Really stupid story short: After Vice President Kamala Harris made an appearance on Saturday Night Live over the weekend, Trump-appointed FCC commissioner Brendan Carr threw a fit, tweeting “This is a clear and blatant effort to evade the FCC’s Equal Time rule. The purpose of the rule is to avoid exactly this type of biased and partisan conduct – a licensed broadcaster using the public airwaves to exert its influence for one candidate on the eve of an election. Unless the broadcaster offered Equal Time to other qualifying campaigns,” resulting in the above video being run by NBC during Sunday’s NASCAR and NFL post-game broadcasts on the network, the Huffington Post’s Yashar Ali reports. One wonders if Carr thinks it was worth it to get this low-energy, low-budget rant in front of NASCAR and NFL viewers. Donald seems almost too tired to speak.

Roughly one in five of the 93 Republican Party members from the swing states who have already been chosen to serve representatives to the Electoral College played some role in “Stop the Steal” in 2020, with 13 of them having signed the fake votes for convicted felon former President Trump that December – eight of those now facing criminal charges for the scam – and another six having had some other level of involvement in the MAGA coup attempt, Politico reports.

The eight facing charges include Michiganders John Haggard, Hank Choate, Timothy King, Amy Facchinello, Marian Sheridan, former state GOP co-chair Meshawn Maddock and Nevada state GOP chair Michael McDonald and Clark County Chair Jesse Law, the latter two’s charges having been dismissed but more likely than not to be revived as prosecutors appeal the dismissal.

“It would appear that the party leadership in the states where there are fraudulent electors serving as electors again are not taking seriously things like criminal charges,” said Georgetown Law professor Mary McCord, co-host of MSNBC’s “Prosecuting Donald Trump” podcast.

Pro-European Moldovan President Maia Sandu on Sunday declared victory against her Russian-backed rival Alexandr Stoianoglo in a runoff that saw massive interference from Moscow, Sky News reports on what’s hopefully not the only time Putin loses an election this week.

Convicted felon former President Trump is REALLY losing his shit at this rally in Pennsylvania. Above is Fox News cutting him off as he rants about the Iowa poll, calling Ann Selzer an “enemy.” Minutes later he said he wouldn’t mind if reporters got shot during another assassination attempt.

Former Florida woman Sheila Keen-Warren, who in 2023 pleaded guilty to a 1990 murder in which she dressed up like a clown, knocked on the door of her boss’s 40 year-old wife Marlene Warren, and fatally shot her romantic rival in the face, was released from prison on Saturday, having served just 18 months for a bit of home-wrecking as she literally married Warren’s husband, the AP reports

It took prosecutors nearly 27 years to develop the evidence to charge Keen-Warren with the crime, even though the fact that she married her boss after his wife was knocked off should’ve been enough. The trial has been delayed since 2017 due to other issues and the pandemic. Investigators had recovered fibers from the orange clown wig from the crime scene and the Chrysler Le Baron that Keen-Warren drove as the damning proof of the evil clownery that took Marlene Warren’s life.

Keen-Warren, who maintained her innocence even after her plea to second degree murder, was sentenced to 12 years in prison. But she had been in custody for seven years since her arrest in 2017, and Florida’s law in 1990 allowed significant credit for good behavior behind bars.

North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum and Florida Senator Marco Rubio, two failed Republican presidential candidates who were defeated by convicted felon former President Trump in the 2024 and 2016 primaries, respectively, found themselves stuck cleaning up after the winner on Sunday.

Burgum in particular made himself look like a complete fucking asshole, walking right into a trap set for him by NBC’s Kristen Welker in which she ran a clip of Trump calling Vice President Kamala Harris’s supporters “garbage” at a rally in September, right after Burgum was caterwauling about Joe Biden’s comments in which he (possibly, maybe) accidentally called Trump’s supporters “garbage.”

King Felipe of Spain, Queen Letizia, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, and Valencia regional Governor Carlos Mazon were pelted with eggs and angry insults from the royal subjects during a visit to the area devastated by recent flooding that left more than 200 people dead, CNN reports.

Most of the anger and egging was actually mostly directed at Sanchez and Mazon with the two royals – who are relatively popular in the country – collateral damage in the outrage. Felipe and Letizia hugged the locals and spoke them directly while the politicians ran away from the scene.

Good work Dana Bash, cornering this fucking weasel for trying to blame the media for convicted felon former President Trump’s demented conspiracy theories about the 2024 election.

Asked why convicted felon former President Trump is visiting North Carolina every single day until the election to play defense against Vice President Kamala Harris, an anonymous minion tells NBC News “if there’s one state that could bite you in the ass, it’s North Carolina.”

Fox News is treating this Sunday like a weekday so the couch’s “A-team” are in – as are “The Five,” Frau Ingraham, Jesse Watters, Hannity, etc – and they are NOT pleased with the seismic Saturday night drop of the Ann Selzer Iowa survey, with the blonde one pointing out that Selzer’s final pre-2024 GOP caucus poll found Nikki Haley ahead of Ron DeSantis, which is… Well the top four of the last Selzer GOP poll was Trump 48, Haley 20, DeSantis 16, Ramaswamy 8 percent. The actual top four result was Trump 51, DeSantis 21, Haley 19, Ramaswamy 8 percent. So not that bad of a “miss.”

Nobody in the anti-Trump coalition with a lick of sense believes Vice President Harris has any realistic shot of winning Iowa. This finding is almost certainly an outlier. The problem for MAGA world is that we were happy with Selzer’s Trump 47 – Harris 43 finding in September. Hell if it lined up with Trump’s 53-45 win over Biden in the state in 2020 we would quietly do a little fist pump.

The final set of 2024 New York Times/Siena swing state surveys finds Vice President Kamala Harris leading convicted felon former President Trump 49 to 46 in Nevada, 48 to 46 percent in North Carolina, 49 to 47 percent in Wisconsin, and 48 to 47 percent in Georgia, while Michigan and Pennsylvania are tied at 47 and 48 percent, and Trump leads 49 to 45 percent in Arizona.

Harris also leads Trump 49 to 46 percent in the final national ABC News/Ipsos survey.

The gold standard of Iowa pollsters, J Ann Selzer, revered by all of the eggheads, finds Vice President Kamala Harris leading convicted felon former President Trump 47 to 44 percent in Iowa, which she ain’t winning but it may be a very bad sign for fat Donald in Wisconsin and Michigan.

T-minus three days to go. We’ll run the rallies on top here and individual updates below.

In a piece detailing the very near total collapse of convicted felon former President Trump’s campaign in August and September The Atlantic’s Tim Alberta writes that the “normies” on Team Orange were desperate to get the fat bastard to cut racist psychopath conspiracy freak Laura Loomer loose after she travelled with his team to the disastrous debate in Atlanta and then to the September 11th memorial ceremony at the World Trade Center site in Manhattan. Not even correctly pointing out to Donald that Loomer had called 9/11 an inside job would sway him. What did finally get Trump to cave however was an aide telling him that Loomer had facial plastic surgery work done.

“What sealed Loomer’s fate, according to two people who were part of these conversations, wasn’t just her racist diatribes but also her appearance: Trump, who is generally appalled by plastic surgery, was disgusted to learn the apparent extent of Loomer’s facial alterations,” Alberta writes.

After that campaign co-chair Susie Wiles sat down with Trump, telling him flat out he was going to lose if he didn’t get his shit together – and cut Corey Lewandowski loose too. Not coincidentally, at the same time the woman-abusing shitbag’s palace coup attempt was coming very close to succeeding and Alberta seems to hint that Corey was not at all wrong about serious graft and waste going on inside the campaign under Wiles and other co-chair Chris LaCivita. Yet the two were able to convince Trump to exile Lewandowski by selling him on more discipline as the path to winning.

Convicted felon former President Trump on Saturday was a little too candid about what he thinks the Friday jobs report showing a net gain of just 12,000 to non-farm payrolls nationally means for his now third presidential bid, crowing “it is a gift to me, I finally got a gift.”

“After President Biden referred to an enormous swath of the country as ‘floating… garbage’ and the White House released a transcript of President Biden’s remarks that appeared to alter this offensive comment, we demanded the White House retain and preserve information relevant to this incident and issue a corrected transcript of President Biden’s remarks. To date, the White House has not issued a corrected transcript, and the false transcript remains on the White House webpage.”

“The White House cannot simply rewrite President Biden’s rhetoric. In this case, it appears the White House is doing so to safeguard Vice President Harris’s presidential campaign. Recent reporting has since revealed ‘White House press officials altered the official transcript.’ Meanwhile, White House stenographers already submitted an accurate version – a version different than the White House publicly released – to the US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).”

“The reporting also noted that a government official called the actions of the White House ‘a breach of protocol and spoliation of transcript integrity between the Stenography and Press Offices.’ Most notably, the report reveals the change in protocol came after the White House Press Office ‘conferred with the President.’ That President Biden himself may have interfered to break protocol to hide his outrageous remarks is unprecedented,” writes House Malevolent Razorback Elise Stefanik in a letter to White House Counsel Ed Siskel, and this is the “game changer” for her at this point.

• So, WTF America, what more do you need to see?  Trump hired the people who appeared at his rally, or at the very minimum, he hired/sired the people who hired the people who appeared at his rally.  These are the people he wants representing him.  Are they the people you want representing us.  Is Trump the one you want choosing them?
• Kamala Harris’s speech on the Ellipse was one of a series of powerful, graceful oratory she’s delivered contrasting the raspy, rambling speeches of the old man opposing her.  Her appearances importantly reassure undecided voters that normalcy can be the norm, and the norm does not involve Trump.
• Let me get this straight:  Conservatives are offended because, they say, the “Your Vote is Secret” campaign undermines marriages, claiming it makes a wife go against her husband, but it’s okay for a husband to turn his wife’s bodily autonomy over to a Republican governor?
• I welcome the data that show Republicans are taking advantage of early voting and vote-by-mail.  First, because we should encourage every American to vote as an ideal but second, because many of these Republicans cast their ballots early because they’re eager to rid their Party of Trump.  I’m more encouraged by the chasm in the women:men ratio, with women outpacing men by 10 percentage points, and in PA, 100,000 new voters have already cast their ballots.
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“We’re gonna push through all this bullshit, and I’m not going to listen to anything she has to say, Liz Cheney,” South Caroliiiiiina Repubrucan Snator Lisssssny Grrrrr… that’s funny, like a lion… Grrrrr… Grrrr… oh, right:  Grahmmmm says after dinner at The Palm.  “We’re not garbage as Trump supporters and women who support Trump are not dumb garbage.”

In a win for Dems, the US Supreme Court on Friday tossed a Republican lawsuit seeking to disqualify mail-in ballots missing a “secrecy envelope” or any other picayune bullshit voter errors.

Manly man Cubadian podcaster Ted Cruz, who is also a member of the US Senate (R-Quintana Roo) running for re-election, has spent more than $9,000 on luxury spa treatments since 2016, including more than $1,500 this year, in questionable expenditures, HuffPost reports.

According to FEC filings, Cruz’s campaign paid for nearly $300 in treatments at a spa in New York City while the podcaster was making a bus tour in Texas.  During two sprees in Houston, the campaign spent $1,100 in spa treatments.  Spending campaign money on personal luxuries for the candidate or a family member of the candidate violates FEC regulations.