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If President Biden stays on the sidelines while our border is destroyed day after day, the government will shut down.

Just like we've had strikes in California and Michigan, and embassies evacuated around the world, his lack of leadership has catastrophic consequences. pic.twitter.com/vK8KDTkBhN

— Kevin McCarthy (@SpeakerMcCarthy) September 27, 2023

Affable suburban “Diet MAGA” Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin is shaking in his vest over the fear that voters in the Old Dominion State, home to 140,000 federal workers and scores more whose businesses depend on government contracts, will take their anger over the upcoming and all-but-certain shutdown out on state Republican legislative candidates this November, Axios reports.

“In these Northern Virginia districts, a shutdown is just not helpful,” said Republican former Congressman Tom Davis. “We saw that in the government shutdown in 2013 – it killed [2013 Republican gubernatorial candidate] Ken Cuccinelli” who ended up losing by 2.6 percent.

At least 30 percent of Axios’s article is dedicated to what the shutdown’s effect on the November elections means for Youngkin’s all-but non-existent 2024 presidential ambitions. “It’s possible for Youngkin to get in the race after Virginia’s Nov 7 elections, though it would mean missing the filing deadlines for early presidential contests in states such as Nevada and South Carolina,” they write as though they actually still believe it’s really happening, seriously what the fuck lol. The site nails great scoops all the time but the constant both-siderism, laundering of MAGA bullshit, keeping punchably-faced political editor Josh Kraushaar on the payroll, and of course this bizarre Youngkin 2024 fixation have all but completely eclipsed our good will and gratitude toward them as a source.

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Sources tell NBC News that the FBI is looking into whether the scumbags who bribed corrupt DINO Senator Bob Menendez have any links to Egyptian intelligence services, a pretty obvious line of inquiry federal law enforcement would be derelict not to pursue since bribing the chair of the Foreign Relations Committee was aimed at increasing the flow of US government aid to Egypt.

One of Menendez’s three co-conspirators, Halal meat exporter Wael Hana, surrendered to agents Tuesday evening at JFK airport in New York City after having voluntarily flown back from his native land. Hana would seem to be the obvious conduit here in the “Pyramid scheme” (get it? Pyramid scheme! Hahahaha!) though the extent of his links to Egyptian intel are unclear – if there in fact are any. Egypt is suffering from serious inflation, particularly with food prices, and there may be a scenario in which Hana was “freelancing” and that he would’ve been positioned to benefit from a contract from Cairo to ship US-produced Halal meat to supply public food aid programs.

If this Menendez shitshow was always ultimately simply about increasing food aid then in a way it’s kind of a breath of fresh air. Sure the bribery and the gold bars and the corruption of an elected official by foreign actors are an embarrassment, but there are far more malevolent interests out there seeking to buy off American politicians. We see them at work every goddamned day.

Evidently having determined that wayward US Army soldier Travis King isn’t really communist material, North Korean officials have decided to kick him out two months after he sort of defected to the impoverished totalitarian state, CNN reports citing Pyongyang’s state media outlet.

“The relevant organ of the DPRK decided to expel Travis King, a soldier of the US Army who illegally intruded into the territory of the DPRK, under the law of the Republic,” KCNA said, adding that King had “confessed that he illegally intruded into the territory of the DPRK as he harbored ill feeling against inhuman maltreatment and racial discrimination within the US Army and was disillusioned about the unequal US society.” CNN’s report then stated the obvious by saying they could not independently verify if those were King’s actual words on why he had attempted to defect.

What isn’t in question is that King was due to be discharged from the US Army after being arrested for a bar fight while stationed in South Korea. He had been sent to the airport to board a flight back home to face processing but slipped away from his handler, ending up on a tour group of the DMZ a few days later. It was then that he abruptly bolted past a checkpoint into Kim Jong-Un’s kingdom to surrender – and the promptly tossed into a van by soldiers waiting on the other side.

Now we know why the NY judge decided to move on trump today. It's all so obvious. And disgusting https://t.co/KwusGJoDNJ

— Maria Bartiromo (@MariaBartiromo) September 27, 2023

This is the election cycle that could lead not just to the end of MAGA, but also any significant power for the Republican Party for the foreseeable future.  Yeah, that’s right:  it’s not just Trump’s political future on the block; it’s the fate of the GOP.

I’m not saying this lightly, in the on-brand over-the-top fashion familiar here.  The Republican Party is in tatters.  The House is a microcosm of the Party:  various factions of the far-right–the fiscal conservatives, the social conservatives, the nationalists and the lunatics–are pulling on the hairs of leadership just enough to merit attention, and the attention they’re demanding is cumulatively enough to derail the proper function of government.  And while there may be a handful of Republicans brave enough to cross the aisle to work with Democrats to pull the nation back from the brink of fiscal disaster, the rank and file of the GOP is so cemented in their singular mindset, they won’t consider crafting an old-fashioned compromise bill.

While Americans who aren’t directly employed by the federal government won’t see the impact of the shutdown immediately, that impact will be felt if the shutdown lasts more than a week.  Checks to contractors won’t go out.  The first round of paychecks won’t be dispersed.  People looking for federal services–from the Medicaid HelpDesk to a national park–won’t find help.  The dysfunction of the GOP will start to shine to the populace, again.  And this is what Democrats need to pounce on nationally.

Always a friend of the working girl class, Florida Republican Congressman and Beavis cosplayer Matt Gaetz sent a letter to the House’s administrative office requesting that his paycheck be withheld if the government is forced to shutdown because of Repubican dysfunction in the House, the Daily Beast reports.

“It is my understanding that pursuant to the Constitution, members of Congress will continue to receive their pay during a lapse in appropriations,” Gaetz wrote in the letter that was conveniently leaked to the conservative outlet the Daily Caller.  “Therefore, I am requesting that in the case of a lapse of appropriations beginning at 12:00 a.m. on October 1, 2023, my pay be withheld until legislation has taken effect to end such lapse in appropriations in its entirety.”

Given that Matty lives off his family’s $30 million fortune, losing a few weeks of his measly $3,300 or so his Congressional weekly paycheck would amount to.  That is, unless he’s dating again.  He’ll have to Venmo his date’s their “tuition” beforehand.

We’re not going to reprint the entirety of disgraced former President Trump’s 394 word meltdown over the absolutely brutal decision rendered by Manhattan Judge Arthur Engoron in New York AG Leticia James’s $250 million fraud lawsuit against his corrupt business and real estate empire.

However two parts stick out in juxtaposition with each other: “There was no trial and no jury for the supposed ‘wrongdoing’ OF FULLY PAYING BACK SOPHISTICATED WALL STREET BANKS IN FULL, WITH INTEREST, WITH NO DEFAULTS, AND WITH NO VICTIMS,” and then a few sentences later “If they can do this to me, they can do this to YOU!” They really mesh pretty well to his fans.

Faced with a highly dysfunctional House, the Senate advanced a bi-partisan budget deal that would fund the federal government for an additional six weeks past the September 30th deadline as well as provide billions in funding for Ukraine, the Washington Post reports.

With the initial procedural measures passing by a 71-18 vote, the continuing resolution would provide a speedy framework to pass the House, if it’s brought to the floor for a vote.  The Senate is likely taking proactive steps to try to stave off the impression that the federal government is in disarray because of Republican stubbornness, as was outlined in the downgrade of US credit rating by Fitch.

With more than $6 billion in aid to Ukraine, including a set aside of more than $1.5 billion to help rebuild the wartorn nation beginning in 2025, if Kyiv prevails, the bill “will continue to fund the government at present levels, while maintaining our commitment to Ukraine’s security and humanitarian needs while also ensuring those impacted by natural disasters across the country begin to get the resources they need,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said.

Anticipating a major surge in outsider in the comings weeks, leaders of a small town near the border have declared an invasion and closed themselves off from all outsiders, NBC News reports.

Pomfret, Vermont, which sits near the border with New Hampshire, has closed two roads to non-residents until October 15th in anticipation of fall foliage tourists and douchey TikTokers who want an authentic autumn backdrop for their video clips. “Foliage season traffic in this area has steadily increased during the last several years, causing significant safety, environmental, aesthetic, and quality of life issues,” said the Pomfret Select Board’s announcement on the closures.

“House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky) today announced the House Oversight Committee subpoenaed and obtained two bank wires revealing Hunter Biden received payments originating from Chinese nationals, including Jonathan Li, in July and August 2019 when Joe Biden was running for President of the United States. Joe Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware home is listed as the beneficiary address for both wires,” writes the House Oversight Committee in a press release accompanied by the usual “🚨🚨🚨”-loaded tweet.

Missing from the release is any corresponding line item from Joe Biden’s taxes showing income from this wire transfer or what this Jonathan Li character would have gotten in return from Biden for the payment. It’s also not terribly shocking that Hunter Biden would have listed his dad’s home as a “beneficiary address” considering he also did it on a rental application for a luxury apartment in Los Angeles the prior year. That caused a major frenzied circlejerk when the fanboys thought it meant Hunter was laundering $49,910 in monthly “rent” payments to Joe when the reality was that he simply incompetently filled out an already needlessly convoluted rental application.

Presiding over New York State Attorney General Leticia James’s $250 million civil lawsuit against disgraced former President Trump’s corrupt business empire, Manhattan Judge Arthur Engoron on Tuesday ruled that the Orange Defendant had committed fraud, deceived banks and insurers in falsely stating the value of his real estate assets over the years, and ordered the immediate revocation of the Trump Organization LLC’s business license and its dissolution as an entity, effectively the death penalty for all intents and purposes, the Associated Press reports.

The decision, characterized by the AP as a summary judgment, comes just days before the start of the bench trial in James’s case, in which Engoron will have to rule on six other claims made in the attorney general’s complaint. The destruction of the Trump Organization is a major victory for democracy and the rule of law. May this be the first and least of court losses for the fat fuck.

CORRECTION 9/26/2023 5:49 PM EDT: Calling this the “death penalty” is somewhat of an overstatement. It is true that a shit ton of LLCs, including the Trump Organization LLC, will have to dissolve and the Trump Organization Inc‘s operating license has been cancelled. The Trump Organization Inc, for now at least, will remain intact as an entity. We added “LLC” to the headline and the text to reflect this distinction and to maintain the spirit many readers found entertaining. The ruling is still just downright brutal for Trump and likely portends disaster in the upcoming trial.

Apologies for the back-to-back stories on Kevin McCarthy’s utter, abject cowardice but this one’s a keeper with the way he backtracks on calling for indicted Democratic Senator Bob Menendez to resign after getting indicted after being reminded he whipped against expelling indicted Republican Congressman George Santos just a few months ago. On Friday McCarthy told reporters the case against Menendez “seemed pretty black or white,” and responded “yeah” when one of them asked if he thought the DINO asshole New Jersey senator should resign. What a fucking worm.

Asked by CNN’s Manu Raju if he agreed with Trump’s demented command to shut down the government unless they can defund federal law enforcement, titular House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said “the president is always out there negotiating” and is a pro at the “art of negotiation.”

Earlier NBC reported McCarthy is begging for a meeting with the actual president amid the weakling Speaker’s completely self-inflicted clusterfuck and all but certain government shutdown.

Liberal Canadian Speaker of the House of Commons Anthony Rota on Tuesday announced he’ll resign from the post after the dumbass accidentally invited 98 year-old Ukrainian Nazi Wehrmacht veteran Yaroslav Hunka to President Volodymyr Zelensky’s address to Parliament and called on everyone in the room to salute the old bastard as a “Canadian hero” last week, the CBC reports.

Just hours before President Biden arrived in the Motor City on Tuesday, fat former President Trump continued melting down over it on Truth Social, writing “Joe Biden’s draconian and indefensible Electric Vehicle mandate will annihilate the US auto industry and cost countless thousands of autoworkers their jobs. The only thing Biden could say today that would help the striking autoworkers is to announce the immediate termination of his ridiculous mandate. Anything else is just a feeble and insulting attempt to distract American labor from this vicious Biden betrayal,” and all sorts of other bullshit ahead of his planned visit to a non-union machine shop outside Detroit.

QAnon fans who thought that “Luciferase” in the COVID vaccines activated by 5G signals in January 2022 would mutate people into mindless cybernetic zombies have their eyes set on a new date, government-sanctioned broadcast, and ominous-sounding chemical compound that also isn’t actually an ingredient in the vaccines as an AP fact check says the freaks have pegged the October 4th FEMA alert test as the signal that will prompt the “graphene oxide” to start doing its thing.

The robo-zombies part is the same though. They tinfoilers are consistent about that. “The emergency broadcasting system under FEMA is going to be activated,” some asshole QAnon streamer claimed “It’s not a test. It’s going to be sending these high frequency signals into cell phones, radios, TVs. The intention of activating nanoparticles, including graphene oxide.”

“You can’t ‘activate’ graphene oxide,” actual expert CalTech Materials Science Professor Julia Greer told the AP in an email on Monday. “What does that even mean?” Jeez lady. Trust the plan.

Senator Menendez has a right to test the government’s evidence in court, just like any other citizen. He should be judged by jurors and New Jersey’s voters, not by Democratic politicians who now view him as inconvenient to their hold on power.

— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) September 26, 2023

You have to especially love the “troubling record of failure and corruption in cases against public figures, from Ted Stevens to Bob McDonnell to Donald Trump to Bob Menendez the last time around” part where names three politicians who eventually walked one way or the other after facing trial… and Donald Trump. Really slick how he stuck Trump in the middle there as an example of “failure” by the DOJ to prosecute him when he hasn’t actually faced trial yet. Very wishful thinky.

Not sure what the longer game is supposed to be here though. Tom Cotton’s an asshole but he also isn’t dumb. The obvious hope is for Menendez to stick around as a drag on Dems politically and maybe he thinks he’s blunting momentum for an expulsion vote that’s probably coming soon. But this shitposting is cheap and we don’t care how safe Cotton is in Arkansas, he’s never going to want to have to answer a primary challenger on why he voted against expelling an extremely corrupt Dem.

If the answer to that is “Far right MAGA Patriot Tom Cotton wants to protest how the Biden Regime’s Injustice Department unfairly prosecutes both sides” then well how the hell is that supposed to politically hurt all the Senate Dems who will eventually end up voting to toss Menendez?

At least 11 Senate Democrats have now called for DINO scumbag New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez to resign, eight of of them coming within the last few hours as Liz Warren, Bob Casey, Jon Tester, Martin Heinrich, and others – including just now fellow New Jersey Dem Cory Booker.

“The allegations against Senator Menendez are of such a nature that the faith and trust of New Jerseyans as well as those he must work with in order to be effective have been shaken to the core” wrote Booker in a statement. It’s past time for Goldbrick Dick to get the fuck out of the Senate.