Hey Fake News! Turns out it’s not just Aurora…

‘Evil' super gang seizes four apartment complexes in major Texas city in new terrifying show of strength https://t.co/NAuWko8xg7

— Karoline Leavitt (@kleavittnh) October 16, 2024

We were to understand that Texas Governor Greg Abbot, Lt Governor Dan Patrick, and Attorney General Ken Paxton were Venezuelan gangbangers’ worst nightmare… And yet here the campaign led by their Orange Lord and Savior is calling them inadequate for not responding immediately to the violent “occupation,” by the Tren de Agua, the evilest gang in the entire history of the planet.

Centenarian former President Jimmy Carter on Wednesday cast his ballot in the 2024 election, NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell reports, citing the Carter Center. It’s not clear yet if the county clerk is MAGA and will file a criminal complaint accusing his family members of forging his ballot or something.

“There has been a person living out of a golf cart in and about Spanish Springs for a least five months and I guess that is OK. What happens when a few more homeless people start doing the same thing? I can’t believe I am the only one who has noticed this? How long will it be tolerated?” writes Village of La Reynalda resident Dennis Corrigan in a letter to Villages-News’s editors.

Lol. Maybe after seeing this person for five months that Corrigan might have approached and asked if they really are actually “living out of” it. Seems like a little bit of a stretch in practical terms considering that unfortunate folks who live out of cars, trucks, or vans tend do so because passenger vehicles are protected from the elements and roomy enough for an adult to sleep in.

Neither of which would seem to apply to the golf carts we’ve seen, even the souped up ones that are The Villages’ street vehicles, no doubt many of which never end up carrying a bag of clubs onto a course. But the fact that we even have to engage in speculative consideration speaks to overall weirdness and apparent atmosphere of alienation in the vast retirement community. Like how fucking hard is it to just ask around if you’re not going to ask the person themselves?

You will not be surprised to learn that, despite convicted felon former President Trump’s operation pumping out ads attacking Vice President Kamala Harris for supporting taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries for prisoners and migrants, his maladministration’s federal bureau of prisons allowed a number of inmates to receive hormone therapy, the New York Times reports.

Catch ALL the West African wildlife action in this LIVE CAM of a small watering hole in the Namib Desert! Let’s see what the lone antelope or whatever he is does next!

“Harris campaign organized a conference of kids separated from their families under the Trump family separation plan prior to his Univision town hall,” the Bulwark’s Sam Stein reports.

Copied that verbatim because we don’t want to over or under-interpret what it actually means other than that the Veep’s team seem to want to remind Latino voters of the cruelest and most quasi-genocidal moments of the obese felon’s maladministration.

Yeah, we’re not really going to get into this so much as let it speak for itself and note that it’s easy enough to see how CNN could have fucked this up by putting a white guy in the studio to have to tell a Black MAGA radio host Shelley Wynter that it might be kind of offensive to say “This race is between house African-Americans and field African-Americans, and the field African-Americans are going for Donald Trump.” Former DNC official Mike Blake did that job excellently.

“For a country that seems evenly divided over politics and polarized about many cultural issues, a durable majority does agree about one thing: They don’t like the Biden presidency. And despite the machinations that resulted in President Joe Biden’s not being on the ballot this election season, his unpopularity is still the mood music of this election,” chittered Chuck Todd while he gnawed on a stale, half-eaten mozzarella stick someone dropped on a subway platform three days ago.

“From his border policy to the economy he has been presiding over to turmoil overseas, there isn’t a lot about the Biden years that voters love in this moment. It’s why former President Donald Trump has basically a 50-50 chance to return to the White House, just four years after voters fired him,” the NBC host continued after he took a break from typing to lick his forelimbs to groom his whiskers.

“Bottom line: It’s clearer now in hindsight – and perhaps it would have been regardless of that ill-fated debate performance – that Biden simply didn’t have a winning hand to run on. All he had was harnessing backlash over Jan 6 and abortion, and while both issues do resonate with a significant chunk of the electorate, those two issues alone couldn’t get him to the finish line. But while Biden isn’t on the ballot anymore, voters are certainly feeling his presence. If there’s one thing it’s clear they don’t want, it’s a candidate who reminds them of Biden. Let’s set the scene…” Todd wrote before his hypersensitive nostrils detected the scent of stray cat on the prowl. Todd then skittered away, leaving his mate and offspring to fend for themselves against the hungry predator.

“At a rally last night in Atlanta, GA, Donald Trump claimed that ‘any African American or Hispanic…that votes for Kamala’ needs to have their ‘head examined.’ While Trump has spent 30 days almost entirely confined to his conservative media bubble, Vice President Harris is sitting for back-to-back interviews with The Breakfast Club’s Charlamagne Tha God and Fox News’ Bret Baier to bring her vision for a future of opportunity to voters of all backgrounds,” says a Harris team statement.

“Harris-Walz 2024 Spokesperson Sarafina Chitika released the following statement in response: ‘If Donald Trump thinks insulting Black and Latino voters is the key to earning their respect and their votes, it’s him who should have his head examined – and he should man up and release his medical records so that voters can understand what exactly is going on with comments like this.'”

“‘And he shouldn’t stop there: If he believes in his message, he should stop hiding in his safe space and take his divisive rhetoric directly to Black media. We hear they have plenty of unanswered questions. Unlike Trump, Vice President Harris is working to earn every vote and talk to every single voter across her broad and growing coalition, from listeners of The Breakfast Club to viewers of Fox News. Trump should do the same if he has the stamina to keep up,'” the statement continued.

The tiny Carribbean island of Anguilla, population 15,753 has seen an absolute boom as it becomes a hub of artificial intelligence… sort of. The AP reports that the British territory isn’t so much a new Silicon Valley in the AI age (though its capital’s name is literally “The Valley”), the local government is pulling in at least $32 million a year without lifting a finger simply because the royalties paid by domain registrars to sell .ai web addresses. Through the luck of happenstance of beating out countries like Algeria, Albania that conceivably could have claimed .ai when ICANN assigned it in 1995, the equivalent of 10 percent of Anguilla’s gross domestic product is paid to its government from startups in the AI space registering URLs in the territory’s top-level domain.

At this point it almost seems fishy. No one has seen a lead like this in recent history… pic.twitter.com/AFdhZXzX1x

— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) October 16, 2024

Quite the contrary Señor Dick-Wagger, there’s nothing fishy about an election gambling site by and for right wing schmucks into crypto, NFTs, and Truth Social shares pumping up the price of a position based solely on “vibes” and their own personal desires to see Trump returned to power.

Or maybe some pro-Harris billionaire really is buying up the Trump shares as a loss-leader to lull the fanboys in a sense of complacency. That’d be pretty fucking funny, if also stupid.

A new Marist College/NPR/PBS national survey finds Vice President Kamala Harris leading convicted felon former President Trump 52 to 47 percent among likely voters, an improvement – albeit a statistically insignificant one – over the 50 to 48 percent lead they found earlier this month.

The gender gap is extremely wide in this sample: The Orange Messiah leads among men 53 to 47 percent while Harris is up 57 to 42 percent with women, a net 19 percent delta. On favorability Harris is net -1 at 45 percent favorable to 46 unfavorable to Trump’s -5 at 44 percent fav/49 percent unfav.

Continuing his obsession with Vice President Kamala Harris’s “Stolen McValor,” convicted felon former President Trump’s minions tell CNN’s Kristen Holmes the fat bastard will on Sunday walk into a Pennsylvania McDonald’s location and “work the fry cooker” for a photo op.

A Fulton County, Georgia judge blocked a new rule instituted by the Trump-favoring majority of the state election board which ordered precincts to hand-count ballots, a measure designed to stoke disruption and problems with the voters’ ballots to sow doubt in the outcome, NBC News reports.

Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney ruled that the requirement was implemented too close to Election Day, making it impossible to hire and train the employees needed to undertake the task and it would cause “administrative chaos.” Republicans vowed to appeal the decision because “administrative chaos” is what they actually want.

“[T]he public interest is not disserved by pressing pause here. This election season is fraught; memories of January 6 have not faded away, regardless of one’s view of that date’s fame or infamy,” the judge wrote. “Anything that adds uncertainty and disorder to the electoral process disserves the public.”

“You can’t be pro-insurrection and pro-America,” Democratic President Joe Biden tells a group at a Philadelphia fundraiser Tuesday night. “If you can’t denounce January 6th you have no business being President.

“Now look, Trump hasn’t changed; I’d argue he’s gotten worse,” Biden continues.  Clearly he lost the election in 2020 and he snapped.  No, I mean it.  He’s become unhinged.  Look at his rallies.  Last night, last night at his rally, he stopped taking questions because someone got hurt, and guess what?  He stood on the stage for thirty minutes and danced.  I’m serious!  What’s wrong with this guy?”

David Duke, the Republican former leader of the Ku Klux Klan who was once elected to the Louisiana state legislature, endorsed Green Party candidate Jill Stein during his radio show on Monday, NBC News reports.  It’s the first known endorsement of a Jew by a current or former leader of the anti-Semitic white supremacist group, and it’s a teeny chip in the Base of the Republican nominee.

“I endorse for president of the United States Green Party candidate, Dr. Jill Stein,” said Duke, who endorsed Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020. “Although Dr. Stein and I obviously have our differences on important issues, she’s the only candidate who speaks clearly against the war in the Middle East.”

A lot, and simultaneously not enough, has been said about the bizarre event Donald Trump called a rally on Sunday in Pennsylvania, where a series of medical events among audience members led to a prolonged delay, prompting the Republican nominee for president to spend an awkward and uncomfortable 39 minutes on stage.

After taking four questions from audience members during the town hall, everything stopped but the music.  In a sweltering venue as people dropped, Trump joked, “Anybody else wanna faint?” before calling for “Ave Maria” to be played.  During the Trump “Music Fest” with Kristi Noem on stage, Trump did something no other politician would do.

After making courtesy handshakes to some of the two dozen or so Super MAGA people on the stage, standing in bleachers, who might’ve asked questions during a normal town hall, and after speaking to an aide at the foot of the stage, Trump did… nothing.

Starting at 7 p.m. local time/8 p.m. ET, former NFL linebacker and Democratic candidate for Senate Colin Allred takes on Cub-adian Cancun vacationer and podcaster Ted Cruz in a debate for the state’s Senate seat.  Because GOP presidential hopeful and convicted felon Donald Trump assumes he’s going to win Texas, he’s put very little effort into campaigning there, leaving Cruz to campaign on his own against the popular and well-funded Allred.

“Mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California have confirmed that the two solar arrays flanking the main body of the Europa Clipper spacecraft have fully unfolded. This means that the spacecraft now has a reliable source of power for the rest of its journey to Jupiter and tour of the Jovian system. The process began with the cutting of hold-downs keeping the solar arrays folded against the sides of the spacecraft and then the unfolding of one ‘wing’ at a time. With each wing measuring 46.5-feet (14 meters) long, Europa Clipper’s solar arrays are the biggest NASA has ever developed for a planetary mission,” says NASA in a post-launch update on the Clipper’s nearly six-year journey across the void to the icy Galilean moon.

WOW! If you keep watching you might see a train go by!