Officials in the Australian city of Cairns have determined that the employee of a charter flight company who was licensed in New Zealand but not in Australia took a joyride in a helicopter and was killed when he crashed it into the roof of a nearby hotel “was affected by a significant amount of alcohol” and flew “well below the 1,000 ft allowed for flight over a built-up area,” but they haven’t been able to determine why he stole the chopper at 1:30 AM on August 12th, 9News reports.

“For reasons unknown, pilot actions resulted in a collision with a building while conducting an unauthorised and unnecessary flight, while affected by alcohol, late at night and at low heights over a built-up area, and without night flying endorsements,” the Australian Transport Safety Bureau wrote in their report on Nautilus Aviation employee Blake Wilson’s little mishap that destroyed the top three floors of the Hilton DoubleTree in Cairns in the inferno that resulted, though luckily no one else was injured. More unclear than the “motive” is why the ATSB, who exhaustively detailed Wilson’s movements with friends at a number of bars prior to the crash as he was celebrating a job promotion, couldn’t just write “sometimes drunk dudes do stupid shit and get themselves killed.”

Former Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shae Moss, the mother-daughter duo who won a $148 million federal defamation judgment against alcoholic shitbrain Rudy Giuliani over his lies about the two being secret agents in a plot to steal the 2020 election from convicted felon former President Trump, have reached a settlement in a Missouri court for a state defamation case brought against far right propaganda site The Gateway Pundit over the very same lies, the Guardian reports.

Terms of the settlement were not disclosed. Here’s hoping they got more than a pound of flesh and a coming public apology from shitbag founder Jim Hoft, whose attempts to declare bankruptcy to shield his and his batfuck insane website’s assets failed in court earlier this year.

It is with our hearts full of love that we announce the passing of our amazing grandmother, Ethel Kennedy. She died this morning from complications related to a stroke suffered last week. Along with a lifetime's work in social justice and human rights, our mother leaves behind…

— Joe Kennedy III (@joekennedy) October 10, 2024

What? Was the headline in poor taste? Why do we have to be responsible and refrain from speculating baselessly here? Who says we can’t just operate with complete impunity? Plus she probably was vaccinated. If it’s okay for the other guys to bring it up apropos of nothing whenever somebody dies then it should be okay for National Zero to do the same. Okay?

A Center for Working-Class Politics (CWCP)/YouGov survey of Pennsylvania voters finds that convicted felon former President Trump leads Vice President Kamala Harris 52.6 percent to 37.4 percent among respondents who reported having “experienced a job loss due to unfair firing” and among those with a “very or somewhat insecure job,” it’s Trump to 32.6 percent Harris, who leads the fat fuck overall in the registered voter sample 46.8 to 44.7 percent, per the Jacobin.

Surely there’s no through-line here with that July polling by the Survey Center for American life which found Trump at 56 support among divorced men. Can’t be any connection there.

Continuing his Truth Social tirade against CBS on Thursday morning, convicted felon former President Trump shitposted “60 Minutes is a major part of the News Organization of CBS, which has just created the Greatest Fraud in Broadcast History. CBS should lose its license, and it should be bid out to the Highest Bidder, as should all other Broadcast Licenses, because they are just as corrupt as CBS – and maybe even WORSE!” Not even sure what the fuck that last sentence was supposed to mean. CBS is just as corrupt as CBS? Or is he that goddamned stupid and addled he doesn’t know that “licensees” and “licenses” are two completely distinct words?

In a subsequent post the fat bastard wrote “With me, 60 Minutes does the exact opposite! They take everything I say, realize how totally BRILLIANT it is, and take it out. So, with Kamala they add, with ‘TRUMP,’ they delete,” as if he had sat for the interview with the news program and not bitched out. They had nothing to “delete” from his segment because it didn’t happen.

At least four people are dead and 3.2 million are without electricity after the Category 4 Hurricane Milton plowed across the central part of the state Wednesday, the Associated Press reports.

Republican Minnesota attorney Nate Hansen got really busy before launching his campaign for a seat on the bench in the state’s 10th Judicial District, having clicked “delete” over 100,000 times on his Twitter account to hide his propagation of the Pizzagate conspiracy theory, shared a video of a transgender woman testifying in favor of Minnesota’s trans refuge bill, saying that it “should be used to support a civil commitment to a mental hospital for this poor man,” and mocked transgender female lawmaker Leigh Finke as “gross,” the Minnesota Reformer reports

And that’s before we get to his Facebook account, which he did not make private or delete posts variously calling an attempted 2009 airline bombing a “false flag attack,” claimed “Satanic people run our government,” said that “all property taxes are illegal under the Minnesota State Constitution,” called for the abolition of the Federal Reserve and the Central Intelligence Agency, and once said he found himself “consistently agreeing” with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.

Going to hazard the agreement with Louis Farrakhan was specific to the subject of Jews. Hansen has the endorsement of the notoriously fucked up and dysfunctional state GOP for the seat.

Taylor Swift helps with Hurricane Milton and Helene relief efforts, donates $5M https://t.co/cPm4xTaihT

— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 10, 2024

In a stunning win for Republicans who guarantee they will deport millions of migrants and raise tariffs dramatically in order to lower food and house costs for Americans weary of inflation, the monthly Consumer Price Index rose 2.4 percent year-over-year and 0.2 percent on a monthly basis, beating Dow Jones consensus expectations of 2.3 and 0.1 percent respectively, CNBC reports.

“A giant Fake News Scam by CBS & 60 Minutes. Her REAL ANSWER WAS CRAZY, OR DUMB, so they actually REPLACED it with another answer in order to save her or, at least, make her look better. A FAKE NEWS SCAM, which is totally illegal. TAKE AWAY THE CBS LICENSE. Election Interference. She is a Moron, and the Fake News Media wants to hide that fact. An UNPRECEDENTED SCANDAL!!! The Dems got them to do this and should be forced to concede the Election? WOW!” posted convicted felon former President Trump on Thursday, losing his shit over a normal TV journalism practice.

“The fraud committed by 60 Minutes and CBS, together with the Democrat Party, is the single Biggest Scandal in Broadcast History!” continued the fat bastard in another post. Seems kind of hyperbolic considering those rigged 1950s game shows, Matt Lauer having a lock to his office that he controlled from a button under his desk so he could trap young female employees there, or that time when an NBC game show host bragged about sexually assaulting women but the tape of it didn’t become public until 11 years later. Those could qualify as bigger scandals at the networks.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene takes fire for sharing remarks about the weather https://t.co/izug8Fy1o8

— The Hill (@thehill) October 10, 2024

DC-based politics website The Hill appears to be dead-set on showing those pikers in the rest of the mainstream media how it’s REALLY done, putting on a masterclass in framing on a level that the New York Times writers who came up with “Trump’s Remarks on Migrants Illustrate His Obsession With Genes” to describe the convicted felon’s nods to Nazi eugenics, the AP’s classic “Biden and Trump both make the Jan 6 riot a political rallying cry,” the Boston Globe’s “Harris faces a pivotal moment as Trump questions her identity,” and others will never compete on. Game will have to recognize game and if this absolute gem doesn’t finally put The Hill on that elite tier then nothing will.

A new Marist/NPR/PBS survey of likely voters in Florida finds white collar criminal Rick Scott leading Dem Congresswoman Debbie Murcarsel-Powell 50 to 48 percent in the Senate race while convicted felon former President Trump leads Vice President Kamala Harris 51 to 47 percent.

A new survey by Blueprint for the Bulwark testing GOP primary voters who cast a ballot for Nikki “Birdbrain” Haley in the 2024 GOP primary finds convicted felon former President Trump leading Vice President Kamala Harris 45 to 36 percent, a swing of 22 percent in the Dems’ favor going by the self-reported 2020 recall vote of Trump 59 to Biden 28 percent among this set.

“Between 5 and 10 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents are Nikki Haley supporters,” said Evan Roth Smith, the lead pollster for Blueprint, which conducted the poll between September 28 and October 6. “If Harris can indeed win a third or more of them in the general election, it will provide a boost of a couple percentage points. In such a close race where the margin of victory will be razor-thin, particularly in the swing states, it’s clearly worth pursuing these voters.”

As his father, a rapist, sought the Republican nomination for president last year, his eldest son Eric tried to leverage deals to open up a hotel, first at an old Israeli government office in Jerusalem and then at an ongoing construction in Tel Aviv, the New York Times reports.

Eric Trump reportedly tried to get permission to renovate the former site of Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem, located blocks from the nation’s high court building, into a hotel in the style of Trump previous hotel in Washington, DC, where the Trump family laundered hundreds of thousands of dollars from foreign governments and domestic lobbyists.  The second proposed location involved licensing a modern tower near the Defense Ministry offices in Tel Aviv.

Neither deal was completed; negotiations were put on hold after the Hamas attack on October 7th, 2023.  “The deal absolutely would have gotten done if not for October 7th,” Eric told the Times, adding that discussions would continue “when the current situation that we’re all witnessing on TV every day is resolved.”  Nothing from the Trump Org about not doing foreign deals when his father was running for office or in office.

Kamala Harris is hands-down the strangest person I’ve ever seen. Or is she really not human? https://t.co/F5PJgkC6OD

— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) October 10, 2024

Weeks after learning that his grift engine, Infowars, will be sold at auction to fulfill his defamation judgments, Alex Jones is trying desperately to hang on to his position as Alpha Chimp in the right-wing conspiracy sphere by going beyond demanding Kamala Harris produce her DNA, posting a 20-minute clip of him dissecting the Democratic nominee’s 60 minutes interview with the nuance of a snowblower.

The Associated Press confirms what everyone suspected:  Infamously anti-trade with China candidate Donald Trump’s newest grift, leather-bound “God Bless the USA” bibles that include the founding documents of the United States, are actually printed in China.

AP reviewed shipping records documenting 120,000 of the “God Bless the USA” books coming into US ports in February and March.  The documents set the total value of the shipment at $342,000.  Trump is selling the books for $59,95 each, meaning that if the print run sells out at full retail price, Trump, one-hit milker Lee Greenwood, and the publisher would net $7 million.

The mob of roughly 100 raccoons has been dispersed from the lawn of a Kitsap, Washington woman, the Kitsap Sun reports citing a Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife release.

“The situation, which stemmed from the homeowner’s admitted practice of feeding raccoons in her backyard for decades, came to a head over the past six weeks when an increasing number of the critters began to arrive in her yard and act aggressively until they were fed. The woman, fearing for her ability to leave her home, called 911 and law enforcement arrived to find dozens of raccoons in a yard, with one deputy estimating there may have been as many as 100,” the Sun writes in their story.

In an all caps-rant, convicted felon former President Trump on Wednesday announced he is not accepting CNN’s invitation to another debate against Vice President Kamala Harris on October 23rd, writing “I WON THE LAST TWO DEBATES, ONE WITH CROOKED JOE, THE OTHER WITH LYIN’ KAMALA. I ACCEPTED THE FOX-NEWS INVITATION TO DEBATE KAMALA ON SEPTEMBER 4TH, BUT SHE TURNED IT DOWN. JD VANCE EASILY WON HIS DEBATE WITH TAMPON TIM WALZ, WHO CALLED HIMSELF A KNUCKLEHEAD! I AM ALSO LEADING IN THE POLLS, WITH THE LEAD GETTING BIGGER BY THE DAY – AND LEADING IN ALL SWING STATES. THE FIRST THING A PRIZEFIGHTER DOES WHEN HE LOSES A FIGHT IS SAY THAT HE ‘DEMANDS A REMATCH.’ IT IS VERY LATE IN THE PROCESS, VOTING HAS ALREADY BEGUN – THERE WILL BE NO REMATCH! BESIDES, KAMALA STATED CLEARLY, YESTERDAY, THAT SHE WOULD NOT DO ANYTHING DIFFERENT THAN JOE BIDEN, SO THERE IS NOTHING TO DEBATE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!”

Love that “IT IS VERY LATE IN THE PROCESS, VOTING HAS ALREADY BEGUN,” because he still faced Joe Biden in 2020 with 12 days left until the election, this one’s 13 days before it.

Well there you have it. The fat coward bitched out. We thought he might actually cave as he’s scheduled to be in the Atlanta area on the 23rd, but also realized that CNN pushing the deadline could prompt his oppositional defiance and end up with an all-caps rage quit excuse like this.

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz will hold a World of Warcraft livestream on Wednesday night, Wired reports and yes he will literally play the massively multiplayer online role playing game with a bunch of fans watching as a means of reaching out to them. Walz will probably actually know what he’s talking about as he is reportedly a gamer who got addicted to Sega Dreamcast in the late 1990s.