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French Fourth Reich party leader Marine Le Pen faces an automatic five year ban from running for elected office if she’s convicted in her trial starting Monday over charges she ran a patronage system for aides top her far right nationalist cabal’s members in both the French and European Parliaments, Politico EU reports. She could also be sentenced to 10 years in prison and be fined €1 million, but the bigger problem is being barred from the ballot in an election she’s already said she’s going to run in… again, after losing to current incumbent Emmanuel Macron in 2022.

This shit is a little much, even for that fat fuck and all his accelerating weirdness these days. It came in the middle of a spate of more “normal” Truth Social rants like “Why is Lyin’ Kamala Harris in San Francisco, a City that she has totally destroyed, at fundraising events, when big parts of our Country are devastated and under water – with many people dead? She is openly acknowledged to be the Worst Vice President in History and, as President, she would be even WORSE!” and “To all Rapists, Drug Dealers, Human Traffickers, and Murderers, WELCOME TO AMERICA! It is important that you send a THANK YOU note to Lyin’ Kamala Harris, because without her, you would not be here. We don’t want you, and we’re going to get you out!” And then “There’s something wrong with Kamala, I just don’t know what it is – But there is something missing, and everybody knows it!”

Well maybe that last one was also a bit extra for him, like an admission that he’s lost and confused.

At least 60 people are dead and dozens more are unaccounted for across Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, and Virginia – 60 of them potentially missing in western North Carolina’s Buncombe County alone – after Category 4 Hurricane Helene swept in through Florida’s Big Bend region and moved into the South’s interior, CNN reports. Buncombe Manager Avril Pinder called the storm the county’s “own Hurricane Katrina,” and officials said communication systems have been disrupted, with no cell service expected in the region for at least “several days.”

Insisting that in-vitro fertilization is safe from Project 2025, Alabama Senator Katie Britt – famous for her bizarre 2024 State of the Union rebuttal which both full of lies and Lifetime Channel-level method acting – was lying again to Fox News’ Shannon Bream on Sunday morning, claiming that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s most recent move to again force Republicans on the record was allowing for “human cloning” and lacked protections for “religious freedom.”

Investigative outfit American Muckrakers – which has something of a spotty record, though getting sandbagged is different than intentionally misrepresenting facts – have obtained a lengthy tranche of seemingly genuine emails between infamously shitty far right pollster Rasmussen Reports – the one convicted felon former President Trump keeps citing as finding him with wide national leads over Vice President Kamala Harris – the Trump campaign leadership, and the Heartland Institute – a bullshit right wing “think tank” who have partnered with Rasmussen in at least one push poll.

According to the New Republic, the coordination between Rasmussen, Heartland, and Team Orange constitutes a violation of election regulations because Heartland is a 501(c)3 nonprofit and is not allowed to engage in activity benefiting a candidate. We’re sure the FEC’s going to get right on that.

The contents of the emails themselves are also not terribly explosive otherwise. Like it doesn’t seem to go any further than Rasmussen previewing their findings to Trump’s campaign – one email from Rasmussen dipshit Ted Carroll says “These are just out and so I figured you might want to see them early, especially the final question which was inspired by a recent Tweet from Catturd. A majority of all voters now believe the DC GOP set out to sink President Trump in 2020,” lol – but if you were hoping for something far more embarrassing, like they’re outright cooking the numbers in collusion with each other, you’re going to have to wait on Muckrakers for that. They just might have more where that came from, judging by their takedowns of now-former Congressbro Madison Cawthorn and attempting the same on Lauren Boebert (which they got ratfucked on with bad info).

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, the cuck from Minnesota who still worships the Orange God Emperor even after he tanked Emmer’s bid for the speakership last year and called him a “RINO,” insisted to ABC’s Martha Raddatz that Jaydee Vance, who Emmer has been coaching in debate practice ahead of Tuesday’s big showdown against Emmer’s home state Gov Tim Walz, is very likable. Which is a complete lie, both by any reasonably objective measure and quantifiably in surveys, which Emmer dismissed as “snapshot polls that are being done for a specific reason.” Lol.

Asked if he approves with Trump calling Vice President Kamala Harris is “mentally impaired,” Emmer got heated and all he could say was “we should stick to the issues.” He then cried about the media holding up “shiny objects” when asked about Trump and Jaydee’s stories of Haitians eating pets.

“US Central Command (CENTCOM) Forces conducted two targeted strikes in Syria, killing 37 terrorist operatives, including multiple senior leaders of the terrorist organizations of ISIS and Hurras al-Din, an Al Qaeda affiliate. The airstrikes are part of CENTCOM’s ongoing commitment, along with partners in the region, to disrupt and degrade efforts by terrorists to plan, organize, and conduct attacks against civilians and military personnel from the US, our allies, and our partners throughout the region and beyond,” says US Central Command in a press release.

“On Sept 24, CENTCOM Forces conducted a targeted strike in northwest Syria, killing nine terrorist operatives, including Marwan Bassam ‘Abd-al-Ra’uf, a senior Hurras al-Din leader responsible for overseeing military operations from Syria. Hurras al-Din is an Al Qaeda-affiliated organization based in Syria with global aspirations to conduct attacks against US and Western interests. The successful strike against Marwan Bassam ‘Abd-al-Ra’uf comes a month after a successful strike that killed another Hurras al-Din senior leader, Abu-‘Abd al-Rahman al Makki,” the statement continued.

William Robert Braddock III, a 2022 GOP candidate for Florida’s 13th Congressional District which includes Tampa, faces federal felony charges for asserting he was sending “my Russian-Ukrainian  hit squad” to kill his opponent, NBC News reports.  Braddock was indicted this week after being extradited from the Philippines.

According to the DOJ, “On June 8, 2021, Braddock made several threats to injure and kill Victim 1 [a fellow GOP candidate for Congress] and Victim 2 [a friend of the opponent] during a telephone call with Victim 2. Specifically, Braddock threatened, in part, to ‘call up my Russian-Ukrainian hit squad’ and make Victim 1 disappear. After making the threats, Braddock left the United States and was later found to be residing in the Philippines. Braddock was recently deported from the Philippines to the United States and made his first court appearance yesterday in Los Angeles.”

A new national public opinion survey by Gallup finds 58 percent of respondents favor replacing the Electoral College with a national popular vote to 39 opposed, consistent with a Pew Center survey finding, also from this week, putting the split at 63 to 35 percent pro-popular vote to pro-Electoral College, respectively. Gallup since 2000 and Pew since 2017 have asked the question every few years and both have consistently found Team PV in within a few points of 60 percent and Team EC around 35 percent… Except for 2016 when the Electoral College suddenly got a little more popular.

The answer why is painfully obvious. In late November 2016 Gallup found just a two-point lead for Team Popular Vote at 49 to 47 percent. In 2017 CNN found it at 51 to 44 percent PV to EC. The same year Pew found it at 55 percent pro-Popular Vote to 41 percent Electoral College. In 2020 the topline numbers began to creep back up to normal range for Gallup as they found a 61 to 38 percent split while Pew found a nearly-identical 60 percent pro-popular vote to 37 percent. Gallup didn’t run it in 2021, but Pew did and found another sudden, albeit smaller, spike for the Electoral College – 43 percent to 55 percent – possibly because certain voters realized they fell just about about 44,000 votes across three states from their desired outcome in the prior presidential election.

Also obvious is the partisan makeup, as this year Gallup found 82 percent of Dem respondents on Team Popular Vote to 66 percent of GOP respondents on Team Electoral College, while Pew puts it at 87 percent of liberal Dems saying they’re pro-PV versus 63 percent of pro-PV conservatives.

“It is a totally false story that I am going to sue lightweight anchor David Muir of ABC FAKE NEWS, perhaps the worst and most dishonorable network in broadcasting! Despite an unfair and unethical 3 on 1, I easily won the recent Debate. My sole focus is to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” posted convicted felon former President Trump on Saturday, denying again he plans on suing Muir.

On Friday he posted “Fake News sources at Mediaite, whatever that is, report that it is my intention to sue Lightweight Anchor David Muir of ABC for his constant and unagreed to interruptions during the Debate with Comrade Kamala Harris, a Debate which I won, as indicated by the Polls. The report in Mediaite is FAKE NEWS, reposting someone named Tara Palmeri, who I don’t know, but I understand is very close to, and writes for, a competitor,” and blah blah blah, which of course Mediaite creamed their pants over the callout, not realizing that Trump probably did that on purpose to belittle the actual original reporting from Palmeri, whose outlet is called Puck News.

In a mostly unrelated development but in a similar vein, expect Mediaite within the next few minutes to print another one of their insufferable “JUST IN” or “BREAKING” headlines for the incredibly boring news that former NBC News guy Brian Williams has signed with Amazon to anchor their election night coverage on the Prime video service, originally scooped by Puck editor Dylan Byers.

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— Mark Robinson (@markrobinsonNC) September 28, 2024

The Washington Post’s Amy Gardner reports “Nude Africa” guy was burned when he put his hand on the hot part of a truck during this event Friday night but later released.

A new set of swing state polls from the New York Times and Siena College finds Vice President Kamala Harris leading convicted felon former President Trump 48 to 47 percent in Michigan, 49 to 47 percent in Wisconsin, and 52 to 43 percent in Nebraska’s 2nd District, while Trump leads 50 to 44 percent in Ohio. Incumbent Dem Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown leads douchebag car dealer Bernie Moreno 47 to 43 percent in that very crucial race. Dem Tony Vargas leads “Moderate” GOP Congressman Don Bacon 48 to 44 percent in NE-2 in a key flip opportunity for House Dems.

We don’t assume the New York Times polls are predictive, even if the rest of the goddamned media operates as if they’re the word of God, but if one were to put the sum total of the most recent swing state/district findings and work with the rest of the Electoral College map the same as 2020, it adds up to a 270 to 262 win for Kamala Harris (they haven’t gotten to Nevada this month).

• The yard sign is up.  The decal is on the car.  My mail-in ballot arrived.  This shit is real.
• Eric Adams gets indicted for not reporting luxury travel paid for by others, while Sam Alito and Clarence Thomas smirk.
• If anyone continues to say they don’t know Harris’s positions on issues, it’s out of willful ignorance at this point.  Her programs are far more detailed than Trump’s, whether you think she’s done enough interviews or not.  Trump’s “Fear the Migrant/Raise the Tariffs” policies will  somehow surpass lost income tax revenue while simultaneously increasing worker pay, providing universal child care, funding IVF for everyone, eliminating the entire federal deficit AND lowering consumer costs. Plus tax cuts.   And Trump will do it all with five loaves and two fishes.
• Not one dollar of federal aid should go to Florida for Hurricane Helene until the state government commits to restoring lessons on climate change into school curricula at every level.  
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The people who know say don’t take time to consider Donald Trump’s latest scam:  a leap into the luxury watch market with a limited edition Trump watch that sells for six-figures.  According to the Hollywood Reporter, Trump’s watch was cobbled together by some no-name assembler, probably in China.

“This is cobbled together, patently unoriginal and vastly overpriced,” the editor of A Blog to Watch,  a popular site among enthusiasts for timepiece information and education. “It’s very clear he’s working with a white labeler, which is nothing new. Anyone can go to a white labeler and say, ‘I want a watch with this case, this bracelet and these other details,’ and a white labeler will Frankenstein it together, put your name on it and sell it to you. But the price you sell it for is up to you. That the markup came from someone on Trump’s team is obvious here. Even the $500 piece from another brand would go for maybe $200.”

“I belong to a collector group that maintains an ongoing group chat, and the initial reaction was that it had to be fake. After that, everyone was laughing,” the anonymous marketing director for an unnamed Swiss watch company said of the $100,000 Trump watch. “When you look at all of them, they scream Chinese-made watch. None of them is worth the asking price.”

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— Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) September 28, 2024

Like a Donald Trump prosecution in Florida, the Chicago White Sox couldn’t get a break.  Much like the popular vote for GOP presidential candidates over the last three decades, victories were rare for the other team from the Windy City, which logged its 121st loss of the season, a Major League record with a 4-1 loss to the Detroit Tigers on Friday, per ESPN.

West Virginia Republicans have finally had enough with state senator Mike Maroney, an eight-year member of the state legislature from Wheeling.  It wasn’t fine with them that he was caught, um, practicing onanism in a casino last month, but now that he’s been charged with drunk driving, they’ve decided he must go, according to NBC News.

“While the legal process must take its course, the perception of impropriety and the repeated legal entanglements surrounding Senator Maroney have brought discredit to the West Virginia Senate,” the chairman of the Monongalia County Republican Executive Committee, said in a posted statement. “We believe it is in the best interest of Senate District 2 and the state for Senator Maroney to resign, restoring public trust and the integrity of the Senate.”

There is no public record of the Monongalia County Republican Executive Committee making a similar statement for a candidate for federal office who’s been convicted of 34 felonies and found liable for sexually assaulting a woman.

Vice President Kamala Harris will deliver remarks near the border starting at around 7:45 PM EDT on Friday.

The Israeli Defense Force have reason to believe they turned Hezbollah’s supreme leader Hassan Nasrallah into applesauce in a strike on a building in Beirut on Friday, with one former official telling CNN that the IDF “would not have attacked with such scope and power, if it was not sure with a very high degree of certainty that the ultra-terrorist was there.”

“Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, Carmine G Agnello pleaded guilty to wire fraud in connection with his receipt of approximately $1.1 million in small business loans under the United States Small Business Administration’s Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program (EIDLP).”

“Today’s proceeding was held before United States District Judge Nusrat J Choudhury. When sentenced, Agnello faces up to 30 years in prison, as well as restitution totaling more than $940,000 and a fine of up to $2.2 million. Breon Peace, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and Daniel Brubaker, Inspector in Charge, United States Postal Inspection Service, New York Division (USPIS), announced the guilty plea,” says a Justice Departmenr press release.

What it doesn’t say is that Agnello, former star of reality show Growing Up Gotti is one of infamous mob boss John Gotti’s grandsons. Also the former proprietor of “Gotti Tans” on Jericho Turnpike in West Hills, New York. That establishment is no longer is business and hasn’t been for quite some time. The Teflon Don’s probably spinning in his grave knowing his spawn pleaded guilty so such a stupid, simplistic scam operation. And that he wears a man bun like a total fazool.

This really doesn’t need any more context or even a link. It’s all right here… But if you must know, it’s from a Times story titled “GOP Candidates, Looking to Soften Their Image, Turn to Their Wives.”