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Fulton County, Georgia DA Fani Willis on Tuesday petitioned a judge to issue a subpoena for the testimony of RNC Chair Ronna Not-Romney McDaniel and gay frog conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to testify in next month’s trial of MAGA lawyers Sidney “Kraken” Powell and Kenny Chesebro for their involvement in the post-2020 election Trump Regime coup attempt in the state.

If you’re an American liberal there’s a good chance your sympathies lie with the Palestinian people living on the wrong side of an apartheid state. Decades of teenagers getting shot and killed just for throwing rocks at Israeli soldiers, people’s homes getting bulldozed to make room for far right settlers, denied educational and employment opportunities enjoyed on the other side of militarized borders, the imperialism made all the more shambolic by US support for it, and on and on and on.

The Israeli Defense Forces tells i24NEWS: Around 40 babies were butchered in the village of Kfar Aza, in southern Israel

'We're going to go after Hamas. We're going to hunt them down. We're going to eradicate them' Danny Danon, Former Israeli ambassador to the UN says pic.twitter.com/KoCzk6QJs8

— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) October 10, 2023

And you have something seriously fucking wrong with you if you can’t square that sympathy for regular Palestinian folk and outrage over the abuses they’ve suffered with the absolute horrors of what happened to regular Israeli folks on Saturday. We’re not Middle East history scholars, but we’d probably know if 40 Palestinian babies had ever been beheaded en masse by Israeli soldiers. This test is pretty easy yet some people on the left are still failing it. Failing spectacularly.

A motion filed Tuesday by Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith in disgraced former President Trump’s post-2020 election coup attempt case reveals that Donald’s lawyers are opposed to having to assert their supposedly planned “advice of counsel” defense exhibits to the court by Smith’s requested deadline of December 18th, 2023. Smith’s team doesn’t get into why they don’t want to do it, simply writing “through counsel, the defendant opposes this motion,” in the opening.

Thing is that it doesn’t appear that Trump’s lawyers have ever actually raised their intent to pursue the defense in any filings or arguments in pretrial hearings so far. It’s all been on TV and those are what Smith uses in the “background” section. Basically he’s saying “Hey you and your lawyer said all this shit in public about how you actually believed all that garbage stupid Rudy Giuliani and the Kraken were telling you about election fraud, so if you plan on bringing it into the courtroom you should tell the judge soon because we’re on a tight schedule here.” To which Trump’s lawyers are probably thinking “Uhhh shit… The fat idiot already imploded our case during his interview with freaking Kristen Welker. Are we still going with it? Goddamn it. Tell Smith we think we’re opposed to having to share the exhibits! For now! We’ll get back to him with something soon. Probably.”

Probably another sore spot is that if Trump does indeed go with it there are at least 25 witnesses who have claimed attorney-client privilege for their communications – including a Trump family member – all of which would be waived and subject to being entered into evidence.

An unnamed Pentagon official on Tuesday told Sky News Arabia that the administration does “not rule out carrying out a special operation to liberate our citizens in Gaza.” No further details were available as of yet. While obviously saying they’re not ruling it out falls well short of it definitely happening, the possibility that Navy SEALs or other special forces personnel could find themselves on the ground in Gaza is troubling. These things have a way of escalating.

Republican Wisconsin state Assembly Speaker Robin Vos on Monday did not answer an AP reporter’s question on whether impeaching liberal state Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz for declining to recuse from a case that threatens to wipe out the extreme gerrymanders that have long kept Vos’s majority safe from the collective will of the voters, with Vos saying only that “Justice Protasiewicz should have recused herself. We think the United States Supreme Court precedent compels her recusal, and the United States Supreme Court will have the last word here.”

On Tuesday morning the AP reported that David Prosser, a Republican former justice appointed to a panel Vos had stood up to try to find a pretext for impeaching Protasiewicz had emailed Vos on Friday to tell him that he was recommending against it, writing “Impeachment is so serious, severe, and rare that it should not be considered unless the subject has committed a crime, or the subject has committed indisputable ‘corrupt conduct’ while ‘in office’… In my view, ‘corrupt conduct’ is not a term that is open to a mere political grievance. If that were the case, legislative bodies could be trading questionable impeachments with considerable frequency.” The email apparently came just before Protasiewicz announced she was not recusing from the case. What’s not clear is why Vos didn’t wait on the other two to overrule Prosser or something before Vos bitched out.

Five women formerly affiliated with anti-sex trafficking group “Operation Underground Railroad” on Monday filed a civil complaint in Utah accusing OUR founder and Sound of Freedom inspiration Tim Ballard of coercing them into sex acts while they were posing as his wives during his missions to third world countries, KSL reports on the former MAGA flavor of the month’s ongoing downfall.

“When these women found themselves questioning the legitimacy of tactics involving sexual contact, they often doubted their own instincts, relying on Ballard’s breadth of knowledge about rescue mission to convince themselves that such tactics were normal,” says the complaint in which the plaintiffs are only identified by their initials until a protective order can be put in place. “Ballard would also tell the women that engaging in sex play with him would improve their marriage, even as he also told them not to tell their husbands about what they were doing… at least two marriages have broken up as a result of Tim Ballard’s actions with these women,” the complaint alleges.

This is some sick shit. No wonder Ballard is planning to run for Mitt Romney’s senate seat next year.

On a list of “rapid response” talking points posted publicly on Monday by the Republican National Committee following anti-vax freak Robert F Kennedy Jr’s launch of an independent campaign are some pretty standard stuff like how he “enthusiastically endorsed Hillary Clinton’s 2000 Senate, 2007 presidential, and 2016 presidential campaigns,” “called the NRA a ‘terror group,'” and “has repeatedly called for a ‘ban’ on ‘fossil fuel extraction,’ including fracking” and so on and so forth.

However it’s the last one, where they point out that Bobby Jr “called the 2000 presidential election stolen ‘under a cloud of dirty tricks’ and said Republicans ‘fix[ed]’ the 2004 presidential election,” that speak to a party up to its eyeballs in their own bullshit. We need not point out the extremely obvious here about a party acting like the aftermath of the 2020 election never happened, but we think this myopic batfuckery goes even deeper. While it’s true that Democrats in Congress raised formal objections to vote certifications after the 2000, 2004, and 2016 elections, none of the efforts were even remotely on the scale of or delayed the proceedings as much as the Republicans did on January 6, 2021, with many of them continuing to do so even after the Capitol was violently sacked by thousands of angry Trump fans. That Dems they had done so at all in those years became the go-to defense for the Republican objectors telling Americans that two wrongs make a right.

Small-faced MAGA activist Charlie Kirk’s right wing “youth” organization’s books sure look awfully scammy per a review by the Associated Press finding at least $15.2 million spent on self-dealing to vendors owned and operated by Kirk and pals since 2016. Among these shady payouts were a total of $6.6 million to creepy Arizona state Senator and fake Trump elector Jake Hoffman for who the hell knows but at least $2.4 million went to his 2020 election social media propaganda operation.

Another $999,000 payment was made to a Nevada LLC called “Clocktower” for a “research project on educational outputs” in 2020, only for “Clocktower” to dissolve in 2022. The lone officer listed on its registration documents did not return the AP’s request for comment. Three LLCs controlled Turning Point’s “senior advancement director” Stacy Sheridan have been paid a total of $2.7 million since 2018. She didn’t respond to the AP either. Turning Point COO Tyler Bowyer also chairs the board of Superfeed Technologies, a company seeking to develop a mobile app to run TPUSA’s canvassing operations in Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin next year. The “non-profit” is looking to raise $108 million for the effort, a sum considerably more than they would realistically need.

“$108 million? I can’t even fathom it,” said former John McCain aide Jon Seaton, now a GOP consultant specializing in get-out-the vote efforts. “There’s not even enough doors” to knock on.

Crybaby conservative Ken Paxton, the Republican Texas Attorney General saved from conviction in an impeachment despite an array of evidence pointing to his corruption, now intends to do what every conservative does when exposed as a corrupt political player:  he’s suing.

According to the Texas Tribune, Paxton plans to file criminal complaints against some of the Republican impeachment managers from the state house claiming they intentionally doxxed his personal information with the release of documents in the proceedings.

“The impeachment managers clearly have a desire to threaten me with harm when they released this information last week,” Paxton said in a statement. “I’m imploring their local prosecutors in each individual district to investigate the criminal offenses that have been committed.”

Dreamboat Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom has had a very active veto pen in Sacramento, rejecting some legislation that had considerable public support.  A rundown of the bills Newsom rejected:

• Free condoms in high schools:  Newsom rejected the idea of requiring high schools to have condoms available for free, saying the legislation amounted to an unfunded mandate on school districts.
• Insulin price cap:  In vetoing a $35/month price cap for insulin, Newsom cited a unique reason.  As part of a public-private partnership with pharmaceutical company Civica, CalRx has developed essentially a generic insulin that will be sold at less than the previously demanded price. 
  Read More ▶ “Newsom’s veto pen has been busy”

After not making the debate stage for two consecutive events, one-time Republican Texas Congressman Will Hurd announced on Twitter that he was ending his presidential run.  Hurd also through the power of his political machine behind the presidential bid of former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley.

“Our nation deserves a leader who can unite us and navigate the complex challenges we face, particularly when it comes to our national security. I believe Ambassador Nikki Haley is the best person in this race to do that,” Hurd posted.  “Ambassador Haley has shown a willingness to articulate a different vision for the country than Donald Trump and has an unmatched grasp on the complexities of our foreign policy. I wholeheartedly endorse Ambassador Haley and look forward to supporting her for the remainder of this race.”

Trump advisor and collar hoarder Steve Bannon’s appeal of his contempt of Congress conviction has been put on hold until November 9th due to the death of the son of one of the prosecution’s attorneys.  Opening arguments had been scheduled to start October 12th.

“Due to the unexpected death of the son of appellee’s counsel, the United States respectfully requests this Court to reschedule this argument for a time on or after November 6, 2023,” the motion notes.  “Counsel for appellant, David Schoen, Esq., [Bannon’s lawyer] has kindly consented to this motion.”

Robert Hur, the Special Counsel appointed to investigate President Joe Biden’s possession of a handful of classified government documents, interviewed the president over the last two days at the White House regarding how the documents stayed in his possession after he left the vice presidency in 2017, the New York Times reports.  The interview happened on Sunday and Monday, the White House acknowledged.

At his Delaware homes and at the one-time site of his inter-office foundation, Biden had about 1/1,000 the number of government documents found at the Palm Beach supper club managed by an indicted felon who lives on site, and unlike the sometime-wedding deejay, Biden and his staff cooperated with the investigation, including turning the documents over as soon as they were found.

Staffers at Walgreen’s pharmacies around the country will stage walk-outs through Wednesday this week to put a spotlight on working conditions they call unsafe and a danger to patient safety, the Washington Post reports.  The rolling walk-out will impact hundreds of stores around the country.

Pharmacists, technicians and support staff say the company has put more demands on them as they look to streamline profitability, requiring pharmacy staff to juggle a multitude of tasks while trying to maintain patient care and customer service levels.  “When you’re a pharmacist, a missed letter or a number that’s wrong in a prescription could kill somebody,” one of the work action organizer said.

After promising last week to travel to Washington, DC to straighten out the mess in the House and float down from the heavens to bestow his gloriousness of the Republican-created shitshow, indicted felon Donald Trump has now called off his trip to the Capitol, Fox announced like the good propaganda outlet it is.

Trump originally announced the trip last Thursday after Kevin McCarthy was ousted as Speaker by a monster of his own creation, Matt Gaetz.  At the time, Trump’s name was being thrown into the ring as a possible short-term substitute, so a trip to DC before the real candidates for the job held their now-not-televised forum might have seemed to Trump to be a processional to his swearing-in.  But Trump likely learned in the meantime that the Speaker’s job comes with actual work attached to it, making it less attractive to Trump than a 37-year-old.

“Make no mistake – a Democrat in Independent’s clothing is still a Democrat. RFK Jr cannot hide from his record of endorsing Hillary, supporting the Green New Deal, fighting against the Keystone Pipeline, and praising AOC’s tax hikes – he is your typical elitist liberal and voters won’t be fooled.”

“American families deserve commonsense leadership that will return America’s energy independence, stop Bidenflation, secure our border, and get our country back on track, which is why our Republican nominee will be the next President of the United States,” says RNC Chairwoman Ronna Not-Romney McDaniel in a statement responding to RFK Jr’s independent campaign launch.

Weird how Ronna didn’t complain about Bobby Jr being a “typical elitist liberal” when dumbass Jim Jordan asked him to testify at that lame “Weaponization committee” hearing on “censorship.”

“As we continue to account for the horrors of the appalling terrorist assault against Israel this weekend and the hundreds of innocent civilians who were murdered, we are seeing the immense scale and reach of this tragedy. Sadly, we now know that at least 11 American citizens were among those killed-many of whom made a second home in Israel. It’s heart wrenching. These families have been torn apart by inexcusable hatred and violence. We also know that American citizens still remain unaccounted for, and we are working with Israeli officials to obtain more information as to their whereabouts. My heart goes out to every family impacted by the horrible events of the past few days. The pain these families have endured, the enormity of their loss, and the agony of those still awaiting information is unfathomable,” says President Biden in a statement.

Israeli dictator Benjamin Netanyahu’s office on Monday cried “fake news” over an Associated Press report quoting an anonymous source in Egyptian intelligence that they had warned “an explosion of the situation is coming, and very soon, and it would be big” prior to Saturday’s horrific terrorist attacks on civilians launched by Hamas from the Gaza Strip, the New York Post reports.

The Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow Laurie Garrett goes even further, saying it’s possible Netanyahu was even personally warned by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi ahead of the attacks which have claimed at least 900 Israeli lives and hundreds more on the Palestinian side.

If true then what was already a massive failure by Netanyahu’s regime now borders on a straight up false flag attack on his own people. How the fuck do you not at the very least look into it and/or post military assets to the region to be at the ready for an attack? The IDF could have mowed those animals down with drone-mounted weapons like they were playing an Xbox game. All those billions the American taxpayers spent on protecting Israel and this fucking tyrant may very well have deliberately allowed this bloodbath to happen to further consolidate his political power.