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In an interview aired Monday on right wing Spanish-language network Americano Media, fat former President Trump finally addressed Paul Pelosi getting his head smashed in by a MAGA freak who had been indoctrinated into the MAGA-QAnon cult, the New York Post reports.

“With Paul Pelosi, that’s a terrible thing, and with all of them, that’s a terrible thing. Look at what happened to San Francisco generally. Look at what’s happening in Chicago. It was far worse than Afghanistan,” said the Orange God Emperor, as if two American cities whose metro regions together kicked in over $1 trillion to the US GDP in 2021 are in “far worse” shape than a country where the Taliban summarily executes people for minor infractions of Sharia law.

A new set of surveys from the New York Times/Siena College finds Arizona Dem Senator Mark Kelly leading Beijing Blake Masters 51 to 46 percent, Pennsylvania Dem Lt Gov John Fetterman ahead of New Jersey man Mehmet Oz 49 to 44 percent in the Senate race, Dem Georgia Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock leading deadbeat dad Herschel Walker 49 to 46 percent, and Nevada Dem Senator Catherine Cortez Masto tied with former state AG Adam Laxalt at 47 percent.

“The results indicate a deeply volatile and unpredictable Senate contest: More people across three of the states surveyed said they wanted Republicans to gain control of the Senate, but they preferred the individual Democratic candidates in their states – a sign that Republicans may be hampered by the shortcomings of their nominees,” the Times writes in their analysis.

Brazilian dictator Jair Bolsonaro still has yet to concede, or speak publicly at all for that matter, following his defeat to leftist former President Luiz Lula on Sunday night, Reuters reports.

A new radio ad paid for by a group led by Trump administration official xenophobe Stephen Miller airing in Georgia and the Florida panhandle claims the Biden Administration is undertaking racism against white people, claiming that out-of-context statements prove its claims, Politico reports.

Produced by Miller’s America First Legal group, which seems to finance white nationalist messaging and legal efforts, explicitly claims that the government is putting minorities first for aid packages, though the quotations used were said in the context that coronavirus aid was unfairly distributed and more needed to go to vulnerable communities.

When did racism against white people become OK?  Joe Biden put white people last in line for Covid relief funds. Kamala Harris said disaster aid should go to non-white citizens first. Liberal politicians block access to medicine based on skin color. Progressive corporations, airlines, universities all openly discriminate against white Americans. Racism is always wrong. The left’s anti-white bigotry must stop. We are all entitled to equal treatment under the law.

Flying into a rage over leftist former President Luiz Lula’s win in Brazil, alcoholic Nazi Steve Bannon said loser Jair Bolsonaro “cannot concede, impossible, Screw Biden, screw the State Department, screw the CIA, f*ck ’em.” He said that “we have to outvote the machines, we have to be in the counting room… This is why we need people to get out the vote, force multiplier.”

One-time Trump lawyer turned defendant John Eastman has asked the US Circuit Court of Appeals to order the January 6th House Select Committee to destroy or return emails Eastman provided to it in accordance with a court order, but he asked the committee to not look at them until he appealed the lower court ruling, Politico reports.

A court order required Eastman to give the committee investigating the Republican-led domestic terrorist attack on Congress eight emails that U.S. District Court Judge David Carter characterized as likely describing a crime in which Eastman and Donald Trump committed.  Eastman had provided a link to the emails to the committee, but requested the committee not access the emails until Eastman filed an appeal of Carter’s ruling.

The committee decided to deny the request, saying the documents were turned over after the deadline and that Carter denied Eastman’s earlier request to reconsider.  Committee staffers accessed and downloaded the emails, Eastman said in a new court filing, but could destroy the information, a request that is unlikely to be granted by the court.

“I send my congratulations to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on his election to be the next president of Brazil following free, fair, and credible elections. I look forward to working together to continue the cooperation between our two countries in the months and years ahead,” wrote President Biden in a statement on Sunday, importantly solidifying US recognition of the victory. Fat former President Trump has yet to “congratulate” his buddy Jair Bolsonaro on his “win.”

Police searching the grounds of Paul and Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home found an unspecified number of zip ties after Paul Pelosi was held hostage and attacked by a QAnon believer demanding to see his wife, the Speaker of the House, NBC News reports.

Police have yet to specify why David DePape, a 42-year-old man from Berkeley, broke into the Pelosi house Saturday morning.  Paul Pelosi tricked the intruder into letting him use the bathroom, where he was charging his phone, allowing him to call police.  When officers arrived on scene, Pelosi and DePape were fighting for control of a hammer, which DePape got and used to strike Pelosi.  He had surgery Saturday for a fractured skull and injuries to his hand and arm; his doctors expect him to fully recover.

As the Washington Post reports, right-wing media and anarchist-minded individuals like Elon Musk continue to spread uninformed and debunked conspiracy theories regarding another violent attack by a follower of QAnon.  Musk retweeted a claim from a far-right blog claiming Paul Pelosi met his attacker at a gay bar and that this was a rendezvous gone wrong.  Others have claimed this was a false flag operation to help Democrats in the midterms.

Leading Brazilian Datafolha projects former Brazilian President Luiz Lula has defeated incumbent autocratic President Jair Bolsonaro, Reuters reports. Lula was sitting at a full percentage point lead with 90% of the vote tallied Sunday evening, according to an update from Bloomberg as they tracked an election that came much closer than had been expected over the course of the year and the first round in which Lula led with 48 percent to Bolsonaro’s 43 percent.

UPDATE 10/30/2022 6:59 PM EDT: Brazil’s electoral court has seen enough. Leftist former Brazilian President Luiz Lula defeats incumbent far-right fascist President Jair Bolsonaro.

This is a BIG notch on the old shillelagh for @NationalZeroUSA on Twitter. What prompted the block is unclear, as Greenwald’s fanboys piled on NZ in a Sunday morning melee that started when we challenged his “just asking questions” bullshit about Paul Pelosi getting his head smashed in with a hammer. It may have been far down thread when we responded to one of the MAGA tweeters who suggested suspect David DePape was a male prostitute hired by Pelosi with “Paul Pelosi is worth $120 million… If he is into gay escorts then why the hell would he picking up a 42 year old slob and not a 19 year old Brazilian hunk?” We should try to be a little more subtle when throwing shade.

The Brazilian Supreme Court justice who chairs the country’s election authority on Sunday ordered the head of the federal highway police department to answer widespread allegations his cops were gaming the election for fascist President Jair Bolsonaro by stopping buses driving voters to polling places in regions that heavily support his rival Luiz Lula, the New York Times reports.

Dozens of reports and images circulated on social media showed cops stopping people for questioning and setting up roadblocks across Brail’s northeast, a stronghold of support for the leftist former President Lula. Just for comparison, during the first round of the presidential election on Sunday, October 2nd, the patrol conducted 300 stops of buses on Brazil’s federal highways.

This Sunday, during the runoff, that number nearly doubled to 550 stops recorded, a source within the federal highway police that had access to real-time data told the Times on the condition of anonymity. Further raising alarms is the fact that the highway patrol chief, used his official Instagram account to urge people to vote for the far right incumbent. What a fucking asshole.

I just noticed – @elonmusk deleted his tweet about Paul Pelosi to Hillary.

Never cave to the leftist mob. NEVER!

— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) October 30, 2022

For context: On Sunday morning Elon Musk replied to Hillary Clinton’s tweet condemning the attack on Paul Pelosi with “There is a tiny possibility there might be more to this story than meets the eye” and a link to a story on a bullshit right wing website suggesting David DePape was actually a male escort hired by Pelosi. Never mind that the website, the Santa Monica Observer, once pushed a story that Hillary had been replaced by a body double during her 2016 debate with Trump, or that the Pelosi article said shitty Trump lawyer Harmeet Dhillon is the chair of the Republican National Committee. It’s just that since it said what the fanboys wanted to hear and that Musk walked it back is “caving to the left” in MAGAmerica.

Thousands of Italian fascists flocked to Benito Mussolini’s grave on Sunday, commemorating the 100th anniversary the dictator’s march on Rome, the AP reports. The crowd in Predappio, Mussolini’s birthplace and gravesite in Italy’s north, was estimated to be between 2,000 and 4,000, a much larger turnout than in previous years, likely owing to the centennial and the recent ascension of far-right, basically fascist, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. This, we remind readers, is now what’s happening in the same country that 77 years ago hung Mussolini’s corpse upside down at a gas station after he was executed. The body was then punched in the face so many times that the US military just had to take people’s word for it that the body was really Mussolini’s.

Fun fact: Learning of Mussolini’s fate was what drove Hitler over the edge. Just two days later he committed suicide, having ordered his troops to burn his body immediately afterward. They did, depriving the Soviets a chance to do the same thing or worse to Adolf. Supposedly they kept what was left in storage until the 1970s and then buried it somewhere in East Germany.

CBS News’s Battleground tracker update forecasts a 228-207 GOP House majority after the midterms at current trends, but ran a high youth-turnout scenario into their model, finding that Dems would hang on to a 218-217, single seat majority in the chamber if voters 18-30 turn out on election day at the same levels they did in 2018. “We ran our estimates through a turnout model in which younger voters turn out in much higher numbers than our baseline model indicates, bailing Democrats out late in the game. This would run counter to what we’ve seen in recent weeks, both from what young voters tell us in surveys and from early ballot returns, but it isn’t impossible. It’s more akin to what happened four years ago, with voters under 45 and people of color voting in droves,” writes CBS’s election jargon egghead team.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1586693291231178753

Voters in Brazil head to the polls Sunday for the hotly contested runoff election between fascist autocrat current President Jair Bolsonaro and former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva after Lula took 48% of the vote to Bolsonaro’s 43% in the first round on October 2, the AP reports.

Typically the candidate who leads in the first round ends up winning the runoff in Brazil, but Sao Paulo Mackenzie Presbyterian University political scientist Rodrigo Prando won’t rule out Bolsonaro closing the gap against Lula. “Politically, Bolsonaro is stronger than had been imagined. Mathematically, Lula is in front,” said Prando. For his part Bolsonaro hedged against a possible loss by continuing his “Stop the Steal”-style bullshit which definitely helped land him an endorsement from his hero, disgraced former US President Trump.

Asked by an Israeli reporter to comment on his anti-Semitic attacks on Democratic Pennsylvania gubernatorial nominee Josh Shapiro–claiming Shapiro sending his children to a religious school meant he didn’t “like the rest of us” (paraphrasing), and his association with white nationalist, anti-Semitic platform Gab, for example–GOP nominee Doug Mastriano hesitates at the microphone, so his wife, Rebecca, steps in… with a doozy:

“I-I would like to make a comment on this,” Rebecca starts as Doug happily avoids the issue of his anti-Semitism.  “Y’know, I-I’m just gonna say this as a family, we so much love Israel, and I’m gonna say we probably love Israel more than a lot of Jews do, I do have to say that because, and the reason that I say that is because I’ve given and done, we’ve given for (huff) at least ten years to outreach to Israel and Jerusalem.  Um, we have, I have visited, uhm, Israel, um, we say for five years.  We’re just an average family.  We’re not wealthy, wealthy people.”

Pro-Israel does not necessarily mean you’re not anti-Semitic, particularly when you’re one of the so-called “christian” sect who thinks Israel must exist before your savior re-enters the picture riding on the back of a white stallion and handing out Starbucks gift cards or something.

King Misuzulu Sinqobile kaZwelithini, known as Misuzulu Zulu, officially assumed the crown of the Zulu nation, becoming the ninth monarch in the first coronation since South Africa became a democracy in 1994, the BBC reports.  The ceremony also marks the official recognition of his reign by the South African government.

The 48-year-old Misuzulu succeeds King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu, who ruled the nation for 53 years.  While Misuzulu is Goodwill’s third oldest son, he is the first son of Goodwill’s Great Wife, Queen Mantfombi Dlamini, who died last year one month after her husband’s death.  Misuzulu’s status as heir to the crown had been negotiated among the various houses.

The first King of the Zulus was Shaka Zulu, who united various tribes in southern Africa in 1816, turning the nation into a warrior people and shifting warfare among tribes from largely ceremonial practices with minimum loss of life to full warfare leading to the massacre of enemies.

The 75-year-old man who held the dubious distinction of being the oldest person still held at Guantanamo Bay by the US military was released and returned to Pakistan after nineteen years of imprisonment, CBS News reports.

Legally living in the United States at the time of his capture, Saifullah Paracha was captured by US forces in 2003 after being lured to Thailand with the promise of business meeting with executives from the retail store Kmart; he was kidnapped in Thailand, flown to Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan and then transferred to Gitmo.

Paracha was never charged with a crime.  US officials claim he had met Osama bin Laden as part of a Pakastani delegation and helped to facilitate financial transactions for al Qaeda.