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A new Emerson College survey of likely Florida voters finds skeletal white collar criminal Senator Rick Scott leading Dem challenger Congresswoman Debbie Murcarsel-Powell 46 to 45 percent, while convicted felon former President Trump leads Vice President Kamala Harris 50 to 45 percent.

By this point Emerson’s record of putting out polls showing the Republican candidate leading by 1 percent only for the Dem to win by 5 should be well-established with our readers. Obviously there’s still uncertainty, not just over the weighting adjustments Emerson may or may not have made since the last election they polled, but that 9 percent are still undecided leaves a lot of room for late breaks toward Scott. What is certain however is that Dems should pour a shit ton of money into this race. It’s absolutely winnable and it would be insane to pass up the opportunity to flip the seat back to Blue, especially when abortion is literally on the ballot with the Amendment 4 measure.

Emerson also polled Ohio: Trump 53 to Harris 43, Brown 46 to Moreno 44, Texas: Trump 50 – Harris 46, Cruz 48 – Allred 44, and California: Harris 60 – Trump 36, Schiff 55 – Garvey 33.

Peruvian officials on Thursday announced they had seized hundreds of dead endangered frogs from Lake Titicaca illegally caught and killed to be sold as aphrodisiacs, AFP reports in a story billing the meat of the rare Telmatobius culeus amphibians as the “Andean Viagra.” The shipment of the frogs was bound for the capital city of Lima, where presumably regular Viagra and Cialis are difficult to come by, leading men suffering from erectile dysfunction to eat goddamned frogs.

Wildlife experts estimate the population of the Lake Titicaca Frog has declined as much as 80 percent since 2009 due to loss of habitat, pollution, and being rendered into “Andean Viagra.”

Maybe this is a little Rorschach test-y where plenty could watch this argue that Dan Bongino, one of the leading lights in the right wing media-industrial complex grifter set, is doing what he and his cohort are wont to do: react to the new Russia shitshow by spreading conspiracy bullshit and paranoia about the “Deep State” coming for them. After all it was taped on a day that ended in “y.”

Still, he seemed awfully specific in his warnings here, that Tim Pool, Benny Johnson, Dave Rubin, and the rest of their crew being exposed as Russian agents are just the first few dominoes to fall and that Bongino himself, as well as the people he was accusing non-specifically, could be next.

Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign hauled in $361 million from nearly 3 million individual donors in the month of August, her team said Friday morning in a press release calling it the “best grassroots fundraising month in presidential history,” bringing the total haul since her campaign launched on July 21st to $610 million. The August total is nearly triple the $130 million convicted felon former President Trump’s bid raised last month, and at $404 million cash on hand, Harris has a $109 million advantage over Donald’s $295 million war chest. It’s a $159 million net swing in cash on hand since June when Joe Biden’s campaign account was $50 million behind Trump’s.

Several leaders in the Caucasian Evangelical movement tell Politico that, even though convicted felon former President Trump announcing he’ll vote against Florida’s Amendment 4 ballot measure last week might have calmed some nerves, they’re still concerned with his overall flakiness on their most important issue: Denying proper reproductive healthcare to women nationwide.

“It’s disastrous that he’s attempted to run against his own track record,” said Southern Baptist Theological Seminary head Albert Mohler. “There is a real danger to the Trump campaign that pro-life voters just don’t turn out for him with the intensity that he needs.” Sounds very concerned.

MAGAchurch Pastor Tony Perkins said “You’ve got to be more than voting against someone. You’ve got to be voting for what someone else has to offer. It’s just on the margins, but it’s the difference in many elections. Not just voting against a set of ideas and policies and the personality to actually be for a set of policies and principles that you are enthusiastic about, that makes the difference in elections, and that’s where we’re not at yet.” Endorsement not so excited and intense-y.

“I know theologically conservative and politically conservative evangelicals who are not going to vote for Donald Trump – and not a small number. The message I would send to the campaign is: Do not do anything to add to that number,” said Andrew Walker, a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a professor of Christian ethics at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Very sad.

“Well, I would do that.  And we’re sitting down.  Y’know I was, um, somebody we had Senator Marco Rubio and my daughter Ivanka was so, ah, impactful on that issue.  It’s a very important issue.  But I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I’m talking about that because child care is child care couldn’t, y’know, something you have to have.

“In this country, you have to have it.  But when you talk about those numbers compared to the kind of numbers I’m talking about by taxing foreign nations at levels they’re not used to but they’ll get used to it very quickly and it’s not going to stop them from doing business with us, but they’ll have a very substantial tax when they send product into our country.  Ah, those numbers are so much bigger than any numbers that we’re talking about including child care.  It’s gonna take care, we’re gonna have I, I look forward to having no deficits within a fairly short period of time.

Theilian Vice President Model 1.0 JD Vance raised shadows of one of his running mate’s more notorious comments when he told a rally crowd that in the wake of a Georgia school shooting that killed four, people need to understand school shootings are just “a fact of life,” the Associated Press reports.

“If these psychos are going to go after our kids we’ve got to be prepared for it,” Vance said. “We don’t have to like the reality that we live in, but it is the reality we live in. We’ve got to deal with it.”  Like every one of his Republican colleagues in Congress, Vance failed to provide a solution to gun violence.

Earlier this year, after a school shooting in Iowa in January, Trump told a rally crowd in the state “to get over it” rather than offering any response.  “I want to send our support and our deepest sympathies to the victims and families touched by the terrible school shooting yesterday in Perry, Iowa.  It’s just horrible, so surprising to see it here. But have to get over it, we have to move forward,” said Trump during a rally before the Iowa caucuses after a shooter killed a six-year-old and wounded seven others.

Here's why I am asking all of my supports to vote for President Trump. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/YV7R9sXOMY

— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) September 5, 2024

Sure, the typo in the tweet is sad, but hey, who are we to mock the odd typo, right?  More importantly, Bobby Kennedy notes that the reason he’s supporting Trump–though maybe not voting for Trump, depending on what state Kennedy’s voting in–are the shutdowns during Covid (which happened when Trump was in the Oval Office) and a “shift of $4.3 trillion” to billionaires (which may be a reference to the debt incurred by the Trump tax cuts of 2017). That endorsement touting by MAGALand may not be as good as they thought.

The father of the 14-year-old Georgia school shooter who killed four people on Wednesday was arrested on state murder charges in connection to the deaths, ABC News reports.  The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said 54-year-old Colin Gray will be charged with our counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder and eight counts of cruelty to children.

Two teachers and two students were killed, with another eight students and a teacher wounded at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia.  Fourteen-year-old Colt Gray surrendered at the scene and has been charged with four counts of murder, with additional charges expected.

Sources tell NPR that the two shitbags on convicted felon former President Trump’s cabal who shoved an Arlington National Cemetery employee last week are deputy campaign manager Justin Caporale and Michel Picard, a member of Trump’s advance team. The campaign still hasn’t released their footage of the incident which they claim will exonerate them completely and totally.

Asked by the Daily Beast why the Trump campaign is still so obssesed with “Stolen McValor,” angry, large-headed spokesman Steven Cheung responded in an email asking “Why won’t [Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign] just provide real documentation and proof [that she worked at an Alameda, California McDonald’s in 1983]? The onus is on them. What does she have to hide?”

We love the Daily Beast, but it’s hard not to notice the quality going downhill since their ownership did a mass buyout of all their top talent like Jake Lahut, Jose Pagliery, Justin Baragona, Emily Shugerman, and other sharp-witted pros. It most certainly shows in this piece, which says “Trump’s attacks on Harris’ Mickey D’s bonafides presented a similar quandary” to the Obama birth certificate scam, “and one that should be addressed. While the Harris campaign may not have wanted to gratify the attack by trying to disprove it, the [former Obama] strategist said, ‘This seems to be an easier biographical question to answer than anything else.'” Jesus freaking Christ.

The Beast is actually dignifying this horseshit, writing this as if everyone’s supposed to keep a fucking “long-form” paystub from a goddamned McDonald’s in case they run for president four decades later. What is this shit?!? Did the New York Times secretly brainwash this reporter?

DC Federal Judge Tanya Chutkan on Thursday did pretty much exactly what convicted felon former President Trump’s lawyers had cried and stamped their feet over during a status conference in the post-2020 election coup attempt case earlier in the day: Ordering Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s team to file an evidentiary brief about their case, one likely to be chock full of damning exhibits and grand jury testimony about the Orange God Emperor’s actions following his humiliating defeat to Joe Biden, none of which has been made public before and obviously freaking out the lawyers tasked with shielding the fat fuck from any sort of accountability before the 2024 election, even if it’s just informing voters about the things he said and did privately.

“The Government shall file an Opening Brief on Presidential Immunity by Sept 26, 2024. Defendant’s Response and Renewed Motion to Dismiss Based on Presidential Immunity is due Oct 17, 2024. The Government’s Reply and Opposition is due Oct 29, 2024. After briefing, the court will determine whether further proceedings are necessary,” Chutkan wrote in her scheduling order.

A number of FBI search warrant actions in New York City on Thursday as WABC reports agents raided the homes of two of Mayor Eric Adams’s deputies: the Hamilton Heights, Manhattan abode of First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright, who is engaged to Schools Chancellor David Banks (not clear if they’re cohabitating and if Banks was the target), and the Hollis, Queens, home of Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Phil Banks, were searched as part of an ongoing investigation, sources said, adding that the whatever the matter is, it does not appear to be connected to the Turkish donation laundering scheme that Adams and his political staffers have been implicated in.

Separately a Twitter account called NYScanner reports that FBI agents has reportedly confiscated the cell phone of NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban and two other high ranking officers. No word if those seizures are connected to the deputy mayors getting raided, but Los Federales tend to do take action in a coordinated fashion, executing warrants simultaneously to catch targets off guard.

Feels kind of like the beginning of a good Batman movie. The plot lines about grimy urban corruption and what not are always solid. Fucking Christopher Nolan should’ve stuck more with that instead of his over-the-top secret energy weapon and sonar cellphone whatever the hell it was. Oh shit, the Penguin series with Colin Farrell is coming to HBO soon. Please God let that one be good. The Batman was awesome even if the ending sort of sucked. Joker: Folie à Deux should be solid too.

In conclusion, we hope federal law enforcement gets to the bottom of this matter swiftly.

A new national survey by Emerson College finds Vice President Kamala Harris leading convicted felon former President Trump 49 to 47 percent. Of course, this being Emerson and their 4 to 6 percent pro-GOP bias it could mean Harris actually leads pretty comfortably.

“Moderate” Republican Texas Congressman Tony Gonzales on Thursday told Punchbowl’s Jake Sherman he’s pretty sure Hakeem Jeffries will be the next speaker. “What’s frustrating me is I firmly believe that House Republicans are going to lose the majority,” Gonzales said at the Texas Tribune Fest, adding “and we’re going to lose it because of ourselves.” The Congressman, who narrowly survived a primary challenge from psychotic gun YouTuber Brandon Herrera earlier this year (Herrera is pals with “Demolitia” Nazi cosplayer Matt Carriker of failed Trump assassin Thomas Crooks’s t-shirt fame) had told CNN in April that he “serves with some real scumbags” in the House GOP.

No shit. Time for Tony to grab his balls and switch parties. Or at least become an independent. If he can survive a MAGA primary challenge it means his personal base is durable in the district.

The fallout from the Biden Administration’s lightning offensive against Russian propaganda operations continued Thursday as federal prosecutors announced an indictment against former Trump 2016 campaign advisor and current Moscow state TV propagandist Dimitri Simes, alleging that Simes and his wife received over $1 million dollars and a personal car and driver in exchange for work they did for Russia’s Channel One since June 2022 in violation of sanctions, the AP reports.

Meanwhile Semafor reports bright-pink former Fox News propagandist Glenn Beck’s Blaze TV fired Lauren Chen, co-founder of Tenet Media, the production company that took at least $10 million in Russian funding to pay to its shitwad podcasters such as Benny Johnson, Tim Pool, and Dave Rubin.

A very sad, very sleepy, convicted felon former President Trump on Thursday complained to the New York Economic Club that OPEC nations aren’t helping him get elected again by inflicting pain on Americans by jacking up oil prices. The fat fuck also announced he’s appointing Elon Musk to some bullshit government spending panel and warned of legal retribution for Biden and Harris.

As expected, Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign raked in over $300 million in contributions in the month of August, eclipsing convicted felon former President Trump’s $130 million haul more than twice over, NBC News reports citing a campaign announcement. Sucks for fat Donald.

Irresponsible crackhead-turned-halfway decent painter Hunter Biden’s lawyers announced to a California federal court they will attempt to enter a no contest plea just moments before jury selection started in his tax fraud trial on Thursday, CNN’s Marshall Cohen reports. The plea – in which Hunter accepts punishment but maintains innocence – is apparently up to the judge to accept.

But ABC News reports he actually changes his plea to guilty, so maybe the judge didn’t accept.