The latest survey by Pennsylvania pollster Franklin and Marshall College finds towering leviathan Pennsylvania Lt Gov John Fetterman leads TV quack Mehmet Oz by 43% to 30% among registered voters, while the other Dem seeking a promotion, AG Josh Shapiro leads anti-semitic QAnon asshole Doug Mastriano 44 to 33%, who must be pretty pissed he’s very likely to lose to a Jew.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump
Even though I am as innocent as a person can be, and despite MY campaign being spied on by the Radical Left, the FISA COURT being lied to and defrauded, all of the many Hoaxes and Scams that were illegally placed on me by very sick & demented people, and without even mentioning the many crimes of Joe and Hunter Biden, all revealed in great detail in the Laptop From Hell, it looks more and more like the Fake News Media is pushing hard for the Sleaze to do something that should not be done!

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Bitching and moaning continued: “The Radical Left Democrat prosecutors are illegally trying to circumvent, for purely political gain, the Presidential Record’s Act, under which I have done absolutely nothing wrong. It can not be circumvented, for me or any other President. They illegally Raided my home, and took things that should not have been taken. They even broke into my safe, an unthinkable act!” … “Joe Biden said he knew nothing about the Break-In of Mar-a-Lago or, the greatest political attack in the history of the U.S. Does anybody really believe this???” … “PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS ACT!” … “The Justice Department and FBI are ‘leaking’ at levels never seen before – and I did nothing wrong!!!” screamed the fat bastard in a series of posts.

While it’s been nearly a year and a half now since the New York Times first reported that federal prosecutors were investigating MAGA Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz for sex trafficking and still no charges have been brought against him, sources tell the Daily Beast the right wing asshole is not even close to out of the woods and the delay is owed to the sprawling nature of the investigation into Republican corruption in Florida that goes far beyond just Gaetz himself.

More simply, it appears there’s too much evidence, rather than too little, of crimes that Gaetz may or may not be directly connected to, but in which his associates are implicated including, per the Beast, “illicit real estate deals, embezzlement of federal COVID-19 paycheck assistance, a local Republican scheme to run ‘ghost’ candidates, a public corruption plot involving a number of powerful state figures, and ultimately the sex trafficking investigation” into Gaetz.

It seems likely that, had that one blackmail idiot not forced Gaetz and his dad to try and get out in front of it in March 2021, that the investigation into the degenerate would’ve continued largely under the media’s radar and libs would not be left feeling like the fucker is just going to get away with it (that said, some reporter almost certainly would’ve dug in and found it after Cassidy Hutchinson told the January 6th Committee Gaetz sought a pardon from Trump weeks before any of the other coup plotters did). So listen to QAnon’s sage advice and “trust the plan” if you’re feeling impatient over when a powerful sex trafficker is finally going to face justice.

Like don’t get your hopes up or anything, because they could actually just be MAGA ladies energized by the Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade – literally the New York Times fucking included that inane caveat in their Thursday report, saying “some women may be newly energized to oppose abortion rights rather than supporting them” – but there’s been an increase in volume of new female voters registering in several key states since the decision was handed down in June.

In Kansas, 65% of new voters were women in the two months since the ruling, compared to 49% in the two months prior (100% attributable to the August 2nd ballot measure). In Ohio, 54% from 47%. Pennsylvania, 56% up from 49%. Idaho, 55% from 49%. The absolute numbers added by the surge is probably negligible overall, though they could prove decisive in Ohio where Dem Congressman Tim Ryan is posing a serious threat to what should’ve been a sleepwalk for shitheel capitalist JD Vance in the race for a Senate seat being vacated by retiring Senator Rob Portman.

Diminutive Republican Florida Man Governor Ron DeSantis pulled out his “I’m a big man” routine at a political rally today, called Dr. Anthony Fauci a “little elf” and said someone should “chuck him across the Potomac,” according to the Daily Beast, using more violent imagery to improve his status in Republican circles.

The 5’9″ DeSantis, who’s quickly becoming Chris Christie-esque in girth, was at a stop on his “Keep Florida Free Tour”–which sounds like something a Jimmy Buffett tribute band would be on–where he was roadtesting rhetoric he’ll likely use in a 2024 presidential run as he stumps for reelection as governor.

The 5’7″ Fauci continues to be the target of right-wingers because he promoted science to direct public health policy.  DeSantis opted to hire a California virus denier, antivaxxer and liar to be his state’s Surgeon General, a move obviously made to “own the libs.”

The late wife of Republican California Congressman Tom McClintock died from dehydration caused by excessive ingestion of white mulberry leaf, an herbal remedy thought to help treat conditions including diabetes, obesity, and high cholesterol, NBC News reports.

Lori McClintock died of dehydration caused by gastroenteritis, an inflation of the linings of the stomach and intestines, that the Sacramento County coroner determined resulted from “adverse effects of white mulberry leaf ingestion.”  It is unclear how she ingested the herb–as a tea, a supplement, or eating raw or dried leaves–but an intact white mulberry leaf was found in her digestive tract.

Tom McClintock found his 61-year-old wife lying unresponsive on the floor of their home in Elk Grove, California on December 15, 2021, when he returned home after Congress went on recess.

How popular is Joe Biden becoming?  With his job approval polling rising steadily, and his legislative victories piling up, it’s not surprising that when his latest accomplishment–canceling $10,000 in student debt for people making less than $125,000 annually–at a professional wrestling performance, the crowd starts cheering.  But that’s what this Unnamed Rapper did:  “You little jerks get no respect.  We wipe you out like Biden did student debt.”  [Crowd roars!]

RNC Reichsmarshall Ronna Not-Romney McDaniel is pleading for help from the oligarchy to help save their shot at flipping the Senate, while the guy who’s supposed to be in charge of that fucked off to Italy, Politico reports from a leaked audio recording. “Newt [Gingrich] and I were just talking, in this environment, our candidates can win if they’re outspent two-to-one, but if it gets four, five, six to one, it becomes more difficult, and we’re seeing that specifically on the Senate side. So my call to action today is to please help us invest in these Senate races specifically. Give to any of these Senate candidates, all of these Senate candidates if you can, so all of them can be on TV,” said Ronna, likely while inhaling Hostess Powdered Donettes three at a time to ease her stress.

Meanwhile the House Republican Campaign Committee Obergruppenführer Tom Emmer tried to spin up some good old fashioned spin after his supposed star recruit went down in New York’s 19th Congressional District on Tuesday, writing in a memo obtained by Axios that “the national media wants to say the wallsare closing in on Republicans and this election serves as a bellwether ahead of November. That’s nonsense. Democrats benefited from a unique structural advantage that was only available in this special election.” In related news we need an emoji for “jerking off hand motion while rolling eyes.” Would’ve really helped illustrate our reaction to Emmer’s assessment here.

That’s right, MAGAts:  Donald Trump is just like you.  He understands your psychology.  He knows what you mean.  He’s a populist!  He’s a hard-working Everyman who eats hamberders and doesn’t talk good and he’s totally relatable.  And he and Junior’s walking, screeching step-mother Oedipal complex don’t really want to go to a $100,000 per plate dinner to have people fund his lifestyle by filling the coffers of his idiotically named Make America Great Again, Again! PAC.

I wonder how much Don and Kimberly Gargoyle are pocketing for their appearances.  We know Kimberly doesn’t do anything for free:  She’s the woman who got a $60,000 payout for making a 2-minute speech at the January 6th rally, which is obviously what normal people get when they advocate for a relative running for office.

Welcome to Miami, where we have members of the Proud Boys openly working at polling stations.

This is Proud Boy Nowell Salgueiro, known for advocating political violence and a member of the @MiamiDadeGOP executive. pic.twitter.com/lEEdcxaiK7

— Miami Against Fascism 🌴☕️ (@MIAagainstFash) August 23, 2022

The Miami New Times reports that a member of the neo-fascist domestic terror group Proud Boys whose members have been charged with seditious conspiracy for their role in planning and conducting the January 6th Republican-led domestic terrorist attack on Congress was in charge of a Miami voting precinct.

Nowell Salgueiro, a self-declared member of the group, was hired by the Miami-Dade County Elections Department to work the polls at Precinct 434 at Banyan Elementary School in Westchester during the August 23rd midterm election, the Department confirmed.

Exactly three months to the day of the May 24th mass murder at Robb Elementary School, the Uvalde (Texas) Consolidated Independent School District has fired the chief of its school police force, the Associated Press reports.

The district finally dismissed Pete Arredondo, the chief who was in charge at the scene of the school shooting.  Arrendondo reportedly failed to provide any leadership at the school as the shooter systematically killed 19 grade school students and two teachers.  Officers failed to neutralize the shooter for more than 80 minutes, until a Border Patrol rescue team entered the classroom and eliminated the threat.

Arrendondo has been on leave since mid-June.  He is the first law enforcement officer to lose their job over the incompetent response to the shooting.  A Uvalde Police Department officer, Lt. Mariano Pargas, has been placed on leave pending a review of his leadership and actions.

The US District Court in DC struck down an appeal of a man found guilty of crimes he committed during the January 6th who claimed the FBI illegally used video taken from Facebook, claiming his social media posts and information should be covered by the Fourth Amendment’s implied right to privacy.

According to the decision, the FBI obtained personal information from Facebook for accounts that livestreamed or posted video of from inside the Capitol during the January 6th Republican-led domestic terrorist attack.

Chief Judge Beryl A. Howell wrote that the defendant didn’t have an inherent right to privacy to protect his identity from an FBI request for information to Facebook that would void the social media search warrant obtained by the investigating agents, meaning all the MAGAts who posted videos of themselves trashing the Capitol should assume the FBI has their posts.

A letter from the National Archives dated about 100 days after Donald Trump left office to Trump’s lawyers cited a statement by former White House Pat Cipollone, whom Trump appointed to be one of his liaisons to the National Archives, that the documents were government records, the Washington Post reports.

The earliest request known to date requesting hundreds of documents Trump took to Mar-a-Lago, the letter sent by Gary Stern, the chief counsel for the National Archives and Records Administration, stated unequivocally that the material should have gone to the Archives.  “It is also our understanding that roughly two dozen boxes of original presidential records were kept in the Residence of the White House over the course of President Trump’s last year in office and have not been transferred to NARA, despite a determination by Pat Cipollone in the final days of the administration that they need to be.”

Trump and his apologists have claimed that Trump was in “complete compliance” with the law and had “fully cooperated” with the National Archives in its quest to get Trump’s White House records.  This new letter shows that the efforts to get the documents, which culminated in an FBI search of Mar-a-Lago two weeks ago, had been going on for at least 15 months, much longer than the eight months Trump apologists have claimed.

Oh God, here we go again with fucking National Zero nagging readers to take UFOs seriously while a certain sizable contingent of holdouts in the comment section refuse to entertain it almost exclusively on the grounds that conventional faster than light propulsion is impossible whilst still acknowledging that extrasolar planets almost certainly harbor advanced civilizations and then Spartan replies with some half-baked mumbo jumbo about theoretical methods of “warping” space-time solving the problems presented by classical physics to make such travel feasible and…

…WOW! Holy shit, did you see that thing? That was some weather balloon, huh?

An internal memo from March 2019 released today laying out the Department of Justice’s legal rationale for not prosecuting Donald Trump following the release of the Mueller report on Russian involvement in the 2016 elections concludes that the report did not present enough evidence to support charges against Trump, but the memo undermines claims then-Attorney General Bill Barr made under oath to a Congressonal hearing.

Released Wednesday afternoon, the memo specifically notes that Special Counsel Robert Mueller abstained from making a determination to charge Trump even though the entire second half of the report outlined ten ways in which Trump intentionally obstructed the investigation.  The memo’s authors–Steven Engel, the Assistant Attorney General for the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel, and Edward O’Callaghan, the Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General–state explicitly that Mueller refused to make a determination about charges, deferring to the OLC’s opinion that a sitting president cannot be indicted.

“[T]he Special Counsel reached no conclusion as to whether the President had violated any criminal law or whether, if so, such conduct warranted prosecution,” the memo reads.  “The Special Counsel considered evaluating such conduct under the Justice Manual standards governing prosecutions and declinations, but determined not to apply that approach for several reasons. The Special Counsel recognized that the Office of Legal Counsel (“OLC”) had determined that “a sitting President is constitutionally immune from indictment and criminal prosecution.” … Although the OLC opinion permitted the investigation of a sitting President, the Special Counsel concluded that it would be unfair to reach any charging decision, because the President would not then be afforded any opportunity to clear his name before an impartial adjudicator.”

“An Oregon man pleaded guilty to hate crime and false statement charges in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. Randy Smith, 42, pleaded guilty to committing a hate crime for his participation in the assault of T.S., a Black man, which occurred because of the man’s actual and perceived race. Smith assaulted T.S. at a bar in Lynnwood, Washington, on Dec. 8, 2018.”

“In his plea agreement, Smith admitted that, at the time of the assault, he was a member of a white supremacist support group. On Dec. 8, 2018, Smith entered a bar in Lynnwood, Washington, with others, including fellow support group members as well as members of a higher-level white supremacist group. Smith wore clothing and patches indicating his group membership and gave a ‘Nazi salute’ as he entered the bar. While inside, Smith assaulted T.S, a Black man who was serving as the disc jockey at the bar, because he believed that T.S. was being disrespectful to the members of the white supremacist groups. Smith repeatedly punched T.S., while others punched, kicked, and/or stomped on T.S. and called T.S. racial slurs.”

“As a result of the assault, T.S. suffered bodily injuries. Two bystanders attempted to intervene to help T.S. and stop the assault. Both bystanders were assaulted by members of the white supremacist groups, and both sustained injuries. In addition to the hate crime charge, Smith pleaded guilty to making false statements to FBI agents about circumstances surrounding the assault. Specifically, Smith falsely claimed to the agents that he did not remember anyone calling T.S. a racial slur during the assault. This statement was false, in that Smith knew he and others called T.S. racial slurs before, during and after the assault. Smith made this false statement to the FBI because he wanted to cover up the motive for the assault, which was the bias that he and others had against T.S.’s race” says a Justice Department press release.

A new Yahoo News/YouGov survey finds that, when viewing the midterms as a proxy battle between the FBI and regular Americans, 45 percent of registered voter respondents said they would check the ballot box for the Department of Injustice’s stormtroopers while 39 percent realize if they can do it to someone who’s a fighter then they can do it to them too.

The finding comes just a day after the pro-FBI candidate pulled off a surprise win against the pro-executive privilege candidate in the closely watched special election in New York’s 19th Congressional district, signaling that the FBI may be ready to raid the midterms in November.

Period? https://t.co/6h9EGgjmwV pic.twitter.com/waflq2Pj1r

— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) August 24, 2022

A report from the Interior Department’s Inspector General released Wednesday revealed former Trump Interior Secretary and current Republican Montana Congressional candidate Ryan Zinke lied to investigators when questioned in 2018 about his handling of a deal between two Native American tribes to build a casino in Connecticut, the Washington Post reports. The Department of Justice already declined to go after Zinke for the lies last year, leaving them free to drop this report and try to fuck him over in the middle of a campaign to win back his old House seat.

Following the recount which he pissed away nearly $120,000 in credit card debt to pay for it, only to net a few dozen more votes in favor of banning abortion in the state on the August 2nd ballot measure in Kansas’s nine most populous counties, MAGA activist Mark Geitzen and pals are now going door-to-door to ask voters which side they picked, Bloomberg reports. It’s a tall order considering they lost by over 165,000 fucking votes, but that’s not stopping Team Geitzen from looking even more foolish and potentially finding themselves on the business end of a shotgun wielded by some unemployed libertarian who could mistake them for government agents.

That would be tragic – and ironic if this hypothetical armed and unmedicated hermit isn’t even registered to vote and wasn’t aware of the referendum. Even worse if the local district attorney declined to prosecute because Geitzen was technically trespassing when he approached the dilapidated trailer with no electricity or plumbing. Like at worst the hermit would get stuck with would be a summons for the weed plants the sheriff’s deputies saw when they came to escort the coroner to collect Geitzen’s remains after hours of negotiations. American Express and/or the other credit card companies would be out over $100,000 on Geitzen’s unpaid bill.