Kamala will mandate vaccines for you and your baby that you don’t want. https://t.co/FwC1kPpnwu

— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) September 19, 2024

A campaign strategist tells BusinessNC that Republican North Carolina gubernatorial candidate and current Lt Governor Mark Robinson is expected to go on CNN Thursday to defend himself regarding a pending story about some shit he posted online in 2009 and damn this will be good.

“I spoke to Mark this morning and he was prepared to go on CNN and defend himself against the allegations,” said Jason Williams, a partner in Endgame Consulting (funny name there), the agency working Robinson’s campaign, in a text to a reporter, adding that the CNN story is a “hit piece.”

Doesn’t sound like Robinson is planning on dropping out, despite the Trump campaign reportedly urging him to do so. In any event it’s too late since Thursday evening is the deadline to withdraw but Robinson’s name would stay on the ballot, per the Carolina Journal – which we could use some further explanation on what would actually happen if he does. “On the ballot” and “in the race” are effectively synonymous, especially when the state is sending out the ballots starting on Friday.

Former Gabonese President Ali Bongo told the ruling military junta that he’s reaffirming his “withdrawal from political life and the definitive renunciation of any national ambition” apparently in the hope that his wife and son will be let out of the clink where they await trial on some corruption charges that are probably correct in spirit if not in letter, the BBC reports.

“I call on my country, its leaders and my fellow citizens to renounce vengeance and to write its next history with harmony and humanity,” Bongo added in the letter, pledging never to pose any threat to Supreme General Brice Oligui Ngeuma’s promised transition to back to civilian-ish rule.

Justice Department: “A Lewiston, Maine, man was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for threatening a Black family who lived in his apartment complex. Charles Allen Barnes, 47, previously pleaded guilty to one count of threatening communications in interstate commerce. In connection with his plea, Barnes admitted to sending a Facebook voice message in which he stated that he was outside a neighbor’s residence and would kill anyone who emerged. In the message, Barnes repeatedly used racial slurs to refer to the victims. According to evidence presented at the sentencing hearing, Barnes harbored long-standing racist views, espoused white supremacist rhetoric online and had described himself to an acquaintance as a racist skinhead.”

“After hearing this and other evidence, the court enhanced the sentence based on its finding that Barnes intentionally selected his victims because of race. The court also heard that, several hours after Barnes sent the threatening message, police officers found him sitting outside of his apartment located in the same complex, armed with a large knife. Based on this evidence, the court imposed an additional sentencing enhancement. The FBI Boston Field Office investigated the case, with assistance from the Maine Attorney General’s Office and Lewiston Police Department.”

Obese MAGA psychopath North Carolina Lt Governor Mark Robinson has canceled his scheduled Thursday gubernatorial campaign events in anticipation of what is reportedly an extremely major story from CNN dropping soon, local freelancer Bryan Anderson reports (and he’s not the only one saying this), adding that Robinson’s team aren’t answering his calls asking what the hell’s going on.

Doesn’t need to be said but if a story is bad enough for Mark Robinson to be canceling campaign stops after CNN asked them for comment on a specific matter then it must be bad. Really bad, lol.

UPDATE 9/19/2024 12:17 PM EDT: The Carolina Journal reports “North Carolina Republicans are bracing Thursday morning as word spreads about a damning news story looming regarding Lt Gov Mark Robinson. Sources with direct knowledge have spoken with Carolina Journal on the condition of anonymity and said that Robinson is under pressure from staff and members of the Trump campaign to withdraw from the governor’s race due to the nature of the story, which they say involves activity on adult websites in 2000s.” Lolololol Trump wants him to drop out now?

“WHEN DOES KAMALA AND HER CAMPAIGN GO BEFORE A GRAND JURY ON IRAN, IRAN, IRAN? MY CAMPAIGN WHEN THROUGH HELL ON THE RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA HOAX. THE BIG DIFFERENCE IS THAT THE IRAN/KAMALA CAMPAIGN CORRUPTION CASE IS REAL!” posted convicted felon former President Trump on Thursday, obviously agitated over reporting that the Iranians sent the Biden/Harris campaign some of the dirt they had hacked via phishing emails.

House Oversight Chairbilly James Comer is out of ideas now that the president whose reelection campaign he was tasked with tanking with an impeachment investigation – and he couldn’t even get that right – is now trying to make something, anything happen by holding a major Congressional hearing about the conduct of the executive branch over the last three and a half years because that’s all he can think of now that the sitting vice president is running against his Orange Master.

This one – which we theorized is Comer’s attempt at doing what convicted felon former President Trump proved himself incapable of at last week’s debate but in the stupidest way possible – has a shot at becoming an instant classic in a genre that has already gifted us with hours of entertainment. On deck as witnesses are FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, Center for Immigration Studies director Mark Krikorian, Meaghan Mobbs Director at the Center for American Safety and Security and the Independent Women’s Forum, former EPA Chief of Staff Mandy Gunasekera, and Dem minority witness Skye Perryman, CEO of Democracy Forward.

Republicans on Capitol Hill are having difficulty coping with recent poll findings showing Vice President Kamala Harris’s numbers on how she would handle immigration not just improving over President Joe Biden’s but sometimes even just a few points within convicted felon former President Trump’s, with the January 6th was “a peaceful tourist visit” fucking hick Georgia Congressman Andrew Clyde telling NOTUS the polling “makes no sense to me. She’s the border czar. She’s responsible for this mess. For a poll to say something like that tells me that the pollsters rigged it.”

Creepy white collar criminal Senator Rick Scott echoed the cope, saying “I think that’s probably a Democrat poll. That’s probably not a Republican poll,” even though it wasn’t a poll but several polls, from Quinnipiac and the New York Times/Siena College all putting Trump’s immigration policy question lead in the single digits in the Blue Wall states. “I don’t think anybody buys it,” Texas Senator John Cornhole Cornyn said. “They know the difference between talk and action,” added the man whose actions include voting against a bipartisan border security bill on Trump’s orders.

Really short Kentucky Senator Rand Paul accepted the “reality” that these polls present to construct one within his comfort zone. “When you have a candidate who basically is a chameleon and they will take any position on any certain day depending on which way the wind blows, it’s harder to run against that kind of candidate,” Paul said. “If the election were on immigration, I think it would be hands down that Harris will lose,” he continued, revealing why they’re still talking about fucking cats being eaten in Ohio. Wisconsin Senator Ron “RonAnon” Johnson bitched about the media at first, saying it’s on them for not being “honest in terms of reporting her role in opening up the border.”

Fox News has parted ways with longtime network sexual harasser Robert Samuel, according to report from CNN media analyst Brian Stelter. It’s not clear why Samuel’s reign ended after successful stints sexually harassing on the staff of legendary sexual harasser Bill O’Reilly’s show before moving to the program headlined by other host Sean Hannity, who’s fucking the blonde from the Fox News morning show for a few years. It’s not clear if Hannity sexually harassed her first.

Also unclear is what prompted Samuel’s defenestration from the network after 20 years of dedicated sexual harassment. It is possible he had sexually harassed a young female subordinate who was already deemed the property of another Fox News executive or on-air personality. We’ll be keeping an eye out for updates on Samuel’s next posting with OANN, RSBN, or “Real America’s Voice.”

Obvious to everyone pic.twitter.com/9rm5EMpXGq

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) September 19, 2024

A new Franklin and Marshall College survey of likely voters in Pennsylvania finds Vice President Kamala Harris leading convicted felon former President Trump 49 to 46 percent, while incumbent Dem Senator Bob Casey leads Republican hedge fund scumbag Dave McCormick 48 to 40 percent.

Available Southern bachelor Senator Lindsey Graham on Wednesday traveled to Nebraska on an assignment from convicted felon former President Trump’s campaign to try to revive an effort to change the state’s Electoral College vote apportionment ahead of the November, a movement to guarantee the Omaha-area 2nd District would not go blue again that had sputtered out in the spring when Gov Jim Pillen realized he didn’t have the votes to make it happen, NBC News reports.

We’ve gone over this several times but it bears repeating: Joe Biden’s campaign had given up on Arizona, Georgia, and Nevada, pinning their hopes on Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin – to get to 269 EC votes. Nebraska’s 2nd District would’ve been the last one for 270, but it was an extremely fraught path and one that small-faced Trump minion Charlie Kirk and then Donald himself had began lobbying the unicameral, Republican-majority Nebraska state Senate to close off.

The momentum got sapped because of opposition from some “RINOs” and the session expired. It seemed extra dead when Maine’s top state House Democrat threatened immediate retaliation by doing the same thing by killing Trump’s surefire one extra vote in that state’s 2nd District. It was an upshot that would have guaranteed Trump a net 0 more EC votes as he won NE-2 in 2016, lost it in 2020, but went 2-for-2 in ME-2 in both of his runs. Scant polling indicates He’s probably going to win ME-2 again this year. Meanwhile Harris looks pretty solid for Nebraska’s 2nd but, as history obviously suggests he could flip it back, there’s no point in continuing to risk Maine Dems’ backlash.

“The eruption near Nāpau Crater in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park continues. Webcam and GOES satellite thermal imagery show that eruptive activity within Nāpau Crater, which had been waning throughout the day, has likely ceased while eruptive activity on the west edge of Nāpau Crater appears to have restarted at approximately 3:15 pm HST. Lava is currently cascading into Nāpau Crater on the northwest rim, visible in the S2cam. There is no immediate threat to life or infrastructure. The Volcano Alert Level/Aviation Color Code remains at WATCH/ORANGE. All current and recent activity is within Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. No changes have been detected in the lower East Rift Zone or Southwest Rift Zone,” says a US Geological Survey bulletin.

“Current eruptive activity began with a small eruption that occurred on September 15, 2024, on a remote section of the middle East Rift Zone in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, just west of Nāpau Crater. HVO is continuing to closely monitor the middle East Rift Zone and is in contact with Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and the Hawaii County Civil Defense Agency. Temporary closures have been implemented as a result of this elevated activity,” the bulletin continued.

Trump says he regrets not 'going after' ABC moderators during debate: 'I wish I did' https://t.co/XPDnqSNCII

— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 19, 2024

Fox News on Wednesday decided it was best to let sleeping dogs lie in their coverage of convicted felon former President Trump’s interview with resident “comedian” Greg Gutfeld, skipping the part where the fat demented idiot claimed there was an “audience” at last week’s ABC News debate in Philadelphia, instead highlighting his “regret” at not being more combative with the moderators.

The article raises the important question of why the hell Fox didn’t just cut the part out where Trump said there was an audience present from the pre-taped interview on their nightly “comedy” show.

A new set of New York Times/Siena College surveys finds Vice President Kamala Harris leading convicted felon former President Trump 50 to 46 among likely voters in the do-or-die state of Pennsylvania, but tied at 47 percent nationwide, a slight improvement for the veep from last week.

The Times’s polling egghead Nate Cohn, obviously “puzzled,” writes “If true, it would suggest that Trump’s advantage in the Electoral College, relative to the popular vote, has declined significantly since 2020. This wouldn’t come from nowhere: Almost exactly one year ago, I wrote that there were signs that Trump’s Electoral College edge was fading, including in the 2022 midterm elections. In fact, today’s poll result is reminiscent of our polling ahead of the midterms, which found Republicans leading nationally but Democrats running strong in Pennsylvania and other battlegrounds.”

“It was hard to believe given recent history – I didn’t believe it, and neither did others pollsters I spoke with – but it turned out to be right,” Cohn continued, probably fully aware he’s about to catch a whole world of shit from the irritable MAGA scumbags triggered by the Pennsylvania finding.

The share price of $DJT, the meme stock for the brand behind convicted felon former President Trump’s failed Twitter clone that he doesn’t even need any more since Elon Musk pardoned him from a life sentence in the birdcage, is down fully 80 percent from its April post-IPO high of $79.38 as of Thursday, now trading at $15.70 which, while not the record low of $14.32 yet, is damn close to it.

What’s noteworthy about the current price is – besides the fact that Dow Jones futures are now at a record high of 42,377, so the actual stock market itself isn’t the problem – that it comes on the day the fat bastard’s “lockup” agreement expires and he can begin selling the shares, per CNBC. The share price got a brief bump on Friday when Donald claimed he had “absolutely no intention of selling” any of his 57 percent stake in the company when the lockup’s expiry came, but since not even his fanboys who bought up the shares actually trust him, the value continued falling.

Our best guess is that Trump does ultimately end up honoring the pledge not to sell – at least until the election. He himself did the most to tank the price by tweeting again starting last month – even if @realDonaldTrump on Twitter appears to be mostly, if not entirely, operated by his campaign staff and the direct reposts of his Truth Social posts are few and far between – which itself appeared to be a desperation move to somehow regain attention amid Vice President Kamala Harris’s surging poll numbers. He burned his investors for a nebulous political gain and the value of their stock depends entirely on whether or not he can return to power… Then again he’s already fucked them over this much so why not just cash out what he can and leave them high and dry?

Cops in New York City have arrested a teenage girl they say she and an accomplice snuck on board a subway train parked at the Briarwood station in Queens last week and took it on a joyride that ended with the metal monstrosity crashing into another unoccupied train, the AP reports.

The unnamed 17 year-old was cuffed around noon on Wednesday, charging her with criminal mischief and reckless endangerment for the rail-based joyride. Her male friend remains at large.

Around twenty people seated behind famed flatulating felon Donald Trump were hospitalized after his appearance in Tucson, Arizona last Thursday complaining of “burning eyes” and “blurred vision” with potential chemical injuries from an unknown source, according to the Gateway Pundit.

Famed conservative mouthpiece Jim Hoft failed to do a deep dive into the potential causes for the vision problems such as having to view Trump’s backside for hours as he drones on about how tariffs are going to eliminate the entire federal debt. Or maybe Cheetolini cut the cheese after a dinner of Big Macs and milkshakes.

Incredible trip, in the middle of the night, to our southern border with @MorganOrtagus, @PamBondi & @polarisnatsec pic.twitter.com/qKj5d9wttW

— Lara Trump (@LaraLeaTrump) September 19, 2024