Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden on Tuesday pretty much outright accused former Trump White House “advisor” and son-in-law Jared Kushner’s shell company, Affinity Partners, of running “a compensation scheme involving US political figures designed to circumvent the Foreign Agents Registration Act,” by taking at least $3 billion from Saudi Prince Mohammed Bonesaw, his country’s sovereign wealth fund, the Qatar and the United Arab Emirates’ sovereign wealth funds, and Taiwanese billionaire Terry Gou, and “a sixth mystery foreign investor Affinity has declined to identify,” for which Kush and Crew collected $157 million in fees for the hard work.

The return? A staggering $0 as of July 2024. “Affinity’s investors may not be motivated by commercial considerations, but rather the opportunity to funnel foreign government money to members of President Trump’s family, namely Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump,” Wyden wrote to CEO Chad Mizelle, who may or may not be a community college dropout recruited from a local Best Buy’s car audio installation team to serve as Kushner’s front man for the money laundering scheme.

Well doesn’t House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer look stupid for saying “Jared Kushner actually has a legitimate business. This money to the Bidens happened while Joe Biden was vice president, while he was flying to those countries,” last year? Bet he’s real mad at Kushner now, right?

North Carolina Lt Governor Mark Robinson will not be campaigning in his home state at this event on Wednesday. In fact the whole point of this one is arguably for another candidate to shore up support for himself and contain the damage caused by Robinson to the joint ticket for their party – while not at all even acknowledging that Lt Governor or his gubernatorial campaign still exist.

Already stuck with two Black neighbors on one side, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin’s staff on Wednesday announced he’s not interested in adding a third. “As a member of the [Republican Governors’ Association] Executive Committee, Governor Youngkin attended an event for Mark Robinson in August and has no plans to further support his candidacy,” Youngkin’s press shop said in a statement, making it clear he only showed up to help the North Carolina Lt Gov’s gubernatorial campaign when he thought Robinson was just an antisemitic far right freak and not an antisemitic far right freak who proudly called himself a “black NAZI” and jerked off to transgender porn.

After all, Youngkin’s got a reputation to protect if he wants Axios to spend the next four years printing a lot of articles about how he’s a leading contender for the top of the 2028 GOP ticket.

The reporting from Newsweek can sometimes be, uh, complete fucking garbage, so maybe take this with a grain of salt – even though it sounds believable as on Monday they printed an article claiming two sources had told them that convicted felon former President Trump is not going to be visiting the city of Springfield, Ohio anytime soon after weeks of falsely claiming that the Haitian community there were abducting cats, dogs, and waterfowl to consume their meat.

“FEMA announced today that federal disaster assistance is available to the state of Florida to supplement response efforts due to emergency conditions resulting from Hurricane Helene beginning Sept 23 and continuing. The President’s action authorizes FEMA to coordinate all disaster relief efforts to alleviate the hardship and suffering caused by the emergency on the local population and to provide appropriate assistance to save lives, to protect property, public health and safety and to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe,” says a FEMA press release.

A new Monmouth University survey of registered voters in Pennsylvania finds Vice President Kamala Harris with the support of 50 percent of respondents who said they’re “Extremely motivated” to vote and 49 percent of those saying they’re “Extremely/Very motivated” to vote while convicted felon former President Trump has 46 percent of both the “Extremely motivated” and “Extremely/Very motivated” voters… Guess that’s a Harris lead among the most motivated Keystone State voters.

The writeup of the survey says “Overall, just under half of registered voters in Pennsylvania say they will either definitely (40 percent) or probably (8 percent) vote for Harris in November and, in a separate question, a similar number will definitely (38 percent) or probably (7 percent) support Trump. Nearly identical numbers say they will definitely not vote for Trump (46 percent) or Harris (44 percent),” which we guess we could crunch the numbers and come up with a definitive-ish head-to-head number for the respective candidates. It’s still a confusing pain in the ass and, like we wrote on Sunday, we’re kind of wary of Monmouth because as far as we know there’s nothing stopping a respondent from saying they’ll “probably” or “definitely” vote for both Trump and Harris.

We’re joining a little late as spandex-wearing grapple-freak Jim Jordan’s moronic “Weaponization Subcommittee” is holding a hearing “to examine how the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has used its security clearance adjudication process to purge its ranks of conservatives and whistleblowers, and unlawfully punish those with views contrary to FBI leadership,” meaning a lot of bitching and moaning about Bureau leadership not wanting agents to waste time on bullshit right wing conspiracy theories or interfering with legitimate cases against MAGA terrorists.

On deck as witnesses are Justice Department IG Michael Horowitz, a guy whom MAGA world has had a dislike-hate relationship with over the years, outspokenly anti-Trump former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner (guess he’s a minority witness), assclown former Chuck Grassley minion Tristan Leavitt, and one actual “whistleblower,” MAGA former FBI agent Marcus Allen, who may or may not have some stupid book coming out he needs to promote in a congressional hearing.

Convicted felon former President Trump’s minions earlier this week told NBC News’s Garrett Haake that their Kremlin fanboy boss was planning to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during the leader’s visit to the United States. Now, per Haake’s colleague Vaughn Hillyard, Team Orange have ruled out a sit-down after Zelensky told the New Yorker that the fat bastard and his Mike Pence replacement running mate JD Vance are “too radical” and that Trump – who in 2019 withheld military aid to Kyiv unless they announced a fake investigation into Joe and Hunter Biden – doesn’t know what the hell he’s talking about when he says he can end the war in 24 hours.

One of Trump’s sycophants told Hillyard that Zelensky’s actions this week suggest he is “prepared to interfere” with election to ensure “the Democrat money train” continues into Kyiv.

Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign have been buying up ad space on video game/geek site IGN in a bid to eat into convicted felon former President Trump’s margins with younger men into violent shooters and fantasy RPGs with anime Japanese schoolgirls, the Washington Post reports.

In old 8-bit typefaces one ad says “Kamala Harris: Fighting for a new way forward,” with a bunch of Mario-style coins and another reads “Project 2025: Trump’s END GAME for total control.”

The political class and mainstream media want to make this race about personality. Why? Because if we focus on policy they don’t have a leg to stand on.

Do not be fooled. Kamala Harris, Roy Cooper and Josh Stein are all cut from the same cloth. Their policies have crippled our…

— Mark Robinson (@markrobinsonNC) September 25, 2024

In a brief piece titled “Who’s afraid of Charlie Kirk?” National Review senior writer Michael Brendan Dougherty frets that, because Democrats don’t see the corrupt small-faced propagandist/”youth” activist’s get-out-the-vote operations for convicted felon former President Trump as a formidable, existential threat, like Leonard Leo or Mitch McConnell then conservatives should be worried that the Orange Warlord made a fatal mistake by outsourcing the canvassing to Kirk. From Dougherty:

Lol. The actual truth is a lot of the situation’s simply a black box. There are not, as far as we know, any real insider-y pieces about the day-to-day of the canvassing ops led by Kirk – or the other ones by Elon Musk and whoever else Team Trump handed it off to. All we have to work with is the recent spate of reporting quoting actual Republicans… and most of them are pissing their pants about it.

Democratic Senate campaign officials have been shaking down donors with the pitch of a real offensive for House Dems Colin Allred and Debbie Murcarsel-Powell in their longshot bids against unpopular Senator incumbents Ted Cruz in Texas and Rick Scott in Florida, Axios reports without adding much more specifics about funding targets or plans in the final stretch of the elections.

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— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) September 25, 2024

IT’S HAPPENING! For real! Everything will be revealed! The bodyguard is just waiting for the right moment to strike. Then the maestro’s symphony of retribution will commence! All patriots will be vindicated! This is the Big Enchilada, libs. Very seriously. It’s coming. Any second now.

Lying piece of shit and now-convicted felon former Long Island Congressman George Santos took some time off from whatever he’s doing while awaiting sentencing to federal prison to tell Politico Playbook he’s delighted to see his former neighboring district fellow Republican Anthony D’Esposito in a world of shit for having put his sidepiece and his fiancee’s daughter on the payroll for no-show jobs after having suffered the indignity of expulsion that D’Esposito had rallied for last year.

“While he was leading the charge against me and calling me all these things, D’Esposito was actually stealing money from the American people and giving it to benefit his mistress… in a no-show job ploy at the expense of taxpayer dollars. Tell me what that speaks about his character or the sheer hypocrisy of it all,” Santos said, almost as if he’s surprised that an elected Republican would ever publicly rail against corruption and thievery while quietly engaging in it himself. Or at least that one who would go along with the “Biden Crime Family” horseshit would also turn on a fellow Republican.

“What’s really rich is that the people who had the gall and the testicular fortitude to expel me in the most arbitrary way in the history of the body are the very same ones now coming down with all of their misdeeds, corruptions and unethical behavior. So it’s a good opportunity for them. Before they say anything about me, go look at yourself in the mirror,” Santos continued, again talking about D’Esposito and not the larger absolute moral and ethical abyss that defines their party as a whole.

In a “Twitter space” hosted by white nationalist scumbag Nick Fuentes earlier this week, the demented antisemite said a New York post reporter called him a few months ago and pretty blatantly tried to get a quote out of him that would seem like he was endorsing Kamala Harris over convicted felon former President Trump, in an obvious bid to make it easier for Republicans to disown the Neo-Nazi. From a transcript of the audio stream compiled by Media Matters:

“They called to interview me about my comments on my show that I had made where I criticized Trump. They were fishing for me to endorse Kamala. And then when I didn’t endorse Kamala, they scuttled the story, and so they never published. They never wrote anything about the call. They never wrote anything about, you know, that I’m still endorsing Trump. And wouldn’t you know, of course, the New York Post is a pro-Trump, pro-Israel publications run by News Corp, Rupert Murdoch. New York Post is pro-Israel and pro-Trump,” Fuentes said to his fanboys.

“Of course, they want a guy like me to endorse Kamala because then it’s a headline. Then they get to plausibly, incredibly, distance Trump from me, the radical Israel critical element on the right-wing and in the party,” Fuentes continued about the incident. “And when they didn’t get that, which is what they were fishing for, and then they could tar Kamala with my endorsement and say, ‘Oh, the white nationalist endorsed the Democrat. This really says a lot about our society.’ When they didn’t get that quote, they didn’t even bother publishing the story, and I never heard back.”

Kind of a sad statement on MAGA media that, by all appearances (and despite an obvious joke), Nick Fuentes is more of an honest operator than the foot soldiers of the Murdoch Propaganda Empire.

Damn, she really had that one saved up for a floor debate on federal invasive insect management policy. Guess she couldn’t wait for astronomy funding to say “Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse.”

US Military officials informally told at least one congressional office to let the stalled inquiry into convicted felon former President Trump’s campaign visit to Arlington National Cemetery last month fade into the background, an anonymous congressional aide tells NOTUS, the message being that the Army wants to stay out of the apocalyptic election season. The aide said Defense Department leadership have asked offices in both parties to simply move on, all-too obviously fearing retaliation if they make the details of Trump’s desecration of the shrine plus minions Justin Caporale and Michel Picard’s assault of an Arlington employee public and then the fat fuck wins anyway.

Car thief California MAGA Congressman Darrell Issa said campaigning at Arlington it’s not a big deal anymore because both sides do similar things all the time. “If you want to hear that politicians use heroes and victims for political purposes, the answer is, of course, they do, like they always have. I don’t think we should try to pretend that we’re going to clean up the politics of people wrapping themselves in our nation’s flag. That ship is never coming back to the dock,” Issa said.

Zambia’s President Hakainde Hichilema on Tuesday suspended three top judges over alleged judicial misconduct, specifically rulings that favored scumbag former President Edgar Lungu’s eligibility in the 2021 election, and rejecting Hichilema’s petition challenging Lungu’s 2016 win, the BBC reports.

Lungu, despite having sworn off politics while serving house arrest, is expected to face Hichilema for the fourth time in 2026 and Constitutional Court Justices Annie Sitali, Mungeni Mulenga, and Palan Mulonda were on Thursday due to hear a case which would decide whether Lungu can contest the 2021 election. Lungu on Tuesday told reporters he was getting screwed, saying “I want to say to the Zambian people that the time has come for you to stand up and fight the injustice which is being applied to the judiciary because when we lose the judiciary, we would have lost everything.”

The leader of a prominent Haitian advocacy group in Springfield, Ohio filed a criminal complaint against both members of the Republican ticket, accusing them of crimes such as aggravated menacing and making false alarms, NBC News reports.

Guerline Jozef, the leader of the Haitian Bridge Alliance, Inc. accused Donald Trump and JD Vance in a 46-page complaint that they knowingly and intentionally.  “Despite multiple state officials publicly stating that there is no truth to their claims, Trump and Vance continue to spread statements about Springfield’s Haitian community they know are false,” the complainant writes. “Trump and Vance intentionally made both their statements about migrants abducting and consuming family pets, and their claims that legal migrants are illegal and spreading disease, to cause alarm in the Springfield community and violate” state laws against making false claims to cause alarm.

“I wouldn’t look you in the eye and lie to you,” Fox host and proven liar Jesse Watters asserts while looking into a camera lens, not your eyes, or as Watters will later claim, a technicality that makes his statement true.