Thursday night’s tweet from Marjorie Taylor Greene claiming “Yes they can control the weather. It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done” is a little much – even for old Sporkfoot – to be saying out loud in public. Hell the Jewish Space Lasers thing is much more within the realm of technological possibility. While it was just batshit it may very well be speaking to a legitimate fear and apprehension within the MAGA establishment over the electoral impact of Hurricane Helene.

This is a map of hurricane affected areas with an overlay of electoral map by political party shows how hurricane devastation could affect the election. pic.twitter.com/XIbNZjuC1q

— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) October 3, 2024

Seems easy enough to draw a straight line between the two tweets, with the weather control being a classic case of what Emory University doctoral researcher Shauna Bowes last year wrote was a coping mechanism meant to “make sense of distress and impairment” and that “when people experience threat and anxiety, they are likely to perceive that they possess little to no control over their environments. In line with this possibility, conspiratorial ideation tends to manifest small-to-medium negative correlations with perceptions of control. Moreover, experimentally increasing a perceived loss of control gives rise to greater conspiratorial ideation.” Maybe Marge should submit to an exam. Emory’s not that far of a drive from her district and she’s got nothing better to do.

A new Marist/NPR/PBS News national survey finds Vice President Kamala Harris leading convicted felon former President Trump 50 to 48 percent among likely voters with “other” in third at 1 percent.

Harris received a net 0 percent favorability rating at 47 favorable to unfavorable while the Orange Tyrant was 6 percent underwater at 45 favorable/51 unfavorable. The survey also found a net 34 percent gender gap as Trump leads 57 to 41 percent among men while Harris leads 58 to 40 among women. Harris leads Trump among planned mail-in ballot voters 71 to 28 percent.

You will not be surprised to learn that Trump Media and Technology Group CEO Devin Nunes is an incompetent dumbass and has fired the chief operating officer, the chief product officer, and at least two others in retaliation for their complaints over Nunes’s mismanagement, per ProPublica.

“This story is the fifth consecutive piece in an increasingly absurd campaign by ProPublica, likely at the behest of political interest groups, to damage TMTG based on false and defamatory allegations and vague innuendo. As usual, your latest inquiry utterly fabricates implications of improper and even illegal conduct that have no basis in reality, presented without any reliable sourcing or substantiating details,” said the company in a statement. They do kind of have ProPublica there on the “substantiating details” part, as the story contains no real specifics or quotes.

They did not however lie about anything. These assholes definitely really were fired.

In their quest to learn more about how the brain functions, researchers wanted to map the millions of synapses found in the brains of simple creatures.  When no Trump voter would volunteer, scientists turned to a fruit fly, laying out more than 54.5 million connections.  The graphic shown above came from a pair of researchers who are part of a project known as FlyWire, which intends to map out and name AI-segmented neurons through crowdsourcing.  And no, a story about the complex working of a fruit fly’s brain following a post about Marge saying “they control the weather” was not an accident.

Yes they can control the weather.

It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done.

— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) October 4, 2024

Batship-crazy Georgia Congresscritter Marjorie Taylor Greene is ramping up the conspiracy theories for the election season, spreading lies like the Illuminati spread snow seedlings in winter.

A former long-time Cabinet minister in the Singaporean government was sentenced to 12 months in prison for accepting about $300,000 in gifts and obstructing an investigation into his windfall, NBC News reports.  In case you’re keeping track, that’s about one-sixteenth the value of gifts Clarence Thomas has allegedly received in the last decade alone.

S. Iswaran, who had served in Cabinet-level positions covering trade, communications and transportation over a 13-year career, pleaded guilty last week to four counts of improperly receiving gifts and one of obstructing justice.

According to court schedules, property tycoon Ong Beng Seng, Singapore’s Harlon Crow, will be arraigned on Friday for giving Iswaran tickets to English Premier League soccer matches, the Singapore Formula 1 Grand Prix, London musicals and a ride on a private jet.

In the weeks following the 2020 election, Donald Trump’s one-time lawyer and one-time lawyer Rudy Giuliani frantically texted a detailed request for Michigan Republican legislators to fraudulently claim the state’s election outcome was in dispute to the wrong phone number, the Independent reports, a further gaffe in Trump’s plot to overturn Joe Biden’s victory.

According to the detailed information released by Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office, Giuliani sent a text on December 7th, 2020 reading, “So I need you to pass a joint resolution from the Michigan legislature that states that, *the election is in dispute,* there’s an ongoing investigation by the Legislature, and * the Electors sent by Governor Whitmer are not the official Electors of the State of Michigan and do not fall within the Safe Harbor deadline of Dec 8 under Michigan Law.”

Alas, Rudy did not enter the intended phone number and the message either went to someone who thought, “Hmmm, this is unique spam,” or more likely continues to drift aimlessly around cyberspace, occasionally crashing into a stray data packet, much like Rudy Giuliani crashing into chairs at the RNC.

The longshoremen’s union announced it came to an agreement with the group representing port operators across the United States, ending a three-day strike that, if extended, could have detrimentally impacted the economy, USA Today reports.

The workers will receive a 62% pay increase over six years; the union had sought a 77% increase.  The two sides, the International Longshoremen’s Association union and the United States Maritime Alliance, will continue to negotiate less-pressing outstanding details, extending the existing agreement to January 15, 2025.

The union announced its 45,000 workers will return to work immediately.  Over the three-day strike, at least 45 container ships were awaiting to be unloaded at ports along the Gulf Coast and the East Coast.

Speaking to reporters in Georgia on Thursday, President Joe Biden said he’s likely to call Congress back into session to pass a FEMA funding package to rebuild the areas wrecked by Hurricane Helene and get prepared for other major storms this season, Punchbowl reports. “We can’t wait. We can’t wait. People need help now,” said Biden at press conference in Ray City, Georgia.

Vice President Kamala Harris is with Republican former Congresswoman Liz Cheney in Ripon, Wisconsin, the town said to be the “symbolic birthplace” of the GOP. Maybe we’re a wee bit biased but we’re of the thinking that a former House leadership member, the daughter of the most powerful vice president in the 21st century (or ever), plus that man himself and a shit ton of other members of the opposite party, just miiiiight be, pound-for-pound, a bit more significant than Tulsi Gabbard (who’s not even a Dem anymore) and a complete freak like Robert F Kennedy Jr endorsing convicted felon former President Trump as far as cross-partisan permission structures go.

A Billings, Montana MAGA dipshit was found guilty Wednesday of a series threatening phone calls placed to then-Speaker of the House but always a feckless twatwaffle Kevin McCarthy for failing to order the Air Force or whoever to shoot down the ChiCom spy balloon that the Republican Party and right wing media lost their fucking minds over in February 2023, Newsmax reports.

Richard Rogers, 45, of Billings, threatened a McCarthy staffer during no fewer 100 calls to the Republican speaker’s office placed in just 75 minutes on February 3, 2023, just as the entire MAGA media industrial complex was going full on balls to the wall with the spy balloon batshittery.

We have no way of knowing whether Rogers would’ve acted this way on his own if Fox News, Newsmax, Breitbart, the Gateway Pundit and so on had acknowledged the spy balloon and updated maybe four or five articles a day about that news cycle… Well actually he probably would have just lost his shit about something else. “Rogers wore shirts depicting Captain America and other superheroes throughout the trial, including one Wednesday with the letters ‘MAGA’ on the front, a reference to Donald Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ slogan,” Newsmax writes about Rogers.

“Moderate” Republican upstate New York Congressman Mike Lawler wore blackface to dress up as Michael Jackson during his sophomore year at Manhattan College in the Bronx, according to photos obtained by the New York Times whose authenticity Lawler doesn’t dispute.”The ugly practice of blackface was the furthest thing from my mind,” Lawler told the Times. “Let me be clear, this is not that. I am a student of history and for anyone who takes offense to the photo, I am sorry.”

“All you can do is live and learn,” continued the Jackson superfan who was so obsessed with the credibly accused child molester he flew to California a year earlier to sit in the courtroom while the “King of Pop” was on trial for charges based on what was maybe as not as credible accusation. And then got thrown out of the courtroom for (quietly) cursing at the accuser’s mom while she testified.

We have questions about the blackface though. Mainly why the fuck is a white guy painting his face Black to look like Jackson when Jackson himself underwent who the hell knows what kind of insane shit to dye his own skin white? It’s not like Mike was trying to dress up as MC Hammer here. He already had the look. No shoe polish required to pull it off for a college Halloween party costume.

Convicted felon former President Trump is campaigning in his usual comfort zone of a right wing town in a swing state, audibly aging and mentally decompensating in front of his worshippers.

“Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued TikTok, one of the largest social media platforms, for operating its platform in a manner that puts the online safety and privacy of Texas children at risk and violates the Securing Children Online through Parental Empowerment (‘SCOPE’) Act. ‘I will continue to hold TikTok and other Big Tech companies accountable for exploiting Texas children and failing to prioritize minors’ online safety and privacy,’ said Attorney General Ken Paxton. ‘Texas law requires social media companies to take steps to protect kids online and requires'” and blah blah blah who gives a fuck says the corrupt, Picasso-faced bastard’s office in a press release.

What is interesting however is that this is a pretty stark sign TikTok is evil again in MAGA World, despite convicted felon former President Trump suddenly loving it like six months ago when some twat billionaire who has a large stake in it had gotten him to come around – that and his campaign selling him on using it to reach out to all the disaffected Zoomers who hated Joe Biden for being old.

Did Paxton ask Trump for permission for filing this lawsuit, or is he actually doing his job and enforcing the laws of the state of Texas in court without Donald’s approval (irrespective of whether that law is constitutional or well-informed)? That’s an actual question we have to ask here because we’re really not sure if Paxton can take a piss without asking the Orange Warlord.

QAnon freak former Mesa County, Colorado Clerk Tina Peters, convicted in August of four felonies and three misdemeanors for her role in giving an associate of mustachioed pillow man Mike Lindell access to the county’s Dominion Voting Systems after the 2020 election, was sentenced to nine years in the hotel for her crimes on Thursday, Denver 7 reports.

Cueball-headed Florida MAGA Congressman Brian Mast was pretty meh when asked to comment on Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s evidence filing describing convicted felon former President Trump as being meh when informed by staff that Vice President Mike Pence’s life was in danger when the saracens were storming the castle of democracy on January 6, 2021.

“The Justice Department announced today the unsealing of a warrant authorizing the seizure of 41 internet domains used by Russian intelligence agents and their proxies to commit computer fraud and abuse in the United States. As an example of the Department’s commitment to public-private operational collaboration to disrupt such adversaries’ malicious cyber activities, as set forth in the National Cybersecurity Strategy, the Department acted concurrently with a Microsoft civil action to restrain 66 internet domains used by the same actors,” says a Justice Department press release.

“According to the partially unsealed affidavit filed in support of the government’s seizure warrant, the seized domains were used by hackers belonging to, or criminal proxies working for, the ‘Callisto Group,’ an operational unit within Center 18 of the Russian Federal Security Service (the FSB), to commit violations of unauthorized access to a computer to obtain information from a department or agency of the United States, unauthorized access to a computer to obtain information from a protected computer, and causing damage to a protected computer. Callisto Group hackers used the seized domains in an ongoing and sophisticated spear-phishing campaign with the goal of gaining unauthorized access to, and steal valuable information from, the computers and email accounts of US government and other victims. In conjunction, Microsoft announced the filing of a civil action to seize 66 internet domains also used by Callisto Group actors. Microsoft Threat Intelligence tracks this group as ‘Star Blizzard’ (formerly SEABORGIUM, also known as COLDRIVER).”

A spokesperson for Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff on Thursday denied the extremely suspect story propagated in right wing media that he struck an ex-girlfriend in the fact in Cannes during a party in 2012, telling Semafor the “report is untrue,” and “any suggestion that he would or has ever hit a woman is false.” That so far no MSM sources have even addressed it – despite Megyn Kelly having a fucking meltdown over that in particular – should tell you that it’s a MAGA scam operation.

Or an unsuccessful one. For now. You never know when the New York Times is going to buy into it.

Details are sketchy and Twitter-based but this was captured this morning on the line to get in to convicted felon former President Trump’s rally in Saginaw, Michigan. It does not appear it be racially-motivated because the sides of the combatants appear to be mixed in racial makeup. Credit to the Michigan Advance’s Anna Liz Nichols for capturing this lovely scene of MAGA behavior.