Many top news stories happened over the holidays. So, it’s time for a News Roundup 2024: The December Edition.
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Over the past few weeks, people have been talking about President Joe Biden, Luigi Mangione, and orbs/drones in New Jersey that are potentially from outer space. Well, that’s our cue to take an in-depth look at all the news that’s been going on and what we may have missed.
LUIGI GOES TO JAIL
In the first News Roundup Story 2024, killer and social media heartthrob Luigi Mangione was finally extradited to New York City to stand 1st-degree murder charges for killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. However, Luigi arrived for his day in court in style.
During his perp-walk with the NYPD, Mangione was seen sporting an expensive designer sweater, a crisp haircut, and freshly threaded eyebrows. However, just when you thought he couldn’t appear more handsome, reports claimed that his sharp look wasn’t just for the cameras but actually a direct message to correctional officers.
Apparently, his sharp, new look is said to be a ‘prison-style’ statement that he is “special” and under protection by some very important people.
“Luigi’s taper fade is a signal to the correctional officers not to beat him up,” a woman revealed in a TikTok video. “It’s a signal to the correctional officers that the other inmates care about him and have his back.”
Who knew?
BIDEN’S MENTAL DECLINE
It probably goes without saying, but President Joe Biden is a huge topic in our News Roundup 2024.
In a damning expose’ from The Wall Street Journal, reports are that President Biden has been in deep mental decline for a lot longer than the American people ever knew.
“A sign that the bruising presidential schedule needed to be adjusted for Biden’s advanced age had arisen early on — in just the first few months of his term,” WSJ reported. “Administration officials noticed that the president became tired if meetings went long and would make mistakes.”
It continued: “If the president was having an off day, meetings could be scrapped altogether. On one such occasion, in the spring of 2021, a national security official explained to another aide why a meeting needed to be rescheduled. ‘He has good days and bad days, and today was a bad day so we’re going to address this tomorrow,’ the former aide recalled the official saying.”
Other publications pointed out Mr. Biden’s stumbles and fumbles that should have been a clue to his rapidly declining mental health. These reports included his increasingly raspy voice (which prompted aides to hire a vocal coach), his continuous cough, the way he introduced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as ‘President Putin’ at the NATO summit in July, stumbling up the stairs of Air Force One on multiple occasions, and his embarrassing fall from a bicycle that was stationary.
Word on the street is that the president has been senile or very near it from the early days of his term — and that the country has been run by senior aides on his behalf.
Hmmm…
BIDEN’S FINAL DAYS
Despite reports of his mental decline, President Biden has been hell-bent over the past month “boxing in” Donald Trump to limit the many ways he could create irreparable damage after inauguration day.
According to The New York Times, Mr. Biden effectively undercut Trump’s plans to kill everyone on death row by commuting the sentences of 37 men last week who were set to be executed in 2025. The president didn’t pardon the men, but instead changed their verdicts to lifetime sentences without parole. The move will still maintain their guilt but spare their lives.
The Washington Post has reported that Mr. Biden is also considering relieving student loans for borrowers over the age of 60, since (because of huge interest fees) they may never be able to repay the loans in full during their remaining lifetimes. Only time will tell if Republicans or right-leaning courts will fight him one last time on his attempts to erase debt for specific borrowers.
ALIEN DRONES?
For the past several weeks, giant orbs have lit up the night skies over New Jersey. Additionally, dozens of unidentified drones the size of automobiles have been seen flying over residential areas and backyards — and were being mysteriously shot down by the orbs.
According to PEOPLE, a New Jersey naval station confirmed that “multiple” drones breached its airspace earlier this month. However, law enforcement and government officials maintained that there was no evidence the orbs or drones posed a threat to national security.
“We have no evidence at this time that the reported drone sightings pose a national security of public safety threat or have a foreign nexus,” officials said in a statement. “The FBI, DHS, and our federal partners in close coordination with the New Jersey State Police continue to deploy personnel and technology to investigate this situation and confirm whether the reported drone flights are actually drones or are instead manned aircraft or otherwise inaccurate sightings.”
Not everyone was convinced.
NJ resident Phil Doyle told NBC News that he saw dozens of drones fly over his home in Oak Ridge.
“One goes over and then another,” Doyle told the station. “It’s not 2 or 3 a night, it’s 30 or 50 a night. They have lights on them so you can see them.”
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy was so concerned that he requested direct assistance from President Biden in identifying the source of the orbs and drones.
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson said he was scheduled to receive a classified briefing about the strange sightings in the sky. Democratic Sens. Cory Booker and Andy Kim of New Jersey and Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York all demanded that Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and Federal Aviation Administration head Michael Whitaker provide them with a briefing on the drones and unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).
In an interesting twist, a man named “Will” who identified himself as a US Army official appeared on TikTok to alert citizens that although the drones are the work of the federal government, the orbs are other-worldly.
“There are man-made drones and we’re doing the launching,” Will said. “Now what you do have to be concerned of… is the orbs that’s inside the sky that y’all see that’s going and stuff that’s shooting down drones.”
He added: “Aliens are real and we will have to evacuate sooner than later. I don’t know where you’re gonna go. I don’t know if you gonna survive. But it is what it is. It’s 2024 and it’s the end times.”
Truth or fiction? Or, could it be that after years of science-fiction promises, the world is really about to learn we’re not alone?
DEATH OF A PRESIDENT
And, the sad story of News Roundup 2024 is the death of former US President Jimmy Carter.
The former governor of Georgia, 39th US President, human rights advocate, and Nobel Peace Prize winner passed away on Sunday after a long battle with cancer and after being in hospice care for a remarkable 2 years. He lived a long and blessed life and, at the age of 100, became the oldest living president in US history.
May he rest in peace.
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News Roundup 2024 – December edition.
Because I no longer believe anything coming from Our government or the news media, I can’t help but consider that the unidentified drones may be just more theater designed to keep Us (the American people) distracted and fearful 😨 so that we Don’t notice how bad we’re being screwed by the Rich, Super-rich and Powerful.
Former Pres. Jimmy Carter was, indeed, a great man. What he achieved after his presidency is worthy of All the recognition and Honor he was given prior to his passing, and certainly given since his passing!
May he Rest in Peace.