David Waldman and Greg Dworkin resolutely lead us ever forward, as KITM tracks the unrelenting migration of social media, just as our ancient hunter forbearers pursued vast herds of mastodons across the great plains. 

How about those midterms, huh? The media and pollsters are still trying to figure out what they did right, which wasn’t a ton. The Democratic party shouldn’t pat themselves on the back too hard either. Voters figured out on their own what they needed to do and did it, mostly young voters.

Everyone agrees, Donald Trump lost that election, like he always loses, and always will lose… Ok, some in the GQP haven’t got the memo yet. The Warnock-Walker race might clue in some of the slow ones.

Then there’s Kari Lake, and her lost cause diehards in Arizona. Maybe it was the printers, except for how it can’t possibly be the printers. Trump orders Navy gunships into Phoenix. Think these dopes didn’t get anywhere in the midterms? Think again.

Republicans will have it rough with a slim majority, although it’d be even nicer if they had a fat minority. Bill Kristol is always wrong, but if anyone is still listening, he’d prefer House Speaker Barbara Comstock. Up in Alaska, they’re trying out a bipartisan Democratic majority, thanks to fish supporters.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump had dinner with an antisemite (Did Donald mention he was black?) who brought his plus one, a Holocaust denier. Who could have known?

For National Leftovers Day, we present this vintage post-T-Day episode, from November 27, 2020.

We had planned to bring you last year's post-Thanksgiving show, but that one was taken down by YouTube, because we read a story that quoted and debunked COVID loons, and, well, YouTube. (The episode was later restored on appeal of an appeal, but the odds were pretty good that they'd take it down all over again.)

So, instead, we have one from the year before!

David Waldman and Armando delivered a then-piping fresh KITM right to your ears. Don’t bother to get off the couch, just finish off that can of cranberry sauce and tub of Cool Whip, and tune in!

Diaper Don sat behind his widdle desk yesterday and had only widdle things to say. Hell yes, Donald Trump is “stepping down” for Joe Biden, of course, he’s not coming to the inauguration.  We’ve had Trump’s number for some time now. He’ll continue to destroy the country of course, but that’s barely been a side interest for him. Real despotism is a lot of work. Pardoning people takes so little effort that he can work a couple in between holes.

The Right loves dead liberals. That’s because people actually respect dead liberals, plus you can have them say whatever you want. Almost as good, are fake ex-liberals, because you know they’re going where the grift is deepest and won’t get tripped up by any sticky ideology. Things will be fine, if you only remember to not give your money to them. A guy dropped $2.5 million on True the Vote Inc., which bought him “vague responses, platitudes, and empty promises” — exactly what he payed for. Hopefully, none of you paid for a Kraken, because the delivery date keeps getting pushed back, and release might not be so imminent.

Happy Thanksgiving!

It’s a good day to give thanks for Justice Putnam, who keeps the gears turning at Netroots Radio! He gives us the flexibility to throw together a last-minute show, and maybe even knock off early for the holiday.

Which we didn’t!

One you get rolling on a show like this, you need every minute you can get!

First up, Pro-Fish Mary Peltola is coming back to Washington. Which means Sarah Palin isn’t!

On the darker side, wingnut idiots are saying terrible things about the Club Q shooting. Trumpster Dummy Jenna Ellis is pretty sure all the victims are going to hell, for starters. Which might be where the Trumpster Dummy who fathered the shooter is headed, by the way.

Reality is no barrier for Trumpster Dummies in Arizona, where Kari Lake is ramping up veiled threats in her bid to deny her loss. Rank-and-file denialists are ranting incoherently at county board hearings, and advancing the same old debunked conspiracy theories over and over again, in an endless loop.

The courtroom news isn’t getting any better for TFG. In the NY AG’s case, in a move widely interpreted as a sign of confidence, the prosecution rests earlier than expected. Elsewhere, it seems Mike Pence is making ready to testify for the DOJ.

For T-Day reading: Twitter’s former head of “Trust & Safety” has some warnings about just how bad things could get at the bird site.

David Waldman leads us off today under an other another cloud of a mass shooting. This time, six were killed in a Chesapeake, Virginia, Walmart. Probably a disgruntled employee did the shooting, but we all know who’s pulling the trigger. Lauren Boebert and others pray over the bodies they target, then target the rescuers.  As threats to LGBTQ communities intensify, they in turn react to the reactionaries.

Want to watch Twitter crash and burn, but from a safe distance? Alternatives are out there, but you might want to spend time getting used to them. Keep your old account, no need to burn your bridges… although loosening a strut bolt here or there is A-OK.

David delves into the latest on the FPOTUS Mar-a-Lago case and ends up as skeptical as the judges. Donald just wants his Celine Dion pictures back. Marjorie Traitor Greene squeals "Holman Rule. Look it up!", but apparently hasn’t got around to it herself. Matt Gaetz just hates conflicts of interest.

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court allows the release of Trump's tax returns, almost probably too late, but convincing Donald of the need for an 18-member court.

Fugitive Guo Wengui, who once let convict Steve KG Bannon hole up on his yacht, claims to be a billionaire and claims to be worth around 3 grand.

Herschel Walker reminds us that his erection is still coming up. Lindsey Graham immediately drops to the floor to help him out. Republicans who say there’s no voter suppression, because they see voters, suddenly feel suppressed in Arizona. Cochise County feels it so bad that they quit counting votes. Now, the new Democratic Governor-Elect Katie Hobbs is going around punching Republicans in the face!

David Waldman and special Tuesday guest star Greg Dworkin run the gamut from Elon Musk to Richard Fierro on today’s KITM.

Poor little rich boy Elon Musk only wanted to buy love and respect, but fate can be so cruel sometimes to self-centered megalomaniacs… Here are 3 other investments the billionaire likes! Elon continues to have a kind of a “Love/Fire” relationship with his employees. One day you can tell your kids of the time that catturd2 place helped fight the COVID 19 pandemic.

Several octaves away is the hero in the Club Q shooting rampage, army veteran Richard Fierro, good guy without a gun who transformed the bad guy with a gun into a bad guy possibly regretting his life choices, by getting back in touch with his killer instincts. Darwin H.M., the most reasonable man in America, and KITM Senior Military Correspondent, reports! 

Republicans wish we wouldn’t politicize these shootings so much. At least not as much as they’ve politicized the existence of LGBTQ people. The right has goaded LGBTQ bigotry and hatred for years to provoke and inspire terrorism. In Colorado Springs, local officials resisted the state’s Red Flag Law to create a “Second Amendment sanctuary”. The shooter was able to buy a gun even after a 2021 bomb threat arrest.

The midterm elections won’t end! The crucial runoff election between Raphael Warnock and Herschell Walker is fast approaching, even as Republicans attempt to push it away. It is looking good... but you know about polls by now, don’t you? Old white guys are set to screw it up as usual.

David Waldman leads us into the KITM Eastern Orthodox Canadian Thanksgiving Week solo, as Greg Dworkin had his Raft o’ Stories™ blown off course and is busy with a soccer ball and the Professor to chart a course over to Wednesday:

Again, we start the week under the cloud of another mass shooting. It’s also a hate crime, and of course, a terrorist attack. Even when mass killers use a knife, they go with military-grade weaponry.

Donald Trump was all Fake News when he predicted that Elon Musk would drop to his knees for him.  Nope... Musk got on all fours like a dog and begged, “Please Mr. Trump, sir, please return to Twitter”. Unfortunately for Elon, the only thing Donald covets more than other people’s money, is other people’s pain. Elon Musk only wanted to Twitter and chill, baby. Oh well, time to check out YouTube.

Even as president, Trump wanted websites to offer only entertainment value.

A Republican operative accepted Trump campaign money from Russians and pocketed three quarters of it. The only thing Trump could have against that, is that it wasn’t him doing it. Middle Eastern governments should have guessed that once they invited Jared Kushner in, the rest of the Trump family would follow.

Remember when Supreme Court leaks were a big deal? Now Samuel Alito has been unmasked as leaking anti-abortion decisions as early as 2014. This isn’t the second leak. The Supreme Court leaks like dollar store pull-ups.

We now enter the Marjorie Taylor Greene era of American governing. Who knows, Marge might give Donald a hand, but really, what’s in it for her? Greene might need to think about moving toward the future.

An Arizona Republican just elected became an election denier and will deny any job obligations until there’s another election.

The annual United Nations global climate summit, COP27, decided on creating a fund to help poor nations deal with climate change. US red states facing lower heating bills and longer growing seasons probably weren’t consulted.

David Waldman refers to himself in the third person at the beginning of today’s KITM show summary! No particular reason for it, though.

Twitter continues to implode, but not this way.

New Members-elect are in DC for orientation. Gen-Z (and Gen-Z leaning) Members finally learn the answer to question, “Why do I need to learn to write in cursive?”

We’ve managed to avoid discussing the FTX collapse because there may be no point in understanding it, anyway. But today we learn it may be worse than Enron, and also perhaps particularly smarmy.

Up in New Hampshire (down, if you’re in Maine, or Canada, or if you’re Santa Claus), the mother of all electoral ties is in need of a solution. We’ve all heard that these things can sometimes be settled by coin tosses or drawing straws. (Not in New Hampshire, though.) But did you know that in addition to being election denialists, Republicans are also straw-drawing denialists, when convenient?

This has implications for The Nightmare Scenario™ in Congress this January. How so? It’s time to start reviewing the process for selecting a Speaker of the House, in all its weedy glory.

Only then can one truly imagine the ways things can go wrong, and how far they can go!

David Waldman takes a break from his crazy day to chat with Greg Dworkin and us for a couple of hours. 

Today, all eyes were on Nancy Pelosi, and what she would decide to do in the face of a Republican majority in Congress. Pelosi decided to step down as leader, but to stay in Congress. Republicans who hate functioning government, were happy to see a person who made it function so well leave. Marjorie Taylor Greene is now the face of Congressional governing standards.

During the lame duck session Democrats hope to check off an item on their 1835 agenda, the seating of a Cherokee nation delegate.

Today, no eyes were on Donald Trump, at least not enough to keep him from becoming a three-time loser and torpedoing the GQP’s chances of winning future elections. Trump makes Mike Pence look like a hot prospect. Hopefully the media has smartened up on how to cover him. Meanwhile, Donald ran into a bit of bad luck on his lawsuit against Letitia James, when his case landed before a judge who knows law and understands Donald Trump.

Michael Flynn, spy, must testify in Georgia’s election interference investigation. Ted Cruz, swine, met with gun control activists, probably because he hadn’t disgusted anyone that morning.

Republicans in many states are voting to restrict their ability to vote on things. Who knows why people do things like that to themselves.

David Waldman and Greg Dworkin embrace hijinks, eschew shenanigans, as per usual on this Wednesday’s KITM:

MAGAGA! Perhaps you heard, the Former Guy says he intends not to be former. Mostly, he intends not to be convicted. Either way, not many are convinced... Maybe, Madison Cawthorn. This time, no more Mr. Nice Guy. Believe it or not, someone on Team Trump remembered to file the paperwork.

That other Donald Trump in high heels, Kari Lake, might as well run as Trump’s running mate, as she hasn’t anything else to do. Kari’s supporters amassed in the dozen in her support.

This time, Republicans might understand what they are in for. The mainstream media seems to, so far. Facebook, however, doesn’t want any of your fact-checking.

John Fetterman is turning heads in sharp business couture at his new job. Fetterman flipped Pennsylvania by flipping Trump voters.

Democrats achieved relative success in the midterms by reminding voters that Republicans are conservative. It’s about time Dems acted like they want the job. The Democratic party will try bipartisanship one more time while they can, to address the debt limit.