CNN’s Jake Tapper was not having JD Vance’s fuckery in an interview aired Sunday morning. Seriously can’t remember the last time Tapper ever got this heated (by Tapper standards, he was far less heated than Jaydee). Jake definitely still controlled the flow with Vance, turning up the pressure on the fucker on the matters of John Kelly’s warnings about the Orange God Emperor’s fascist aspirations and violent designs against Americans, effectively getting JD to admit that Trump does plan to establish a Nazi police state.

A new ABC News/Ipsos national survey finds Vice President Kamala Harris leading convicted felon former President Trump 51 to 47 percent among likely voters.

If you’re a white person and you’re sick and tired of being embarrassed by other white people wearing red hats, we’ve got the phone bank for you!  The Many Over the MAGA is setting up a phone for white people to white people.  Available times run through Election Day.

“The MAGA authoritarian movement and their vision of Project 2025 seek to wreak havoc on our rights and our democracy. And overwhelmingly, the base of the MAGA movement is white people,” the site says.  “Communities of color are turning out their folks and as white people who care, it’s our responsibility to reach our communities and make sure they show up to block Trump.”

It’s cringy, but it’s politically-correct cringy.  Like, we know our demographic is the problem, and part of the problem is they won’t listen to any other demographic but their own, so yeah, we own that our mayonnaise white brethren need to be confronted by their own, in their own Donny Osmond-white voice, to see that it’s okay not to be a racist MAGA and vote for the multi-racial woman.  Which is kinda sad, and as a straight, white male, I feel obligated to take a shift.

I’m about to be so honest and candid with the National Zero audience, Mrs. Jack will be shocked I can express things with such openness.  Please bear with me.

A year or so after Spartan started the site with me jumping on days later, Spartan posted a list of disqus-using news-centric websites with the headline saying something like, “Go at ‘em,” implying that our National Zero audience should troll other sites.  The post was one of those times when I would periodically (zealously) chide Spartan behind the scenes, in this case for what in my former-journalist view was unethically directing readers to troll sites through an “astroturf” effort.  We had a responsibility to our readers to not abuse the trust you put in us with what we post “above the fold.”

I violated my own values today, and I’m sorry.  I apologize to each and every reader of this site.  I knowingly used my access to publish an item designed to spur action behind the scenes.  It was an unfair exploitation of the venue and an abuse of my editorial privilege.  I have never done this before with any publication or outlet where I had my name on the masthead, but I did it here and I acknowledge that. I apologize wholeheartedly and I hope you will forgive me.

From CBS News.

From NBC News.

WOW! These hydrothermal features in Yellowstone are almost too HOT and STEAMY for general audiences! Make sure the kids are out of the house before turning on some of this action!

“Governor Greg Abbott today demanded Vice President Kamala Harris declare Tren de Aragua (TdA) as a foreign terrorist organization during her visit to Houston, where Jocelyn Nungaray was brutally murdered by members of the Venezuelan gang. ‘Vice President Kamala Harris conveniently claims she cares about securing our border, yet her open border policies have allowed over 11 million illegal immigrants and dangerous criminals, like Tren de Aragua, into our country in the last four years, putting the lives of every American at risk. In fact, today she’s in Houston, the same city where innocent 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray was raped and murdered by two Tren de Aragua gang members. Jocelyn, her family, and all Americans deserve better. Vice President Harris must follow Texas’ lead and designate Tren de Aragua as a foreign terrorist organization immediately.”

“But that’s just a start. The Biden-Harris Administration must use the full weight of the federal government to eradicate them once and for all – for Jocelyn and for every American,'” said Texas Governor Greg Abbott in a statement on Friday ahead of the Houston rally with Beyonce.

We were unaware that the Vice President of the United States has the power to designate a criminal gang as a foreign terrorist organization. We thought that only the president, currently Joe Biden, could do that. Another issue with this demand is that, by Trumpian standards, the tragic murder of Jocelyn Nungaray was actually a failure by Abbott since he’s a weak and feckless governor who failed to protect Texans. It’s clear here that between Abbott’s demand and convicted felon former President Trump’s Friday afternoon white nationalist “press conference” in Austin, the two erectile dysfunction patients were trying to divert the day’s news cycle away from the vice president’s massive rally centered on women’s health issues and the barbarism of the Lone Star State.

Turns out that drug-addled billionaire Elon Musk was an illegal immigrant and could’ve been deported in the 1990s, as the Washington Post reports that his arrival in California for grad courses at Stanford that he never actually enrolled in and then working on a startup was a visa violation.

Even just dropping out meant his student visa was null and void. Working on launching “Zip2” was illegal. “If you do anything that helps to facilitate revenue creation, such as design code or try to make sales in furtherance of revenue creation, then you’re in trouble,” former Justice Department immigration litigator Leon Fresco told the Post. Musk has never publicly owned up to this.

• No, no, it’s okay.  You can finish watching the Future President and the Queen B Rally (again).  RtF understands priorities.  
• Donald Trump believes serving an order of fries to a fan at a McDonald’s makes him relatable to workers.  What would be more relatable is if he tried to live for a week off a minimum wage income for working a 40-hour shift.
• Elon Musk is actually the evil foreign-born election-meddling billionaire conservatives think George Soros is.
• It’s so cute to watch all the Republicans say they don’t care that Springsteen and Beyonce support Harris because they don’t follow what celebrities say or care what they think about politics even though their leader’s last job was a reality television personality.  Cope harder.
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Hometown megastar Beyonce Knowles will take the stage with Vice President Kamala Harris for a rally in Houston, Texas on Friday in support of Senate candidate Congressman Colin Allred.

Model Stacey Williams on Friday gave an interview with ABC News in which she said that notorious dead sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was a big fan of then-future President Trump, constantly name-dropping him so Epstein, could feel more important or something. “I would say that he talked about having just seen Donald or having just done something, I mean, every time we spoke,” said Williams.

“The people he spoke about the most were his boss, or whatever that person was, Les Wexner, hard to understand that role. And then Ghislaine, again, a little ambiguous weird relationship. And then Donald Trump,” Williams told ABC News about the three months or so that she dated Jeffy when she was about 24 years old in the early 1990s. “Those are the people he spoke about the most.”

On the encounter with Trump when Epstein turned it into a little groping game: “He just put his arms out and pulled me towards him and his hands on some part of my body the entire time,” Williams claimed. “His hands would touch the sides of my breasts, not the front, but the sides of my breasts, my waist, and then slid down to my butt and just kept kind of running up and down my body while the two of them were carrying on a conversation… no doubt in my mind it was orchestrated.”

The hardcore MAGA Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday ruled that all state laws allowing for late-arriving ballots to be counted are superseded by federal law saying they must be in by Election Day, thereby changing the rules 11 days before an election like we were told was not okay.

The panel did however kick it back down to the Mississippi district judge who at first had ruled the other way, meaning that this is not a binding order… for now. Who knows what the plaintiffs challenging Mississippi’s law allowing ballots to come in up to five days late to be counted will try next. They might back down considering the number of Republicans voting early/by mail this year.

The US Army on Friday gave to watchdog group American Oversight a heavily-redacted copy of the files on the assault on an Arlington National Cemetery employee by convicted felon former President Trump’s minions Justin Caporale and Michel Picard and goddamn is this freaking useless:

“On 26 August 2024 at 1030 hours, the Joint Base Meyer – Henderson Hall (JBM~HH) Police Department was notified by [REDACTED] of the following incident: While working at the Arlington National Cemetery [REDACTED] with both of [REDACTED] hands while attempting to move past [REDACTED] did not require medical attention on scene and later refused when offered [REDACTED] rendered a sworn statement on a DA Form 2823 and stated [REDACTED] not want to press charges. Investigation continues by JBMHH PD Investigations Branch,” says the only part of the 10 page document worth copying. Honestly if we hadn’t gotten the heads up we would’ve just skipped this.

We were hoping for way more of the overall context of the campaign stop. While obviously a serious offense and the two MAGA cocksuckers should absolutely be named and shamed for shoving an employee, we were hoping for more information on why they were even there in the first place. The bottom line is Trump was desecrating a sacred space for his own political gain – completely lying about the circumstances of the campaign stop – and the minor assault is kind of ancillary.

Vance in North Carolina: "I want to give a shout out, you guys have a great Lieutenant Governor… *pause* S-s-sorry. *pause* Sorry, Mark isn't here" pic.twitter.com/urtiTNt0Qc

— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) October 25, 2024

You will not be shocked to learn that the now-deactivated Twitter account “BlackInsurrectionist,” the mastermind behind both the “whistleblower exposes collusion between Harris and ABC News before the debate” and “Tim Walz is a pedophile” hoaxes is actually white, the Associated Press reports.

Jason G palmer, who lives somewhere in Upstate New York, claimed he started the account but sold it to someone else earlier this year to a party he declined to identify. But later in an interview Palmer told the AP he’s a “researcher” involved with a larger group of trolls who had made up the Walz pedophilia claims. “We did that with big people. National people. I have no comment on anything else regarding that.” Then he said that a friend in this supposed group of political researchers who actually ran the “BlackInsurrectionist” account actually is Black. Palmer did not identify the “friend.”

Actual people who know Palmer say he’s a scam artist. “He owes me a ton of money,” said Kathleen Albano, whose late husband had a business relationship with Palmer. “He has a way of roping people in. I always had his number, knew exactly who he was. But unfortunately my husband got caught up in a lot of those dealings.” Palmer also owes the state $6.7 million in back taxes, has struggled with drug addiction, as was the target of an FBI raid about a decade ago. Definitely Trump’s kind of guy.

“A video posted in March by Black Insurrectionist shows a computer screen displaying the docket of Trump’s election case in the Georgia. His initials ‘JP’ are visible in an icon on the web browser’s toolbar. And Palmer’s email address can be seen in the corner of the screen, indicating that he used it to log into the state’s online court system,” the AP writes on how they doxxed the son of a bitch.

Chinese communist hackers are believed to have gained access to the phones of convicted felon former President Trump and his couch-fucking sidekick JD Vance, sources tell the New York Times.

Intel officials told the Trump campaign last week that Donald and Jaydee were among a number of people both in and out of government targeted in the hacking campaign, which also breached the phones of members of Congress and (possibly) Vice President Kamala Harris’s political team.

‘The Onion’ Officially Endorses Joe Biden For Presidenthttps://t.co/wxIYJY7s6M

— The Onion (@TheOnion) October 25, 2024

“Google faces an investigation by the Missouri attorney general’s office for allegedly ‘manipulating search results’ and exhibiting anti-conservative bias ahead of the 2024 election. Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey said he will issue subpoenas to ‘get to the bottom of what appears to be election interference by Google,’ a spokesperson for the Republican told The Post on Friday.”

“Bailey will be seeking information about the black-box algorithm that powers Google search – which has come under fire from Donald Trump leading up to the election for yielding mostly negative articles about the Republican presidential candidate. ‘Evidence has come to light that Google is deemphasizing conservative speech or content – such as putting conservative reporting on Page 11 rather than Page 1 – by manipulating search results,’ the spokesperson said. ‘Google is the largest search engine in America and has an obligation to consumers to utilize fair business practice,’ the spokesperson added. ‘We will be subpoenaing information on Google’s algorithms and other systems to determine whether they are censoring conservative speech,'” says a press release from Missouri AG Andrew Bailey’s office as laundered into an “article” in the New York Post.

Good luck getting them to comply and stop “rigging” it in the next 11 days, bro.

New Freedom Caucasians chair Congressman Andy Harris of Maryland – the replacement for Bob Good, who would’ve led the far right group next year if he hadn’t lost his primary to some asshole Trump sent to avenge the sin of endorsing heels-wearing Florida Gov Ron DeSantis – on Thursday said North Carolina legislators should award the state’s 16 Electoral College votes because of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene in the heavily red areas of the state, Politico reports.

“You statistically can go and say, ‘Look, you got disenfranchised in 25 counties. You know what that vote probably would have been,'” Harris said during an exchange with MAGA conspiracy freak Ivan Raiklin at a dinner for a county GOP in Harris’s district. “Which would be, if I were in the Legislature, enough to go, ‘Yeah we have to convene the legislature. We can’t disenfranchise the voters.'”

Raiklin had told the crowd that in North Carolina, New Hampshire, Arizona, Nebraska, Georgia, and Wisconsin, the GOP-majority state legislatures could just hand their electoral votes to Trump no matter what happened, to which Andy Harris told him to pump the brakes with “It looks like just a power play,” but told Raiklin he had a point about the Tar Heels State, where “it’s legitimate. There are a lot of people that aren’t going to get to vote and it may make the difference in that state.”