Trump advisor Sean Hannity is using his hour of nightly airtime on Fox to broadcast a telethon for Herschel Walker, the Texan nominated by the GOP for a Senate seat from Georgia who has been bombarded by legitimate claims that he funded the abortion of a girlfriend, as well as a series of other embarrassments like flashing an “honorary sheriff” badge he got like he’s a real deputy.

I watched about 5 minutes of this rally featuring South Carolinians Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott, and Walker did not speak once in that time.  He made sounds, but he didn’t say a discernable word or phrase, and certainly not a sentence.  But Tim Scott, who claims Walker is “putting his life on the line” for Georgia, got a standing ovation for saying conservatives aren’t going to be bullied, with Lindsey Graham and Sean Hannity nodding approvingly at his performance.

“Senator Lee, you are remarkably the only member of Utah’s Congressional delegation not… to be blacklisted by Vladimir Putin,” Independent Evan McMullin asserts to incumbent Senator Mike Lee (R-Voronezh Oblast) at tonight’s Utah Senate debates.  “It’s an incredible distinction!”  McMullin goes on about Lee for voting against sanctions for Putin in 2017, and a solo trip Lee made to Moscow in 2019 to discuss the US lifting sanctions on him.

Prince William (Virginia) County police discovered four adults killed by gunshots in a home in Woodbridge, about 20 miles south of Washington, DC, NBC News reports.  Police were making a welfare check at a home on Mansfield Court when they made the discovery Monday afternoon.

“When officers arrived, they located the residence unsecured and conducted a welfare check,” the Prince William County Police Department said in a statement. “Once inside the home, officers located four adults in different parts of the residence suffering from gunshot wounds.”

More than 2 million Americans have already cast a ballot in the 2022 election, outpacing early voting turnout at the same point in 2018, according to data analyzed by University of Florida professor Michael McDonald, ABC News reports. “It’s clear that we are above the 2018 midterm at the same point in time in states where we have comparable data to look at,” said McDonald, who runs UF’s US Elections Project data center, adding he thinks turnout will be more or less on par with 2018 percentage-wise and the increase this year is due to early voting becoming more widely available after 2020 due to changes made during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We do know that interest is running high for the election. We can see the sorts of indicators that would suggest that we’re in for a high-turnout election, much like we had in 2018. And 2018, was the highest midterm turnout rate since 1914. So, it was a fairly exceptional election, I mean 2020 was also exceptional in that it had the highest turnout for presidential elections since 1900.”

“This is still a lie because she’s the mother of my child.  So you gonna see me a check, or somebody give her a check so I’m sayin’ [indecipherable],” Texan Herschel Walker, running as the Republican nominee for the Georgia Senate seat, tells NBC’s Kristen Welker.  (The clip comes via CNN.)  When pressed by Welker about the $700 check he sent to the woman, Walker responds, “I have no idea what that can be for,” he says before Walker verified that it is, in fact, a copy of a check he wrote to the woman.

For the record, Walker can give his money to whomever he wishes.  There is no law against that.  At the time, there was no law against paying for an abortion for another person.  But Walker’s reason–“she’s the mother of my child”–simply doesn’t hold up.  At the time he paid for the abortion, there was no child.  The woman opted not to terminate a second pregnancy and gave birth to Walker’s child years after he wrote her that check.

#NYCASP rules will be suspended tomorrow, Tuesday, October 18 for Simchas Torah. Parking meters will remain in effect.

— NYC Alt Side Parking (@NYCASP) October 17, 2022

Simchas Torah is Simchas awesome. We goys on the Tuesday side of the street express our deepest gratitude for this beautiful contribution our Jewish brethren have made to the civic life of our great city. Shimini Atzereth was clutch for the folks on the Monday side of the street as well. To think our town’s most famous living son could so cruelly and callously badmouth the Jewish people in his demented little tantrum on Sunday. May he rot in hell just as the dead leaves and discarded Burger King cups will rot under the vehicles parked on streets that won’t be cleaned this week.

A fragment of a missile that struck a civilian apartment building in Kyiv Monday has “For Belgorod” scribbled on it–a likely reference to the attack at a military staging and training base in Russian territory that was attacked by two gunmen over the weekend, leaving at least 11 dead, Reuters reports.

The two gunmen were killed in the attack that happened Saturday at a base about 25 miles from the Ukrainian border.  The attackers opened fire on a group of unarmed conscripts who were preparing to deploy to the Ukrainian front lines.

Monday’s missile attack on the Kyiv apartment building killed four, including a pregnant woman.  It was part of an ongoing series of rocket and missile attacks throughout Ukraine in apparent retaliation for the bombing of the Russian bridge to Crimea.  Although many of the Russian attacks are hitting infrastructure targets throughout Ukraine, a number of missiles appear to target civilian centers.

Detestable piece of shit Republican Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson’s reelection campaign has hired Jim Troupis, a veteran of the failed attempt to overturn disgraced former President Trump’s 2020 loss in the state, with apparent the hope that Troupis would be more successful should RonAnon lose to Democrat challenger Lt Governor Mandela Barnes, NBC News reports.

Troupis, is a former Dane County judge who actually tried to get his own vote for Trump tossed – along with those of thousands of others who voted by mail – in 2020, was heavily involved in the fake electoral college votes scam and has been served at least one subpoena in the federal grand jury investigation into the failed MAGA coup attempt. So he’s perfect for the Johnson campaign.

A federal jury began deliberating the case against Igor Danchenko in Alexandria, Virginia on Monday, deciding whether MAGA lawman John Durham made his case that the private researcher lied to the FBI in an interview during an investigation into the source behind information about disgraced former President Trump’s ties to Russia, the Washington Post reports.

The trial has gone not so great for Durham as he got frustrated with one of his own witnesses during testimony and one of the five charges against Danchenko was tossed last week. That combined with the acquittal of Dem lawyer Michael Sussman in May raises the stakes of the verdict if Durham wants almost literally anything to show for his long and pointless investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation which consumed pretty much the entire first half of his presidency before he got impeached and then the COVID pandemic hit.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump
There’s this RINO character in the Great State of Colorado, Joe O’Dea, that is running against the incumbent Democrat for the United States Senate, who is having a good old time saying that he wants to “distance” himself from President Trump, and other slightly nasty things. He should look at the Economy, Inflation, Energy Independence, defeating ISIS, the Strongest EVER Border, Great Trade Deals, & much more, before he speaks. MAGA doesn’t Vote for stupid people with big mouths. Good luck Joe!

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Well there goes all the hard work Politico put into their Monday “horserace” jerk piece “The sleeper state Republicans are targeting to win the Senate” hyping up O’Dea’s “independence” from MAGA.

The “MAGA doesn’t Vote for stupid people with big mouths” part is probably sarcasm. It has to be.

A Russian SU-34 fighter jet plowed into an apartment building in the Azov seaside city of Yeysk near Ukraine during a training flight on Monday, CNN reports citing TASS state news. It’s not clear if the pilot was an actual career military aviator or a 53 year-old drunken vagrant the Russian Air Force grabbed off the street in Moscow on Saturday and this was his training flight.

The Trump Organization charged American taxpayers as much as $1,185 a night for Secret Service agents to stay at their properties, a $1.4 million total haul for Donald’s corrupt company, a House Oversight Committee investigation has found, according to the Washington Post.

“The exorbitant rates charged to the Secret Service and agents’ frequent stays at Trump-owned properties raise significant concerns about the former President’s self-dealing and may have resulted in a taxpayer-funded windfall for former President Trump’s struggling businesses,” Oversight Chair Carolyn Maloney wrote to Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle.

A horseback rider “galloping through traffic” and “refusing to pull the horse over” was arrested and charged with “driving” under the influence after a brief pursuit by cops in Whittier, California on Saturday, KTLA reports. “At the conclusion, a suspect was taken into custody and the horse was brought to our station, where it received lots of ❤️ from our team,” said Whittier PD in an Instagram post showing the cops leading the horse to water in a plastic container (It’s not clear if they could make him drink, however). The incident further narrows our understanding of what the law allows one to operate for personal transportation while intoxicated. It’s just walk or nothing now, right?

Federal prosecutors in the ongoing seditious conspiracy trial of the leaders of the Oath Keepers MAGA terrorist group on Monday introduced in court text messages revealing a revolting sexual relationship between Oath Keepers founder Stewie Rhodes and the group’s insane lawyer Kelleye SoRelle, Politico’s Kyle Cheney reports while sparing little of the heinous details.

“Speaking of fucking… if you need some come on over,” Rhodes wrote to SoRelle, who is separately facing conspiracy charges. When SoRelle responded saying she couldn’t, Rhodes told her he would “drag you into bed later.” SoRelle replied with “That’s how I know you’re trouble. You’re too good at what you do. Whole bad boy thing. I am a damn moth to a ?,” and lol. In his next tweet about the exchange Cheney wrote “Apologies to various family members who get alerts for my tweets.”

A New York Times/Siena poll published Monday shows Republicans leading democracy by 49% to 45% on the generic congressional ballot question. Voters interviewed by the Times provided a snapshot of the Republicans’ appeal to those becoming turned off by representative democracy. “It’s all about cost,” said 51-year-old Democratic retiree Gerard Lamoureux in Newtown, Connecticut, who plans to vote Republican next month. “The price of gas and groceries are through the roof. And I want to eat healthy, but it’s cheaper for me to go to McDonald’s and get a little meal than it is to cook dinner,” Lamoureux added without explaining how electing Republicans is going to make healthy food cheaper. “I’m shifting more towards Republican because I feel like they’re more geared towards business,” said Robin Ackerman, a 37-year-old Delaware Dem, who said she “1,000% disagrees” with the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade.

While the congressional ballot finding – and another one showing a 1-point lead for fat former President Trump over President Joe Biden in a 2024 rematch – may sound bleak for democracy lovers, New York City man Nate Cohn raised some issues with its reporting. “Characterizing this poll as a four-point Republican lead doesn’t merely offer a false sense of precision – it’s just false. That’s not something I can gloss over,” Cohn wrote in a technical jargon-filled analysis.

Of the $24 million it suckered out of MAGA idiots last quarter, disgraced former President Trump’s “Save America PAC” slush fund spent $22 million of it sending text messages and emails to raise more cash, according to FEC financial statements reviewed by Bloomberg. At least $131,000 of the expenses went to buying copies of Jared Kushner’s book to get it on the NYT bestseller list.

Federal prosecutors on Monday filed a memo asking a DC federal judge to send alcoholic degenerate Steve Bannon to prison for six months, NBC’s Ryan J Reilly reports. “For his sustained, bad-faith contempt of Congress, the Defendant should be sentenced to six months’ imprisonment – the top end of the Sentencing Guidelines’ range – and fined $200,000,” the prosecutors wrote. Bannon faces sentencing on Friday following his conviction on contempt charges in July.

Confronted with a copy of a check and a receipt from an abortion clinic in an interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker on Sunday, unhinged moron Republican Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker admitted the check was from him but tried to deny that it was specifically for an abortion.

“Yes, that’s my check,” said Walker, while pretending he had no knowledge of what the money might have been for. The admission came in an interview in which Walker also continued to double down on his fake sheriff’s badge bullshit, on the same day Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock and the libertarian candidate mocked the empty podium on the stage of the debate Walker skipped.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger tells the Atlanta Journal-Constitution he thinks 2022 midterms turnout in the state will be somewhere between the nearly 4 million ballots cast in the state in 2018 and the more than 5 million in 2020, both of which were records in absolute numbers.

Early voting begins Monday in Georgia. “The earlier you can vote during early voting, the better, because we are expecting really strong turnout,” Raffensperger said. “If you’re driving around the neighborhood and find out there’s an early voting location and no one is there, just take the 10 minutes and go ahead and vote. You’ll be glad you did.”