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The FBI’s annual “Summary of Crime in the Nation” report, covering the years 2022 to 2023 but released Monday due to the time-intensive data collecting and number crunching, shows that violent crimes drop 3 percent in the period while property crimes went down 2.4 percent, NBC News reports on what’s no doubt some kind of election interference scam because it feels like crime is out of control and only Trump can fix it. One the worst crimes, murder and non-negligent manslaughter were down an estimated 11.6 percent – the largest one-year decline in decades – while rape decreased by an estimated 9.4 percent even though we’re being invaded by Venezuela and Haiti.

On the plus side for the MAGA kids though is that car theft went up about 7.6 percent.

“The Department has no tolerance for violence and illegal threats of violence against public officials, government offices, and election infrastructure. These crimes are attacks on our democracy. As the Deputy Attorney General stated in remarks last month, ‘[f]or the right to vote to be real for every American, election officials – who are often volunteers – must be able to do their jobs free from improper influence, physical threats, or any other conduct designed to intimidate.'”

“In the last two months, we witnessed two horrific attempts by fellow Americans on the life of presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump. And we have seen foreign actors plot to assassinate current and former US Government officials. In recent years, we have seen a dangerous increase in threats of violence directed at election officials, workers, and volunteers, as well as to federal and state officials, judges, prosecutors, law enforcement officers, and other public servants. Indeed, we have accelerated our efforts to reverse a dramatic increase in threats against election workers, public servants, and electoral processes, regardless of their origins. Moreover, less than four years ago, the US Capitol was attacked while lawmakers met to affirm the results of a presidential election. The Department deploys every tool at its disposal to combat such violence and threats of violence,” writes Assistant US Attorney General Carlos Uriarte in a letter to the Senate, after they had requested an outline of how the Department is getting ready to deal with an avalanche of bullshit from both home and abroad in the final stretch before election day.

The Biden Administration Department of Commerce on Monday unveiled a proposal for a ban on all Chinese and Russian-made tech for cars sold in the US, Bloomberg reports.

“This is not about trade or economic advantage. This is a strictly national security action,” US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told reporters. “We are focused on the national security threat, very real threat, that connected vehicles pose to our country and the American people. Cars today have cameras, microphones, GPS tracking and other technologies connected to the internet. It doesn’t take much imagination to understand how a foreign adversary with access to this information could pose a serious risk to both our national security and the privacy of US citizens.”

The DOJ released a letter written by Ryan Wesley Routh offering $150,000 to anyone who could 'finish the job' on President Trump.

The DOJ, which is trying to put Trump in prison, is now offering a bounty on Trump’s head by releasing this.

Why else would they release this? pic.twitter.com/r5u3RFBrIC

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) September 23, 2024

A violent internecine struggle between rival factions within Mexico’s notorious Sinaloa Cartel has inspired one side to come up with its own signature for their gruesome handiwork: leaving corpses of its victims on in public wearing sombreros as a warning to their enemies, CBS news reports.

At least five bodies wearing the wide-brimmed hats were found by cops Saturday on the streets of Sinaloa amid a wave of bloodshed as differing factions seek to seize power within the cartel following the July arrest of the syndicate’s co-founder Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada. It’s not clear what message the sombreros – a cultural symbol of Mexico – are supposed to convey to the enemy faction of the cartel, as in whether one side see themselves as more authentically Mexican than the other. Or that the victims are simply taking a “permanent siesta.” Either way, its pretty uninspired and cliched, like they might as well be Al-Qaeda goons putting turbans on their victims.

Then there’s the labor requirement of carrying a stack of sombreros around at the ready every time they could encounter their rivals, though maybe they assign one of the newer guys to hang back with them while the more experienced crew members stage an ambush. Like “hat guy” is the grunt role every rookie needs to suck up and do if they want to move up. It’s probably a little easier than being “pizza guy” in the rival faction as their signature, per CBS, is to use a knife to pin a slice of pizza on the bodies of their victims. That’s gotta be a pain in the ass to carry a boxed pizza around everywhere they go. But it’s definitely more interesting than the sombrero sign, even if its message is just as inscrutable. If we had to guess we would hazard that the pizza is meant to tell the other guys “Here’s your slice of the cartel, puto.” Or maybe they’re “delivering” death to their enemies.

Let’s be real here though: Neither of them are on the level of “Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.”

“Northwestern Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico (AL97): Showers and thunderstorms are gradually becoming better organized in association with a broad area of low pressure located over the northwestern Caribbean Sea. Environmental conditions appear favorable for further development of this system. A tropical depression or storm is likely to form within the next day or two as the system moves northward across the northwestern Caribbean Sea and into the southeastern Gulf of Mexico, where additional development is expected,” says a National Hurricane Center bulletin.

“Regardless of development, this system is expected to produce heavy rains over portions of Central America during the next several days. Interests in the northwestern Caribbean, the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico, and western Cuba should closely monitor the progress of this system, as watches or warnings will likely be required later this morning for portions of these areas. Later this week, the system is forecast to move generally northward across the eastern Gulf of Mexico, and interests along the northern and northeastern Gulf Coast should also closely monitor the progress of this system” the message continued, with the system a potential danger for Florida’s Gulf coast.

Online rumors of new hires to our campaign are just that – rumors. We look forward to announcing additional staff roles soon. #ncpol #ncgov

— Mark Robinson (@markrobinsonNC) September 23, 2024

Can’t decide if it’s a sadder statement about Jack Burkman that Mark Robinson doesn’t want him, or that Robinson’s use of “we” is just barely true now that the team’s down to him and three staffers.

Election officials in Portage County, Ohio on Friday announced that the board had voted 3 to 1 to contract with private security and local police departments – rather than deputies under dipshit MAGA Sheriff Bruce Zuchowski – to provide security for voters on election day after Zuchowski posted on Facebook a call to write down the addresses of neighbors with Harris-Walz 2024 signs so they would (purportedly) know where to dump migrants in the event of a Harris win, WKYC reports.

“As Chair of the Board of Elections and the other Democratic member of the Board of Elections, made the second. We hope the voters of Portage County will vote this November free of any concerns of intimidation with this security in place,” wrote Portage Dem Party/County Board of Elections Chair Randi Clites in a post. “This morning as one of the four Board of Elections Board Members, I made a motion to amend and update the Portage County Election Administration Plan for 2024. The motion was to remove the Sheriff Department from providing the election security at the Board Office during In-person Absentee Voting. The Board is weighing its options to utilize private security already in place at the Administration Building or the Ravenna Police Department. My motion passed 3-1. [Amanda Suffecool, chair of the Portage Republican party voted NO].”

“SpaceX plans to launch about five uncrewed Starships to Mars in two years. If those all land safely, then crewed missions are possible in four years. If we encounter challenges, then the crewed missions will be postponed another two years. It is only possible to travel from Earth to Mars every two years, when the planets are aligned. This increases the difficulty of the task, but also serves to immunize Mars from many catastrophic events on Earth,” tweeted Elon Musk on Sunday.

Skipped through his rambling promises of a grand, Total Recall-like future to get to this part: “The fundamental existential question is whether humanity becomes sustainably multiplanetary before something happens on Earth to prevent that, for example nuclear war, a supervirus or population collapse that weakens civilization to the point where it loses ability to send supply ships to Mars.”

“One of my biggest concerns right now is that the Starship program is being smothered by a mountain of government bureaucracy that grows every year. This stifling red tape is affecting all large projects in America, which is why, for example, California has spent ~$7 billion dollars and several years on high-speed rail, but only has a 1600 ft section of concrete to show for it! While I have many concerns about a potential Kamala regime, my absolute showstopper is that the bureaucracy currently choking America to death is guaranteed to grow under a Democratic Party administration. This would destroy the Mars program and doom humanity. It cannot happen. Your help would be much appreciated. This is a fork, maybe the fork, in the road of human destiny.”

We’re old enough to remember when the MAGA assclowns screamed that Musk and NASA were planning to traffic children to Mars to keep them as sex slaves in underground dungeons. Now that he’s on their side they seem to have conveniently dropped that assertion from their routine.

I will be spending the next 43 days in North Carolina mobilizing our massive coalition of supporters to make Mark Robinson the next Governor of North Carolina.

Donate today! 👇🏼https://t.co/WhF7pldk1T

— Jack Burkman (@Jack_Burkman) September 22, 2024

If that name looks familiar it’s because Jack Burkman is a convicted felon who, along with his possibly more notorious partner Jacob Wohl, have been fined millions of dollars in New York and Ohio – plus pleaded guilty to telecom fraud in the Buckeye State – and still face trial in Michigan for their 2020 robocall scam aimed at intimidating Black voters. Just the kind of talent Big Mark needs.

But WRAL politics reporter Will Doran writes not so fast on that as he hasn’t actually confirmed yet if Burkman is taking the wheel of Big Mark’s ship – while WUNC reports that more rats than had been announced Sunday evening have jumped off of, leaving Robinson with just three loyal rodents.

German Chancellor Olaf Schulz’s Social Democrats (SPD) squeaked out a freaking close win against the extremist Alternative for Germany (AfD) Party in Sunday’s Brandenburg state election, with SPD taking 30.9 percent of the vote to AfD’s 29.2 percent, the Berliner reports. Combined with the other two normie parties – the BSW and CDU – the SPD will work to form a coalition to shut out the AfD, but the close finish shows that the rise of the extremist white nationalist party, particularly in eastern Germany’s less wealthy, former communist regions, is probably still just beginning.

Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign team over the weekend cranked out a memo outlining their plan to tie “black NAZI” porn pervert Lt Governor Mark Robinson to his political benefactor, convicted felon former President Trump, and sink them together in the Tar Heel State, writing:

“North Carolina was already poised to be the Harris campaign’s top pickup opportunity after President Biden and Vice President Harris lost here by just over a point in 2020. The latest Robinson news creates even more opportunity in our campaign’s effort to reach suburban voters, moderate Republicans, and Black voters. In North Carolina, we were already working to drive up our numbers in the suburbs, including in the Charlotte and Raleigh metro areas, engaging Republicans who are turned off by Trump’s extremism. That includes Republicans who support reproductive freedom – and we will continue to highlight the shared Trump-Robinson agenda to ban abortion nationwide.”

“These latest revelations in CNN will only make our Trump-Robinson campaign more important.”

“In the North Carolina primary, Nikki Haley overperformed her statewide vote share (a significant 23.3 percent) in the vast majority of key suburban counties – like Cabarrus and Union Counties, where nearly one-quarter of GOP voters rejected Trump in the primary. We have used these primary election results to help drive our Republican outreach. This weekend, our hundreds of field staff and thousands of volunteers will be on the doors and phones highlighting the stakes of the presidential race and making it clear that North Carolinians across the political spectrum who don’t agree with the Trump-Robinson ticket have a home in our campaign. Trump was already in trouble with Black voters, as was Mark Robinson – who was drawing only support from three percent of likely Black voters. Newly reported hate-filled rhetoric, including Robinson saying that he supported reinstating slavery, will only further turn off these voters who are a core coalition that will decide this election.”

Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign took in $27 million from donors at a single event in New York City’s financial district on Sunday, the Associated Press reports.

“Today, the Mark Robinson for Governor campaign announced the following senior staff changes: Conrad Pogorzelski, general consultant and senior advisor, Chris Rodriguez, campaign manager, Heather Whillier, finance director, and Jason Rizk, deputy campaign manager, have stepped down from their roles with the campaign,” says North Carolina Lt Governor Mark Robinson’s campaign in a statement on Sunday as the obese Nazi pervert’s gubernatorial bid implodes in real time.

Or maybe the statement was from just Mark Robinson himself since it doesn’t seem like he even has a campaign anymore. By the way the statement was posted on Twitter, not “Nude Africa.”

“If he loses there won’t be another election” – The top comment on The Gateway Pundit article “THE LAST DANCE: President Trump Rules Out Another Run for President if He ‘Loses’ This Year.”

In an interview aired Sunday, the fat bastard told right wing scumbag Sharyl Atkisson “No, I don’t. I think that that will be, that will be it. I don’t see that at all,” in response to a question about whether he would run again in 2028. The only reason we actually (sort of) believe him is simple entropy. At 78 he’s doing a third of the campaign rallies he did in 2016 when he was a relatively spry 70, with even his campaign staff telling Axios his age is part of the reason why. “He’s older, and more inclined to spend his time at Mar-a-Lago,” they write in lieu of a quote from anyone saying that directly.

Better keep expectations low for the Orange Slob to at last shed his mortal coil or finally be imprisoned by the time he’s 82 in 2028 (Kamala Harris still needs to win too). We’ll just arbitrarily put it at 30 percent likelihood that he’ll run again. That might even be too low. It really is up to him since both cosmic and earthly justice seem content to let it play out with voters. The GOP primary electorate sure as hell wouldn’t be going with anyone else unless Trump steps aside willingly.

Scores of former national security experts, federal officials and military officers endorsed Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris for President saying, “Vice President Harris defends America’s democratic ideals, while former President Donald Trump endangers them.”

The 741 former Cabinet officials, national security staffers, and retired military officers–including 15 four-star generals among 233 flag officers–noted Harris’s experience and dedication to the nation and the rule of law, while condemning Trump’s glorification of dictators and denigration of the United States.

“The contrast with Mr. Trump is clear: where Vice President Harris is prepared and strategic, he is impulsive and ill-informed. He has heaped praise on adversarial dictators like China’s Xi Jinping, North Korea’s Kim Jung Un, and Russia’s Vladimir Putin, as well as the terrorist leaders of Hezbollah. Conversely, he has publicly and privately excoriated the leaders of our most steadfast allies, including the United Kingdom, Israel, Australia, Canada, and Germany. He abandoned our Kurdish allies while ceding influence in the Middle East to Russia, Iran, and China.

“More than half of voters in a new survey say they support pop star Taylor Swift’s get-out-the-vote effort to push her fans to vote in this year’s election, but the number is down 15 points from February following a conspiracy theory surrounding the idea of a rigged Super Bowl. The newly released Monmouth University poll found 53 percent of voters approve of Swift’s push to get her fans to vote, with 35 percent saying they disapprove. Twelve percent said they didn’t know,” wrote The Hill on Friday in the lede to a story headlined “Support for Taylor Swift get-out-the-vote efforts falls after Super Bowl conspiracy theory,” categorized under the site’s “In The Know” section.

They way they wrote it you would actually know less than before if you did read it. They didn’t even fucking link the poll result – probably a conscious decision on their part. The questions on Swift came separately and a day after Monmouth’s main national poll which, was not really a binary head-to-head but asked “How likely are you to vote for…” in two separate questions on convicted felon former President Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris, to which Harris “led” 49 to 44 percent when “Definitely” and “Probably” from each were combined. We skipped it because, as some polling geeks we follow on Twitter and trust for analysis had pointed out, as far as we know there’s nothing stopping a respondent from saying they’ll “probably” or “definitely” vote for both Trump and Harris.

Aside from a passing mention buried in a lengthy “The Memo” rundown on Friday morning, The Hill skipped it too. But they still needed to find some kind of “win” elsewhere in Monmouth’s polling.

“It was great seeing my friends His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Amir of Qatar and His Excellency Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, Prime Minister of Qatar at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida. The Amir has proven to be a great and powerful leader of his country, advancing on all levels at record speed. He is someone also who strongly wants peace in the Middle East, and all over the world. We had a great relationship during my years in the White House, and it will be even stronger this time around!” posted convicted felon former President Trump on Sunday and he definitely didn’t write that shit, lol. Some “strongman,” bowing to those goons.

Confirmed bachelor South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham on Sunday to NBC’s Kristen Welker his neighboring state’s Lt Governor Mark Robinson has “the best lawsuit in the history of the country for libel” if he can prove that CNN doctored all the posts on “Nude Africa,” but wasn’t sure that’s actually going to happen. Lindsey was far more confident that Robinson doesn’t hurt Trump in North Carolina, and expressed even more confidence in the national outlook for Donald when he explained himself why he was trying to rig the electoral college through Nebraska’s 2nd District for him.

“To my friends in Nebraska, that one electoral vote could be the difference between Harris being president or not and she’s a disaster for Nebraska and the world,” is how certain Lindsey is that Trump’s going to win. It’s not clear how successful Lindsey’s going to be with that as last we heard that one of the Nebraska state senators whose vote is needed to pass the change is looking to run for mayor of Omaha and would be committing political suicide if he takes away their EC vote.

At the end of the interview Lindsey kind of lost it when Welker kept pushing him on Trump’s comments about Ukraine, claiming that “OUR poll” says Harris is weak on the world stage. The clips we have don’t have Lindsey reacting to NBC’s poll but that’s what we’re assuming he’s talking about.

Incumbent liberal Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe, the former prime minister who took over two years ago after chickenshit former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country with an angry mob on his heels, came in third with 17 percent of the vote in Sunday’s big election, losing to Marxist candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake who took 42 percent of the preliminary tallies to opposition leader Sajith Premadasa’s 32 percent, the AP reports on a Wickremeshitty day for Ranil.