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Habing gone all in on “the 2020 election was stolen” before winning the New Hampshire Republican Senate primary on September 13th to “the election was not stolen” two days later, Don Bolduc is, for now at least, going with that he’s “not sure” if the election was stolen, the Associated Press reports.

“I can’t say that it was stolen or not. I don’t have enough information. But what I can say is that we have irregularity,” Bolduc said response to a voter’s question on Monday. Bolduc then told another voter he thinks the election was marred by fraud, but that he needed to acknowledge Joe Biden’s legitimacy to hold him accountable for blah blah blah. “We have to be able to say, whether we agree with it or not, a constitutional process was followed to put him in the White House so we can then hold him accountable,” said Bolduc. At no point in the conversation did Bolduc acknowledge the fact that people who believe elections are rigged are among those least likely to actually vote, so he should shut the fuck up about this if he wants any chance at winning.

Asked by MSNBC host Ayman Mohyeldin how a host of Republican candidates are either celebrity dilettantes or simply horrific people, the Democratic Cajun Yoda James Carville notes that stupid people nominate stupid people:  “Y’know, I’ve said it before.  They have a lot of stupid people who vote in their primaries.  They really, they really do.  I’m not, you’re not supposed to say that, but it’s, it’s an obvious fact.  You know when stupid people vote, you know who they nominate?  Other stupid people.   And they have, the Republicans have a problem.  They got very low-quality people that vote in their primaries and they produce predictably very low-quality candidates.  It’s evident right in front of ya.”

Nerdy sleuth Velma, one of the denizens of the Mystery Machine from the Scooby Doo franchise, will explicitly be portrayed as a lesbian who has a crush on a guest character in the upcoming Halloween feature “Trick or Treat Scooby Doo!”  It will surely cause heartache in Right Wing World, even though Velma has been a lesbian icon for decades.  Soon, however, conservatives will whine about the portrayal of a lesbian in a cartoon about a dog that talks to teenagers–albeit with a pretty severe speech impediment.

The newest aircraft carrier in the American fleet, the USS Gerald R. Ford, sailed out of Norfolk Tuesday afternoon on its first deployment, the first ship of a new class of carrier, CNN reports.

The Ford will join up with ships of the US fleet and go on a tour of the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean to join up with some ships from allied navies–a way of showing off the US Navy’s shiny new toy.

Two other Ford-class ships are currently under construction:  the USS Kennedy and the USS Enterprise.  The ships utilize an innovative electromagnetic aircraft launch system, which replaces the traditional steam-powered launch and catch systems with a hi-tech system.  While it failed to perform to spec in early testing, the Navy claims the EMALS has improved to meet requirements.

Extremist psychopath Supreme Court Clarence Thomas has given the Department of Justice until 5pm on Tuesday, October 11th to respond to the petition from disgraced former President Trump to lift the partial stay on the lower court order that had briefly blocked the federal criminal investigation into his theft of top secret documents from the White House, Axios reports.

As legal smart guy Steve Vladeck points out however, lifting the stay wouldn’t actually do anything because the petition seeks relief on some tiny narrow jurisdictional issue that we’re not even going to pretend to understand. “In short, Trump is asking [The Supreme Court] to vacate *part* of the Eleventh Circuit’s stay in the Mar-a-Lago case. In essence, he’s arguing that the 100+ classified documents at issue *should* be part of the pile before Judge Dearie, and that under the 11th Circuit’s stay, they’re not,” Vladeck wrote Tuesday, adding “Critically, he’s *not* arguing that the 11th Circuit was wrong to stay that part of Cannon’s order that *enjoined* DOJ from using those documents. So the relief he’s seeking wouldn’t stop DOJ from continuing to do whatever it’s doing; it would just *also* add to the Dearie mess,” which kind of makes it all sound like Trump’s just doing this simply to make it look like he’s “taking this to the Supreme Court,” but left it up to his lawyers to figure out what to actually write in the petition. This is what they came up with.

“I talked to Herschel about this this morning, and I’ve known Herschel a good while,” expert on how to treat a woman Newt Gingrich stated on Trump advisor Sean Hannity’s Fox program.  “Ah, I think he’s a remarkable person.  I think he’s the most important Senate candidate in the country ’cause he’ll do more to change the Senate just by his presence, by his confidence, by his deep commitment to Christ by the degree to which he has– y’know, he’s been through a long tough period.  He had a lot of concussions coming out of football.  He suffered PTSD.”

The thrice-married Gingrich praising the serial philanderer and hypocrite for his “deep commitment to Christ” certainly warps reality.  I mean, typically a “deep commitment to Christ” means a commitment to following the lessons of Christ, which neither of these men apparently know, not just proclaiming that you’re a “christian.”

And the fact that Walker had “a lot of concussions” and “suffered PTSD”–which I assume Gingrich meant CTE, Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a progressive brain condition that gets worse over time–means that Walker’s brain is scrambled and he may not be able to differentiate his crazed fantasies from reality… which makes him an ideal Republican.

The United States and South Korea conducted four missile launches Tuesday, the second round of test firings in less than 24 hours, done in response to North Korea firing a ballistic missile over Japanese islands on Tuesday (local time), CNN reports.

Hours after North Korea fired its missile Tuesday morning, the US and South Korea conducted an exercise off the west coast of the Korean peninsula in which a South Korean F-15K fighter jet fired to air-to-surface missiles at a pre-determined “virtual target” in the sea.

The latter test firing involved four missiles from the ATACMS system, a mobile surface-to-surface missile launcher that can hit a target up to 200 miles away.

Roger Sollenberger of the Daily Beast hinted that a story Politico posted Tuesday about the campaign team of Texan Herschel Walker, the Republican nominee for Senate from Georgia, knowing about Walker paying for a woman to have an abortion isn’t the same case as he reported yesterday.

“I think you may be jumping the gun saying this is a corroboration of my story.  I have no reason to believe that these allegations are the same allegation,” Sollenberger noted on Chris Hayes’ MSNBC show when discussing a story on Politico about Herschel Walker’s team knowing about the Texan having paid for a woman’s abortion.

“Oh, I see what you’re saying,” host Chris Hayes says.  “It just not clear that the story they [Politico] are concerned about is one and the same as the story you have reported out.”

“It’s highly possible that it is a different allegation,” Sollenberger stated.

A Texas woman was in the process of filing a domestic abuse complaint with Naval Criminal Investigative Service agents when her husband opened fire, killing her as she held their baby, NBC News reports.

Thirty-four year old Takara Hightower was in the living room of her home being interviewed by two NCIS agents when her husband, Gregory Hightower, a 37-year-old Navy recruiter who was in another part of the home in Humble, Texas, came into the room firing a handgun.

Gregory Hightower hit one of the NCIS agents in the stomach and shoulder as the agents returned fire.  Takara Hightower was hit in the back as she tried to flee the house with the couple’s infant child, who was unharmed.  Takara died of her wounds.  Although he was reportedly struck in the stomach, Gregory was able to flee the scene and remains at large.

After Alabama Solicitor General Edmund LaCour attempted to argue that the framers of the Constitution and 14th Amendment did not think in racial terms and that things like the Voting Rights Act was written to be “race-neutral,” the newest justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson tore the man’s argument apart by pointing out the people who wrote those things expressly stated they did so with race in mind.

Unfortunately, although the Alabama lawyer’s argument falls apart on KBJ’s “progressive originalist” challenge, the law allowing the Alabama legislature to gerrymander districts to minimize the voting power of Blacks is likely to be upheld by this SCOTUS thanks to Clarence Thomas et al.

A Michigan judge threw out charges against seven state officials charged with a series of problems with the Flint water system, including the mass lead poisoning and a subsequent contamination of Legionnaire’s disease that led to the deaths of nine people, USA Today reports.

Michigan Circuit Judge Elizabeth Kelly determined that prosecutors improperly used a one-man grand jury–a county circuit court judge unilaterally issued the indictments without a preliminary hearing–to bring charges against the defendants.  Kelly did not dismiss the charges with prejudice, meaning prosecutors can present the cases to an actual grand jury in the future.

The seven charged were:  former state health director Nick Lyon; former chief medical executive Eden Wells; Republican then-governor Rick Snyder’s aide Rich Baird; former senior aide Jarrod Agen; former Flint managers Gerald Ambrose and Darnell Earley; and Nancy Peeler, a health department manager.

Following in the pawsteps of her fellow future loser Republican governor candidate Scott Jensen in Minnesota, Colorado GOP governor nominee Heidi Ganahl told a crowd of fans on Sunday that “kids are identifying as cats… it’s happening all over Colorado and schools are tolerating it,” Forbes reports. It does not appear that Ganahl specifically mentioned the litter boxes during her poorly attended speech. She did however tell a reporter there are “many, many” examples of children identifying as cats in schools without actually providing evidence of said examples.

Disgraced former President Trump on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to vacate the partial stay the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals put on Judge Cannon’s Special Master order which allowed the Justice Department to continue the criminal investigation into the top secret documents he stole.

Yeah, it’s happening. Adios Twitter.

“Herschel Walker is being slandered and maligned by the Fake News Media and obviously, the Democrats. Interestingly, I’ve heard many horrible things about his opponent, Raphael Warnock, things that nobody should be talking about, so we don’t. Herschel has properly denied the charges against him, and I have no doubt he is correct. They are trying to destroy a man who has true greatness in his future, just as he had athletic greatness in his past. It’s very important for our Country and the Great State of Georgia that Herschel Walker wins this Election. With all that Herschel has accomplished, when you come from Georgia, and you see the name Herschel Walker when voting, it will be very hard to resist. Don’t!” says the Orange God Emperor in a statement without actually addressing literally anything about the credible reporting on Walker paying for an abortion.

A lawyer for the House January 6th Select Committee revealed in court Tuesday Arizona Republican Party Chairwoman Kelli Ward pleaded the Fifth in her interview with the committee at some point earlier this year, Politico reports. “Dr. Ward was deposed by the select committee, and she declined to answer on every substantive question and asserted her rights under the Fifth Amendment,” said Committee attorney Eric Columbus to Arizona US District Court Judge Diane Humetewa. The reveal came as Ward tries to appeal Humetewa’s rejection of Ward’s lawsuit against T-Mobile to comply with a subpoena from the Committee for Ward’s phone records.

The only person making money in Joe Biden’s America?

Anthony Fauci.

— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) October 4, 2022

This owns the libs in a way, right? Like it gets them and their mainstream media allies all astonished by Jim Jordan’s “jokes” which then somehow helps amplify the, uh, message behind the joke, which then secretly helps Republicans win elections. That’s how this works, right? Because the left are all out of touch and don’t get the appeal to swing voters and suburban moms who have had enough of Anthony Fauci. Chuck Todd or Axios can probably explain it. They know politics.

A lawyer working for Donald Trump refused his demand that he write a letter to the National Archives and Records Administration declaring that all government records had been return to the Archives because he didn’t believe the statement was true, the Washington Post reports.

In February, attorney Alex Cannon–who has no known relationship with federal judge and Trump advocate Aileen Cannon–reportedly told Trump he would not send the statement because he was not sure the statement was actually true.  It wasn’t:  Trump had thousands of pages of government documents stashed at his Florida geriatric gathering spot, Mar-a-Lago.

Trump ultimately persuaded another lawyer, Christina Bobb, to send the letter; Bobb is now under investigation and has retained a lawyer herself.  Bobb has stated that in signing the document, she was serving as a “custodian of the documents,” not as Trump’s legal counsel, which may be ethical cover for Bobb to cooperate with prosecutors while not violating attorney-client privilege.

“When the Democrats are losing, as they are right now, they lie and cheat and smear their opponents. That’s what’s happening right now. They know they are on the verge of losing the Senate, and they know that Herschel Walker is winning, so they have cranked up the smear machine. This is just like the smears they attempted against Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas, and it will not work. Herschel has denied these allegations and the NRSC and Republicans stand with him, and Georgians will stand with him too.” said white collar criminal NRSC Chairman Rick Scott in response to “the Democrats” credibly reporting Herschel Walker paid for an abortion in 2009.

The trustees of President James Madison’s historic home in Montpelier, Virginia have invited pop singer Lizzo to perform at the venue after she singlehandedly elevated the fourth President of the United States back into the public spotlight, the Los Angeles Times reports.

On a tour of the Flute Vault at the Library of Congress, Lizzo–who is a classically trained flutist who studied at the University of Houston’s acclaimed Moores School of Music–played a crystal flute that was gifted to Madison.  She then played the instrument at a concert later at Madison Square Garden, twerking as she did, which sent reactionary conservative snowflakes into a tizzy because Black woman.

While less than 0.00001% of the people complaining about a musician playing a historic flute didn’t even know the instrument existed a week ago, they now find a Black woman playing the flute and dancing to be an affront to all civilized society in the same way they’re offended by gay couples getting married.