Reporting on convicted felon former President Trump’s obsession with the late Arnold Palmer’s cock, the New York Times on Sunday decided to play it maybe just a little safe, writing on the home page link to the story “At a Pennsylvania Rally, Donald Trump Descends to New Levels of Vulgarity – The GOP nominee repeated crude insults, and his supporters relished each moment. But the display could alienate swing voters,” as if they couldn’t just put the Arnold Palmer thing in the headline.

“I tell ya, it’s no fun being an illegal alien,” a man reflecting on a depth of personal experience in the matter, Phil Collins, once sang in a 40-year-old song with a video so racist in retrospect, someone should publicly apologize.  Someone who seemed to have fun as an “illegal immigrant” was supervillain-in-training and new Trump surrogate Elon Musk.

As Musk hits the campaign trail touting an adjudicated rapist for President and is even offering $100 to Pennsylvania voters to sign a pro-Trimp petition. While the effort is questionable from an election law standpoint, there is no obligation for any Pennsylvania voter who signs the petition, other than admitting you got $100 from Musk to use your name on some non-binding petition, although always read the fine print and don’t take anything you read on this site as legal advice.  Ever.  The only thing we’re good at is tracking crime in The Villages.

Musk, however, isn’t too good at recalling his post-college immigration status.  As CNN reports, during a 2013 interview posted online, Musk’s brother Kimbal described their status in 1995, after Elon dropped out of Stanford’s graduate program as “illegal immigrant,” while his brother called it “a grey area.”  Issues presumably arose because Elon had stayed past the legality of his student visa since he dropped out of college and Kimbal came into the US from South Africa via a student visa at a Canadian university or on a standard tourist visa; at some point, both had become Canadian citizens.  It’s unclear when either Musk became a legal resident of the United States; Elon became a US citizen in 2002 and Kimbal added an American passport in 2004.

Watch the traffic on this random street in Tokyo.

Those of you who still complain about neck pain because you shook your head so vigorously at the “demon sperm” doctor during the pandemic may want to just skip to the comments, because QAnon cultist Stella Immanuel is baaaaaaacccckkk.  She was one of the featured speakers at former White House National Security Advisor and Friend of Putin Mike Flynn’s ReAwaken America event in North Carolina, a type of reunion for the last remaining QAnon adherents.

Here, while using the word “indignation” way too many times, Immanuel expresses her surprise at the rise of Kamala Harris to the Democratic nomination, saying she only understood it after she learned from God that the Democrats “had given a worthy blood sacrifice” at the DNC.  So sure, we can understand why people believe her medical advice over Dr. Anthony Fauci’s.

“With just a few weeks to Election Day and early voting already underway in several states, it’s peak time for the ‘ground game’ that campaigns have spent months preparing. Back in May, on-the-ground Republican operatives voiced concerns to The Federalist that the Republican National Committee’s operations weren’t keeping pace with grassroots in swing states. Now, as Election Day nears, a narrative has emerged in the corporate media about the Trump campaign’s ‘paltry’ ground game,” wrote far right propaganda site the Federalist ten days ago in a piece titled “Outside Conservative Groups Are Leading Trump’s Ground Game. That Might Be A Good Thing.”

Stop being overconfident or cocky.

Go chase ballots.

Find new voters.

It’s a 50% chance Trump wins.

Do something to make a difference.

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) October 18, 2024

That Federalist article might be what an outfit clearly bothered when a “narrative has emerged in the corporate media” about a serious weak spot in their effort to return convicted felon former President Trump to the White House would print and the tweet above might be contributing to that “narrative” considering that small-faced bastard is urging fans to hit the bricks rather than touting the number of doors his group has knocked on in the states they’ve been tasked with delivering to Trump.

“In working at a McDonalds, Trump is directing attention to Harris’ lies, showing humility, and demonstrating that he understands our system and the importance of entry level jobs. This is a great man” – Top comment on the Fox News article “Trump teases he will ‘do everything’ while working behind McDonald’s counter in crucial swing state,” posted Saturday.

Where to start with this one. Now on one hand it is true that we’ve yet to see definitive proof Harris did indeed work at a McDonald’s when she was 19. Nothing in the form of photos, paystubs, testimonials from coworkers, whatever. Thing is, that’s not really on her campaign because who among her voters actually gives a shit. It’s on the other guys, the James O’Keefe and other “gotcha” douchebags to come up with it and the only “proof” they have is that Harris left it off her employment history in 1987 when she applied for a law clerk position with the Alameda County, California DA’s office, as if McDonald’s was somehow relevant. Also worth noting is that the Washington Free Beacon only posted two pages of the application and the three positions listed were filled up. For all we know they intentionally omitted the pages where she did list McD’s.

The NCGOP Hotline is here for you to report any issues or concerns you have at your polling place. Call (919)372-4856 to make your report! pic.twitter.com/Q82b4vBWv5

— NCGOP (@NCGOP) October 19, 2024

Making false reports to an official state Republican Party voter fraud hotline is a serious moral offense and could result in feeling regret that you’re wasting the time of GOP employees who are working tirelessly to ensure election integrity in a crucial battleground. Like seriously you might feel really bad for it if you overdo it and misdirect their attention to their own fake voter fraud incidcents.

• The nihilistic richest man in the world financing the political campaign of the malleable, sociopathic, self-absorbed leader of a major political Party sounds like the origin story of a comic book mercenary army.  
• Bret Baier’s foul:  the absolute shit show of an “interview” with Kamala Harris where his questions were so slanted, they were asked in italics.  Baier’s failure, in conservative eyes: allowing Harris to accurately appear sane and intelligent.  Baier’s embarrassment, however, was claiming that “they” showed the wrong clip, when literally any person who has done more than five hours of live television knows how to say, “Okay, we’ve got the wrong clip; we’ll get the right clip running shortly.”  That was no accident, and he threw his crew under the bus.
• Prepare for the start of “Fentanyl in Halloween Candy” season, which feels like it’s nearly as long as the Christmas shopping season.  The Fox hysteria will be turned to 11 this election year.  And for the record, we’ll be putting ours in peanut butter cups this year.
• If you’re in a union–except the head-thumpers in some police unions who want immunity–and you’re even considering voting for a candidate who thinks union autoworkers have jobs so easy a “child [could] do it,” please remember one of the reasons unions were formed was to make sure children don’t do those kinds of jobs like they did before unions.  And if you don’t think Republicans want children to do these jobs: they’ve already legalized it in Iowa.
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Foreshadowing what will eventually happen to Texas, the entire power grid on Cuba failed Friday afternoon, plunging the entire island and its 10 million residents into darkness, NBC News reports.  Only 20,000 residences in Havana have had power restored; two million people live in the city.

The Cuban power grid had been notoriously bad for decades, with some power stations continuing to use Soviet-era technology to run.  The Cuban government has long blamed US trade sanctions for its inability to get much-needed fuel and upgrades for the fluctuating power availability.

Technically it’s not “live” but if we all watch together at the same time then we can share our thoughts about this disaster classic starring Pierce Brosnan as volcanologist Harry Dalton and Linda Hamilton as Mayor Rachel Wando whose whirlwind romance is the only thing HOTTER than the lava!

Russian lawmakers in the lower house of the irradiated shithole country’s parliament on Thursday advanced a bill imposing criminal penalties on anyone who spreads information that advocates voluntary childlessness, making it punishable by fines of up to 5 million rubles, the AP reports.

Asked by reporters in Michigan on Friday why he wouldn’t release his health records, convicted felon former President Trump said, and this is fucking ridiculous, lol: “Yeah. My health records – I’ve done five exams over the last four years. You’ve got them all. Obviously I’m in the middle of a very big and very contentious fight. We’re leading. I’ve given my health exams, I’ve also done cognitive tests twice and I’ve aced them,” per CNN. Well that’s one way to make sure they keep asking.

Vice President Kamala Harris is on the second of her three rallies scheduled Friday in Michigan.

NASA on Friday announced, in very gentle and politic terms, that Boeing is on their shitlist after the Starliner clusterfuck. “The timing and configuration of Starliner’s next flight will be determined once a better understanding of Boeing’s path to system certification is established. This determination will include considerations for incorporating Crew Flight Test lessons learned, approvals of final certification products, and operational readiness. Meanwhile, NASA is keeping options on the table for how best to achieve system certification, including windows of opportunity for a potential Starliner flight in 2025. NASA will provide more information when available,” the agency wrote.

Campaigning in Michigan on Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris stuck it right to her senescent opponent, saying Donald “is ducking debates and canceling interviews. Come on. And check this out: his own campaign team recently said it is because of exhaustion. Well, if you are exhausted on the campaign trail, it raises real questions about whether you are fit for the toughest job in the world,” Bloomberg’s Jen Epstein reports on Harris turning Trump into Joe Biden.

Pennsylvania MAGA Congressman Dan Meuser had a rough go of it on CNN Friday, trying to explain to anchor Briana Keilar why he’s leading a crusade against some stupid minor change to requirements for overseas ballots – including those of active duty military members – to count as valid. Keilar continually and repeatedly called him out for his bullshit and Meuser essentially just froze. Especially great was when Keilar called out how Meuser only joined this stupid lawsuit when convicted felon former President Trump angrily shitposted about it a few weeks ago.

Fearing that downed lines could spark yet another destructive inferno, California power utility Pacific Gas and Electric, whose fuckups have killed hundreds of people and cost untold billions over the decades, announced Friday they’re going to be shutting down power to as many as 20,000 Golden Staters as the “Diablo Winds” pick up over the next few days, the AP reports.

Now maybe this sounds stupid and impractical but maybe the utility should think about replacing high voltage transmission lines with buried cables or something so they don’t need to shut off the goddamned electricity to tens of thousands of people every time it gets windy.

“President Joseph R Biden, Jr met today with Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany at the Chancellery to discuss the longstanding US-German relationship, grounded in our shared democratic values.”

“The two leaders coordinated on support for Ukraine in its self-defense against Russian aggression; efforts to counter antisemitism and other forms of hate at home and abroad; the Middle East; amongst other global issues. President Biden expressed his appreciation for Chancellor Scholz’s leadership in increasing Germany’s investment in NATO’s collective defense and in securing the release of wrongfully detained Americans, along with other human rights activists and political dissidents from Russian prison, earlier this year. He also underscored the US commitment to continue working together to address the challenges of today and tomorrow and deliver results for both our peoples,” says a White House press release on Biden’s last European tour.

The new line from @IanSams (the noted genius behind Kamala’s video attacking Catholics) is that President Trump’s events aren’t long enough. Kamala in her life has never once done a speech over 45 minutes, let alone unscripted. Kamala’s 5th rebrand is the dumbest yet. https://t.co/JJTfdHovdw

— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) October 18, 2024

The top story on Axios is, almost unbelievably, “Trump cancels a streak of events with only days until election.” Almost like they’re starting to realize they should start treating him like they did Joe Biden.

Eagle-eyed viewers watching Trump field pre-screened questions in the friendly confines of the Fox “News” morning show likely noted a new edition to the Fox & Friends’ signature “curvy couch” as they interviewed the 78-year-old Republican rapist running as the Party’s Presidential nominee.  Positioned under the diminutive Trump’s expansive rear end on the show’s white couch was a black towel, likely placed to protect the light fabric from any stains the politician might leave from an “accident” while he didn’t answer questions submitted by fans.