In Thanksgiving Briefing, Karine Jean-Pierre Thanks The Press For Regurgitating White House Propaganda The Last Four Years

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In a largely congenial pre-Thanksgiving press conference, Karine Jean-Pierre served the White House press corps a turkey dinner and expressed her gratitude for all the media have done for the Biden-Harris administration over the past four years.

“Thank you. No, really, I mean that,” Jean-Pierre, who was wearing a tall, black pilgrim hat, gushed from the podium. “If I could speak candidly for just a moment, thank you for greedily gobbling up everything we served you here over the past four years and then — pardon the analogy here — regurgitating it for the American people. Even if the quality of some of the ingredients fluctuated from time to time, you always snarfed it down.”

A few members of the White House press corps nodded and smiled tearfully as Jean-Pierre continued. “I mean, I really had some complicated narratives to serve up. You zealously adopted our messaging on the president’s health, ‘reproductive rights,’ the Afghanistan withdrawal, the border — that was some rubbery turkey, so to speak. But you guys didn’t bat an eye — even when the president dropped out of the race and remained in office. You could have made that very awkward, but you didn’t. I could see some of you almost choking, but you kept it down and acted like that coup, er, transition, was not totally unprecedented. You correctly followed our lead that Kamala Harris was never the border czar, that Trump was a Hitlerian threat to democracy, and that Project 2025 was the scariest thing ever. You understood the moment we were in, and I’m truly grateful for that.”

After her heartfelt thank you and before serving the correspondents a meal, Jean-Pierre took time for a few questions, including a query from Fox News’ Peter Doocy.

“Earlier this week, President Biden seemed to imply that he was literally physically present with the pilgrims on that first Thanksgiving,” Doocy began, “even going so far as supposedly recounting the details of specific conversations with Squanto and William Bradford. If the president had been present, that would make him approximately four hundred years old. What are the American people to make of such a bizarre claim?”

(Read more from “In Thanksgiving Briefing, Karine Jean-Pierre Thanks The Press For Regurgitating White House Propaganda The Last Four Years” HERE)

North Carolina County Board Knowingly Certified the Votes of Dead Voters

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North Carolina’s Rowan County Board of Elections knowingly certified the votes of seven deceased voters on Tuesday, rejecting a protest to have their ballots removed from the final tally.

The fact that these individuals were dead was not in dispute. Rather, board members ultimately decide that the ballots would count in the 2024 election based on their “interpretation” of the law that governs voter eligibility, Rowan County Elections Director Sharon Main told The Federalist.

The voters in question had cast ballots either during early voting or via absentee voting prior to Election Day but had passed away after casting ballots and before Nov. 5, which could theoretically disqualify their votes. The controversy highlights one of the glaring problems with having a season of voting instead of a single day to hold an election. In recent memory, before elections took place over a period of months, none of the individuals at issue would have been able to vote because they passed away before Election Day.

The board “voted to dismiss the protest because it failed to show substantial evidence that any violation, irregularity, or misconduct sufficient to cast doubt on the results of the election had occurred,” Main explained. “It goes back to the interpretation of the law, because it talks about the eligible voter, and that’s what my board was hinging it on.”

Judge Jefferson Griffin, the Republican candidate for the state Supreme Court race, filed protests alleging multiple voter issues across the state. On election night Griffin was winning by about 10,000 votes, but his lead turned into a deficit in the 9-day period after Election Day in which North Carolina accepts overseas ballots and approves provisional ballots. (Read more from “North Carolina County Board Knowingly Certified the Votes of Dead Voters” HERE)

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‘Happy Thanksgiving to All, Including the Radical Left Lunatics’: Here’s Trump’s Thanksgiving Message

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In the early morning hours of the holiday, President-elect Donald Trump shared his Thanksgiving message for the American people, starting off with a reminder that his well wishes also included “the Radical Left Lunatics who have worked so hard to destroy our country.” He also posted such a message over X, with his message being a trending topic over X for Thursday morning.

As Trump reminded right away, though, they “have miserably failed, and will always fail, because their ideas and policies are so hopelessly bad that the great people of our Nation just have a landslide victory to those who want to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

It’s not just that Trump won the White House earlier this month, but on the night of the election, Republicans won enough seats to take back control of the Senate. Less than a week later, Republicans won enough seats to keep control of the House. Democrats have continuously been in disarray, even weeks after the election.

“Don’t worry, our Country will soon be respected, productive, fair, and strong, and you will be, more than ever before, proud to be an American!” Trump concluded his message, offering encouragement to his fellow Americans on this Thanksgiving holiday, with many no doubt thankful that his second term is set to begin in less than two months.

(Read more from “‘Happy Thanksgiving to All, Including the Radical Left Lunatics’: Here’s Trump’s Thanksgiving Message” HERE)

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Army Sergeant Reunited With His Military Dog Just In Time For The Holidays

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This week, U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Payton May was reunited with a Belgian Malinois named Yyacob, a now-retired military dog the sergeant used to handle before being reassigned to another base in 2022.

When May found out Yyacob was retiring after seven years of service, knew he wanted to try to adopt the dog, whom he calls his “best friend.” May reached out to American Humane, an animal welfare organization known for reuniting Military Working Dogs with former handlers, for assistance – and the group came through.

After two-and-a-half years apart, the pair were reunited on Monday, just in time for the holidays.

May and, Yyacob, an explosives detection and patrol dog, served together for nine months in Iraq. They would check anyone entering the base for ammunition or explosives, and also carried out patrols and scanned vehicles together.

According to a press release from American Humane, the pair completed the elite Patrol Explosive Detection Dog – Enhanced Course, an advanced program for police patrol and explosive detection dogs that teaches them to work effectively off-leash. (Read more from “Army Sergeant Reunited With His Military Dog Just In Time For The Holidays” HERE)

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‘Not A Leader’: Trump’s Surgeon General Pick Has Uphill Climb To Earning Trust Of MAGA Voters

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Trump supporters bashed his Friday selection of Dr. Janette Nesheiwat for United States Surgeon General, citing her past positions on Covid-19, though some praised her apparent evolution on the subject.

Trump announced the pick Friday, calling Nesheiwat, a medical doctor and former Fox News contributor, “a strong communicator for preventive medicine and public health.”

While the President-elect showered praise on Dr. Nesheiwat, some of his biggest supporters decried her selection and demanded that he reconsider.

Nesheiwat’s praise for Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to censor certain Covid information on Facebook seemingly irked popular right-wing social media figures like former One America News Network anchor Liz Wheeler and influential meme account “I Meme Therefore I Am”

“First of all, vaccines save lives and I am so excited and I thank and I commend Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg for taking action because this affects everyone,” Nesheiwat said during an appearance on Fox Business Network.

(Read more from “‘Not A Leader’: Trump’s Surgeon General Pick Has Uphill Climb To Earning Trust Of MAGA Voters” HERE)

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Transgender Athlete Steals Yet More Glory From Women

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. . .Tuesday saw the Mountain West Conference announce their volleyball awards for the regular season, and transgender player Blaire Fleming (San Jose State) was right in the mix stealing yet more glory from women.

Fleming was named to the conference’s All-Mountain West Team as an Honorable Mention, joining Spartans co-captain Brooke Slusser. Malaya Jones of Colorado State, who won the Mountain West Player of the Year, was also named an honoree.

The only two members of SJSU that received conference honors were Fleming and Slusser, most likely because they just played 12 matches on the conference schedule in the 2024 season — the other six matches they “won” due to the other teams forfeiting because they didn’t want to play against a transgender person. Fair enough.

In the Mountain West tournament, San Jose State has a bye in the first round that automatically places them in the semifinals, with their first match coming Wednesday against the winner of Utah State vs. Boise State.

What’s interesting about SJSU‘s future matchup is that both the Aggies and Broncos forfeited their squareoffs against the Spartans in the regular season. It’s not currently known whether or not the schools would forfeit again if they claim victory in their first rounder, but it’s something to pay attention to, for sure.

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Popular Thanksgiving Staple in U.S. Banned in European Countries

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A popular Thanksgiving dinner staple in the United States is banned in several European countries and Japan due to two ingredients being linked to cancer.

Stove Top Stuffing, an instant boxed stuffing mix that is popular to have with Thanksgiving dinner, contains two ingredients, butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) and butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT), that are “known human carcinogens and may cause other health problems,” Dr. Neha Pathak, MD, who serves on the Medical Team for WebMD explained to the New York Post.

While BHA and BHT are allowed in the U.S., they are banned in the United Kingdom, the European Union, and Japan. Pathak explained that “these types of preservatives” are banned due to the “cancer risk.”

The ingredient list for the Stove Top Stuffing turkey version shows that, along with BHA and BHT, the product contains “enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate [vitamin b1], riboflavin [vitamin b2], folic acid), high fructose corn syrup, salt, onion” along with other ingredients:

Enrich wheat flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate [vitamin b1], riboflavin [vitamin b2], folic acid), high fructose corn syrup, salt, onion*, contains less than 2% of hydrolyzed soy protein, cooked turkey*, yeast, interesterified soybean oil, celery*, parsley*, potassium chloride, spice, sugar, caramel color, maltodextrin, turkey broth*, disodium guanylate, disodium inosinate, silicon dioxide, natural flavor, with bha, bht, and rosemary extract as preservatives,”

(Read more from “Popular Thanksgiving Staple in U.S. Banned in European Countries” HERE)

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Biden Administration Spent Nearly $400,000 Interviewing Transgender People in India

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President Joe Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services spent six figures paying Drexel University researchers to interview transgender people in India, according to federal records.

Between March 2021 and February 2024, HHS paid out $389,087 to a team of academics at Drexel to perform “quantitative” interviews with 30 transgender men across Delhi and Mumbai, India’s two largest cities. Additionally, the Biden administration provided the researchers with federal funding to distribute online surveys to 300 transgender men living in those cities. The ultimate goals of the publicly-funded research project were to “inform the development and evaluation of an intervention to promote mental health” for transgender people in India and to “impact rapidly evolving transgender health and social policies in India and beyond.”

Specifically, the study investigated the prevalence of mental health conditions, such as anxiety and suicidality, among transgender people in India. It sought to understand what variables were contributing to the occurrence of those conditions. The framework used by the team of Drexel researchers aimed to “put the gender back into transgender health,” according to the grant’s description.

The researchers argued that their work is necessary because the “transgender community is experiencing major socio-legal changes that may affect mental health” in India. One of the policy recommendations made in the final report produced by the team of researchers was to implement public funding for “gender-affirmative healthcare,” including hormone therapy and sex change surgeries.

HHS has positioned itself as a champion of the transgender community under Biden, adopting a new rule in April requiring physicians and healthcare personnel to provide transgender healthcare to patients, including minors. Critics have argued that the rule doesn’t grant sufficient exceptions for healthcare providers who have religious reasons to refuse to practice transgender medical interventions. (Read more from “Biden Administration Spent Nearly $400,000 Interviewing Transgender People in India” HERE)

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Lawmaker Floats Idea of State Seceding to Resist President-Elect Trump

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A plan for states to secede from the union of United States because they disagree politically with the majority is something that’s been tried before.

Unsuccessfully, as the horrendous death tolls of the Civil War and its after-war punishments, like “carpet-baggers,” document.

But Democrats in New York apparently believe it would produce a better result this time.

That’s because they are considering a plan to become, along with several nearby states, a province of Canada over President-elect Donald Trump’s coming administration.

It is the Washington Examiner that has reported that the rage from leftists is over Trump’s plans to address the catastrophic results of the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris open borders agenda. . .

The report said it is New York state Sen. Liz Krueger, a Democrat from New York City, who proposed withholding taxes from the federal government, or leaving entirely. (Read more from “Lawmaker Floats Idea of State Seceding to Resist President-Elect Trump” HERE)

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‘Demonic!’ Tulsa City Council Meeting Goes off Rails as Member Told She’s ‘Inviting Evil’

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A city council meeting in Tulsa, Oklahoma this week went off the rails after an outgoing city councilor invited a pagan priestess to deliver a prayer at a meeting.

Public Radio Tulsa reports that outgoing councilor Crista Patrick stirred controversy when she brought pagan priestess Amy McAdams to deliver an opening invocation at the meeting that included nods to “the Gorgonea, champions of equality and sacred rage” and “Medusa, monstrous hero of the oppressed and abused.”

In an interview with Public Radio Tulsa, Patrick said that she “wanted to share one little part of myself before I left office” and emphasized that the Greek goddess Medusa is traditionally known as “a fighter of injustice, especially for women.”

However, her decision to invite McAdams drew swift condemnation not only from angry locals who accused her of being “demonic, or Satanist, or inviting evil into our city and our household,” but also from Oklahoma’s Republican governor and state superintendent.

“Satan is trying to establish a foothold, but Oklahoma is going to be a shining city on the hill,” declared Gov. Kevin Stitt. “Tulsa City Council needs to stand strong against actions like this, and Tulsans need to remember who allowed this at the ballot box.” (Read more from “‘Demonic!’ Tulsa City Council Meeting Goes off Rails as Member Told She’s ‘Inviting Evil’” HERE)

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