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Mad King Says 'Traitor' Veterans Should 'HANG' - The Friday AM Quickie 11/21/25

By Corey Pein —

Media consolidation is a scourge, especially now with all these oligarchs sucking up to Donald Trump, but for some reason the idea of Netflix owning HBO and CNN strikes me as especially offensive. They'd probably cancel the news after two episodes. I'm off, Whitney's back Monday. - Corey

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THE BIG NEWS

Trumpocalypse: Judge Rules National Guard Occupation of Washington, DC 'Unlawful'

  • Donald Trump Calls Democratic Veterans Who Urged Servicemembers to Refuse Unlawful Orders 'Traitors' Who Should 'HANG' "What's most telling is that [Trump] considers it punishable by death for us to restate the law," Democratic members of Congress Elissa Slotkin, Mark Kelly, Chris Deluzio, Maggie Goodlander, Chrissy Houlahan, and Jason Crow responded. "Every American must unite and condemn [Trump]'s calls for our murder and political violence." via NBC News, the Washington Post, and HuffPost.
  • Congressional Republicans Are Already Treating Trump Like a Lame Duck "The closer you get to the midterms and then beyond, everybody is measuring their own state or congressional district, and maybe people are a little more independent" of Trump than they used to be, GOP North Dakota Sen. Kevin Cramer says. via the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Guardian.
  • 'They Will Be Prosecuted': Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna Warns Justice Department Officials Against Withholding Epstein Files to Protect Trump Meanwhile, Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden released a memo accusing JPMorgan Chase of covering up the late sex trafficker and Trump pal Jeffrey Epstein's illicit financial activity. via the Guardian, Politico, and HuffPost.
  • Senate Democrats Investigate Trump's Kennedy Center Takeover and the 'Golden Crime Scene' of His White House Ballroom Along with receipts showing sweetheart deals for Trump's friends at the corrupt FIFA organization and the Conservative Political Action Conference, Senate Democrats are investigating a pattern of "unusual and excessive spending that had never occurred under previous leadership" at the Kennedy Center, including "celebratory meals and champagne services." via the Washington Post and the Guardian.
  • Vindictive Federal Investigation of Trump's Enemy, Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, Spawns Another Grand Jury Probe Meanwhile, Trump's handpicked, unqualified prosecutor in the case against former FBI Director James Comey reversed herself again yesterday and claimed that, contrary to her claims during the previous day's hearing, the Comey grand jury was provided with her final version of the indictment. via the New York Times, the Washington Post, and NBC News.
  • Coast Guard Will No Longer Classify Swastikas and Nooses as Hate Symbols "If you are at sea, and your shipmate has a swastika in their rack, and you are a Black person or Jew, and you are going to be stuck at sea with them for the next 60 days, are you going to feel safe reporting that up your chain of command?" an anonymous Coast Guard official critical of the policy change asks. via the Washington Post and the AP.
  • White House Says Reporters 'Should Appreciate' When Trump Calls Them 'Fake News' or Says 'Quiet, Piggy' "Scolding a US reporter for asking questions about MBS ordering a fellow journalist to be bone-sawed to death signals to dictators everywhere that they can murder journalists with impunity," says Seth Stern of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. via the Washington Post and the Guardian.
  • 'We Should Be Relentless': Mamdani Plans to Stay on Message During White House Meeting with Trump Today "I know that for tens of thousands of New Yorkers, this meeting is between two very different candidates they voted for, for the same reason," Mamdani told reporters yesterday. "They wanted a leader who would take on the cost of living crisis that makes it impossible for working people to afford living in the city." via the New York Times, HuffPost, and the City.

Military Experts Warn Venezuela War Would Be a Disaster

As much of Washington, DC's elite mourned Iraq war mastermind Dick Cheney yesterday, security experts warned that the Trump's regime's Cheney-like plans to invade Venezuela would lead to chaos on par with America's last foreign policy catastrophe, which began with the US invasion of Iraq 2003, sparking a bloody insurgency and civil war, and which continues with a military presence to this day, despite the withdrawal of most US forces in 2011. Trump has already authorized CIA covert action in Venezuela, and he said this week that his plans may include a ground invasion.

"The thing that really worries us is that they don't appear to have any serious plan for what happens afterward," International Crisis Group analyst Phil Gunson tells the New York Times from Caracas. "The idea that you're going to be able to slot in a government and everything else will just fall into place, I think is just fantasy." US military wargames on ousting President Nicolas Maduro reached a similar conclusion, predicting "chaos for a sustained period of time with no possibility of ending it." Sounds bad! And familiar.

Fire Forces Evacuations at Climate Summit

Thirteen people were treated for smoke inhalation after a fire broke out at a pavilion near the main entrance to the COP30 United Nations climate summit in Belem, Brazil yesterday. Authorities are blaming a generator failure or short circuit for the fast-spreading blaze, which was brought under control in a half-hour, and forced screaming crowds to flee in terror. Before the fire broke out, some countries' delegates were planning a walk out to protest any agreement that abandons the goal of phasing out fossil fuels, the Guardian reports. The Trump regime is boycotting the climate talks, which may continue through the weekend past their scheduled end today.

Meanwhile, the regime announced a plan to open the coasts of California and Florida to oil drilling, prompting opposition from both Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. "It's interesting that Donald’s proposal doesn't include the waters off Mar-a-Lago," Newsom said.

QUICKEST QUICKIES

  • Israel Plans to Seize West Bank Historical Site, Largest Such Land Grab Yet Meanwhile in Gaza, Israeli airstrikes on tent camps killed another 33 people, including five children. via the Associated Press, the Guardian, and Al Jazeera.
  • 'You're a Disgrace': Sketchy Florida Republican Rep. Cory Mills Will Face House Ethics Investigation During a 2021 trip to Afghanistan, a group traveling with then-congressional candidate Mills caught him with sex workers during a stop in Tbilisi, Georgia; he also faces assault and abuse accusations from multiple women as well as campaign finance violations and soliciting special favors and gifts. via the Washington Post, NOTUS, and ABC News.
  • Former Student Entangled with Google Exec Eric Schmidt Claims He Has a Secret 'Backdoor' Into User Accounts and Private Data In addition to trapping her inside his "absolute digital surveillance system," startup founder Michelle Ritter, 31, says Schmidt, 70, sexually assaulted her twice, once on a yacht and again at Burning Man. via the Los Angeles Times.
  • Muslim Civil Rights Group Sues Texas After Republican Gov. Greg Abbott Labels It a 'Foreign Terrorist Organization' "No civil rights organizations are safe if a governor can baselessly and unilaterally declare any of them terrorist groups, ban them from buying land, and threaten them with closure," the Council on American-Islamic Relations general counsel Lena Masri says. "We have beaten Greg Abbott's attacks on the First Amendment before, and God willing, we will do it again now." via the Texas Tribune and Politico.

SOME NUMBER

5

That's how many House seats Democrats stand to gain in next year's midterm elections after a series of federal court rulings set back Republican gerrymandering efforts across the country, according to a Washington Post analysis. "There is a sense among donors that we are going to lose the majority so it makes it more difficult to raise money," one GOP operative tells the Post, faulting Donald Trump's redistricting strategy as "a bad bet in the first place."

ON THE SHOW TODAY

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PARTING WORDS

"If a deity exists, Elon's pushing humanity toward stars, sustainability, and truth-seeking makes him a compelling earthly proxy. Divine or not, his impact echoes legendary ambition."

-- xAI's Grok chatbot, comparing its owner Elon Musk to god. In a series of posts yesterday, Grok said the Nazi-saluting oligarch was more physically fit than "genetic freak" LeBron James, smarter than Isaac Newton, more talented than Leonardo da Vinci, and, per Rolling Stone, "the world's greatest lover." Separately, researchers found that the "anti-woke" chatbot relies on the neo-Nazi website Stormfront and Alex Jones' Infowars as sources. Meanwhile, tech stocks fell as amid persistent investor fears of the coming end of the AI market bubble.

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