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“For a country that seems evenly divided over politics and polarized about many cultural issues, a durable majority does agree about one thing: They don’t like the Biden presidency. And despite the machinations that resulted in President Joe Biden’s not being on the ballot this election season, his unpopularity is still the mood music of this election,” chittered Chuck Todd while he gnawed on a stale, half-eaten mozzarella stick someone dropped on a subway platform three days ago.

“From his border policy to the economy he has been presiding over to turmoil overseas, there isn’t a lot about the Biden years that voters love in this moment. It’s why former President Donald Trump has basically a 50-50 chance to return to the White House, just four years after voters fired him,” the NBC host continued after he took a break from typing to lick his forelimbs to groom his whiskers.

“Bottom line: It’s clearer now in hindsight – and perhaps it would have been regardless of that ill-fated debate performance – that Biden simply didn’t have a winning hand to run on. All he had was harnessing backlash over Jan 6 and abortion, and while both issues do resonate with a significant chunk of the electorate, those two issues alone couldn’t get him to the finish line. But while Biden isn’t on the ballot anymore, voters are certainly feeling his presence. If there’s one thing it’s clear they don’t want, it’s a candidate who reminds them of Biden. Let’s set the scene…” Todd wrote before his hypersensitive nostrils detected the scent of stray cat on the prowl. Todd then skittered away, leaving his mate and offspring to fend for themselves against the hungry predator.

“At a rally last night in Atlanta, GA, Donald Trump claimed that ‘any African American or Hispanic…that votes for Kamala’ needs to have their ‘head examined.’ While Trump has spent 30 days almost entirely confined to his conservative media bubble, Vice President Harris is sitting for back-to-back interviews with The Breakfast Club’s Charlamagne Tha God and Fox News’ Bret Baier to bring her vision for a future of opportunity to voters of all backgrounds,” says a Harris team statement.

“Harris-Walz 2024 Spokesperson Sarafina Chitika released the following statement in response: ‘If Donald Trump thinks insulting Black and Latino voters is the key to earning their respect and their votes, it’s him who should have his head examined – and he should man up and release his medical records so that voters can understand what exactly is going on with comments like this.'”

“‘And he shouldn’t stop there: If he believes in his message, he should stop hiding in his safe space and take his divisive rhetoric directly to Black media. We hear they have plenty of unanswered questions. Unlike Trump, Vice President Harris is working to earn every vote and talk to every single voter across her broad and growing coalition, from listeners of The Breakfast Club to viewers of Fox News. Trump should do the same if he has the stamina to keep up,'” the statement continued.

The tiny Carribbean island of Anguilla, population 15,753 has seen an absolute boom as it becomes a hub of artificial intelligence… sort of. The AP reports that the British territory isn’t so much a new Silicon Valley in the AI age (though its capital’s name is literally “The Valley”), the local government is pulling in at least $32 million a year without lifting a finger simply because the royalties paid by domain registrars to sell .ai web addresses. Through the luck of happenstance of beating out countries like Algeria, Albania that conceivably could have claimed .ai when ICANN assigned it in 1995, the equivalent of 10 percent of Anguilla’s gross domestic product is paid to its government from startups in the AI space registering URLs in the territory’s top-level domain.

At this point it almost seems fishy. No one has seen a lead like this in recent history… pic.twitter.com/AFdhZXzX1x

— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) October 16, 2024

Quite the contrary Señor Dick-Wagger, there’s nothing fishy about an election gambling site by and for right wing schmucks into crypto, NFTs, and Truth Social shares pumping up the price of a position based solely on “vibes” and their own personal desires to see Trump returned to power.

Or maybe some pro-Harris billionaire really is buying up the Trump shares as a loss-leader to lull the fanboys in a sense of complacency. That’d be pretty fucking funny, if also stupid.

A new Marist College/NPR/PBS national survey finds Vice President Kamala Harris leading convicted felon former President Trump 52 to 47 percent among likely voters, an improvement – albeit a statistically insignificant one – over the 50 to 48 percent lead they found earlier this month.

The gender gap is extremely wide in this sample: The Orange Messiah leads among men 53 to 47 percent while Harris is up 57 to 42 percent with women, a net 19 percent delta. On favorability Harris is net -1 at 45 percent favorable to 46 unfavorable to Trump’s -5 at 44 percent fav/49 percent unfav.

Continuing his obsession with Vice President Kamala Harris’s “Stolen McValor,” convicted felon former President Trump’s minions tell CNN’s Kristen Holmes the fat bastard will on Sunday walk into a Pennsylvania McDonald’s location and “work the fry cooker” for a photo op.

A Fulton County, Georgia judge blocked a new rule instituted by the Trump-favoring majority of the state election board which ordered precincts to hand-count ballots, a measure designed to stoke disruption and problems with the voters’ ballots to sow doubt in the outcome, NBC News reports.

Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney ruled that the requirement was implemented too close to Election Day, making it impossible to hire and train the employees needed to undertake the task and it would cause “administrative chaos.” Republicans vowed to appeal the decision because “administrative chaos” is what they actually want.

“[T]he public interest is not disserved by pressing pause here. This election season is fraught; memories of January 6 have not faded away, regardless of one’s view of that date’s fame or infamy,” the judge wrote. “Anything that adds uncertainty and disorder to the electoral process disserves the public.”

“You can’t be pro-insurrection and pro-America,” Democratic President Joe Biden tells a group at a Philadelphia fundraiser Tuesday night. “If you can’t denounce January 6th you have no business being President.

“Now look, Trump hasn’t changed; I’d argue he’s gotten worse,” Biden continues.  Clearly he lost the election in 2020 and he snapped.  No, I mean it.  He’s become unhinged.  Look at his rallies.  Last night, last night at his rally, he stopped taking questions because someone got hurt, and guess what?  He stood on the stage for thirty minutes and danced.  I’m serious!  What’s wrong with this guy?”

David Duke, the Republican former leader of the Ku Klux Klan who was once elected to the Louisiana state legislature, endorsed Green Party candidate Jill Stein during his radio show on Monday, NBC News reports.  It’s the first known endorsement of a Jew by a current or former leader of the anti-Semitic white supremacist group, and it’s a teeny chip in the Base of the Republican nominee.

“I endorse for president of the United States Green Party candidate, Dr. Jill Stein,” said Duke, who endorsed Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020. “Although Dr. Stein and I obviously have our differences on important issues, she’s the only candidate who speaks clearly against the war in the Middle East.”

A lot, and simultaneously not enough, has been said about the bizarre event Donald Trump called a rally on Sunday in Pennsylvania, where a series of medical events among audience members led to a prolonged delay, prompting the Republican nominee for president to spend an awkward and uncomfortable 39 minutes on stage.

After taking four questions from audience members during the town hall, everything stopped but the music.  In a sweltering venue as people dropped, Trump joked, “Anybody else wanna faint?” before calling for “Ave Maria” to be played.  During the Trump “Music Fest” with Kristi Noem on stage, Trump did something no other politician would do.

After making courtesy handshakes to some of the two dozen or so Super MAGA people on the stage, standing in bleachers, who might’ve asked questions during a normal town hall, and after speaking to an aide at the foot of the stage, Trump did… nothing.

Starting at 7 p.m. local time/8 p.m. ET, former NFL linebacker and Democratic candidate for Senate Colin Allred takes on Cub-adian Cancun vacationer and podcaster Ted Cruz in a debate for the state’s Senate seat.  Because GOP presidential hopeful and convicted felon Donald Trump assumes he’s going to win Texas, he’s put very little effort into campaigning there, leaving Cruz to campaign on his own against the popular and well-funded Allred.

“Mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California have confirmed that the two solar arrays flanking the main body of the Europa Clipper spacecraft have fully unfolded. This means that the spacecraft now has a reliable source of power for the rest of its journey to Jupiter and tour of the Jovian system. The process began with the cutting of hold-downs keeping the solar arrays folded against the sides of the spacecraft and then the unfolding of one ‘wing’ at a time. With each wing measuring 46.5-feet (14 meters) long, Europa Clipper’s solar arrays are the biggest NASA has ever developed for a planetary mission,” says NASA in a post-launch update on the Clipper’s nearly six-year journey across the void to the icy Galilean moon.

WOW! If you keep watching you might see a train go by!

Republican North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson, an alleged self-declared Nazi with a predilection for tranny porn and his wife’s sister, has filed a $50 million defamation lawsuit against CNN for reporting his posts on porn sites where he described himself as a “Black Nazi,” the Raleigh News & Observer reports.

“This is a high-tech lynching on a candidate who has been targeted from day one by folks who disagree with me politically and want to see me destroyed,” Robinson proclaimed at a press conference to announce the suit. “We are glad to take these first steps to fight back against what we consider to be one of the greatest examples of political interference in this state’s history.”

Remember when the MAGA kids LOVED Charlamagne Tha God for getting annoyed with Joe Biden back in 2020? Yeah they’re probably not going to like him any more now. “Translation: You are not smart enough to make your own decisions. So..let the 46 year, white, wealthy, privileged, government bureaucrat do it for you!,” wrote one of the fanboys on The Hill after that “gaffe” when Biden said “You ain’t Black if you’re voting for Trump,” in 2020. Now Charlamagne is “DEI,” lol.

The caracal has been taken into custody, the Hoffman Estates, Illinois police department announced Tuesday via Facebook on a major relief for those living in terror of the medium-sized exotic cat.

“The Hoffman Estates Police Department was able to take the Caracal into custody. The cat was hiding under a resident’s deck and is unharmed. The Valley of the Kings Sanctuary and Retreat located in Sharon, Wisconsin is enroute to pick him up where we are sure he will have a healthy and happy life far away from Hoffman Estates. Over the past few days, the village was made aware of a large cat in the area of Della Dr and the Hilldale Golf Course. The cat has been identified as a Caracal, this cat is a native species to Asia and not common in the US,” the department wrote.

That was ice cold. One terminally mentally ill viewer was so upset he posted “Does Ian Sams, Lyin’ Kamala’s Special Advisor, own FoxNews? He is on all the time, as are so many other of her supporters. So ridiculous that Fox allows this to happen right before the Election. We will WIN without Fox. MAGA2024!” The viewer then proceeded to post screenshots of tweets from his minions praising him for his deranged meltdown he had on stage in Chicago earlier.

Wow! Talk about an impressive 30 under 30 list contender: 1010 WINS reports 29 year-old Wayne Lowe of the really MAGA part of eastern Long Island was pulled over on the Expressway for texting and not wearing a seatbelt on Tuesday. Guess those things are kind of optional when you don’t have a valid license to drive in the state of New York either. In fact, Lowe has negative 31 of them!

How a guy who’s been driving for at most 13 years has that many suspension we don’t know. “Upon further investigation, officials determined that Lowe, of Center Moriches, [New York] had 31 license suspensions over 13 dates. Lowe was issued multiple summonses and charged with one count of aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle,” 1010 WINS writes in the article.

Still no idea how that works. The suspensions were somehow accrued during another suspension or something, maybe. Lowe was booked for an overnight stay in the county lockup before arraignment.

A new Reuters/Ipsos national survey finds Vice President Kamala Harris leading convicted felon former President Trump 45 to 42 percent among likely voters nationally. Slightly more Dem respondents, 86 percent, than Republicans, 81 percent, said they were “completely certain” they would cast a ballot in the presidential election, which we guess is an “enthusiasm edge.”

Fuuuuuuu-uuuuuuuuck this is so stupid. “Now that you have read the 500th poll of the battleground states, the thousands of simulations, the scientific and pseudo-scientific calculations, the hourly assertions of how close this contest is, you might want to take a breath and contemplate the possibility that the factor that will determine the outcome may not have happened yet. At least, that’s what our recent political history says,” writes Politico contributor Jeff Greenfield before going into that history from 1980 through 2016 for a dozen or so more paragraphs.

To be completely fair to him he probably didn’t pick the headline. Some editor thought this was the clickbaitiest way possible to sell readers on a fairly well-written and sober-minded if not particularly original insight into the events that are seen as having caused late swings in close presidential races. That fucking headline though. How hard was it to write “History Suggests ‘October Surprises’ Are More Likely Than Not,” or something anodyne (and more pertinent to the text) like that?

Actually that kind of sucked. Still would’ve been better than what Politico’s editorial team puked up.