Squeaky little bastard Ben Shapiro on Wednesday told his dickhead podcast listeners that Mike Pence replacement JD Vance had to admit his boss, convicted felon former President Trump, lost in 2020 because he had to appease the Orange God Emperor or risk his wrath. “The one issue where I think that Tim Walz may have scored some points, particularly late in the debate, was on the issue of January 6th. Now, again, this issue is basically that issue. I don’t think that many Americans are sitting around thinking about 2020 and January 6th or any of it,” Shapiro said, very rapidly as usual.

“However, one of the problems that JD Vance has to shoulder when it comes to debate situations like this is because the person who is his running mate has said over and over and over that he did not lose in 2020, JD, who I think knows that Donald Trump lost in 2020, is forced to not just say the obvious thing. The obvious thing is, yes, Donald Trump legally lost. By the laws of the United States, he lost, which is why he left office. I can have questions about it. Those questions became irrelevant the minute that Donald Trump lost the election. The state votes were certified by Congress in a legal process, and then he left. Right? But because Donald Trump doesn’t wanna hear that from JD Vance, JD is forced into the bizarre position of having to misdirect,” Shapiro continued talking fast.

A few excerpts from Vanity Fair reporter Gabe Sherman’s story about how his screenplay The Apprentice got financed, filmed, and finally got a release date in the US this month, starting with how he began working on it in 2017 and then shopped it around Hollywood, without a lot of luck:

Then he met director Ali Abbasi and shook on it. Actors Sebastian Stan, Maria Bakalova, and Jeremy Strong signed on. Next it was time to find some financing to start filming.

🚨 BREAKING: Senior Trump Advisor reacts to credible first-hand reports of Kamala Harris’ Husband physically assaulting women, says it is “disturbing and disqualifying”

Alina Habba calls for Kamala to drop out of the 2024 race: “I think you have to.”

Doug Emhoff is a monster: pic.twitter.com/zfgXnYLBJZ

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 2, 2024

A new Marquette University survey of likely voters in Wisconsin finds Vice President Kamala Harris leading convicted felon former President Trump 49 to 45 percent in the full field with phone sex guy who lost a lawsuit to get off the ballot Robert F Kennedy Jr in third at 3 percent with the rest of the Russian assets at 1 or 0 percent. Harris is up 52 to 48 percent in the head-to-head vs Trump.

Separately a Susquehanna national poll finds Harris also leading Trump 49 to 45 percent among LVs.

A Berks County, Pennsylvania man wielding a samurai sword was soundly defeated by a state trooper with taser Tuesday morning, like it wasn’t even close, they just zapped the bastard within seconds of encountering him on the front porch of his home, the Reading Eagle reports.

To be fair, however, the fight kind of was not, thanks to 53 year-old Steven L Schoenauer’s wife, who dialed 911 and said her husband specifically wanted to go down in a hail of gunfire rather. Nine troopers showed up, with an ambulance at the ready and, knowing Schoenauer wielded an ancient bladed weapon, they had the tasers locked and loaded. Schoenauer was zapped and charged with two counts each of aggravated and simple assault and reckless endangerment along with weapons offenses. He did at least get to scream “I will end you” and “Come here I’ll show you,” with his shirt off like some really cool scene from Gladiator or 300. They then zapped him from a 15 ft range.

Convicted felon former President Trump’s Doral Golf Club in Miami will host a major Jewish-themed campaign event celebrating commemorating a year since the horrific October 7th attack by Hamas on Southern Israel, according to his money laundering operation campaign website.

“Jewish community leaders will gather to honor the 1,200 lives lost after being taken hostage and killed on that fateful morning one year ago. The event will also remember the victims of antisemitic violence that has continued to afflict communities worldwide since that tragic day. October 7th, 2023, was the day in which the most Jewish people were murdered since the Holocaust. Hamas and other Iranian-backed proxies launched a war, not just against Israel, but against all of our shared values. What we have witnessed in the past year is a battle between the forces of good versus evil. Since the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, we have witnessed nothing but global chaos, as evidenced by Iran’s horrific missile attack on Israel just this past week,” and blah blah blah said the campaign. Love the “horrific” description of the missile attack the Biden-led US military stopped.

Erwin, Tennessee manufacturer Impact Plastics on Monday issued a press release to WJHL saying they express “sympathy for the missing and deceased employees and one contractor during the historic and devastating floods at its facility on Friday, September 27.” The release quoted founder Gerald O’Connor saying “We are devastated by the tragic loss of great employees. Those who are missing or deceased, and their families are in our thoughts and prayers.” The company said they had been monitoring weather conditions on Friday morning as Hurricane Helene approached and that the employees were told to go home as soon as the power went out, per the press release.

“At no time were employees told that they would be fired if they left the facility. For employees who were non-English speaking, bi-lingual employees were among the group of managers who delivered the message,” the release said. Again this was Monday when they put this in a press statement.

On Tuesday employee Jake Ingram told Knox News that’s not quite accurate. “They should’ve evacuated when we got the flash flood warnings, and when they saw the parking lot… We asked them if we should evacuate, and they told us not yet, it wasn’t bad enough.”

“And by the time it was bad enough, it was too late unless you had a four-wheel-drive,” Ingram continued. At least two employees and as many as seven are dead, several of whom were swept away then the tractor trailer they were clinging to the top of was tipped over by the raging flash flood. So yeah, now NBC News reports the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is opening a criminal probe into Impact upon request of local Judicial District Attorney General Steve Finney.

Top Trump Campaign scumbag Corey Lewandowski had a rough morning on CNN when Jim Acosta pressed him on several topics that were really just simple questions of whether Trump lost the 2020 election and if Haitians are eating people’s pets in Springfield, Ohio and yeah it’s kind of hard to see what if anything might have been gained here for Team Orange in this hit. It was bad.

Trump Media and Technology Group CEO Devin Nunes on Tuesday dropped his appeal of the dismissal of his stupid lawsuit against the Washington Post over their reporting of some scam he pulled in 2017 when he tried to make it look like convicted felon former President Trump and his minions were the victims of an “unmasking” conspiracy by the Obama Administration.

“Vice President Kamala Harris’ husband is being accused of slapping his ex-girlfriend for flirting with another man at a ritzy gala in 2012, a new report claims. Second gentleman Doug Emhoff, 59, supposedly struck his then-girlfriend – a successful New York attorney – in the face so hard, she spun around while in a valet line after an event at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2012, three unnamed friends of the woman reportedly told the Daily Mail. The woman – who was identified only as Jane – allegedly called one of the friends sobbing in her cab immediately after the incident, the outlet said,” the New York Post reported on Wednesday just over a half-hour after other dogshit right wing rag the Daily Mail. Naturally “Jane” is unidentified because she fears retaliation.

So right away we see that the MAGA propaganda industrial complex learned a lesson from the Tara Reade failure in 2020: Don’t identify the accuser publicly because that exposes her to the kind of scrutiny that could reveal turns out she’s literally a paid agent of the Russian Federation. And wait until October because April’s too early, which gives that scrutiny too much time to work.

Other than that it’s a good formula for addition by subtraction. Not even Team Trump realistically expects women to want to vote for him if they think Kamala Harris is protecting an abuser, the idea instead is to get them to think “Oh my gosh they’re both evil, so I guess it’s Cornel West for me.”

Fox Business anchormoron Maria Bartiromo and Senator Joni Ernst were in agreement Wednesday morning that the Iran’s hack of the Trump campaign was an “act of war,” with Bartiromo particularly unhinged that there’s been “no response.” Now they didn’t say outright the US should bomb Iran over it, but it’s hard to see what else we should take away from demanding a “response” to “war.”

Jesus Dork Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Wednesday told Fox News Congress is going to have to be called back in to session to pass a disaster aid package. “It’ll take 30 days or more for them to assess that. But the Congress will have to address it. I mean, this is an appropriate role for the federal government,” said Johnson, possibly fucking over some of his caucus.

Deep fried aquatic life fast food chain Long John Silver’s was informed Wednesday that the Federal Trade Commission is watching them, and if they fuck around and claim that the flesh of the undersea creatures that have been battered and fried in Long John’s largely automated kitchens was “locally caught,” then they’re going to get caught themselves, Reuters reports.

Nine other chains including Red Lobster and Legal Seafoods were issued similar warnings, however the Reuters article features a stock photo of a Long John Silver’s drive-thru, implying that they’re on the top of the shit list. “This is a new reminder to companies that it is all of the ways you’re communicating to a consumer, the net impression of that communication needs to be accurate,” said FTC Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya, who authored the letters. Last month Bedoya also issued guidance clarifying that restaurant decor, menus, and social media posts must not mislead customers into thinking they’re consuming domestic seafood. Or else Long John’s is gonna find out.

If Cook Political Report’s polling is anything like their race analyses then this would be the ballgame. But stupid margins of error and all that shit, so no. It’s not the ballgame. Still must feel like a very hard punch in the dick to the fanboys who thrilled to those Biden numbers in May.

And from August too as Trump had a +6 advantage on who would be better to handle inflation now tied at 47 percent. His edge on immigration also slipped from +14 to +9 percent.

“When a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint scanner at Philadelphia International Airport alarmed in the groin area of a Columbia County, Pa, man yesterday (September 30), a shotgun shell that appeared to be tampered with was removed from beneath the man’s clothing. A closer inspection of the altered shotgun shell determined that the white powder that had been concealed inside of the shell was not an explosive. Philadelphia Police determined that the shell contained methamphetamine and arrested the man, a resident of Orangeville, Pa, on a state charge.”

“Shotgun shells as well as any caliber of ammunition are prohibited from being carried through a security checkpoint. ‘Our focus is in ensuring that nobody attempts to bring explosives onto a flight,’ said Gerardo Spero, TSA’s Federal Security Director for the airport. ‘We use technology and the skills of our officers and explosives experts to help ensure that explosives do not get past our checkpoints. In this instance, our explosives experts conducted a test to determine what the mysterious white powdered substance was and fortunately it was determined not to be an explosive. It is disappointing to see individuals attempt to hide items on their person or among their carry-on items in an attempt to conceal them. We are not looking for drugs, but when we come across them, we alert law enforcement and let them handle the situation,'” says a TSA press release.

Points for style on the “It is disappointing,” like Spero was simply disappointed that this hick would embarrass himself and pretty much the entire state of Pennsylvania in such a manner. Seriously what the actual fuck, lol… A freaking shotgun shell was the chosen instrument for smuggling meth.

Continuing their ongoing surveys on Project 2025, Navigator Research on Wednesday posted the findings from their September sample on convicted felon former President Trump’s detailed plan to end American democracy, finding that if awareness of the Heritage Foundation’s blueprint has plateaued somewhat – 48 percent say they’ve heard of the plan and know about the toplines, it was 49 percent in August – opposition definitely inched up, from 36 to 40 percent.

And hilariously, pretty much all of that growth seems to have come from respondents who identified themselves as “MAGA Republicans,” as Project 2025 went from net +10 percent in favorability from them in June to negative 7 percent which we’ll non-baselessly speculate means that they’re not actually opposed on principle but recognize it as a liability that Dems are successfully exploiting.

Even funnier: “Non-MAGA Republicans” just barely edged out the MAGAs on non-awareness of Project 2025 at 59 to 57 percent, respectively. These fuckers are definitely lying and are simply pretending they know nothing while Trump tries to disown it. The fact that the MAGA voters who said yes to “Do you think Project 2025 accurately describes what Donald Trump stands for?” swung from +9 in August to negative -8 in September is the giveaway.

Conservative social media reactions pour in declaring winner of VP debate: 'This was a massacre' https://t.co/lqLxqLvFEE

— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 2, 2024

Similar to the CBS and CNN snap polls after Tuesday night’s debate – CBS found JD Vance won 42 to 41, CNN came back with Vance 51 to Tim Walz 49 – Politico’s rapid survey found it a 50-50 tie.

Yet they also write that Walz won among independents 58 to 42 percent while a bar chart in the article that simply says “Other,” including indies, found Walz the winner 34 to 25 percent.

Sources on convicted felon former President Trump’s campaign tell the Guardian’s Hugo Lowell they decided to fuck off from the traditional election year interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes because they couldn’t agree on terms “in part because CBS wanted to do ‘live fact checking,'” per Lowell.

EVERYONE KNOWS I WOULD NOT SUPPORT A FEDERAL ABORTION BAN, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, AND WOULD, IN FACT, VETO IT, BECAUSE IT IS UP TO THE STATES TO DECIDE BASED ON THE WILL OF THEIR VOTERS (THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE!). LIKE RONALD REAGAN BEFORE ME, I FULLY SUPPORT THE THREE…

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 2, 2024

“EVERYONE KNOWS I WOULD NOT SUPPORT A FEDERAL ABORTION BAN, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, AND WOULD, IN FACT, VETO IT, BECAUSE IT IS UP TO THE STATES TO DECIDE BASED ON THE WILL OF THEIR VOTERS (THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE!). LIKE RONALD REAGAN BEFORE ME, I FULLY SUPPORT THE THREE EXCEPTIONS FOR RAPE, INCEST, AND THE LIFE OF THE MOTHER. I DO NOT SUPPORT THE DEMOCRATS RADICAL POSITION OF LATE TERM ABORTION LIKE, AS AN EXAMPLE, IN THE 7TH, 8TH, OR 9TH MONTH OR, IN CASE THERE IS ANY QUESTION, THE POSSIBILITY OF EXECUTION OF THE BABY AFTER BIRTH. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!”

Oh, this is *totally* rational and not a screaming post from a senile old man who you just know was standing screaming at a television in his underwear mere minutes before. Apparently watching the underwhelming peformance of his hand-picked running mate during his debate, Grampa also forgot that for years, he took credit for overturning Roe v. Wade thanks to his hand-picked judges who lied during their Supreme Court nomination hearings.