Highlights of the News

ITEM 1: The NFL had a game in Munich on Sunday. The crowd sang Country Roads. 

Danke, München.

Outkick explained, "Each year, from late September to the first weekend in October, upwards of six million people gather in Munich to consume nearly more than a million liters of beer at the world’s largest Oktoberfest. The crowd that gathers is international, so while there are plenty of sing-a-longs to German music, a few American hits also get their play. John Denver is one of them.

"They know every word in Munich and that was evident when the audio cut out and the fans went a capella."

ITEM 2: Coin Desk reported on March 14, "Ukraine Partners With FTX, Everstake to Launch New Crypto Donation Website.

"FTX is converting crypto contributions to Ukraine’s war effort into fiat for deposit at the National Bank of Ukraine."

Actually, FTX was laundering money to go in the pockets of the oligarchs who run the kleptocracy with kickbacks to politicians in those NATO countries.

Post Millennial reported, "Ukraine invested into FTX as the Biden administration funneled funds to the invaded nation, and FTX then made massive donations to Democrats in the US."

FTX CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried, donated hundreds of millions of dollars to Democrats before emptying FTX's vault. He's the Jeff Epstein of crypto.

SBF was a major Dem donor, so no investigation

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 13, 2022

But Zero Hedge said, "we do wonder just how much crypto money-laundering between the US and Ukraine will emerge as a result of the bankruptcy discovery, and how long until we can safely claim that 'Sam Bankman didn't fry himself'?"

ITEM 3: Democrats kept the Senate and likely will keep the House. I underestimated Biden who has never lost an election in 50 years of politics.

McCarthy and McConnell are relieved because this leaves them nothing to do but mark time. They learned from the Tea Party. They do not want the power to do anything but cut taxes. That's all they did under President Trump.

ITEM 4: Daily Beast reported, "Romania’s media market is engulfed in a pay-for-play political scandal which includes newsrooms using the brand names of CNN and Newsweek.

"CNN’s Romanian affiliate, Antena 3 CNN, has a TV broadcasting license which precludes it from taking money from political parties outside of designated election campaign periods. Yet that is reportedly exactly what the biggest names in Romanian news media have been doing through their websites, which are unregulated."

CNN has a long history of cozying up to dictators. Only when American soldiers were at the gates of Baghdad in 2003 did CNN admit that its Baghdad bureau was a PR shop for Saddam Hussein.

U.S. law forbids companies from paying foreign bribes.

But the rule of law no longer applies, does it?

ITEM 5: CNBC listed the most regretted college majors.

No. 1 was journalism.

87% regretted getting a J-degree.

Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be journalists.

Let 'em be goat-herders and such.

ITEM 6: Legal Insurrection reported, "In early October, biological girls on a Vermont high school volleyball team were banned from their own locker room for objecting to changing in front of a transgender teammate who is a biological male.

"A couple of weeks later, the father of one of the girls was suspended from his job as a middle school coach for defending his daughter on social media and ‘misgendering’ the trans student.

"Then Alliance Defending Freedom got involved and threatened a First Amendment lawsuit and now the school is backing down."

Fight the bullies!

ITEM 7: I said in 2020: learn to ballot harvest.

Republicans won the popular vote by 6 million votes and lost every tossup house seat.

LOL - okay. 👌 pic.twitter.com/dbAwRy0nGD

— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) November 13, 2022

I say it again in 2022: learn to ballot harvest.

Also, learn how rank voting works. They changed the rules. We must learn them. Crying foul has them laughing all the way to Congress.

ITEM 8: UPI reported, "Slovenia elected its first female president Nataša Pirc Musar on Sunday following a run-off election."

Strange but true: They voted and counted the votes on the SAME DAY!!!

ITEM 9: Just the News reported, "Amid the mixed returns notched by Republicans in what was expected to be a red-wave blowout, the 2022 midterms nevertheless saw notable conservative gains at one key level of local government: school boards. 

"Long a relatively staid and unremarkable quarter of the political world, school boards have increasingly become a nexus of debate and strife, particularly as public educational practices have become more and more publicized throughout the country.

"A growing number of individual parents and parental groups have begun turning up to school board meetings intent on criticizing board members for controversial curriculums and demanding an end to extreme classroom content such as sexually explicit materials and racially inflammatory lessons. 

"Board members and educators have often pushed back, asserting their prerogative as educators to determine what children will learn in the classroom. At times, politicians at higher levels of government have stepped in to the fray. This week, Democratic California Rep. Eric Swalwell openly derided the idea of parental oversight of education, claiming that giving parents more control over school material is the equivalent of putting 'patients in charge of their own surgeries' and 'clients in charge of their own trials.'"

Patients do get to decide if they want surgery and clients do get to decide if they want to go to trial or settle.

ITEM 10: CNBC reported, "Disney plans to institute a targeted hiring freeze as well as some job cuts, according to an internal memo sent to executives."

Learn to code, sure, but really learn not to groom.

ITEM 11: LMT reported, "Twitter verifies account for Jesus Christ."

That's because He no longer fears being put in Twitter jail under Musk management.

ITEM 12: The Epoch Times reported, "Consumer sentiment fell last month while expectations of inflation among the general populace rose, according to a University of Michigan survey that is closely followed by the Federal Reserve.

"The Index of Consumer Sentiment came in at 54.7 in November, down from 59.9 in October, data from the surveys of consumers conducted by the university showed. On a yearly basis, the index decreased by 18.8%. With the decline, the index has erased roughly half the gains recorded since the historic low registered in June."

A slowdown may ease inflation.

ITEM 13: The LA Times said, "Is California on its way to banning rodeos? Behind the growing movement to buck the event."

Maybe they should change the street's name from Rodeo Drive to Petting Zoo Lane.

But while the LA Times and its friends worry about the treatment of cows, thousands of pup tents occupied by drug-addicted humans line the sidewalks of LA. Virtue signaling over hamburger on the hoof does not help them.

ITEM 14: AP reported, "Naomi Biden, the granddaughter of President Joe Biden, and Peter Neal are getting married on the South Lawn on Saturday in what will be the 19th wedding in White House history."

Biden is so excited because he looks forward to the bridal shower.

No one has the heart to tell him what that really means.

ITEM 15: JD Rucker reported, "Bombshell: Body Cam Footage Showed Paul Pelosi Opening the Door so Why Did the Department of Justice Lie About It?"

Everyone knows the answer.

It is the same reason they won't release all the J6 video.

FINALLY, in case you missed it, "If I Were The Devil, updated," posted on Substack on Saturday.

https://donsurber.substack.com/p/if-i-were-the-devil-updated