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— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) September 9, 2024

Not sure how much more time we want to spend on this. Actually we don’t want to spend ANY time on it but our esteemed representatives in Congress and their allies in the right wing media can’t let it go. The claim about the Haitian migrants eating ducks you saw a few hours ago but it turns out the cat got conflated from a video of a crackhead in Ohio killing and eating a cat last month.

“Comrade Kamala Harris goes to an ultra Left Wing, Trump Hating, spice shop, which I hear has terrible, overpriced product, and calls for ‘unity.’ As people begin to realize that she is a Marxist, FAR MORE LIBERAL than Crazy Bernie Sanders, or even Elizabeth ‘Pocahontas’ Warren, her poll numbers are beginning to crash. Who are they going to put in next? How about a Biden comeback?” posted convicted felon former President Trump on Monday, using Harris visiting some spice shop in Pittsburgh as his segue into wishing for Joe Biden to be his general election opponent once again.

It’s not in eusocial insects’ nature to comprehend that firefighters are there to help in an emergency, their brains simply aren’t evolved enough to understand duty and altruism and all that.

Especially if they’re on fire, when all threats to the hive real or imagined must be stung, as happened to a crew from CalFire last week, according to the Modesto Bee (no relation). Firefighters responded to a small brush fire on Sonora Road in east Stanislaus County which had started in an apiary. The beekeepers had accidentally ignited it when using a smoker to scare the bees out of their hive boxes in order to gather honey. The fire was put out fairly quickly and only a few on the firefighters were stung by flaming bees. The apiary lost about $40,000 worth of bees and honey in the incident.

New Hampshire Gov Chris Sununu sprang into action on Sunday during a lobster roll eating contest after a competitor suddenly began showing signs of distress, choking on a piece of crustacean meat until the governor swept in and dislodged it with the Heimlich maneuver, the Daily Beast reports.

The Republican – who knows a thing or two about choking given his record during Sunday morning show appearances this year – was on stage helping to officiate the annual Hampton Beach Lobster Roll Eating Competition when eater Christian Moreno choked under the spotlight. Moreno didn’t even know who had saved him until after. “My counter came up to me and, like, made a joke. And was like, ‘Oh, like, I bet nobody else can say that they’ve gotten the Heimlich from the governor before. And I looked at him, was just like, that was, that was the governor?” the man told WMUR.

Moreno was able to consume nine lobster rolls during the contest, seven of them after the choking incident, which impressed Sununu. It was not enough to win the competition however.

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— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) September 9, 2024

Well here’s something approximating a resolution to what we’d been curious about earlier as to what color the ducks allegedly being killed and eaten by Haitian migrants in Ohio were. Turns out they are white, at least in the AI-generated images posted by the House Judiciary Committee Twitter account as operated by Jim Jordan. We weren’t up to speed on the cats getting eaten too though.

“The Court’s six Republican-appointed justices upended our constitutional landscape with their misguided ruling in Trump v United States. This dangerous decision immunizes presidents who commit crimes, no matter how serious, as long as they claim their offenses were ‘official acts.’ The far-right justices responsible for this decision like to claim that they are guided by ‘textualism’ or ‘originalism,’ but the reality is that they’re engaged in judicial activism unmoored from the text of the Constitution and intentions of our framers, and Congress cannot turn a blind eye to it. This Supreme Court decision goes to the heart of our democracy,” says the Senate Judiciary Committee in a statement announcing a September 24th hearing on convicted felon former President Trump getting a blank check to build a dictatorship in the Supreme Court’s decision on Trump v US.

“During this upcoming hearing, we will examine the breadth of future misconduct that may be immunized from prosecution, consider the unprecedented nature of this immunity in American history, and discuss legislative solutions to the dangers of this decision. The Senate Judiciary Committee will not tolerate these justices cherry-picking their way through text and history to impose their own extreme vision of presidential power on the American people.”

Sources inside what little remains of the Ronna Not-Romney McDaniel-led Republican National Committee organization – as it existed prior to the March house cleaning and transformation into a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Trump 2024 campaign – tell the Guardian that the campaign’s ground operation in the swing states is in very bad shape, not just relative to Vice President Kamala Harris’s but to the point where it’s more comparable to a midterm election than a presidential year.

The RNC had planned to put 90 full-time staffers on the ground in Pennsylvania, a turnout effort that was scrapped in favor of focusing on “election integrity” while letting groups like Elon Musk’s America PAC, Turnout for America (the one that’s now hiring paid canvassers), Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point Action, and America First Works, all of them starting late when it takes multiple contacts to get a voter to turn in a ballot. Harris’s team meanwhile has at least 375 staffers in Pennsylvania alone.

Team Orange are betting big on their “Trump Force 47” plan, which incentivized fans to become “captains” with a special limited-edition gold MAGA hat by getting at least 10 low-propensity voters to turn out for the fat bastard in the primary. The old RNC leftovers remained skeptical then and still are, noting that Trump’s national turnout in the primaries fell short of 2020 and that people were just trying to do the bare minimum to get the gold MAGA hats rather than actually rack up enthusiasm for Donald. “If the Trump campaign pulls it off, it will be the model for all campaigns going forward. If it fails, it will be the fault of [Trump 2024 political director] James Blair,” one former RNC staffer said.

A conflagration dubbed the “Lava Fire” has consumed at least 2,493 acres and prompted evacuations across Gem County, Idaho, KTVB reports on just one of several infernos raging across the Potato State but one whose name possibly implies a greater danger than a simple wildfire.

We don’t have information just yet specifically on why it’s called the Lava Fire, but based on the ad hoc system used in the United States – as detailed in this blog post by firefighting command management software vendor RedZone – the naming typically comes on the fly by a dispatcher and is drawn from a nearby geographic feature. So we’ll hazard that, Idaho being a state with numerous active/dormant volcanic features, the “lava” refers to the site of an ancient eruption near where the fire started rather than it having been ignited by actual molten lava pouring out of a fissure.

It certainly works better than the “Camp Fire,” the now-second deadliest inferno of the 21st century that laid waste to the city of Paradise, California in 2018, killing 85 people trapped by the wind-driven flames. Truth be told very few if any had to be aware of the name at the time but it still kind of sounds like people roasting marshmallows and telling ghost stories than a killer fire. The name simply came from the dirt path nearest to where it started: Camp Creek Road in Pulga, California.

The other active fires listed on KTVB’s live blog page include the Boulder, Snag, Dollar, Table, Red Rock, Black Eagle, and Goat Fires, the last one sounding kind of vaguely unthreatening too.

Notorious invertebrate Nikki Haley on Monday told Fox and Friends that she “respects” Liz Cheney calling ripping her a new asshole for being such a worm and trying to sell voters on making it a “substance not style” thing. And then Haley continued lamenting Trump and Jaydee’s misogyny.

“Hvaldimir,” the white Beluga whale suspected of being a Russian-trained spy – on account of being strapped with a camera-mounted harness that said “Equipment St Petersburg” in Cyrillic – probably died from choking on a stick rather than any foul play, Norwegian cops have determined after examining the marine mammal’s corpse that turned up in a fjord last week, Reuters reports.

“The autopsy showed that its stomach was empty. In addition, most organs had broken down. There is nothing in the investigations that have been carried out to establish that it is human activity that has directly led to Hvaldimir’s death,” police said, adding the stick they found in his mouth was 14 inches long by about 1.2 inches wide and that the whale’s stomach was empty. They’re not 100 percent sure Hvaldimir died from the stick or what but since they ruled out any human cause there’s no crime and thus they won’t be investigating further, leaving it to marine biologists to figure it out.

Sources inside North Carolina’s Republican establishment tell NOTUS they’ve all but given up on MAGA psychopath Lt Gov Mark Robinson’s gubernatorial bid over weak polling numbers and a constant stream of bad press about his degenerate ways. “For Robinson to win, he will need to be on offense for a consistent period or for Trump to considerably overperform his 2016 margin,” said Republican strategist Doug Heye, who long warned that Robinson would be toxic in a general election. “Not impossible, but neither of those seem likely,” Heye continued, with his assessment of the race against Dem Attorney General Josh Stein, who holds a massive cash advantage.

“I said this would happen over and over again, and so I don’t know why it’s a surprise to people. He can’t moderate his positions now because, at this point, the average voter has a decidedly set opinion about him. And the hits keep coming,” said 2024 GOP gov primary loser Bill Graham.

“As far as for swing voters, there was little to no definition for Mark Robinson coming out of the primary, and the Josh Stein campaign has done a very effective job of defining him to that universal swing voter first,” said Republican strategist Paul Shumaker, who backed Graham’s bid.

Robinson himself seemed to acknowledge the predicament two weeks ago, saying “if nothing changes on the fundraising front, not only do we risk losing this race, but the White House too,” in an acknowledgement that the mythical “reverse coattails” effect could come true in the Tar Heel state.

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— Jason Miller (@JasonMillerinDC) September 9, 2024

Not sure if milkshake abortion guy propagating this story about Haitian invaders eating people’s ducks in Ohio really resonates if he can’t specify the colors of the ducks’ feathers. Like if they were white then it’s a serious problem and would absolutely galvanize Caucasian voters into fearing that they too could have their heads cut off and their fatty flesh consumed in a honey soy and ginger sauce. If the ducks are the more common mix of darker, natural colors like the sexually dimorphous mallards encountered far more frequently in the wild then it probably won’t land so well. That’s probably why this “EndWokeness” dickbag didn’t show any footage of the ducks getting killed.

“Less than two months until the election, 72 percent of Jewish voters back Kamala Harris, while only 25 percent support Donald Trump. Nearly all – 91 percent – of Jewish voters are concerned about antisemitism in the United States, and Jewish voters trust Kamala Harris more than Donald Trump to fight antisemitism by nearly a three- to-one margin (60 percent-23 percent). Harris’s lead over Trump by a 47-point margin (72 percent – 25 percent) is an improvement from Biden’s 41-point margin among Jewish voters in April (67 percent -26 percent) when compared to an April poll of Jewish voters conducted by the Jewish Electorate Institute (JEI),” says a press release from the Jewish Democratic Council of America via the Forward’s Jake Kornbluh. So it’s technically a partisan poll but it’s also not far off from the 77 percent of Jewish voters Joe Biden got in 2020.

Per Kornbluh, the survey also found Israel ranking as only the 9th most important issue, 87 percent of respondents support the Biden admin’s efforts to reach a hostage-ceasefire deal, and that Israeli dictator Benjamin Netanyahu has a 30 percent job approval rating among American Jews.

In a development not surprising or shocking so much as noteworthy because it makes MAGA world’s exemplar of strong leadership look weak and cowardly since a willingness to sit for hostile interviews is one of their measures, Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov on Monday told reporters that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin won’t grant the Wall Street Journal’s Evan Gershkovich’s request for a chat as he had written on his release papers last month after over a year in detention, Reuters reports.

“We are not interested in such an interview. In order for there to be an interview with foreign media, and a specific one at that, we need to have an occasion. So far we don’t see such an occasion,” said Peskov. Christ that’s a fucking lame excuse, one that will be ignored by the fanboys still seething over Vice President Kamala Harris’s sitdown with CNN’s Dana Bash as not being hostile enough.

Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign is out with a new ad ripping convicted felon former President Trump’s tendency to alienate pretty much every public official who ever worked for him.

Finally sharing the crosstabs from last week’s survey finding Vice President Kamala Harris with a 51 to 46 percent lead over convicted felon former President Trump among likely voters nationally, ABC News on Monday reports that the same sample found Harris up 93 to 7 percent among Black respondents – her target given Joe Biden won Black voters 92 to 8 percent in 2020, 72 to 24 percent among women under 40, and 64 to 33 percent among all under 40 voters.

“Instead of working across the aisle to do their most basic job and deliver for the American people by keeping the government open and providing emergency funding for disasters, House Republicans are yet again wasting time with extreme policies and a potentially harmful long-term continuing resolution (CR). The House Republicans’ long-term CR abdicates their responsibility to the American people. It would erode our national defense, impede our efforts to outcompete China, fail our veterans and seniors, abandon communities struck by disasters, and undermine programs that support small businesses while making wealthy tax cheats pay what they owe. Finally, it would move us closer to devastating across-the-board cuts to education and Head Start programs; our veterans, the military, and border agents; food assistance for mothers, babies, and low-income families; food and air safety; and more,” says the White House in a Monday statement.

The Harris-Walz 2024 Campaign website on Sunday launched a policy page outlining her stance on current issues in an election that we all know isn’t going to be won or lost on the issues.

“Vice President Harris and Governor Walz are fighting for a New Way Forward that protects our fundamental freedoms, strengthens our democracy, and ensures every person has the opportunity to not just get by, but to get ahead. As a prosecutor, Attorney General, Senator, and now Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris always stood up for the people against predators, scammers, and powerful interests. She promises to be a president for all Americans, a president who unites us around our highest aspirations, and a president who always fights for the American people. From the courthouse to the White House, that has been her life’s work,” says the intro.

Parental rights group leader warns America's parents about Harris/Walz presidency: ‘Worse than weird’ https://t.co/CdkMJUZxN0

— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 9, 2024

A new report from the GOP chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee reassesses blame for the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan in 2021 including the deaths of 13 American servicemembers, mysteriously increases the references to alleged responsibilities of Vice President Kamala Harris in the mayhem by 125 times, Politico report.

Texas Republican Congressman Michael McCaul mentioned Vice President Harris 251 times in the report released Sunday.  That’s 249 more references to the current Democratic Presidential nominee than in the 115-page preliminary report McCaul’s office released in 2022.

Democrats are expected to release their own report, pointing out to failures of the Trump administration to prepare for the withdrawal after signing the surrender to the Taliban