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Starting of the lead section of their Tuesday morning roundup’s edition, Punchbowl News points out that Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign recently transferred $10 million to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee as part of a $25 million boost to downballot Ds. “How much has former President Donald Trump given the NRCC? Not one red cent,” they write, underscoring how little the fat fuck has been doing to help out the rest of his party in this final stretch.

They also point out that Donald has yet to appear at an NRCC fundraiser, noting that in the spring he had to send Senator Tim Scott to fill-in for him at a dinner because Trump was stuck in court during his Stormy Daniels hush money payoff 2016 election interference trial for which he was convicted of 34 felony counts. NRCC chair Dick Hudson has been begging Trump to help out but has been ignored so far and the day Jesus Dork Speaker Mike Johnson was supposed to shake the Orange God Emperor down was interrupted by the golf course assassination attempt. Trump of course has his own money problems, being outraised by Vice President Kamala Harris the entire time since Joe Biden handed her the keys, but that hasn’t stopped him from helping them out before.

“Sources told us that Trump’s operation has agreed to fundraise for the NRCC, but they haven’t found the time to make it happen. Soon it will be too late. There are just 42 days left until the election,” Punchbowl writes. Maybe this is cynical but that sure sounds like they’re lamenting the failure to rake in more cash than the Democrats rather than stating it as a simple matter of fact.

Shortly after taking office in 2023, Long Island MAGA Congressman Anthony D’Esposito put on his House office’s official payroll two women who were gutsy hires even by the grimy standards of Nassau County GOP machine politics, the New York Times reports. The first hire, Tessa Lark, is not actually his stepdaughter but the live-in adult child of the 42 year-old Republican former NYPD cop’s 61 year-old on-and-off fiancee, Cynthia Lark, and thus Tessa’s hiring was more of a violation of the spirit than the actual letter of House ethics rules against employing children or stepchildren.

Tessa, then a recent art school grad, collected $21,181.94 in federal taxpayer funds for her part-time position at D’Esposito’s local district office. It’s unclear what, if anything, she actually did to serve his constituents, though aides based in the Long Island office told the Times Tessa worked on graphic design and photography, and helped constituents with immigration issues a few days a week.

The second hire, Devin Faas, was definitely a violation of the letter of House ethics rules as she was (and maybe still is) in a sexual relationship with D’Esposito – which ended her marriage to another man, Derek Ciaschi, and temporarily broke D’Esposito’s engagement with Cynthia Lark. Also unlike Tessa’s “job,” it doesn’t appear that Faas even pretended to show up to work at the district office to collect a total of $7,400 while on the payroll in 2023, even as she remained employed full-time by the Town of Hempstead, the local jurisdiction in which D’Esposito got his start as a councilman.

“Ghost employment, true ghost employment, is probably an eight or nine out of 10 on the scale of public corruption and ethical violations,” said the House’s former top ethics counsel Dan Schwager.

Monday night’s rally was deeply unhinged from the standpoint of verbal insanity – and hateful, Nazi-level shit. Between claiming he was going to go work the fryer at a McDonald’s to championing himself as women’s “protector” it was a notch further than his previous insanities.

A member of the swim team at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania who used a box cutter to carve a racial epithet into a teammate’s chest last week is no longer enrolled at the school, a spokesperson for the college said on Monday, NBC News reports.

In a story broken first by the private college’s student-run newspaper, the men’s swim team was at an on-campus “informal gathering” in one of the residences, during which the no-longer-student used a box cutter to “etch” the n-word into the chest of the only Black member of the team.  Racism is highly suspected, though Jim Jordan is expected to say the attack was purely coincidental.

The brilliance of expanding NATO during Biden’s term and the reason it strikes fear into Vladimir Putin comes clear:  defense officials in Finland and Estonia are developing plans to potentially block the Gulf of Finland, denying Russia use of the vital port of St. Petersburg, the unfortunately translated Estonian news service ERR reports.

Instead of withdrawing from NATO as Trump wanted, Biden led NATO to expand to include Finland in 2022, thereby further strengthening the Alliance against the Kremlin, and the Alliance members are exploiting it.  “Maritime defense is an area where cooperation between Finland and Estonia is set to increase, and we may be able to make more concrete plans on how, if necessary, we can completely block adversary activities in the Baltic Sea, literally speaking. Militarily, this is achievable, we are ready for it, and we are moving in that direction,” Estonian Defense Forces Commander Maj. Gen. Andrus Merilo said. “If there is a threat and it is necessary, we are ready to do it to protect ourselves.”

Anyone who watched the History Channel before it changed focus to paranormal pawn shops or somesuch nonsense understands that St. Petersburg is key to Russia’s industrial and military might in the Atlantic as the major port and home to six million people.  It’s the home of the Russian Navy, and vital to keep open for Russian independence.

Donald Trump has made a lot of broken promises:  that coronavirus cases would be virtually wiped out by the beginning of March 2020; that he would erase the entire federal debt in eight years; that he’d release his tax returns; that he’d be faithful to his wives.  But as the respected-by-conservatives Wall Street Journal editorial board pointed out in a Sunday op/ed, the Republican presidential candidate and convicted fraudster has been making a lot of promises the US economy simply cannot keep.

The latest promise–on top of promising no taxes on tips, no taxes on overtime pay, apparently rescinding the cap on deductions for state and local taxes implemented during his single term, and paying for everyone’s IVF, among other things–is to implement a cap on credit card interest for balances at 10%.

Not only would this cost banks a lot of revenue, it also reduces credit opportunities for high-risk borrowers.  Such a move would effectively shut the short-term loan industry, and would effectively punish consumers with good credit histories. And as the Journal’s board points out, it’s not kosher, capitalism-wise:  it’s less than the 15% temporary cap once proposed by both Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Oscasio-Cortez.  “It’s bad enough to have a Democratic Party that ignores economics. What’s the point of a Republican Party that follows suit?”

Polling should be pretty simple. Basically a mini, trial-run version of an election. Voters interested in participating in the election should be interested in participating in a poll. It should be pretty easy to get a straight fucking answer from enough people that you can get a reasonable enough estimation of how an election is going to turn out… Well that’s how it should be.

“BREAKING: an internal audit conducted by Trump campaign has discovered ‘discrepancies’ between amounts spent on mailers and the actual direct mail campaigns conducted – per source familiar,” reports QAnon freak former Newsmax correspondent Emerald Robinson, famous for her “Luciferase” theory about COVID vaccines and the invincible Chinese UFO invasion of 2023.

Now obviously she’s an idiot and should never be taken seriously. Incredibly there just might actually be something to this. Talking Points Memo’s Josh Marshall recently was collecting reports from readers about an absolute deluge of mailers going out to people in swing states, with no apparent targeting whatsoever. Voters running for state legislative races as Democrats were getting multiple mailers a day. They were indiscriminately stuffing people’s mailboxes with this shit – Republicans, indies, and Dems alike. Marshall never was able to track the vendor down, but it seems absolutely ripe for a scam.

Convicted felon former President Trump’s legal team squealed angrily in a motion filed in DC Circuit Judge Tanya Chutkan’s court on Monday that it would be “fundamentally unfair” if she allows Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s office be permitted to enter a “180 page hit piece” detailing all the evidence against him in the still-stalled post-2020 election coup attempt case.

Entitled cunts going to act entitled. Chutkan already told them, and she seemed very clear earlier this month, that “not concerned about the election schedule,” and the 2024 election “is not relevant here.” Yet here they are filing this shit anyway, evidently unable accept the reality she’s created.

A police bomb squad responded to a home in Dayton, Ohio on Monday after the owner said their cat had apparently knocked over a box containing a hand grenade in the basement, WHIO reports.

The homeowner apparently had never seen the grenade before and yet there it was in the basement. Police took possession of the grenade for disposal. The cat was unharmed.

American Federation for Children senior fellow, frequent Fox News contributor, and outspoken anti-LGBT activist Corey DeAngelis seems to have some explaining to do. Specifically why the self-described “school choice evangelist” and anti-woke crusader looks and sounds exactly like “Seth Rose,” the winner of a masturbation contest in a 2014 hardcore gay porno viewed by The Advocate.

Rose DeAngelis is not explaining anything to anyone and has not responded to any requests for comment from the Advocate or any other outlet as far as they know and he’s gone completely dark on social media. Fox News’s website appears to have been completely scrubbed of any traces of the man who wrote far right education bills for Red State governors like Arkansas’s Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Oklahoma’s Kevin Stitt. Some friends they are, huh? One day you’re cool and the next they find out you’re a prolific performer in a number of extremely graphic male-on-male-on-male-on-male-on-male-on-male-on-male sex scenes and suddenly they act like they don’t know you.

Sometimes it’s these banal moments that reveal the depravity of this cult more than the loud, violent, rage-outs like January 6th. Still vaguely disturbing too the way she maintains her composure and speaks with clarity and control while describing her fanatic devotion to her God.

Minnesota Congressman Tom Emmer – the assclown who was humiliated by convicted felon former President Trump during his brief October 2023 bid for Speaker of the House only to then prostrate himself before the Orange Tyrant anyway – is playing Governor Tim Walz in Mike Pence replacement JD Vance’s prep sessions before the vice presidential debate on October 1st, NOTUS reports.

Emmer was picked for the role as a fellow 10,000 Lake stater who can embody the “Minnesota Nice” persona of Walz and has been taking it seriously by studying footage of Walz in debates as well as reading up on Vance oppo to use for sneak attacks, with the latter part sounding like a hell of a lot of homework. Also involved in the prep’s “murder board sessions” are Milkshake Abortion guy Jason Miller and Vance’s wife Usha. “Murder board sessions have been just hammering JD with question after question. Essentially, his team acts as the moderators and just hammers him with questions to see how he naturally responds to stuff,” a source said. Hard to imagine that’s going well.

“Kamala should take down and disavow all of her Statements that she worked for McDonald’s. These Statements go back a long way, and were also used openly throughout the Campaign – UNTIL SHE GOT CAUGHT. She must apologize to the American people for lying!” posted convicted felon former President Trump on Monday, still characterologically unable to let this McDonald’s thing go.

Later, the fat bastard’s campaign issued a statement demanding federal law enforcement drop the case against failed assassin Ryan Routh so Florida prosecutors can handle it. “The DOJ and FBI have a Conflict of Interest since they have been obsessed with ‘Getting Trump’ for so long. It’s very difficult to trust the Biden/Harris DOJ/FBI to investigate the assassination attempts, due to Election Interference and FAKE CASES brought against me, including their control over local DAs and AGs.”

“Shockingly, after the bullet went through my ear on that fateful day in Butler, Pennsylvania, the FBI Director went before Congress and falsely said that it may not have been a bullet, ‘It was just glass or shrapnel’ – a lie condemned by even my worst enemies. What he said was disgraceful, especially since it was witnessed LIVE by millions of people, and he was forced to immediately retract. If the DOJ and FBI cannot do their job honestly and without bias, and hold the aspiring assassin responsible to the full extent of the Law, Governor Ron DeSantis and the State of Florida have already agreed to take the lead on the investigation and prosecution. Florida charges would be much more serious than the ones the FBI has announced. The TRUTH would be followed, wherever it leads. OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM IS CORRUPT AND DISCREDITED, especially as it pertains to the 45th President of the United States, Donald J Trump. LET FLORIDA HANDLE THE CASE!”

Convicted felon former President Trump’s team used a pic of the wrong Georgia in a Facebook ad that ran in the state this month, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Something very on-brand about them using a former Soviet republic in an ad. Also not the first time they did it.

Republican Nebraska state Senator Mike McDonnell, a key vote required for the Trump-and-Lindsey Graham-backed plan to give the convicted felon former president a free Electoral College vote by reverting to the winner-take-all system of 48 other states, announced on Monday that he will not support the bill should Gov Jim Pillen call a special session, the Nebraska Examiner reports.

“Elections should be an opportunity for all voters to be heard, no matter who they are, where they live, or what party they support,” said McDonnell in a statement. “I have taken time to listen carefully to Nebraskans and national leaders on both sides of the issue. After deep consideration, it is clear to me that right now, 43 days from Election Day, is not the moment to make this change.” The term-limited McDonnell is said to be eyeing Omaha City Hall for his next move and fucking the town’s voters out of an Electoral College vote would’ve been a good way to guarantee defeat.

Without McDonnell’s support, the district, which Joe Biden flipped blue in 2020 after Trump won it in 2016 and Mitt Romney took it in 2012, seems an easy pickup for Vice President Kamala Harris as what little polling there has been found her leading consistently. We were at first puzzled by what seemed to be a mutually assured destruction as Maine Dems had promised to retaliate by killing their split votes but it seemed that Republicans had done their homework on statute there as legislative rules (or maybe even the state constitution) prevent any law passed in Maine from becoming law for 90 days. Which is why they waited until now to restart the special session push.

And to think that Lindsey flew all the way to friggin Nebraska with nothing to show for it.

“We don’t comment on internal strategy or investment decisions, but we can confirm what’s public, our current media buy in North Carolina expires tomorrow, and no further placements have been made. RGA remains committed to electing Republican Governors all across the country,” says Republican Governors’ Association Director Courtney Alexander in a statement to Medium Buying.

Yeah that’s about as clear as a message as you can get about how the RGA feels about North Carolina Lt Gov Mark Robinson’s chances of defeating Dem AG Josh Stein, despite the sort of contradictory “RGA remains committed to electing Republican Governors all across the country.” She could have said “the rest of the country,” and even then it’s a pretty slow year since North Carolina was (at one point, theoretically, before Big Mark won the nomination) really the only competitive race in 2024. There are only 11 state gubernatorial races, plus two territorial ones, that coincide with presidential election years. Through whatever quirks of history most of them – 36 state, three territorial – are held during the midterms, while the remainder are in the odd-numbered years.

The RGA can hang onto their cash and wait until next year’s Virginia and New Jersey races.

“The Democrats are talking about how they’re working so hard to get millions of votes from Americans living overseas. Actually, they are getting ready to CHEAT! They are going to use UOCAVA to get ballots, a program that emails ballots overseas without any citizenship check or verification of identity, whatsoever. (Foreign interference?) Remember they say, we have the ‘most secure elections in history,’ and anyone can get a ballot emailed to them! They want to dilute the TRUE vote of our beautiful military and their families, who Comrade Kamala has totally disrespected and abandoned. Republicans must act to stop them from stealing our military votes.”

“WATCH! Remember, IF YOU VOTE ILLEGALLY, YOU’RE GOING TO JAIL,” posted convicted felon former President Trump on Monday and, while we haven’t seen what the hell he thinks he’s talking about, he’s probably not even getting details of the right wing media conspiracy theory correct. The UOCAVA, or Uniformed And Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act, is simply the system with which voters overseas request and submit their ballots, enacted by Congress in 1986.

The Justice Department’s description doesn’t say anything about email, but so what if people print their ballot and then mail it back to their hometown clerk to be counted? What does this fat fucking idiot think will happen and what Gateway Pundit article did he half-read to spew out as this post?

Complete shitbag Trump campaign advisor Corey Lewandowski, who sources tell the Washington Post that his fat boss “has begun to privately criticize” and has been “downplaying his role on the campaign and their relationship” just over a month after he was re-rehired, wouldn’t even tell Newsmax on Monday that the Orange Allah would agree to debate Vice President Kamala Harris again on the channel or other, higher production-value, right wing propaganda network Fox News.

Kind of revealing how fraught the subject of another debate is that Corey can’t even speak for Donald when the downside of committing to face Harris again on friendlier territory is basically zero since her campaign would never go for it. The Post story – printed before Trump later that day told his fans at a rally that bullshit excuse that it’s “too late” to debate Harris again on CNN’s proposed date of October 23rd, even though he faced Joe Biden on October 22nd, 2020 in their last battle in that campaign – says Kellyanne Conway and Lindsey Graham have been nagging Trump to make another one happen. The conventional wisdom among political reporters these days is once the October 1st Vance-Walz debate comes and goes that, depending on that one’s outcome, Trump will seek to face Harris one more time because he won’t want Jaydee to have “had the final word.”

A big “scoop” is coming to Mediaite in the next few minutes, courtesy of CNN’s Brian Stelter who reports that President Biden will appear in-studio for the taping of Wednesday’s daytime talk show The View. It will be “his first interview since the Democratic National Convention and ABC News presidential debate,” the show’s producers said in the announcement, per Stelter.

It’ll probably be the biggest story about The View on Mediaite since Whoopi Goldberg made a joke about Trump having a small dick or something “controversial” like that a week or two ago.