David Waldman takes another whack at the chaos before the weekend.

Indiana rejected the Gop plan to rig their 6-4 voting Gop state into a 9-0 seat state, returning it to a more modest 7-2 rigging. This makes Donald K. Trump look like an old, weak, flaccid, has-been. SAD! Donald shook his tiny fist at Senate President Pro Tempore Rodric Bray. Indiana's lieutenant governor says Trump threatened the entire state's funding, while Indiana's governor remains loyally henching for Trump.

There is a simple, legal way Trump could steal the midterms, but David assures us that they'd have to be really brazen to attempt that… Chris Murphy explains how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends. Trump is asserting executive privilege to thwart his Jan. 6 lawsuit.

Trump and paperwork, man! Trump purports to have pardoned Tina Peters but did he really? This time it doesn't matter because he can't, or perhaps it doesn't matter because he will anyway after he copters in Sly Stallone to bust her out.

The DOJ failed to indict Letitia James… again… and again, and probably soon, again. The DOJ also pressured lawyers to "find" evidence that UCLA had illegally tolerated antisemitism.

Abrego Garcia has been released from prison, and one day later remains free, at least at this moment, as hundreds of people in and out of government labor to take him out. Now they say the scrivener must have preferred not to add that final order of removal, as often happens, you know. The scrivener must have also slipped up on exactly where to put Lindsey Halligan.

Critics of Elon Musk's Twitter could be in trouble, but who isn't a critic of Elon Musk's Twitter? Border patrol will first need to review 5 years of your aunt's cat pictures before she'll be allowed in to visit.

Meanwhile, friend of Trump, hater of women Andrew Tate had several doors opened for him.

David Waldman and Greg Dworkin count down the days... to any holiday you choose, as long as it improves upon today.

Ahrrr! There be pirates! And they be us! Donald K. Trump notes that it was a really big boat, and that it had some oil for him. Venezuela notes that this traditionally is the final step before the ground invasion. And just when Gops had solved the previous war crimes hiccup too.

Next stop, Columbia. Don't worry, thanks to the Pentagon, Don Jr. can take the price hit.

Republicans in revolt. Mike Johnson is finding himself afflicted with chronic painful discharge petitions. A lot of that burning sensation he's feeling is Marjorie Taylor Green. The Senate is set to vote on dueling health care proposals in order to protect their phony baloney jobs. That's a lot of harrumphs. Donald gets off on their fighting. Gops that don't gerrymander might see some not so friendly fire, as Trump is placing targets on each one of them personally.

In comparison, the Democratic party is doing fine, flipping a bunch of Gop seats, and planning to flip a bunch more. Trump is doing an A +++++ job on creating the tariff-based misery that's delivering voters to the polls.

In an early Christmas gift exchange, Trump's FIFA award has been followed by some nice pardons.

A federal judge has ordered the immediate release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from immigration detention, while hundreds in the DOJ work to regift him to a yet to be announced recipient before Christmas.

Greg Dworkin told you Monday that there'd be elections Tuesday. David Waldman told you Tuesday that Greg would tell you about those elections on Wednesday. It's Wednesday, and I don't need to tell you what the topic is, do I?

Democrat Eileen Higgins beat Trump pick Emilio González in the runoff for Miami mayor, the first Dem win in 30 years, while Rolando Escalona ended the Carollo dynasty with nearly 60% of the vote. The Democratic party ponders whether to clone Higgins or Mamdani this year... But that's not all! Georgia Democrats flipped a Republican state House seat that Gops dummymandered. Thanks Donald! Sadly, most of this is happening because of the economy. Even more sadly, most of this is not happening because of the war crimes, rampant corruption, collapse of democracy, etc.

Donald K. Trump kicked off his "affordability hoax" hoax tour, which could be over quick if someone doesn't start handing him some peace prizes. Trump might let the woman who won the Nobel lead his upcoming bombing runs.

The Trump doctrine is to pardon and reward those who Biden dislikes and love him and blow up the rest. So simple a lackey can handle that while he naps. Political union with Russia, to own the globalists! ™ is more than a slogan, it is official US policy, with Russia leading the way.

Meanwhile, Tennessee Gop Andy Ogles declares civil war on liberal judges.

David Waldman bridges the gap between pre- and post-election analysis days to devote today's KITM to the consequences of bad voting decisions.

The Trump Supreme Court is set to overturn the 20th century, and probably a chunk of the 19th. We were pre-wrong on whether Trump could do no wrong, and soon we'll be pre-wrong thinking that he can't eliminate those who won't do wrong for him.

Paramount, with Saudis', Qataris' and Emiratis' money, wants to buy Warner Bros Discovery and CNN and Time Warner and etc... So does Netflix. Of course, now, the president picks the winner... so who will he be choosing? In case you care to place a bet, SIL Jared Kushner has taken time off from his measuring the drapes in Gaza to pop out of Mohammed bin Salman's bisht pocket on behalf of Paramount. Even if Jared loses, he can sue daddy, so it's win-win all around.

Trump is giving corporate farmers $12 billion in taxpayer money, but actual rural residents will have to go to the big city for a doctor.

Nobody does anything for free, at least in Trump world, and it never matters what you did to get in jail, it's what you do when you get out that concerns Donald. Trump does not owe Marjorie Taylor Greene nor CBS. Today, as always, they owe him.

David Waldman is back to the KITM World Headquarters Microphone after a weekend of less doofus behavior by Donald K. Trump. Of course, all things being relative. Greg Dworkin is here to offer his pre-election foresight ahead of his post-election hindsight this Wednesday.

Republicans in rupture! If Republicans want to learn things the hard way, why turn them down? A tsunami is building, and not the scary kind that shows up in Japan, but the kind that has Gops stacking sandbags.

Miami hasn't had a Democratic mayor in almost 30 years, but that is looking to change. It might be a change in the US political "mood", or it could be that Gop voters are tired of seeing friends and family being shipped out of town.

Latino Trump voters are having some sense pounded into them by ICE agents. Zohran Mamdanimentum might carry some NYC immigrants out of danger, but elsewhere immigrants are being plucked out of line by the nation to which they were just about to pledge allegiance. Trump hopes to ship half of Europe down to El Salvador soon.

Trump can't sell Americans on his "affordability is a hoax" hoax, probably because people aren't dumb, and they'd have to be pretty dumb to not notice their health care and homes disappearing. Donald will slip farmers $12 billion in taxpayer money to look the other way. Even Steven KG Bannon can see the Trump reserve of stupid people becoming depleted.

Trump's own mortgages match his description of mortgage fraud. That's just him being smart.

Tom Cotton envies those that can hang out on their boat in the middle of a beautiful Caribbean night, just looking up at the stars and drones, not a care in the world except for funding/fighting their narcoterrorist overthrow of the United States. That's the life!

David Waldman presses the kinks out of the chaos one more time this week before we briefly part company.

The newly released "Donald K Trump National Security Strategy" breaks the news to NATO and others that all of those "treaties", "alliances" and "pacts" we share are beginning to feel a bit restrictive lately and perhaps we should all start seeing some more racially, theocratically pure, and profitable dictatorships for a while. We certainly still desire a committed relationship of course, but the kind in which others should never trust us.

Trump is the youngest president who ever lived. He's the most president the US has ever had. Mean people won't let him have everything. They are nasty people. Nice people give him things. They are great people.

You can bet that CNN will report on how you can bet on anything CNN reports.

Military officials showed lawmakers video of the two shipwreck survivors who sat out in the water 40 minutes before anyone had realized the danger presented by the piece of boat that they were floating on and vaporized it, and subsequently, them.

Gop Cory Mills might be an awful congressman, an awful tenant, and an awful human being, but he turns out to be an awful bad guy as well. On the other hand, Kash Patel manages to do all of his stupid things ineptly.

David Waldman and Greg Dworkin did it again! For a couple of hours today.

The U.S. Institute of Peace has been renamed as the U.S. Institute of Irony. The Department of Defense is now Pete Hic! Hegseth's House of Murders. Hungover from the fog of war, Hegseth immediately initiated a strategic inverted retrograde disengagement maneuver, tossing Admiral Alvin Holsey overboard. Admiral Frank "Mitch" Bradley is next in line and is scheduled to fall on his sword at approximately 14:00 today. Palantir is scheduled to make more money at that time.

Republicans in Revolt! Gops brandishing torches, pitchforks and discharge petitions seek to topple Mike Johnson. Well, they really want Trump, but he scares them and no one is scared of Mike. Gop women feel the most rage, but don't want to come off sounding woke, or... feminist. No, Elise Stefanik will NOT lower her voice.

Henry Cuellar shows that it's so easy to play Trump into a pardon, even a Democrat can do it.

In the ACA debate, Gops propose Obamacare, but bad. Dems counterproposal is Obamacare, but longer.

The pendulum is swinging back, right on time for the midterms. Except that no other president has been this disliked. The economy has rarely hit this many, especially against those constituents of the party in power. And that party in power has probably has never sucked this hard, nor have they promised to learn so little from their mistakes.

Vladimir Putin continues to humiliate Donald K. Trump, but that's only because Trump demands to be humiliated.

They finally arrested some guy for placing pipe bombs ahead of January 6, and the guy that they arrested is not Marge, sadly lowering the chance that she might go to prison, on that charge.

On today's KITM, David Waldman tells it like it is. Today, Greg Dworkin also tells it like it is, at the same time!

Donald K. Trump and Pete Hegseth thought they were getting away with murder, but might have taken it a bit too far, with their double and quadruple taps on shipwrecked survivors in the Caribbean, an act not only traditionally frowned upon in the US, but quite possibly illegal according to White House lawyers and Newsmax pundits. (Megyn Kelly doesn't disagree but wishes those drowning had been dismembered first.) These are the exact stupid rules of engagement that Hegseth has railed against for decades and told soldiers under his command in Iraq to ignore. They are also the same war crimes that he wanted prosecuted under Obama. In his defense, Pete explains that these things are sometimes difficult to discern while looking through the bottom of a Fireball bottle.

Gops win in Tennessee, but you don't hear a lot of cheering from them, as the points swing away from them was larger than their margin. Districts will need to be very red to keep from flipping blue. Gops will work to chop up the blue cities before midterms.

In Georgia, Roswell's Mayor was forced into a runoff as both council incumbents lose. No one is more confused by this than the AI describing it.

Republicans are in disarray. New York Gop Elise Stefanik is in a snit against RINO Mike Johnson.

Donald K. Trump gives 200%, 300%, 400%, 500%, 600%, 700%, 800%, maybe 900% in his job. Trump even works while he sleeps, and vice versa.

Who needs affordability? Only poor people! Who needs poor people? Not Trump!

Trump says that Somalis are lazy, thieving, constantly complaining, garbage people from Hell. MAGA has always said that. However, it's only been lately that MAGA has thought to call them "Somalis".

David Waldman knows all, reveals about two hours' worth, on today's KITM.

Is Pete Hegseth more sober, or less, today? Pete has Donald K. Trump's full support, which has got to worry anybody. Now, Admiral Frank Bradley has Pete's full support. Admiral Alvin Holsey retired before anyone's full support got to him. Each of these people really wanted ALL of the Caribbean "suspects" turned into a thick red mist… but they didn't mean ALL of them… Ok, "all" of them… but all of them simultaneously… They see this as a problem of not using big enough missiles. Trinidad is installing a US military radar installation in order to guide B-2s in locating some more suspects.

Speaking of extrajudicial killings of civilians, that's what Afghan "Zero Units" were known for. DC shooter Rahmanullah Lakanwal was a US trained member, then abandoned by the US government, really never a solid plan.

Speaking of sleeper cells, DOGE isn't dead, they are now the Deep State.

Speaking of John Durham/Nancy Pelosi/Nicolás Maduro/Michelle Obama conspiracies, that's what Trump posted only last night! There's 22 Trump gift shopping days till Christmas, then 1122 after that!

David Waldman and Greg Dworkin help us start the month, week and day off right.

You read it here first! (Unless you read it over at The Intercept a few hours earlier.) The United States… that's us... We blew up a boat with 11 people in it, then we circled around and we murdered all the survivors. We have murdered at least 83 in boats… Most of the world understands that is wrong, and we might have stopped murdering the swimmers, which we might all agree is somehow even more reprehensible. But we didn't just decide that was bad yesterday, we always knew that was a bad thing to do. Except of course for Pete Hegseth, who we, or at least some of us, hired to not do an evil job. Hic-seth thought that this was really funny at first but sobered up quickly to transfer the blame to his soldiers. Donald K. Trump doesn't know a "Hegseth", but if you write it at the bottom of the check, he'll pardon him.

Juan Orlando Hernández made millions as president, raping Honduras in partnership with El Chapo while creating one of the largest drug-trafficking organizations in the world and was sentenced to 45 years. Oh well.

Alina Habba, one of the biggest Trump's lawyers, is out as U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey. Sure, Kristi Noem disregarded court orders to send Venezuelans to El Salvador, but that wouldn't be against the law if judges didn't say so.

No one needs more ballroom less than Trump and even his architect says so. Do reactionaries just feel left out?

Trump has almost reached Jan 6 levels of unpopularity, and Republicans are feeling it. Another Gop seat could be flipped in Tennessee tomorrow, as they plan to redistrict Nashville away. One Republican Senator in Indiana drew the line on Trump insulting his daughter, while another wasn't swayed by swatting and doxxing. and yet another by a pipe bomb. Meanwhile, Troy Nehls of Texas feels now should be when he spends more time with his family.