has outrun fundamentals. Global markets have looked to the chip designer to determine whether investing billions of dollars in AI infrastructure expansion has resulted in an AI bubble. ...

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-20 12:21 AM | Reply

Trump's New Epstein Distraction, er, Ukraine Peace Deal

with many worrying it meant the U.S. could cave to Russian demands in a rush to end the fighting.

Lewzer gets his Peace Prize in just over 2 weeks... maybe that will calm things down.

Posted by REDIAL at 2025-11-20 12:15 AM | Reply

Trump's New Epstein Distraction, er, Ukraine Peace Deal

Witkoff's back-channel push on Ukraine alarms allies
www.politico.com

... American allies and Ukrainian officials were scrambling on Wednesday to understand the terms of a Trump administration peace proposal for Ukraine, with many worrying it meant the U.S. could cave to Russian demands in a rush to end the fighting.

As European and U.S. officials alike sought clarity, they said many aspects of the plan remained in flux, including the role of NATO and any Ukrainian territorial concessions to Russia. ...

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-20 12:13 AM | Reply

Trump and Vance not invited to Dick Cheney’s funeral

every Republican and conservative person's names would be removed from the Epstein files

Lewzer is going to have to sacrifice a few of them if he ever wants this thing to go away.

Posted by REDIAL at 2025-11-20 12:12 AM | Reply

... Neither President Donald Trump nor Vice President JD Vance were invited to former Vice President Dick Cheney's funeral ...

Wow. imo, that may be unprecedented.

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-20 12:07 AM | Reply

International Enrollment Drops 17% at US Universities

Who knew that white toxicity was to be avoided?
Completely unreasonable.

Posted by fresno500 at 2025-11-20 12:06 AM | Reply

DoJ Official Makes Epstein Cover-Up Claims in Hinge Date Honey Trap (September 5, 2025)
www.newsweek.com

@#148 ... "The acting deputy chief of the Department of Justice, Joseph Schnitt, was caught on camera saying that every Republican and conservative person's names would be removed from the Epstein files, while keeping the names of liberals and Democrats." ...

Whoa. I had not seen that.

I found this ...

... Schnitt was secretly recorded by a reporter working for O'Keefe, founder of Project Veritas, during what he believed to be a data with a woman. According to Schnitt he met the woman, who gave her name as Skylar, on dating app Hinge.

During the date Schnitt said he was a 23-year veteran of the DOJ who was about to become "deputy chief of our office for a few months starting next week."

Asked if the Epstein files "do exist" Schnitt replied: "There's files for sure. There's, yeah, thousands and thousands of pages of files."

Schnitt said there was "internal conflict" within the Trump administration over how to handle the files. When asked what Attorney General Pam Bondi wanted to do he replied: "I don't know what Bondi wants. Bondi wants whatever Trump wants. She's just a yes-person."

Schnitt went on to say if further Epstein files are released they will be "heavily redacted and his [Trump's] name won't be in it."

He added: "They'll redact every Republican or conservative person in those files, leave all the liberal, Democratic people in those files and have a very slanted version of it come out where it's 'look at what's going on' without really seeing any of their [Republicans'] bad behavior." ...

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-20 12:03 AM | Reply

The FBI Redacted Trump's Name in the Epstein Files (August 2025)
www.bloomberg.com

@#147 ... Dems are already setting it up that if nothing bad comes out of this on Trump it's because the GOP scrubbed the files. ...

So, back in August it was observed that the Trump admin was ~scrubbing~ the Epstein files.

Yeah, your current alias needs to get up to date.

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-19 11:56 PM | Reply

DHS Targeting Louisiana and Mississippi Next

@#7 ... As I keep saying, he's hard at work on his 7th and most spectacular bankruptcy ...

Yeah, the Trump deficit is becoming more and more pronounced.

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-19 11:48 PM | Reply

... Only a genuine white supremacist and rabid loyal fascist would relish at personally leading these operations in full tactical military gear ...

I do not disagree.

For Pres Trump, it seems to be about the optics, and not the results.

Wasting tax-payer dollars for optics.

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-19 11:44 PM | Reply

House Votes to Release Epstein Files

Lewzer signed it.

Posted by REDIAL at 2025-11-19 11:42 PM | Reply

SpaceX Starship Timeline Delays Astronaut Moon Landing

Next Starship launch might be in January.

Posted by REDIAL at 2025-11-19 11:37 PM | Reply

TX: Governor Abbott Proclaims US Muslim Groups Terrorists

Means it won't cost putin very much to buy a bunch of it to shovel more money to trump.

Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-11-19 11:36 PM | Reply

Embedded in Gov Abbott's order is ...

... WHEREAS, I, Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, signed House Bill 4211 from the 89th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, into law on June 20, 2025, to ban residential property developments from creating exclusionary compounds, including Muslim-only compounds in the State of Texas ...

imo, that is A Good Thing.

s it seems to ban exclusion-oriented compounds ("gated communities"?).

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-19 11:36 PM | Reply

DOJ May Have Accidentally Handed Democrats Five House Seats

Whatever happens, it will need to happen quickly. Texas' 30-day candidate filing period began on Nov. 8, meaning candidates have less than three weeks to decide what seats they are running for. To do so, they need to know whether the state will be using the map drawn over the summer, or the map drawn in 2021. ...
#7 | Posted by LampLighter

Is that popcorn I hear popping in the background? It smells soooooo buttery....

Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-11-19 11:35 PM | Reply

SpaceX Starship Timeline Delays Astronaut Moon Landing

The word "LIST" is a red herring anyway.

Repubs are going to cling to it like they clung to "No collusion! And even if there was, collusion isn't a crime!"

Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-11-19 11:35 PM | Reply

I just drove past a fuselage being transported to the Hawthorne plant the other night.

Posted by chuffy at 2025-11-19 11:31 PM | Reply

DOJ May Have Accidentally Handed Democrats Five House Seats

California took out the trigger language to reverse the gerrymandering based on the outcome of the Texas ruling. Because it was voted into effect without those provisions, our map is good to go.

Now we get to see a year's worth of Repubiclown whining about mail=in ballots and moaning about having fewer fascist cow farmers dragging us back to the 1860's...

Posted by chuffy at 2025-11-19 11:29 PM | Reply

TX: Governor Abbott Proclaims US Muslim Groups Terrorists

reclamation

-- should be --

Proclamation

Oops.

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-19 11:22 PM | Reply

TX: Governor Abbott Proclaims US Muslim Groups Terrorists

Wow, the good State of Texas does not even seem to have this Proclamation on it's Proclamation website.

News -- Proclamation
gov.texas.gov

...
Nov 18
Governor Abbott Amends, Renews Drought Disaster Proclamation In November 2025

Governor Abbott Amends, Renews Drought Disaster Proclamation In November 2025
Nov 18
Governor Abbott Amends, Renews Flooding Disaster Proclamation In November 2025 ..

So, even the state of Texas does not seem to be taking Gov Abbott reclamation seriously?

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-19 11:21 PM | Reply

Trump Defends Saudi Crown Prince over Kashoggi Killing

"...why does Ms Maxwell seem to need an unlimited supply of toilet paper?"

It's the Bitcoin of the Club Fed set.

Posted by Danforth at 2025-11-19 11:08 PM | Reply

Loose Wire on may have Ship Led to Baltimore Bridge Collapse, report says

@#6 ... Don't blame me... 61 characters. :-) ...

Yeah, been there, experienced the character limit.

But, let me say, I am not, or was not, blaming anyone.

Just trying to add to the conversation on this thread.

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-19 10:59 PM | Reply

DOJ May Have Accidentally Handed Democrats Five House Seats

"You've never heard of the filibuster? "

Sure have.

McConnell and the Republicans set the all-time record against Obama, in less than half the time.

Obama was still expected to govern, and judged on how he did regardless the opposition.

Why can't The Party of Responsibility EVER take any responsibility, even when they control all three branches?!?

Posted by Danforth at 2025-11-19 10:58 PM | Reply

What's next after a court blocked Texas' gerrymandered maps
www.texastribune.org

... After a panel of three federal judges ruled 2-1 on Tuesday that Texas cannot use its new congressional map for next year's election, all eyes turned to the U.S. Supreme Court, which will decide whether to allow the ruling to stand.

The judges ordered Texas to instead use the map it drew in 2021, which favors Republicans but not as aggressively as the 2025 map.

What happens next will likely unroll in two key steps. First, the state is expected to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to temporarily pause the ruling, which would allow Texas to use the more recent map while the appeal plays out.

Then, they will ask the high court to rule on the merits of the case -- did Texas disenfranchise voters of color when redrawing its maps this year?

With the Dec. 8 filing deadline approaching quickly, an initial short-term pause could still have significant implications for which map Texas holds its 2026 elections under.

The request will go first to Justice Samuel Alito, a conservative member of the court who handles emergency petitions from Texas, but it would likely take a majority of the court to decide to pause the court's ruling.

Whatever happens, it will need to happen quickly. Texas' 30-day candidate filing period began on Nov. 8, meaning candidates have less than three weeks to decide what seats they are running for. To do so, they need to know whether the state will be using the map drawn over the summer, or the map drawn in 2021. ...

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-19 10:56 PM | Reply

Loose Wire on may have Ship Led to Baltimore Bridge Collapse, report says

That headline... really??

Don't blame me... 61 characters. :-)

Posted by REDIAL at 2025-11-19 10:47 PM | Reply

Dem Rep About to Be Censured for Texting with Epstein

"The House passed a CR. Dems filibustered in the Senate 15 times."

Always a victim.

You'll always be the victim.

You don't know how to lead, and it shows.

Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-19 10:46 PM | Reply

#82 Please let me know if the coward peeks out and responds.

I might just miss it... so bad, so sad... LOL!

Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-19 10:42 PM | Reply

@#34 ... 3 posts and you said absolutely nothing. ...

Do try harder.

The current person behind the keyboard in the troll room of your current alias seems to be flailing.

Which leads me to ask, is the troll room having issues recruiting capable participants?

If so, why?

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-19 10:40 PM | Reply

Faced with naked man, DoorDasher demands police action

#34 We're not a republic.
We are a democratic republic.
You're welcome.

#8 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-19 02:17 PM

Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-19 10:39 PM | Reply

wtf a guy sets up a situation where he exposes himself to a woman and SHE gets the hate?

Something smells REAL fishy about the police announcement

From the police Facebook post "On 10/13/2025, an incident was reported to the Oswego Police Department regarding an event that occurred on 10/12/2025."

"The video, along with the subsequent investigation, indicates that the male was incapacitated and unconscious on his couch due to alcohol consumption"

So, an investigation started THE NEXT DAY concluded the guy was drunk and passed out?

How did they establish that?

Anything more than ask the guy?

The guy who pulled his pants and underwear down to his ankles and positioned himself so he could be seen by a door dash delivery person?

How many of you have ordered food stripped naked and passed out in view of an open front door?

Maybe guys should be held responsible for doing that sort of creepy thing.

Posted by truthhurts at 2025-11-19 10:37 PM | Reply

#34 Thank you for the recognition, Bell boi.

Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-19 10:37 PM | Reply

Trump Defends Saudi Crown Prince over Kashoggi Killing

A Friend

3 posts and you said absolutely nothing. Nice work!

Posted by BellRinger at 2025-11-19 10:36 PM | Reply

Now let's hear him defend the Saudis for 9/11.

Posted by horstngraben at 2025-11-19 10:35 PM | Reply

Dem Rep About to Be Censured for Texting with Epstein

@#88 ... Here's something I think Every Drudgie should see and remember, especially Major B:

Yeah, a great skit (of many) from the awesome Monty Python series.

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-19 10:35 PM | Reply

Russian Spy Ship Pointed Lasers at RAF Pilots

Air Blair Field?

Posted by Corky at 2025-11-19 10:30 PM | Reply

Loose Wire on may have Ship Led to Baltimore Bridge Collapse, report says

#29 Besides, we are NOT a republic ...

We are a democratic republic.

Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-19 10:29 PM | Reply

@#4

So, apparently the Trump-enabled wealthy of the Country have seen a new source of funds.

And may be exploiting it?

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-19 10:28 PM | Reply

Dem Rep About to Be Censured for Texting with Epstein

should be: If I knew he wrote that, I had forgotten it, lol.

*sheesh, what time is it?

Posted by Corky at 2025-11-19 10:28 PM | Reply

Dem Rep About to Be Censured for Texting with Epstein

If I knew he didn't write that, I had forgotten it, lol.

Maybe I did once, there was a hint; Joan Baez also covered it along with The Band and others.

;;

Here's something I think Every Drudgie should see and remember, especially Major B:

www.youtube.com

"That's not an argument, that's a contradiction!
No it's not!".

Posted by Corky at 2025-11-19 10:26 PM | Reply

Loose Wire on may have Ship Led to Baltimore Bridge Collapse, report says

#29 What's your point, Bell boi?

Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-19 10:26 PM | Reply

And now, we see this ...

Officials increase estimated cost, push back timeline of Key Bridge rebuild
www.wbaltv.com

... Officials updated the cost estimate for the Key Bridge rebuild and pushed the estimated timeline back on Monday. ...

In a news release, the Maryland Transportation Authority said the cost will likely be anywhere from $4.3 billion to $5.2 billion. The change marks a stark contrast after the Associated Press reported in May 2024 that the initial cost was estimated to be between $1.7 billion and $1.9 billion. ...

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-19 10:26 PM | Reply

Dem Rep About to Be Censured for Texting with Epstein

#30 Have you considered that your copy/paste is as meaningless as if you typed it out yourself?

Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-19 10:25 PM | Reply

Do you think that Mr Dylan did not write that?

I had just never thought about who wrote it.

Posted by REDIAL at 2025-11-19 10:24 PM | Reply

Russian Spy Ship Pointed Lasers at RAF Pilots

Hi Corky: And Viceroy Tony Blair will get an airport named after him.

Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-11-19 10:22 PM | Reply

Dem Rep About to Be Censured for Texting with Epstein

@#84 ... Really? ...

I'm confused.

Do you think that Mr Dylan did not write that?

Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-19 10:21 PM | Reply