A new set of swing state polls from the New York Times and Siena College finds Vice President Kamala Harris leading convicted felon former President Trump 48 to 47 percent in Michigan, 49 to 47 percent in Wisconsin, and 52 to 43 percent in Nebraska’s 2nd District, while Trump leads 50 to 44 percent in Ohio. Incumbent Dem Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown leads douchebag car dealer Bernie Moreno 47 to 43 percent in that very crucial race. Dem Tony Vargas leads “Moderate” GOP Congressman Don Bacon 48 to 44 percent in NE-2 in a key flip opportunity for House Dems.

We don’t assume the New York Times polls are predictive, even if the rest of the goddamned media operates as if they’re the word of God, but if one were to put the sum total of the most recent swing state/district findings and work with the rest of the Electoral College map the same as 2020, it adds up to a 270 to 262 win for Kamala Harris (they haven’t gotten to Nevada this month).

• The yard sign is up.  The decal is on the car.  My mail-in ballot arrived.  This shit is real.
• Eric Adams gets indicted for not reporting luxury travel paid for by others, while Sam Alito and Clarence Thomas smirk.
• If anyone continues to say they don’t know Harris’s positions on issues, it’s out of willful ignorance at this point.  Her programs are far more detailed than Trump’s, whether you think she’s done enough interviews or not.  Trump’s “Fear the Migrant/Raise the Tariffs” policies will  somehow surpass lost income tax revenue while simultaneously increasing worker pay, providing universal child care, funding IVF for everyone, eliminating the entire federal deficit AND lowering consumer costs. Plus tax cuts.   And Trump will do it all with five loaves and two fishes.
• Not one dollar of federal aid should go to Florida for Hurricane Helene until the state government commits to restoring lessons on climate change into school curricula at every level.  
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The people who know say don’t take time to consider Donald Trump’s latest scam:  a leap into the luxury watch market with a limited edition Trump watch that sells for six-figures.  According to the Hollywood Reporter, Trump’s watch was cobbled together by some no-name assembler, probably in China.

“This is cobbled together, patently unoriginal and vastly overpriced,” the editor of A Blog to Watch,  a popular site among enthusiasts for timepiece information and education. “It’s very clear he’s working with a white labeler, which is nothing new. Anyone can go to a white labeler and say, ‘I want a watch with this case, this bracelet and these other details,’ and a white labeler will Frankenstein it together, put your name on it and sell it to you. But the price you sell it for is up to you. That the markup came from someone on Trump’s team is obvious here. Even the $500 piece from another brand would go for maybe $200.”

“I belong to a collector group that maintains an ongoing group chat, and the initial reaction was that it had to be fake. After that, everyone was laughing,” the anonymous marketing director for an unnamed Swiss watch company said of the $100,000 Trump watch. “When you look at all of them, they scream Chinese-made watch. None of them is worth the asking price.”

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— Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) September 28, 2024

Like a Donald Trump prosecution in Florida, the Chicago White Sox couldn’t get a break.  Much like the popular vote for GOP presidential candidates over the last three decades, victories were rare for the other team from the Windy City, which logged its 121st loss of the season, a Major League record with a 4-1 loss to the Detroit Tigers on Friday, per ESPN.

West Virginia Republicans have finally had enough with state senator Mike Maroney, an eight-year member of the state legislature from Wheeling.  It wasn’t fine with them that he was caught, um, practicing onanism in a casino last month, but now that he’s been charged with drunk driving, they’ve decided he must go, according to NBC News.

“While the legal process must take its course, the perception of impropriety and the repeated legal entanglements surrounding Senator Maroney have brought discredit to the West Virginia Senate,” the chairman of the Monongalia County Republican Executive Committee, said in a posted statement. “We believe it is in the best interest of Senate District 2 and the state for Senator Maroney to resign, restoring public trust and the integrity of the Senate.”

There is no public record of the Monongalia County Republican Executive Committee making a similar statement for a candidate for federal office who’s been convicted of 34 felonies and found liable for sexually assaulting a woman.

Vice President Kamala Harris will deliver remarks near the border starting at around 7:45 PM EDT on Friday.

The Israeli Defense Force have reason to believe they turned Hezbollah’s supreme leader Hassan Nasrallah into applesauce in a strike on a building in Beirut on Friday, with one former official telling CNN that the IDF “would not have attacked with such scope and power, if it was not sure with a very high degree of certainty that the ultra-terrorist was there.”

“Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, Carmine G Agnello pleaded guilty to wire fraud in connection with his receipt of approximately $1.1 million in small business loans under the United States Small Business Administration’s Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program (EIDLP).”

“Today’s proceeding was held before United States District Judge Nusrat J Choudhury. When sentenced, Agnello faces up to 30 years in prison, as well as restitution totaling more than $940,000 and a fine of up to $2.2 million. Breon Peace, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and Daniel Brubaker, Inspector in Charge, United States Postal Inspection Service, New York Division (USPIS), announced the guilty plea,” says a Justice Departmenr press release.

What it doesn’t say is that Agnello, former star of reality show Growing Up Gotti is one of infamous mob boss John Gotti’s grandsons. Also the former proprietor of “Gotti Tans” on Jericho Turnpike in West Hills, New York. That establishment is no longer is business and hasn’t been for quite some time. The Teflon Don’s probably spinning in his grave knowing his spawn pleaded guilty so such a stupid, simplistic scam operation. And that he wears a man bun like a total fazool.

This really doesn’t need any more context or even a link. It’s all right here… But if you must know, it’s from a Times story titled “GOP Candidates, Looking to Soften Their Image, Turn to Their Wives.”

The US Supreme Court on Friday tossed roadkill guy Robert F Kennedy Jr’s petition to get himself on the ballot in New York State, especially rich because it comes a week after the fucking freak’s petition to get off the ballot in Michigan was rejected by a federal circuit court too. If we had to guess he thinks he could’ve somehow helped Trump by splitting off votes in the Empire State but to call that a stretch would be giving him too much credit. At least the lawyers (probably) got paid.

In related news, Vanity Fair reports cucked Politico Playbook co-editor Ryan Lizza, whose now ex-fiancee Olivia Nuzzi’s career is at least temporarily imploded due to her sexting (possibly more) with Bobby Jr, had an “at times heated” phone call with Roadkill Guy after discovering the “relationship” between Nuzzi and Kennedy sometime before the Democratic National Convention last month.

Why Vanity Fair uses the DNC, rather than just “August,” as the temporal fixed point in the story is unclear. The breakup didn’t become public until Lizza announced it in Playbook this month.

At least 22 people have died and millions are without power across the Southeast after Hurricane Helene’s Thursday night landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region, NBC News reports.

“It has been determined that Google has illegally used a system of only revealing and displaying bad stories about Donald J Trump, some made up for this purpose while, at the same time, only revealing good stories about Comrade Kamala Harris. This is an ILLEGAL ACTIVITY, and hopefully the Justice Department will criminally prosecute them for this blatant Interference of Elections. If not, and subject to the Laws of our Country, I will request their prosecution, at the maximum levels, when I win the Election, and become President of the United States!” posted convicted felon former President Trump on Friday. Same old, same old cunty, empty threats from the fat bastard.

“The Clerk of the Court is directed to file on the public docket the Government’s ‘Motion for Leave to File Unredacted Motion Under Seal, and to File Redacted Motion on Public Docket.’ It is hereby ORDERED that Defendant shall file under seal any objections to the proposed redactions in the Government’s Motion for Immunity Determinations by 12:00 PM on October 1, 2024, and shall file under seal any objections to the proposed redactions in the Appendix to that Motion by 5:00 PM on October 10, 2024,” writes DC Circuit Judge Tanya Chutkan in an order that sure makes it sound like she’s going to be “fair” to convicted felon former President Trump’s team in the DC post-2020 election coup attempt case before she goes ahead and unseals a lot of shit the fat bastard does not want voters to be reminded of less than a month before he tries to return to power.

Chutkan’s order was in response to a new Friday filing by Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith which read, in part, “The process proposed here is based upon what the Court has previously directed in this case. Consistent with that prior litigation, the Government’s proposed redactions take into account DC Circuit precedent and three other relevant guideposts… [blah blah blah]… With these guideposts in mind – and with the simultaneous goals of providing the Court with a detailed factual proffer; protecting Sensitive Materials and the witnesses whose accounts support that proffer; and allowing an appropriate degree of public access – the Government has proposed redacted versions of its sealed Motion and sealed Appendix for filing on the public docket.”

Shorter version: Smith already gave a (pre)dacted version to Chutkan, and now it seems the judge is just going to toy with Trump’s lawyers to see if they can find a basis to argue – something, anything, other than “THIS ISN’T FAIR BECAUSE ELECTION INTERFERENCE,” purposely ignoring the irony of that they’re only there because their fat shit client tried to steal the last election.

We have yet to see any finding from Nebraska’s 2nd District putting convicted felon former President Trump trailing Vice President Kamala Harris for the single electoral vote that Team MAGA tried to steal for him this month and now it seems even further away as CNN/SSRS have found Harris up 53 to 42 percent. Even better is the district’s “moderate” GOP Congressman Don Bacon, who vocally supported the attempted fuckjob, trails the Dem Tony Vargas 50 to 44 percent.

CNN also polled North Carolina, finding Harris and Trump tied at 48 percent while, in the first sample taken entirely after the network broke the story of “black NAZI” pervert Lt Governor Mark Robinson’s time on the “Nude Africa” message forums, Dem Attorney General Josh Stein leads Big Mark by 53 to 36 percent in the gubernatorial race. Hope Mark isn’t stress eating after seeing that number.

An Arkansas couple are under arrest for endangering the welfare of a minor and attempting to negotiate the relinquishment of a minor for adoption for selling their two-month old infant son to a neighbor in their trailer park in exchnage for a $1,000 cashier’s check and a six pack of beer. The damning evidence of their intent? Per KNWA it was that they drafted and signed a receipt with a disclaimer saying “there will be no changing y’all two’s minds and to never contact again.”

The baby’s parents, Darien Urban, 21, and Shalene Ehlers, 20, were cuffed on September 21st after a caper that began when neighbor Ricky Crawford had offered to babysit in exchange for a few beers.

At some point someone got the idea to sell the unnamed baby boy to Crawford on a permanent basis, which the trailer park’s manager got wind of and called the police to investigate. Upon arriving they found Crawford “heavily intoxicated, with slurred speech and difficulty maintaining his balance,” but the baby in the “care” of another neighbor, Cody Martin. The baby’s diaper was soiled and he was suffering from rash, leading to the endangerment charge for Urban and Ehlers. They never got the money from Crawford either, as the contract stipulated payment was due on Monday the 23rd.

A force led by German Lieutenant General Jürgen-Joachim von Sandrart will cross the German-Polish border within the next few days to help with recovery from recent flooding and seriously nothing else, DPA reports. Like it’s fine, really. There’s only 120 of them. They were invited to assist.

There’s nothing else going on with this, even if we can put up a headline where everyone can joke that “Germany’s invading Poland again! Haha!” Seriously, everything’s cool. “If you see German soldiers, please don’t panic. This is help. Just so there are no doubts,” said Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, obviously recognizing that there might be some hard feelings even if few of the people who witnessed it the last time are still around. The Prime Minister says everything’s fine, okay?

You have to feel for Volodymyr Zelensky for being in this position having to entertain this fat, demented fuck who touts his “very good relationship with Putin” while standing right next to him.

Then again, he’s dealt with far, far worse shit from much more formidable enemies who want him dead over the past nearly three years. He can deal with the Orange Slob for a few minutes.

A British man who barely survived getting attacked by an angry hippopotamus during a vacation in Zambia tells the BBC that he has no hard feelings towards the massive, semi-aquatic mammals despite the savagery visited upon him, but is also “not very fond of” what the hippo did to him.

“When the hippo first hit the canoe, there was a massive crash, much like a car crash really,” said 63 year-old Warwickshire man Roland Cherry, who first suffered a dislocated shoulder, rendering him unable to swim away from the behemoth before things got even more real in the June incident on the Kafue River in Zambia. “I remember surfacing, realizing my shoulder was quite badly injured and I realized I’d dislocated it from the outset and the consequences were that I couldn’t actually swim.”

“The instructions were to swim to safety but I couldn’t swim so I was really a sitting duck, trying to swim with one arm which was never going to end well – and then it grabbed me,” Cherry continued, adding that the beast dragged him down to the bottom of the river. “I do remember thinking ‘oh no, what a way to go… I’m not ready to die’ and this was it, because nobody survives hippo attacks.”

Cherry says the next thing he knew he was lying on the riverbank. “We know subsequently from fellow travelers I was grabbed again and thrown through the air like a rag doll but towards the bank which was the godsend,” he said. He ended up hospitalized in South Africa with a 10-inch (25cm) wound to his abdomen, a thigh injury, and dislocated shoulder, requiring seven surgeries. The nurses told him they never met a hippo attack survivor because, as Cherry said, nobody lives through it.

As anyone might have guessed from convicted felon former President Trump playing stupid to reporters about “black NAZI” pervert North Carolina Lt Gov Mark Robinson on Thursday, Puck’s Tara Palmeri reports that Donald has no plans to undorse Robinson even if his implosion threatens Trump in a must-win state following this whole “Nude Africa” thing essentially ending Mark’s career.

A source in the Orange God Emperor’s palace says he “likes” Robinson and that his “endorsement speech was one of the greatest he has ever seen, but [Trump] admits he can never be seen with” Big Mark. But Donald is said to be particularly concerned with the Harris campaign’s efforts to tie them together in the state – the one Lindsey Graham was crying about on Hannity this week – with Trump deeming the spot full of clips of him praising Robinson as a “killer” ad.

Elsewhere in Palmeri’s rundown she writes the fat fuck is starting to get talked back into accepting CNN’s invite for an October 23rd debate with Harris, is (surprise!) still crying about Joe Biden quitting, claims he’s going to sue ABC’s David Muir for fact-checking him in this month’s debate, still crying about Fox News anchors “Bret Baier and Brit Hume’s conclusion that he lost his debate against Harris,” nearly tweeted a joke about the RFK Jr-Olivia Nuzzi shitshow (Palmeri doesn’t mention if he asked Bobby Jr to show him the nudes but there’s no universe in which he didn’t), and that Corey Lewandowski got demoted to TV surrogate after losing a power struggle with chief co-managers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita earlier this month, though Corey may be surging again.