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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.

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.