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Pennsylvania MAGA Congressman Dan Meuser had a rough go of it on CNN Friday, trying to explain to anchor Briana Keilar why he’s leading a crusade against some stupid minor change to requirements for overseas ballots – including those of active duty military members – to count as valid. Keilar continually and repeatedly called him out for his bullshit and Meuser essentially just froze. Especially great was when Keilar called out how Meuser only joined this stupid lawsuit when convicted felon former President Trump angrily shitposted about it a few weeks ago.

Fearing that downed lines could spark yet another destructive inferno, California power utility Pacific Gas and Electric, whose fuckups have killed hundreds of people and cost untold billions over the decades, announced Friday they’re going to be shutting down power to as many as 20,000 Golden Staters as the “Diablo Winds” pick up over the next few days, the AP reports.

Now maybe this sounds stupid and impractical but maybe the utility should think about replacing high voltage transmission lines with buried cables or something so they don’t need to shut off the goddamned electricity to tens of thousands of people every time it gets windy.

“President Joseph R Biden, Jr met today with Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany at the Chancellery to discuss the longstanding US-German relationship, grounded in our shared democratic values.”

“The two leaders coordinated on support for Ukraine in its self-defense against Russian aggression; efforts to counter antisemitism and other forms of hate at home and abroad; the Middle East; amongst other global issues. President Biden expressed his appreciation for Chancellor Scholz’s leadership in increasing Germany’s investment in NATO’s collective defense and in securing the release of wrongfully detained Americans, along with other human rights activists and political dissidents from Russian prison, earlier this year. He also underscored the US commitment to continue working together to address the challenges of today and tomorrow and deliver results for both our peoples,” says a White House press release on Biden’s last European tour.

The new line from @IanSams (the noted genius behind Kamala’s video attacking Catholics) is that President Trump’s events aren’t long enough. Kamala in her life has never once done a speech over 45 minutes, let alone unscripted. Kamala’s 5th rebrand is the dumbest yet. https://t.co/JJTfdHovdw

— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) October 18, 2024

The top story on Axios is, almost unbelievably, “Trump cancels a streak of events with only days until election.” Almost like they’re starting to realize they should start treating him like they did Joe Biden.

Eagle-eyed viewers watching Trump field pre-screened questions in the friendly confines of the Fox “News” morning show likely noted a new edition to the Fox & Friends’ signature “curvy couch” as they interviewed the 78-year-old Republican rapist running as the Party’s Presidential nominee.  Positioned under the diminutive Trump’s expansive rear end on the show’s white couch was a black towel, likely placed to protect the light fabric from any stains the politician might leave from an “accident” while he didn’t answer questions submitted by fans.

DC Circuit Judge Tanya Chutkan on Friday unsealed a redacted version of Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s evidence exhibits filing in convicted felon former President Trump’s DC coup attempt conspiracy case. Rather than try to bang out one summary from a lengthy PDF, we’re instead going to live blog it on a rolling basis with excerpts from the documents.

The MAGA propagandist who went by “Black Insurrectionist” and had pushed both that ridiculous fake “ABC News whistleblower affidavit” alleging that the network had colluded with Vice President Kamala Harris prior to last month’s debate in which she destroyed convicted felon former President Trump and more recently some even more blatantly fabricated evidence of pederasty by Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, has deactivated their Twitter account out of what we can only guess is fear of further failure and exposure for their dumbassery, the BBC’S Shayan Sardarizadeh reports.

Trump team working overtime to ensure swing-state voters can cast ballots after Hurricane Helene’s destruction | New York Post https://t.co/jFBamEHpHv

— RNC Election Integrity (@RNCVoteProtect) October 18, 2024

The window for convicted felon former President Trump to accept CNN’s invite for the town hall next Wednesday has closed without an answer from the fat fuck’s handlers, thus the network’s media guy Brian Stelter reports that Trump has ceded the night to Vice President Kamala Harris.

“His campaign has not committed to participate, so we are moving forward with a Town Hall event with VP Harris taking questions from a live audience of Pennsylvania voters who say they intend to vote in November,” said CNN in a statement this morning. Guess that makes five non-MAGA media appearances that the Orange God Emperor has pussied out of during the final month of the race.

The eggheads at the Cook Political Report on Friday changed their rating in credibly suspected traitor Pennsylvania MAGA Congressman Scott Perry’s 10th district seat from Lean R to tossup, signaling that voters might just be getting ready to toss the son of a bitch.

We’re joining a little late, but the fat bastard is on the couch this morning, looking exhausted and haggard while in his safe bubble on the propaganda network.

Just four accounts dumping $30 million in crypto into offshore betting site Polymarket – backed by fascist freak Peter Thiel – have boosted convicted felon former President Trump’s chance of winning from about 47 percent late last month up to 63 percent, the Wall Street Journal reports on an “investment” made purely to create an illusion of inevitability around the fat fuck.

Whether cult favorite and kind of cultish convenience store chain Buc-ee’s opens its first location in Wisconsin hangs in the balance on Election Day, as the construction of the proposed 74,000-square-foot store in the northern Dane County village of DeForest, outside the capital of Madison, hinges entirely on whether there will be enough support in the state legislature to spend $15 million to upgrade a nearby highway interchange to handle the expected increase in traffic of as many as 8,000 devoted Buc-itarians coming to the site daily, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.

DeForest Village Administrator Bill Chang says he’s hoping the hearts of the candidates for Dane County executive, State Assembly District 42, and State Senate District 14 will open to the light that Buc-ee shines upon the world and all whom gather at his sacred temples of convenience. His earthly emissaries have promised to foot 47 percent of the cost of the upgrade, with the promise of taxpayers’ tithe made whole by an expected $1 million annual revenue from sales tax alone on top of the 200 to 225 jobs at the location. Chang is correct: Resistance to Buc-ee is futile.

“Lava continues to erupt slowly at Great Sitkin Volcano. Ongoing activity is adding to a thick lava flow that fills most of the summit crater with minor advancement of the northern part of the eastern lobe. Small earthquakes associated with the ongoing lava eruption continue. Nothing unusual was observed in cloudy satellite and web camera imagery. A single explosive event occurred in May 2021 and was followed by the ongoing eruption of lava that began in July 2021. No explosive events have occurred since May 2021. Local seismic and infrasound sensors and web cameras are used to monitor Great Sitkin along with regional infrasound and lightning networks and satellite data,” says a US Geological Survey update on the Great Sitkin Volcano on the Aleutian Island of the same name.

Seems very low-T and unmotivated, like it doesn’t have the confidence to fully erupt and make the news but also doesn’t know how to stop and be comfortable with quietude and dormancy. Of course anthropomorphizing a volcano is silly and hubristic, but think of that as a way to actually tempt fate and encourage to explode cataclysmically and give us something to cover outside of politics.

An “exhausted” and decompensating convicted felon former President Trump has backed out of yet another non-MAGA media appearance – the third this week and the fourth this month – this time with the Shade Room, a site/podcast that Politico Playbook describes as drawing “an audience that is largely young and Black” and which Vice President Kamala Harris had appeared on last week.

Per Playbook, the teams had been in talks, “but as no interview materialized, Shade Room staff began feeling that feet were being dragged inside Trump’s campaign. No date was ever set, we’re told, but the intention was to try and work toward a sit-down. In a conversation earlier this week, when describing why an interview hadn’t come together just yet, a Trump adviser told The Shade Room producers that Trump was ‘exhausted and refusing [some] interviews but that could change’ at any time, according to two people familiar with the conversations.” Copied that verbatim given the trickiness of the text, but the message seems abundantly clear – that Trump’s handlers are doing their best to shield him from scrutiny in the home stretch of this existential campaign.

Trump spokesfreak Karoline “Blondi” Leavitt told Playbook that any notion of her Orange Fuhrer is hiding is “BS. President Trump has never backed down from any interview. This is a man who held a CNN town hall in the middle of the Republican primary, for goodness’ sake.”

Haitian migration roils town in key battleground state with signs of pro-Trump support on the rise https://t.co/5fxVF1z2ru

— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 18, 2024

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee raised $30.3 million in September, putting its total cash-on-hand at $50 million for House Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries to hand out to its swing district frontliners, Axios reports on more misery for the GOP, who haven’t announced their haul yet.

The Texas state Supreme Court on Thursday halted the execution of Robert Roberson after back-and-forth rulings by lower courts nearly ended the pretty clearly innocent man over his extremely questionable 2003 murder conviction in the death of his daughter from the now-discredited “shaken baby syndrome” when the girl had tragically died of pneumonia, the Texas Tribune reports.

The last-minute reprieve came thanks to the intervention of Dem and Republican state lawmakers who had subpoenaed Robeson to testify to them and cops who had investigated the case and testified against him at trial. The Texas Supremes ordered a lower court to resolve the separation-of-powers issue, so the ordeal is still far from over and Robeson could still get the needle, but just the fact that the stay even happened is extraordinary and puts pressure on Governor Low Energy Greg Abbott to finally grab his balls and do something to make this right. Robeson shouldn’t just be commuted, he should be freed from prison after spending two decades in agony over this.

To fail to do so would end up delegitimizing the death penalty’s appropriate use for the fuckers whom truly deserve it, like Alabama psychopath Derrick Dearman, who slaughtered five members of his then-girlfriend’s family (six if you count an unborn baby) with an axe and a gun during a drug-fueled rampage in 2016 and was rightly executed for the crime via lethal injection Thursday evening.

The final numbers are in, and as reported earlier, 7.1 million viewers tuned in to the embarrassing spectacle Bret Baier made out of himself when he ruined the last shred of professionalism while he channelled the Trolls of the Comment Sections in an amateurish ambush interview that included a fawning video excusing Trump’s violent rhetoric.  Another 1.4 million viewers watched the midnight ET rebroadcast.

That’s more than three times Fox’s late morning tea with Trump in a studio stuffed with MAGA supporters drew–2.8 million viewers at 11 a.m. ET–but it did conveniently provide the reason to shoot the fawning video Baier re-aired later that night when he clumsily confronted Harris.

Per the Daily Beast, the broadcast also drew more than 880,000 viewers in the key 25-54 demo, a segment of voters the Harris campaign is trying to reach.

“Well, I did make a mistake, and I want to say that I made a mistake,” exposed sycophant Bret Baier grovels after his embarrassing performance during his interview with Democratic Presidential nominee Kamala Harris, where he showed a flattering clip of Trump denying he’s spoken violent, dictatorial rhetoric–seconds after he said violent, dictatorial rhetoric. Baier lamely claims he was shocked–shocked! he says–when the clip of Trump meekly claiming it’s the Democrats who are “the ones doing the threatening,” not dear, sweet Trump.  He thought, he claims, “they” would play Trump saying dictatorial things like he did, not the oh-so-innocent things.  Yeah, sure, Bret.