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Fox News stopped airing the House Oversight Committee’s hearing opening the “impeachment inquiry” into President Joe Biden approximately 49 minutes into it, opting instead to run an interview with Florida Gov Ron DeSantis to talk about who cares, the Daily Beast’s Justin Baragona reports.

New York Attorney General Leticia James on Thursday released a list of fact witnesses to be called to the stand in the upcoming bench trial trial on her $250 million civil fraud lawsuit against disgraced former President Trump’s corrupt business empire, revealing she seeks “the Big Guy” himself, his three idiot kids, Don Jr, Ivanka, and Eric, former lawyer-turned-antagonist Michael Cohen, a number of other current Trump Organization employees, and executives at Trump’s former accounting firm Mazars USA and a number of other firms involved in Trump’s dealings.

Already under federal indictment for lying about his drug abuse on a gun permit application, President Hunter Biden now faces the political consequences of his dealings with questionable foreign entities as the House Oversight Committee opens its inquiry to determine whether he committed impeachable offenses. This historic first step in the process is not being taken lightly by Chairman James Comer, who will point-by-point outline grave allegations of corruption that will the basis for potential articles of impeachment. Thursday will likely ultimately spell the end of the Hunter Biden Administration as his conviction and removal after a Senate trial are a near certainty.

A newly-published set of results from last week’s NBC News registered voter survey finds 56 percent of respondents saying the House GOP shouldn’t launch this stupid impeachment inquiry while 39 percent say they should. Among independents, the number is “six in 10” opposed (but we don’t have the percentage since NBC didn’t post a PDF of the toplines) to 29 percent in favor.

An even more interesting finding was on the question of whether their Congressworm voting yes or no it would affect a respondent’s support for that House member. Overall 31 percent said supporting the evidence-free inquiry would make them less likely to vote for their member to 18 percent more likely, with the remainder saying no difference. There was a gap between self-identified Dems and Republicans on support, with 62 percent of Dems saying less likely to only 35 percent of GOP voter respondents saying more likely, possibly indicating a galvanizing effect for Democrats. Among independents there was also a 25 to 14 percent delta between less likely and more likely to vote for a pro-impeachment Congressnazi, though the vast majority (60 percent) were indifferent.

An October 2019 NBC News survey found 50 percent of respondents were in favor of impeaching and removing fat then-President Trump from office for trying to torpedo Joe Biden’s ultimately successful 2020 campaign with the same stupid bullshit allegations we’ll see in 20 minutes.

A completely sincere advertisement during Wednesday night’s GOP primary debate starring, real former border law enforcement officials from the totally real advocacy group the “Border Security Alliance,” warned that the Biden Administration’s plan to ban menthol cigarettes would fuel an illicit cross-border trade that would further enrich and empower violent Mexican drug cartels.

Well one of the guys is a former CBP officer. The other is retired military intel. But the “Border Security Alliance” is definitely a real advocacy group. They have a website. The logo’s pretty cool too. Much better graphic design job for an American bald eagle than ours. And yeah it’s totally imaginable that a ban on menthols would fuel an illegal cross border trade because people might be too lazy to roll their own filtered cigarettes and use a menthol spray on them. Or just chew gum while smoking regulars. And the cartels could be thinking like “Hey maybe let’s just make less money and take up more volume in our trucks to smuggle cartons of menthols instead of heroin and coke.”

We could sort of imagine that happening. Still, we’re not totally sure who might be funding this “Border Security Alliance.” It doesn’t say it on their website. And what’s weird too is that their Twitter feed seems to mention smoking and vaping a lot more than you would think a organization focused on preventing cross-border drug and human trafficking would be. But they seem really concerned that the FDA banning menthols would be more trouble than it’s worth. What do you guys think?

At least one each of the people holding up the signs saying “Auto Workers for Trump” and “Union Members for Trump” signs at the fat bastard’s Wednesday night cult rally in a non-union machine shop admitted to the Detroit News that they were not in fact an auto worker or a union member, respectively. Neither of the two Trump fans would give their names after acknowledging this.

Not terribly surprising since the host, parts manufacturer Drake Enterprises, is not a union shop and was just the first (apparently only) such business in the Detroit area that was willing to provide a venue for the Orange Autocrat. On Tuesday the company’s president, Nate Stemple told Fox and Friends that “some of our colleagues that we do business with reached out to us” to tell him Trump was looking to hold a rally, confirming our “Four Seasons” theory of how this came together. “We were more than willing to do so,” Stemple continued. When asked how the shift to electric vehicles would affect Drake’s bottom line, Stemple said “Oh, it would put us out of business. If electric vehicles took over today across the board, we’d be completely out of business.”

“Governor” of Arizona Kari Lake told the Wall Street Journal she is indeed for real launching a campaign for the Senate seat currently occupied by useless “independent” Kyrsten Sinema.

Days after the Writers Guild members authorized their new contract, their performers’ counterpart SAG-AFTRA will restart negotiations on Monday with the group representing the major studios, with signs that advancement in negotiations could come quickly, NBC News reports.

A joint statement from SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers said that “several executives” from major studios would attend the meeting, signaling that the studios will look to settle the strike with terms similar to the Guild’s deal.  While the particulars of the contracts are different, many of the issues relating to the use of artificial intelligence, the digital integration of work or images in future pieces, and improved compensation for streaming works are central parts of both agreements.

Perhaps coincidentally, the major network late-night talk show hosts–Colbert, Kimmel, Fallon and Meyers–announced their shows would be back on the air Monday night, October 2nd, thanks to the Guild approving the proposed contract.

In a bulky 50-page document that is long on allegations but short on actual facts, the Republican House leaders heading the committees assigned to the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden outlined their thread-thin justification for the inquiry.

According to CBS News, the chairmen of the House Oversight, Judiciary and Ways and Means Committees–Comer, Jordan, Smith–asserted, “The purpose of this inquiry — and at this stage, it is just that, an inquiry — is to determine whether sufficient grounds exist for the Committees to draft articles of impeachment against President Biden for consideration by the full House.”

The inquiry focused on if the President “abused his federal office to enrich his family and conceal his and/or his family’s misconduct” and it will look at his time as Vice President and President.  The memo does not outline any specific action Biden took over those years that would constitute a high crime and misdemeanor meriting impeachment.  The news of the memo was leaked to the media minutes after the end of the circus of the Republican presidential debate.

Instead of doing two separate articles for both of these stupid spectacles let’s just put them together for a “split screen.” Starting first at 8:15 EDT is fat former President Trump’s “Detroit union worker” rally being hosted at a non-union machine shop roughly 20 miles north of Detroit.

Multitasking apparently isn’t a skill Republicans have.  As they set off on their quest to find something–anything–to justify its existence, the Republican impeachment inquiry will hold its first official hearing Thursday as the caucus hurdles the nation over a fiscal cliff.

The Washington Post reports the Oversight Committee, led by Kentucky Republican Congressman James Comer, will perform the hearing, but it won’t have any witnesses with any first-hand knowledge about the claims made by Republicans that President Joe Biden, while Vice President under Obama, ordered the firing of the Ukrainian federal prosecutor to protect his son’s interests with a Ukrainian energy company.  Instead, they will rely on testimony by various pundits who will claim that if anything like taking money to direct US policy was uncovered, it would be very, very bad; they will not testify that that has happened.

So as the House chamber sits empty and the nation slides toward the precipice of financial default, a group of Republicans will hold an improv session where people like Jonathan Turley will beat their breasts about the risk to the Republic the fictitious scenario the GOP created would be.  Y’know, if it were real.

Republican representative gets asked how the DOJ could have interfered politically to help President Biden… before he was president, and he completely falls apart. pic.twitter.com/4RGYhtQfZD

— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) September 27, 2023

Twitter users should give this one a follow for all sorts of fun MAGA malarkey stomping. Just a few hours into its 2024 cycle tour and already it’s drawing heckles from the likes of Matt Gaetz.

DC Circuit Court Judge Tanya Chutkan on Wednesday denied disgraced former President Trump’s demand that she recuse from his upcoming election coup conspiracy trial to the surprise of no one except his fanboys who thought this was in the bag. Well looks like they’re stuck with her.

In her denial, Chutkan writes that Team Orange’s portrayal of her comments during sentencing hearings for Capitol rioters were “hypersensitive, cynical, and suspicious,” when they tried to make it sound like she had wanted to see Trump end up in prison for inciting the January 6th insurrection.

“Federal prosecutors today unsealed a grand jury indictment that accuses a Torrance man who was a candidate for a Los Angeles County congressional seat in four federal elections with misusing campaign funds, including funneling tens of thousands of dollars in campaign donations back to himself through his friends and family. Omar Navarro, 34, is charged in a 43-count grand jury indictment. He is currently in state custody on unrelated charges, but he is expected to be turned over soon to federal authorities. As part of the case against Navarro, FBI agents today arrested Dora Asghari, 59, of Torrance, who is Navarro’s mother, and Zacharias Diamantides-Abel, 34, of Long Beach, who is a friend of Navarro, both of whom are accused of conspiring with Navarro to convert campaign donations to personal use,” says a Justice Department press release.

“Navarro unsuccessfully campaigned in the four most recent election cycles to represent south Los Angeles County residents in California’s 43rd Congressional District in the US House of Representatives. The indictment returned on September 14 and unsealed today alleges that Navarro, from September 2017 through July 2020, illegally funneled campaign cash to himself. The indictment outlines a scheme in which Navarro allegedly made payments from his campaign to various individuals – including Asghari and Abel – and then directed the transfer of cash back to himself for personal use. Navarro also allegedly used campaign funds to pay for personal expenses, including trips to Las Vegas and wine country, as well as two criminal defense attorneys. According to the indictment, Navarro later falsely reported these expenditures as campaign expenses.”

Navarro, who lost to Maxine Waters in 2016, 2018, 2020, and 2022, also made headlines in 2019 when QAnon freak DeAnna Lorraine, who lost to Nancy Pelosi in 2020, called the cops on Navarro for felony stalking, criminal threats, and attempted extortion. Navarro texted “Bitch, I came to see you” to Lorraine from outside her home at 1:30 in the morning in violation of a five-year restraining order. Lorriane also said Navarro had threatened to leak her family’s addresses to Antifa.

Disgraced former President Trump has commanded his defense lawyers in Georgia to find a way to get his “Find 11,780 votes” call harassing and threatening Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger suppressed from evidence in his upcoming RICO trial in Fulton County, Rolling Stone reports while noting the obvious gap between it being a “perfect calling” and wanting it excluded from the trial.

A source on Team Orange tells Rolling Stone said the fat bastard “still feels very wronged by the way that was handled” by Raffensperger surreptitiously recording the menacing call and wants to feel like he’ll have the last laugh on him by getting it hidden from the jury. “He’s made comments about how a ‘sick’ guy [like Raffensperger] does something that sneaky,” the source added.

One Trump legal adviser says they told the boss it was a dead end. “At the end of the day, that just wouldn’t work. You must confront what’s on there, not try to wish it away.” Sucks for him.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday told CNN’s Manu Raju it’s up to Democrats to decide what to do with indicted DINO scumbag Bob Menendez, further confirming that this situation is a third rail for Republicans who don’t want to say a Dem Senator should step down after being indicted but also that their Orange Messiah should stay in the 2024 race after being indicted.

And no, Mitch hasn’t been shy about pushing Dems out in the past. “The near daily barrage of allegations of sexual misconduct against Senator Franken are extremely concerning to all of us in the Senate. While the Senate ethics committee is reviewing these serious allegations, it now appears that Senator Franken has lost the support of his colleagues, and most importantly, his constituents. I do not believe he can effectively serve the people of Minnesota in the US Senate any longer,” said McConnell in December 2017. That’s from the Daily Kos article “McConnell calls on Franken to resign while his party spends cash to elect a child molester” referring to Roy Moore. Classic Mitch, right?

Raju asked Majority Leader Chuck Schumer the same question and did not get a yes/no answer, with Schumer only saying that Menendez will address the caucus on Thursday. Sounds like it might be a farewell speech but we’ll see. If he doesn’t go then they have to shove him out the door and fast.

Commander Biden just really doesn’t like Secret Service agents and he’s bitten a total of 11 of them in the last year, according to a count by far right “legal organization” Judicial Watch. Fox News’s Harris Faulkner took it further and openly wondered if the dog might have a coke problem.

In the last 24 hours or so the number of Democratic Senators calling for their deeply corrupt and now twice-indicted colleague Robert Menendez to resign went from three to now more than half of the 51 member caucus – now including second-in-command Dick Durbin who wouldn’t go for it when asked on Sunday – even as the corrupt asshole apparently dug in his heels further against quitting.

Which means it’s time to toss him the fuck out, now. Skip the ethics committee investigation and all the other process bullshit and put his expulsion to a vote immediately. Americans can’t wait.

Why? Because Menendez could give in to the pressure and resign in the meantime, which would suck for those of us who just figured out what the GOP’s game is here. To our knowledge only three Republicans in Congress have addressed Menendez: Weak and feckless House Speaker Kevin McCarthy who flip-flopped on it after being reminded he protected George Santos, Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton, who implied Menendez is the real victim, and Texas Senator John Cornyn, who sidestepped it by saying “I’d like all of my Democratic colleagues to resign,” which was basically just repeating what fat former President Trump ranted in a Truth Social post on Sunday.

Well actually George Santos also said Menendez should stick around, but we kind of don’t see that as any sort of multi-dimensional chess move considering the similar legal predicament he faces.

“WE NEED JUSTICE IN OUR COUNTRY! This political hack judge, who values, Mar-a-Lago, the most spectacular parcel of real estate in Palm Beach, and perhaps all of Florida, at $18 million in order to reduce valuations on my financial statements, which are, in fact, lower than my actual net worth, must be stopped. I have had very unfair judges since entering politics, but nobody has been as unhinged as this guy. Mar-a-Lago is worth, perhaps, 100 times more than he values it. Other properties are likewise worth substantially more. I am worth billions more than my very conservatively stated financial statements, and therefore could not have defrauded the banks, who all made money & were all paid back, or are current, with no defaults or any other problem.”

“Additionally, there is a powerful Disclaimer Clause on the first pages of the Financial Statements it states that nothing in the financial statement should be excepted [sic] as fact!” wrote playboy billionaire real estate tycoon Donald Trump on his personal social media platform on Tuesday, an rare insight into the mind of a celebrated deal maker whose talent was so envied he actually launched a program called “Trump University” to teach novice real estate investors his mastery of the trade.

Trump’s Wednesday post spoke to the brilliance with which he was able to leverage the value of a coveted property he owns: The fabled Mar-a-Lago club in fabulous Palm Beach, Florida. By telling banks it was worth far more than its appraisal, he was able to convince them to lend him more money than they would have if they done so using the value assessed by property tax authorities. He even skirted potential legal trouble over it for decades by including “a powerful Disclaimer Clause on the first pages of the Financial Statements it states that nothing in the financial statement should be excepted [sic] as fact!” on his statements. They don’t call him a legend for nothing.

QAnon fan Congresswoman Lauren Boebert on Wednesday proposed an amendment to the Defense Department’s budget to reduce the salary of Pentagon official Shawn Skelly to $1 to punish her for being transgender, saying “This delusional man thinking he is a woman, embodies and espouses the wokism that that’s causing significant harm to our military readiness and troops’ morale!”