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#1 - BREAKING: Sheila Jackson Lee Loses Race for Houston Mayor. It Wasn't Even Close and Reactions Are Great — by Nick Arama
Then on top of that, the election was scheduled for Dec. 9, but she put out a video encouraging people to come out and vote on the wrong date-- Dec.7. Not only would that potentially confuse voters, but it shows what kind of a leader she would be for the city if she can't even get such a basic thing right on an ad that is presumably heavily vetted.
Given this loss, one has to fear for the staffers, I think it isn't going to be a good night for them.
But how great that the people of Houston aren't going to have to deal with her.
Now, the bad news. She still has until Monday to file to run again for her House seat. So now that she lost, I would expect her to file.
Only one question remains: Are they sure she lost? I mean, did they count the votes cast on Dec. 7 yet?!
#2 - Dylan Mulvaney Suffers Total Embarrassment at Penn State — by Bonchie
The room Mulvaney was given holds somewhere around 1,000 people. To say the crowd missed the mark would be an understatement. There might be a hundred people there, and that's probably being generous. Given this is the quality of what transpired, can you blame people for not showing up?
Kiss of death: Dylan Mulvaney has kissed Penn State pic.twitter.com/YHda4TNoEa
— Jennifer Lynn Lawrence (@JenLawrence21) December 10, 2023I told you that you'd be shaking your head a lot if you continued reading this article. I don't even know what to say about that. Affirming mental illness has consequences. So does indulging someone who may actually know exactly what he's doing.
Why do major brands give this guy money? What value is he providing? What customers are buying a product because they saw that Dylan Mulvaney endorses it? It's astonishing to me that any marketing department would be dumb to pay him to do brand placement for them. The only thing I can figure is that it's an easy way to get a company's ESG score up.
#3 - He's Getting Worse: Joe Biden's Brain Breakage Reaches a New Low in Las Vegas — by Bonchie
While giving a speech in Las Vegas, the president touted "Bidenomics," perhaps the worst political messaging campaign in modern history. Given the failures of his economic policies, that would have been bad enough, but they were destined to get worse. While attempting to read a dollar amount off his comically massive teleprompter, Biden's brain went absolutely haywire. For my money, this is a new low.
BIDEN: "Over a billion three hundred million trillion three hundred million dollars!" pic.twitter.com/4pVbAPrKef
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) December 8, 2023What is happening? He ran through four major delineations of numbers in less than a dozen words, including hitting two of them twice. That's almost a skill in and of itself. Whatever he was actually trying to proclaim, it wasn't what came out of his mouth. I thought about trying to transcribe what he said numerically as a joke, but I value my sanity too much to even attempt that.
I mean, holy cow. How is this guy President of the United States? I mean, I know the answer is a mix of American voters being really dumb and mass mail-in voting during the COVID-19 pandemic, but holy cow. Let's just get to the next clip because I don't know what else to say about that one.
#4 - Fauci Explains Why He Doesn't Need Church Anymore, and It's As Arrogant As You Would Think — by Nick Arama
Wow, the arrogance of this guy is something else. He's not just talking about whatever the "negative aspects" are, he's saying his "own personal ethics" are "enough." So, he thinks he doesn't need the Church; it isn't something he needs "to do." Talk about the narcissism here.
The guy who thinks he is science seems to also think he's religion as well. Remember what he said about being the "science."
“If you are trying to get at me as a public health official and a scientist, you’re really attacking not only Dr. Anthony Fauci, you are attacking science,” Fauci told Chuck Todd back in June last year.
Fauci would go on to say much the same thing on "Face the Nation" in November.
“They’re really criticizing science because I represent the science. That’s dangerous,” he said.
#5 - Ramaswamy Exposes the Leftist Tactic of CNN Moderator in Answer About COVID Origin, Federal Agents on J6 — by Becca Lower
Such was the case on Wednesday night, when the tech entrepreneur and GOP presidential candidate appeared in a town hall program on CNN. One question in particular has people abuzz--and it had to do with January 6, 2021.
Vivek destroyed her.. this is amazing pic.twitter.com/oQRUieNlcP
— Matt Couch (@RealMattCouch) December 14, 2023CNN moderator Abby Phillip began:
Let me ask you about something you said at the [previous GOP presidential primary] debate last week: you used the phrase, "inside job," to describe what happened on January 6.
She then asked him "if [he] was concerned that a convicted Capitol rioter highlighted his comments during sentencing."
He wasn't having it. Here's the full exchange:
Ramaswamy: "The reality is, we know that there were federal law enforcement agents in that field. We don't know how many."
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