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“This morning, I spoke with Prime Minister Netanyahu about the horrific and ongoing attacks in Israel. The United States unequivocally condemns this appalling assault against Israel by Hamas terrorists from Gaza, and I made clear to Prime Minister Netanyahu that we stand ready to offer all appropriate means of support to the Government and people of Israel. Terrorism is never justified.”

“Israel has a right to defend itself and its people. The United States warns against any other party hostile to Israel seeking advantage in this situation. My Administration’s support for Israel’s security is rock solid and unwavering. Jill and I are keeping in our prayers all of the families who have been hurt by this violence. We are heartbroken by the lives that have been tragically cut short and hope for a swift recovery for all those who have been wounded. My team and I are tracking this situation closely, and I will remain in close touch with Prime Minister Netanyahu,” says a Saturday White House statement on Biden’s call with Israeli dictator Netanyahu after “Bibi” either deliberately or incompetently allowed Hamas animals from the Gaza Strip into his country to slaughter civilians.

In case you were thinking this might be a little relief from the horrific news coming from Israel and the utterly abased MAGA reaction to it, we’re sorry to report that on Saturday morning the fat fuck’s stay-out-of-prison 2024 campaign weighed in with a statement saying “These Hamas attacks are a disgrace and Israel has every right to defend itself with overwhelming force. Sadly, American taxpayer dollars helped fund these attacks, which many reports are saying came from the Biden Administration. We brought so much peace to the Middle East through the Abraham Accords, only to see Biden whittle it away at a far more rapid pace than anyone thought possible. Here we go again.”

Here we go again indeed. What a cunt. The “many reports are saying it came from the Biden Administration” should tell you that all they have is bullshit from Twitter. The “We brought so much peace to the Middle East through the Abraham Accords” is classic MAGA too. Who needs details like that the agreements are still very much in effect and that they weren’t between Israel and Hamas?

The videos and images coming out of Israel are fucking horrific. We’re not going to be sharing them here and we ask our commenters to please use caution and be considerate of others if they feel they have to, but we’re also not going to moderate them except in the most extreme cases. Anyone sensitive may want to avoid the comments for a while – and Twitter for that matter. It is absolutely gut-wrenching to see what these sick fucking animals have done and are still doing to people.

This is exactly why so many Americans & Israelis were DISGUSTED to see @JoeBiden give the Iranian regime $6 billion last month. Every dollar given to Iran funds terrorism in the Ayatollah’s quest to destroy Israel.

Iran is behind today’s invasion & everyone must say that.

— Rick Scott (@SenRickScott) October 7, 2023

Which makes this shitshow perfect for our fellow Americans to capitalize upon politically with the most tenuous connection to the Biden Administration’s foreign policy. Why let gruesome images of children shot dead in a van on a highway go to waste when they can score a few points with voters who don’t otherwise really understand any of it? Never mind that the US Treasury Department still controls the $6 billion being held in a Qatari bank account and has the final say on all the transactions, which can only be spent on humanitarian purposes. Or that the funds, proceeds from oil sales, were held in escrow by the Trump Administration starting in 2019. Or that the US Navy seized Iranian weapons bound for the Yemeni Houthis last year and sent them to Ukraine, which should tell you that they would’ve done the same if the guns had been headed to Gaza instead. Or that there haven’t been any reports so far of drones being used against Israel, which you might have expected to see if the Iranians were supplying Hamas with them like they supply the Russians.

Never mind any of those facts when it just feels true that Biden has blood on his hands here.

“Horrible news from Israel. My condolences go out to everyone who lost relatives or close ones in the terrorist attack. We have faith that order will be restored and terrorists will be defeated. Terror should have no place in the world, because it is always a crime, not just against a specific country or this terror’s victims, but against humanity in general and our entire world. Anyone who resorts to terror commits a crime against the world. Whoever finances terror is committing a crime against the world. The world must stand united and in solidarity so that terror does not attempt to break or subjugate life anywhere and at any moment. Israel’s right to self-defense is unquestionable.”

“All details surrounding this terrorist assault must be revealed so that the world knows and holds accountable everyone who supported and helped carry out the attack. All Ukrainian citizens in the risk zone must carefully obey all orders issued by local security services and remain vigilant. Please be cautious. The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and our embassy in Israel are ready to assist in any situation. To support Ukrainians in Israel, we established an operational headquarters. If you require assistance, please contact any of our diplomatic or consular offices in any convenient and accessible manner. Every life is valuable! We condemn all forms of terrorism,” writes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a statement responding to Saturday’s Hamas assault on Israel.

We’ll just leave out our editorializing on what Zelensky did not say here, even though we would completely understand if he did given the state of relations between Ukraine and Israel since Russia invaded. Yet he leaves himself and Ukraine’s situation out of it, expressing concern only for the well-being of innocent Israelis and direct instructions to the likely thousands of Ukrainians caught in the crossfire there. Says a lot about the content of his character and the kind of leader he is.

Hamas on Saturday launched thousands of rockets into southern Israel and sent an unknown number of terrorists on the ground to attack civilians in towns near Gaza in a major assault unseen in decades, with dictator Benjamin Netanyahu announcing the country was “at war,” the AP reports.

The terrorists had breached the border wall separating Israel proper with the not really “occupied” so much as simply interned territory on the Mediterranean. Some even reportedly used hang gliders to land deeper into populated areas to wreak havoc during the Simchas Torah holiday.

Now it might come across as asshole-ish and “too soon” to raise this point. We still kind of have to bring it up: Nobody deserves to get killed by a rocket fired from miles away or shot dead by some pissed off terrorist piece of shit on a Saturday morning. This is fucking awful. The people of Ukraine are having a similar experience with at least 52 of them dead this week after a Russian missile struck a cafe where a family had gathered after a memorial service for a soldier who had been killed in combat on the front lines. Yet, depending on how severe this attack on Israel is – and it seems like it could be pretty bad – the response here from the American right wing to what’s still going on in southern Israel is going to be completely different from their response to what’s going on in Ukraine.

• Republicans claim Hunter got paid so people could access Joe, but they don’t seem to care that people paid a six-figure sum to join Trump golf clubs so they could have access to him most weekends while he was in office, hoping perhaps to pick up nuclear triad secrets in the buffet line.
• Jim Jordan believes he should be the Speaker.  Jordan has been in Congress for more than two decades and has never sponsored a bill that’s become law.  If he should ascend to the role, he would do so as the personification of Republican incompetence.
• Of course Donald Trump would endorse Jordan.  In a locker room at Ohio State more than two decades ago, Jordan proved his fealty to a cause close to Trump’s heart.
• There was no way in hell the Republican Conference’s Speaker’s Forum was ever going to be broadcast live on television.  Leadership had to understand having the nation hear what Marjorie Taylor Greene envisioned as the goals for the GOP would cost the Party a decade of elections.

The group that successfully argued to have the Supreme Court bar the consideration of race as a factor in college admissions–an opinion with which the Court specifically excluded the US military academies from requirements to comply–is now suing the US Naval Academy in the expectation that the case will force the Court to remove the academies’ exemption from the rule.

The Baltimore Banner reports that Students for Fair Admissions filed the lawsuit in the Maryland District federal court to have the school in Annapolis remove any such consideration.  Since the 1960s, the service academies have been directed to have a student body that closer reflects the racial and gender make-up of the general population so that the US military reflects the diverse American populace.

Eric Trump directed a Trump Organization executive to make decisions in a way that led to the manipulation of the stated value of properties to defraud potential partners, the former controller of the company and a co-defendant in the case testified, CNN reports.

Jeff McConney stated Eric Trump directed him to consider certain factors to inflate the values of a number of Trump properties including the New York estate at Seven Springs and the Trump National Golf Club Westchester.

The day in court had a number of moments that highlighted the incompetence of Trump’s legal counsel.  At one point, Trump spokeslawyer Alina Habba objected after the prosecutor requested additional latitude in questioning McConney, describing him as a “hostile witness.”  Habba objected to the characterization, saying McConney was not particularly hostile to the prosecution.  “He’s the defendant,” Judge Engoron pointed out in overruling the objection.

Dead campaigner walking Ron DeSantis spent $1.5 million on charter jets to fly around the globe on an ersatz trade mission as he tried to bolster his foreign affairs credentials for his now-fizzling presidential run, Politico reports.

The charter costs were by far the most expensive cost of the week-long jaunt to Japan, South Korea, Israel, and England which included two plane-loads of DeSantis supporters including his wife, Florida business leaders and other state officials.  Hotels cost less than $70,000 while meals came in below $10,000.

The ability to review DeSantis’s travel costs picked up by Florida taxpayers was been impeded by new laws passed by the Republican-dominated legislature to hide excessive costs the Republican governor has run up in his failing quest for the White House.

Disgraced former President Trump’s 2024 campaign are readying an all-out war on Robert F Kennedy Jr after internal polling found that Bobby does indeed take away votes from Donald and not Joe Biden like was the plan all along with elevating the anti-vax conspiracy freak, Semafor reports.

“It’s single digits, but it’s enough where it counts to make a difference,” a campaign source tells Semafor about the internal polling which found that RFK Jr dents Trump more than that Cornel West asshole does to Biden. “We’re gonna be dropping napalm after napalm on his head reminding the public of his very liberal views, dating back to 2012,” another Trump minion said.

“He used to be a fun plaything to hurt Biden, now he is something that could hurt the GOP,” a MAGA source said, making it plain that they know they created this monster that is now nearly certain turn on them. Absent from the article is an explanation on why the fuck RFK Jr was invited to CPAC.

The largest manufacturer of “ghost gun” kits and parts has agreed to end sales in California as part of a settlement of a lawsuit brought by the Los Angeles City Attorney, the Washington Post reports.  The deal with the company, Polymer 80, includes $5 million in penalties for various alleged violations.

The LA DA is working to get untraceable guns off the streets as part of the continuing effort to hold criminals accountable for gun violence, but also to hold accountable those companies that make evading the law possible.  Ghost guns are typically untraceable weapons put together by independent parts or as kits that skirt laws regarding the sale and licensing of firearms.  The number of ghost guns seized by law enforcement because they have been used in crimes has risen 700% since 2017.

California had a number of incidents in which the perpetrators used ghost guns, including an assassination attempt on two LA County sheriff’s deputies who were both shot in the head by an assailant using a ghost gun made primarily with Polymer 80 parts; the deputies came to a separate settlement with the company.  Washington, DC recently came to a $4 million settlement with the company for the role its products have played in gun violence.

Former titular Speaker of The House and now just Congressman Kevin McCarthy is considering hanging it up before the end of this term, Politico reports on what should’ve already happened.

“I’m going to spend time with my family… I might have been given a bad break, but I’m still the luckiest man alive,” McCarthy told members after he was removed last week. Sources say the gummy worm of a former leader intends to stay at least as long as it takes to pick a new speaker.

UPDATE 10/6/2023 4:29 PM EDT: CBS News workaholic Scott MacFarlane reports McCarthy denied the reporting saying he’ll finish out his term and even run for reelection too.

“Robert F Kennedy Jr has a unique voice in advocating for the defunding of the weaponized bureaucracy and ensuring the constitutional right of medical freedom. Kennedy joining such an important event is a reflection of the splintering of the left-wing coalition that has gone full woke Marxist to the point that traditional liberals don’t feel welcome anymore. The breakup of the left-wing coalition is occurring while the conservative coalition has hopes of adding more blacks and Hispanics who reject gender insanity, the effects of the terrible economy, and the destruction of their once safer neighborhoods,” said dick-grabbing CPAC chair Matt Schlapp in an announcement Friday.

“The ridiculous story put out today about me talking to a Mar-a-Lago member about US Submarines, is false and ridiculous, other than the fact that I will often state that we make the best Submarines and Military Equipment anywhere in the World – A pretty well known fact! These fake stories are put out by corrupt prosecutors trying to interfere with the Presidential Election of 2024, and based on the polling, where I am 60 points up on Republican Candidates, and 11 points up on Crooked Joe Biden, the people of our Country aren’t buying it. With that being said, I will always promote the Greatness of America – and its Military Equipment. The alternative would be for Allies, and others, to buy from Russia, China, or elsewhere. I like creating jobs in America, which was one of my most successful achievements as President!” writes Inmate P01135809 on Truth Social.

The saga of the Fox News-televised Bret Baier-moderated House GOP Speaker debate (or “candidate forum”) has ended as CNN’s Melanie Zanona now reports that it’s been canceled due to Jim Jordan and Steve Scalise realizing they fucked up with the stupid idea.

Disgraced former President Trump was furious with Matt Gaetz for jokingly entering a Donald to be Speaker of the House last January because Democrats laughed in the chamber after the clerk read “the Honorable Donald J Trump of Florida has received one,” which made him plot to become Speaker himself, ABC News reports in an excerpt of their politics guy Jon Karl’s upcoming book.

“Gaetz eventually realized his stunt was upsetting the former president and switched his vote to GOP Rep Kevin Hern of Oklahoma for the next two rounds of balloting. But during that time, Trump, still stewing, told at least two people the real problem was that Gaetz had not formally nominated him for speaker. If Republicans realized he was a real candidate for speaker, Trump thought, they would have overwhelmingly voted for him,” Karl writes. So Trump then ordered Gaetz to formally nominate him, which then prompted an even bigger meltdown from the twice-impeached loser.

“Once CNN and MSNBC started mocking him, that he had the lowest vote count in history,” a Trump minion told Karl “All of a sudden, he was like, ‘Get me out of [the formal Speaker nomination]!'”

Turns out our earlier report on Fox’s Bret Baier hosting a closed-door debate between House GOP speaker candidates Jim Jordan and Steve Scalise was based on some faulty information, and according to CNN’s Melanie Zanona’s reporting on the Republican caucus’s reaction. The fuckup – if you can believe it – was not actually on us this time as we sourced from Punchbowl News, who printed, emphasis ours: “Fox News’ Bret Baier will host a closed debate and discussion between the GOP candidates for speaker Monday night, according to a source involved with the planning.”

Anyway some rank-and-file members are not happy at all with the plan, with one telling Zanona it’s “insanity” and “people are pissed.” Another said the “circus” would probably not end up happening because of the pushback it’s already getting from the caucus. Congressman Carlos Giminez sounds like he won’t vote for either of them, saying “If both of them thought this was a good idea, then maybe they don’t have a pulse of the conference. I’m having serious problems.”

“WHEREAS, Petitioners Donald J Trump, Donald J Trump, Jr, Eric Trump, Allen Weisselberg, Jeffrey McConney, The Donald J Trump Revocable Trust, The Trump Organization Inc, The Trump Organization LLC, DJT Holdings LLC, DJT Holdings Managing Member, Trump Endeavor 12 LLC, 401 North Wabash Venture LLC, Trump Old Post Office LLC, 40 Wall Street LLC, and Seven Springs LLC (collectively ‘Petitioners’), by and through their undersigned counsel, filed a Joint Article 78 Petition on September 13, 2023; WHEREAS Respondent The Honorable Arthur F Engoron, JSC elected not to appear in the above-captioned proceeding pursuant to CPLR § 7804(i) (NYSCEF Doc No 5); IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED AND AGREED by and between Petitioners and Respondent People of the State of New York by Letitia James, Attorney General of the State of New York, that the above-captioned Article 78 proceeding is discontinued with prejudice pursuant to 22 NYCRR § 1250.2(b)(2)” says a motion to withdraw the special proceeding against New York Judge Arthur Engoron that failed to derail Attorney General Letitia James’s $250 million lawsuit against the Orange Fatass.

Whichever lawyer that forgot to list him as “President Donald J Trump” in the list of petitioners should be fired immediately for not extraneously adding his honorific to a legal document.