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“With just a few weeks to Election Day and early voting already underway in several states, it’s peak time for the ‘ground game’ that campaigns have spent months preparing. Back in May, on-the-ground Republican operatives voiced concerns to The Federalist that the Republican National Committee’s operations weren’t keeping pace with grassroots in swing states. Now, as Election Day nears, a narrative has emerged in the corporate media about the Trump campaign’s ‘paltry’ ground game,” wrote far right propaganda site the Federalist last week in a piece titled “Outside Conservative Groups Are Leading Trump’s Ground Game. That Might Be A Good Thing.”

Donald Trump +5 more 🔴 votes today thanks to Zerah who came from Oregon to help us Chase the Vote in Arizona!!

Every vote is critical.

Let’s go!! https://t.co/UW3fzSxyDa

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) October 10, 2024

That Federalist article might be what an outfit clearly bothered when a “narrative has emerged in the corporate media” about a serious weak spot in their effort to return convicted felon former President Trump to the White House would print and the tweet above might be contributing to that “narrative” considering that small-faced bastard is celebrating five more votes for his Orange Allah in Arizona.

Should Jim Jordan become Speaker of the House–and as it stands as of this writing, it is the most expedient and least disastrous route for the House GOP–Democratic candidates should send Matt Gaetz a daily Incredible Edible bouquet until Election Day 2024.  (It would accomplish two things:  His interns probably need some fruit in their diets and if kept in the office, they will feed an annoying swarm of fruit flies.)

Gaetz’s stunt lit a fuse on a bomb that has yet to explode, but the panic that it caused exposed the fundamental weakness of House Republicans:  lack of leadership.  The face representing the House GOP with which Republicans in every district will have to partner in the 2024 elections will be… Jim Jordan.  In every swing district, “Jim Jordan’s Far Right Freedom Caucus Agenda” gets pinned to the GOP candidate.

In this case, rightly so:  virtually every Republican in the House will have to vote for Jordan–or whomever ascends–for that person to become Speaker and that means each member casts a de facto vote for that person’s agenda.  And Jordan’s agenda isn’t popular with voters:  he’s anti-choice, pro-censorship, and he sits on the side of the insurrectionists.  In fact, some believe Jordan is a leader of the January 6th attempt to undermine the Constitution.

The Pentagon ordered the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower carrier group to move to the eastern Mediterranean, joining the USS Gerald R. Ford to offer security to Israel as it retaliates against Hamas for a deadly terrorist attack launched from Gaza, ABC News reports.  The Biden Administration also wants to dissuade Iran and Hezbollah from any action to support Hamas.

The Eisenhower set sail from Norfolk on a previously scheduled deployment that would take it into the Mediterranean and through the Suez Canal to participate in operations in the Persian Gulf.  It will now linger in the eastern Mediterranean until further notice.  The Pentagon is also considering moving the USS Bataan amphibious assault ship to the region to support potential operations.

On Friday patriot Jim Jordan was selected by the House Republican Caucus to become the next Speaker but there are serious doubts about whether he can be elevated to the most prestigious position in Congress, second in line to the presidency, as Democrats won’t help him get the majority of votes needed in the chamber to secure the gavel, preferring to play petty politics.

Leftists think this is so funny.

Why? The answer is obvious: The Democrats are seizing the opportunity to obstruct the impeachment inquiry against their corrupt, socialist leader Joe Biden. The momentum Republicans had three weeks ago was absolutely massive. The GOP had Biden and his evil son Hunter on the run, with the first blockbuster hearing in the inquiry nothing but wall-to-wall devastating testimony from witnesses. A full vote to authorize articles of impeachment was inevitable. All that changed when Democrats refused to help now-former Speaker Kevin McCarthy hang on to the gavel when he was hit with a motion to vacate brought by some Congressman for whatever reason.

Who did it and why isn’t important because the American people deserve answers and they won’t be getting them as long as Dems won’t work with Republicans to elect a conservative Speaker. Jim Jordan is the man who will continue exposing the corruption of the Biden Administration by subpoenaing Hunter Biden’s bank records and allowing members to show the American people pictures of him having sex with prostitutes before they go to the polls in the 2024 election.

Robert F Kennedy Jr’s younger brother Chris tells Politico he’s looking forward to Thanksgiving with the anti-vax weirdo now that Bobby’s dropped out of the Democratic presidential primary for an independent bid, with Chris having made the same calculation many in the GOP have already made.

“With Bobby no longer running in the Democratic Party, that’s taken a lot of pressure off of us,” Chris Kennedy said. “We love our brother. We love our party. And we love our president. Ultimately, it’s better that he’s running as an independent and can impact President Trump. We’re hopeful that he pulls support from President Trump and that he helps Joe Biden in the end. The folks I know who are most vocal about their support for Bobby are a lot of my traditional Republican friends. As a Kennedy, only Bobby, with that kind of charisma, could attract that much Republican support.

• Hamas:Palestinians :: MAGA:Republicans
• In a closed-door secret ballot within the House GOP conference, Trump did not get a single vote for Speaker–not one–proving their hero worship is nothing but performative bluster.  
• RFK Jr. was literally a Democrat in name only.
• Steve Scalise’s chance for the gavel went up in smoke in less than a Scaramucci.  That’s got to sting after he spent years at the #2 in the caucus working his butt off to get support for Party goals to little acclaim.  Republicans have no loyalty to anyone but Trump.
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The Internal Revenue Service estimates Americans paid $688 billion less than they owned during the 2021 tax year, the largest “tax gap” calculated and a jump of more than $110 billion from 2017, CBS News reports.  The “tax gap” describes the amount of money that should have been paid based on the tax formulations versus the amount actually paid.

The tax gap stems from a number of reasons, the main one being wealthy Americans using tax shelters and other means–from technically legal to absolutely illegal–to hide money from federal audit.  Others come from people who did not file but should have (cough, cough Hunter Biden) and people who filed but did not submit their tax payment.

“This increase in the tax gap underscores the importance of increased IRS compliance efforts on key areas,” IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel said. “These steps are urgent in many ways, including adding more fairness to the tax system, protecting those who pay their taxes and working to combat the tax gap.”

The White House says it has confirmed its suspicions that North Korea has been arming Russian forces in Ukraine, with intelligence photographs showing hundreds of containers of munitions from the regime of Kim Jong-un, the Washington Post reports.  This comes after a meeting between Putin and Kim promised closer relations between the two nations that find themselves on the periphery of civil society.

The Ukrainian revelation comes on the same day the North Korean government denied arming the Hamas terrorists who attacked Israeli civilians.  According to Reuters, reports coming from Israel show Hamas fighters using the North Korean-made F-7 rocket-propelled grenades, something known in intelligence circles for years, but the source of the weapons is unspecified.  The North Korean regime, however, denied the report through its state-owned media, calling it “a groundless and false rumour” and adding, “It is nothing but a bid to shift the blame for the Middle East crisis caused by (the United States’) wrong hegemonic policy onto a third country and thus evade the international criticism focused on the empire of evil,” it said.

With Republican Congressional leaders like Byron Donalds and Marjorie Taylor Greene railing on Twitter about a world falling apart because something something Hunter Biden and Hamas, the giant among the Keebler elves, House Speaker pro tempore Patrick McHenry, gavels closed the Friday session of the chamber–granted, with less vigor than when he first took control–announcing the House will not meet until Monday.  And that means the seasonal special, “Havoc House, Day 10: Republicans in Chaos,” will carry on for at least three more days as Jim Jordan tries to pin down members’ votes to get past the 217 threshold.

Weird-looking 2004 presidential Dem hopeful Dennis Kucinich has quit his post running anti-vax conspiracy freak Bobby Jr’s independent presidential campaign, the New York Times reports.

Spandex-wearing grapple-freak Jim Jordan has defeated “moderate” Georgia Congressman Austin Scott for the Republican nomination for Speaker of the House, CBS News’s Robert Costa reports, adding that Jordan fell well short of the 217 needed to win outright in the full House.

This guy. Seriously. It’s hard to capture with words how much he truly embodies the true ethos of the Republican Party in 21st Century America. We are so privileged to see him in action.

Principled ✅
Conservative ✅
Unifier ✅
Democrats Fear ✅
100% @CPAC Rating ✅@Jim_Jordan pic.twitter.com/3uJcfGvZSX

— Matt Schlapp (@mschlapp) October 13, 2023

“I have always been impressed by the skill and determination of the Israeli Defence Forces. As they defend their Nation against ruthless terrorists, I want to wish every soldier the best of luck. May you return home safely to your families, and may God bless you all!” writes probably one of fat former President Trump’s aides in a Truth Social post, careful to misspell “defense” and randomly capitalize “Nation” to make it seem authentic. The one before it where he screamed in all-caps “THE ATTACK ON ISRAEL WOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED, ZERO CHANCE, IF THE ELECTION OF 2020 WAS NOT RIGGED AND STOLLEN. IT SHOWS THE WORLD HOW IMPORTANT ELECTIONS ARE,” was definitely written by him though. Like his handlers said “Okay sir, you can write whatever you want in all capital letters but then you have to give the account to Jason Miller to write the next one.”

UPDATE 10/13/2023 3:05 PM EDT: Trump later posted “#IStandWithIsrael #IStandWithBibi.” Holy shit, lol. That second one is so freaking pathetic. Good Lord, what a simpering weasel.

Chatham County, Georgia man Connor Cato tells WSAV he thought it was a mistake when a cop issued him a ticket for doing 90 in a 55 mph zone with a $1.4 million fine on the bottom line. That is until he called the clerk’s office and an employee told him no that’s really the fine amount.

“I said, ‘This might be a typo’ and she said, ‘No sir, you either pay the amount on the ticket or you come to court on December 21 at 1:30 pm,'” Cato explained. Turns out that’s really the practice in Savannah. Cato won’t actually owe that much provided he shows up, per WSAV, but the insane fine amounts are specifically meant to make sure a judge gives him hell for excessive speeding.

Reuters cameraman Issam Abdullah was killed Friday by Israeli shelling in southern Lebanon, where the IDF are exchanging fire with Hezbollah, MSNBC’s Matt Bradley reports from the scene.

Bradley’s tweet came shortly after one from Reuters which said, ominously, “We have removed a live feed of the Lebanon-Israel border due to graphic content.” Rest in peace to a braver newsman who gave his life to bring the truth to the rest of the world. May Valhalla celebrate your arrival.

Hey Republican Congressguys and gals, think you got what it takes to be the next SPEAKER of the House? Well sign up for the big TRYOUT this afternoon to show your leadership skills to the caucus!

There’s only one candidate right now, and it’s big Jimmy Jordan who talks tough and is even tougher in the locker rooms! Who knows? Maybe YOU can knock him down if he doesn’t do it himself!

This is BIG! Sign up now, because there’s only an hour left. YOU could be the next SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE if you got the game. See Conference Chair Elise Stefanik for details. Don’t worry about her, hehe! She’s only a total b-word on TV and Twitter. She’s nice to other Republicans IRL. We swear.

EXCLUSIVE: Meghan McCain doesn't watch ‘The View’ "at all" after leaving the show: It's "like looking at an ex-boyfriend's Instagram" https://t.co/bKg2XWh9im

— The Messenger (@TheMessenger) October 13, 2023

WOW. Holy shit. Somebody’s about to get fucking fired for getting beaten to this one. This is like Mediaite’s own 9/11 times Hiroshima. They need to put a png of a black ribbon on the logo after this.

It looks like Truth Social won’t be getting the significant cash injection from its planned merger with a so-called “special purpose acquisition company” formed to raise money to fund and merge with the Trump Media & Technology Group:  Digital World Acquisition Corp. will return $533 million to investors as the proposed merger that was originally scheduled for September 2022 apparently peters out, Reuters reports.

The refund means the “private investment in public equity,” or PIPE, transaction is canceled after DWAC raised more than $1 billion to invest in TMTG as a way to boost Truth Social, Trump’s competition to Twitter that never attracted a broad audience and has become a conservative echo chamber where Trump posts rambling announcements.

What this means for Truth Social is unknown.  The platform has been running at a significant loss for Trump, and with the 91-times indicted felon set to sit for three criminal cases and multiple civil cases, including a quarter billion financial fraud case in New York State, cash will be at a premium for the alleged criminal family.  Of course, Trump World tried to claim the loss of a half billion dollars was a benefit:  In a statement, Trump Media CEO Devin Nunes said ending the agreement is “in the best interest of TMTG’s equity holders and completing our merger with DWAC as soon as possible.”