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It’s Friday …
‘Morning, TNB peeps. Filling in for boss today as she takes a much deserved break. Let’s jump to it.
President Shit’s public schedule for …
| Friday, December 12 2025 |
| 9:00 AM In-Town Pool Call Time |
| 1:30 PM The President participates in a Swearing-In Ceremony for the CEO of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation and Chairman of EXIM Bank Oval Office Closed Press |
| 3:00 PM The President participates in a Bill Signing Ceremony Oval Office White House Press Pool |
News Rewind
President Cheater loses bid to further destroy democracy …
INDIANA STATE SENATE has rejected redistricting.
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) December 11, 2025
19-31.
TRUMP's push for a 9-0 map failed. Big defeat for the Trump administration.
Reporter: The senate in Indiana voted against the redistricting effort.
— Acyn (@Acyn) December 11, 2025
Trump: I wasn't working on it very hard. I wasn't very much involved pic.twitter.com/omJ6lg6Gw7
In case you were tempted to think these Indiana MAGAt Republicans had an attack of conscience or some enlightened epiphany about this attack on democracy you would be mostly wrong. It basically boiled down to because … wait for here: Because Trump and Crime Inc efforts were “mean-spirited.” It was nothing more than about themselves and what happened to them and theirs as the fascist thugs put the strong arm on them. They didn’t and still don’t give two shits when those tactics are turned on others, they just cared about it was turned on them.
Jean Leising spoke at a breakfast this fall at her 8th grade grandson’s school. Hours later, when she was set to give him a ride home from basketball practice, he bashfully told her that his entire team had received text messages about her that day — “and they were all bad.”
” … “But that was the beginning,” she added. “It only got worse from there.””
CNN
Sen. Greg Walker, who represents former Vice President Mike Pence’s hometown of Columbus, said he was among the senators targeted by swatting attempts in the weeks leading up to Thursday’s vote.
Sen. Greg Goode, … criticized “over-the-top pressure from inside the Statehouse and outside,” as well as “threats of violence, acts of violence.”
Indiana State Sen. Jean Leising, who voted for Trump three times, says, “You wouldn’t change minds by being mean. And the efforts were mean-spirited from the get-go. If you were wanting to change votes, you would probably try to explain why we should be doing this, in a positive…
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) December 12, 2025
Flashback to the morning from Heritage ‘We Want To Be DicKKKtators’ Fkers:
President Trump has made it clear to Indiana leaders: if the Indiana Senate fails to pass the map, all federal funding will be stripped from the state.
— Heritage Action (@Heritage_Action) December 11, 2025
Roads will not be paved. Guard bases will close. Major projects will stop. These are the stakes and every NO vote will be to…
President Trump has made it clear to Indiana leaders: if the Indiana Senate fails to pass the map, all federal funding will be stripped from the state.
Roads will not be paved. Guard bases will close. Major projects will stop. These are the stakes and every NO vote will be to blame.
#PassTheMap
Just my two cents: I do not think I can be convinced at this point Heritage Foundation ever had values other than their white christo- fascistic nationalism agenda that is on full display today for the world to see. Just because they hid it better up until about 10 years ago doesn’t mean it wasn’t always there, brewing like a caldron of sulfur under their surface as they pandered to and manipulated our values, it just means their masks are now off.
They aren't supporting the guy doing this. This is their plan. They are instructing the morons doing this in furtherance of their own psychotic christo-fascistic nationalist ideations.
— Halo's_RevengeEvolved (@In2019Porge) December 11, 2025
Speaking of Lying Liars Who Lie
Secretary “I kill puppies” Noem lies about deporting veterans …
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 11, 2025
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea pic.twitter.com/oz8Epvf4I4
Flashback to 2024 Noem lies:
Kristi Noem says the story of meeting Kim Jong Un was put in her book by accident? Didn't she write it? pic.twitter.com/GxmoseaPnL
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) May 9, 2024
Speaking of Still Melting In His Lost Puddle of Insanity
No, President Dementia, for the umpteenth time, you cannot grant a federal pardon for one of your convicted state criminal election denying shysters.
Trump: Tina is sitting in a Colorado prison for the "crime" of demanding Honest Elections. Today I am granting Tina a full Pardon for her attempts to expose Voter Fraud in the Rigged 2020 Presidential Election! pic.twitter.com/1sOC972t7K
— Acyn (@Acyn) December 12, 2025
That is a wrap for this week. See y’all at the movies this weekend!
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