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So utterly predictable: The president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., attacked Time magazine on Wednesday over the magazine’s choice of climate change activist Greta Thunberg as “Person of the Year.” In a tweet, Trump Jr. ripped the 16-year-old activist’s acceptance of the award, which he called a “marketing gimmick” played by the magazine. “Time leaves out the Hong Kong Protesters …

“Why does no one ever ask that question? If this liberation movement – which has been pretty transformative – is worth doing in the first place? You would think we’d know that women are happier. Are they happier? I don’t think anything has changed our society more for the worst. What you are describing is a movement that is at …

Mediaite reports: More than three years after not-President Hillary Clinton was not elected, not-obsessed Tucker Carlson showed a supercut of her coughing fits and then interviewed her not-doctor, Fox News medical correspondent Marc Siegel, to not-diagnose her on his show. Carlson’s latest-in-a-bizarre-series of anti-Clinton segments came on the heels of her recent appearance on the Howard Stern radio show, where …

Last night Donald Trump Jr. invited his four million Twitter followers to ruin their family’s Thanksgiving celebrations by “triggering” them with political talk. To spice things up, Junior is offering a free autographed copy of his book “Triggered” and a MAGA hat to whichever fan provides the most amusing photo or video of their ruined festivities. Junior is surely stung …

The Independent reports: Another day, another tweet from a member of the Trump family that makes you want to scratch your eyeballs out. This time, Donald Trump Jr has followed in his father’s footsteps by posting a tweet that is being branded “disgusting”, “reprehensible” and “dangerous.” An LGBT+ news outlet posted an article entitled “What you stand to lose by …

The Washington Post reports: Jared Kushner and other senior Trump administration officials are planning to set up web cameras to live-stream construction of President Trump’s border wall, going against objections from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and senior U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials, according to four people familiar with the White House proposal. “There will be a wall …

Mediaite reports: President Trump used Beto O’Rourke’s words from the beginning of his 2020 campaign to mock the end of his presidential bid. In a celebratory tweet, Trump pointed to O’Rourke’s Vanity Fair campaign launch and scoffed at his campaign-ending announcement. When O’Rourke announced earlier this year he was running, he claimed he felt he was destined to be president, …

Mediaite reports: PragerU co-founder Dennis Prager compared the “assault on free speech” today to slavery, during an interview on SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Daily Friday. “This is the wake up call to the greatest crisis in American history since slavery, and that is the assault on free speech, and I don’t exaggerate,” Prager declared while promoting his new movie with …

TMZ reports: Congressman Matt Gaetz sure is feeling himself after leading the blitz of House Republicans into private impeachment hearings — delaying them for hours — and he’s glowing about scoring brownie points with POTUS. We got the Florida Rep. on Capitol Hill, shortly after members of his Freedom Caucus ignored protocol and barged into a secure facility Wednesday. Gaetz …

Mediaite reports: A corollary to Godwin’s Law states that “as an Internet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler increases, and whoever makes that comparison has automatically ‘lost’ whatever debate was in progress.” Extending this axiom to the current public discourse of the climate crisis begs the question: should a critic of Swedish teenaged activist …

Mediaite reports: Fox News host Laura Ingraham engaged in several minutes of prop “comedy” when she attempted to “trigger” liberals with a plate of steak, incandescent light bulbs, and plastic straws. Somehow, her comedy bit was a bigger mess than that plate. “Okay. A warning, here it is, the ultimate trigger sculpture, kind of culinary sculpture, it has everything that …

Iowa Public Radio reports: A northwest Iowa man who burned four LGBTQ-themed children’s library books last year was found guilty of 5th degree criminal mischief Tuesday in Sioux County District Court. Paul Dorr, 63, of Ocheyedan, who runs the Christian group “Rescue The Perishing,” was fined $65 plus a 35 percent criminal penalty surcharge and court costs during his sentencing. …

CNN reports: President Donald Trump’s pick for the top spokeswoman job at the Treasury Department repeatedly spread conspiracy theories that suggested then-President Barack Obama was secretly a Muslim who was sympathetic to America’s enemies. Monica Crowley, who was appointed by Trump last week as assistant treasury secretary for public affairs, made multiple comments spreading these false claims on her personal …

Axios reports: Donald Trump Jr., President Trump’s oldest son, will be out Nov. 5 — a year before Election Day — with “Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us” — and we’re told topics include free speech, censorship and Big Tech. Don Jr., a hunter and fisherman who’s a popular talk-radio guest in Trump country, …

Quartz reports: People feel strongly about straws, and US president Donald Trump is here to capitalize on that. “Liberal paper straws don’t work,” tweeted Trump’s campaign, with a link to purchase a pack of 10 red plastic straws emblazoned with Trump’s name for $15. If you think all that’s outrageous about a $1.50 plastic straw is the price, think again. …

CNBC reports: A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld the criminal conviction of notorious “pharma bro” Martin Shkreli. The three-judge panel in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circut also upheld the more than $6.4 million in foreiture that a judge imposed on Shkreli last year when she sentenced him for his conviction on two counts of securities …

Once upon a time “Never Trump” leader Erick Erickson, last appeared on JMG when he fell for the far-right hoax that David Hogg wasn’t at school on the day of the Parkland massacre. Today Erickson claims that if Jeffery Epstein had been accused of molesting boys in drag, progressives would be rushing to his defense. As you can see below, …

Hunter Kelly, the Michigan college student at the center of the instantly debunked sexual assault claim against Mayor Pete, says today that he was flown to Washington DC by fraudsters Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, where he was promised a house and then intimidated when he got cold feet and tried to back out. Kelly said he expressed concerns about …

The Daily Beast reports: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell gleefully signed a T-shirt joking about the death of former Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, according to photos tweeted Monday. The T-shirt features Garland’s face surrounded by clouds and the dates 3/16/16 and 1/3/17, with the cursive phrase “gone but not forgotten.” McConnell played an instrumental role in keeping Garland, who …

The New York Daily News reports: “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli has been transferred out of his low-security prison and hauled back to Brooklyn after a report he was still running his business and tweeting with a contraband cell phone. Shkreli, 36, who’s serving seven years in a federal prison for defrauding investors, has been moved from the prison at Fort …