🚨 We are checking textbooks to ensure there is NO CRT in our state curriculum.

If you can't teach math without talking about transgenderism, go to California or go to New York—not Oklahoma. https://t.co/yFTXNEtFt7

— Superintendent Ryan Walters (@RyanWaltersSupt) November 1, 2023

A new Quinnipiac University survey finds President Biden leading disgraced former President Trump by just one point at 47 to 46 percent in a head-to-head, which drops to Biden 39 – Trump 36 with Robert F Kennedy Jr added and pulling 22 percent support. With that Cornel West asshole added the four-way field is Biden 36, Trump 35, Kennedy 19, and West 6. This assumes RFK Jr and West will be able to get on the ballot where it counts, with the former probably having a better shot.

The poll also finds dickhead Dean Phillips pulling less Dem primary voter support (6 percent) than new age assclown Marianne Williamson (8 percent) for a big womp womp to the MSM circlejerkers.

Trump on the 2024 election: This is your chance to take a stand against tyrants that support the MAGA movement pic.twitter.com/UnGPHyt8xv

— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) November 1, 2023

“RINO” Colorado Congressman Ken Buck on Wednesday told NBC’s Andrea Mitchell he won’t be seeking reelection in 2024, an expected end to Buck’s career after going “woke” and demanding Jim Jordan acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election and skepticism over the “Biden crime family.”

DC Circuit Judge Tanya Chutkan on Wednesday ruled that disgraced former President Trump’s defense lawyers would not be allowed to access the (reportedly very small amount of) classified evidence in the case against him for his failed post-2020 election coup attempt, instead giving the fat bastard some sort of “unclassified summary substitution” instead, thereby squashing the potential for Donald to create delays with the CIPA process and push back his March trial start date.

“After the fall of Russia to the godless communists in 1917, the Russian Imperial Romanov family (Nicholas II of Russia, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, and their five children: Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei) were shot and bayoneted to death by Bolshevik revolutionaries in July 2018 on the orders of the Ural Regional Soviet in Yekaterinburg. Like any good communist movement the regime disposed of the previous political powers. Today in America the Donald Trump and his nationalist movement is the only force for good that stands between the Marxist left and their grasp for complete control of the country,” writes Jim “Gateway Pundit” Hoft on Wednesday in what we guess counts as “insightful” editorializing to the abysmally low standards of his readers.

And Hoft just keeps going with this shit, writing, “But just like the Romanovs in Russia – the Marxist left in America understands the entire Trump family must be ruined. This goes beyond the former president. Now they are after his three children. News broke on Wednesday morning that Donald Trump Jr must now testify this week in the New York case against the Trump family – a case where there is no victim except the Trump family and their business empire. Now they’re going after the children. And, of course, the far-left mainstream media plays this off as if it is completely normal and legitimate. It makes you wonder how the regime’s press reacted in 1918 Russia?”

Not clear why that last sentence ended in a question mark. Anyway, Czar Nicholas II was a feckless and deeply incompetent tyrant who got millions of Russian troops and civilians killed after he declared war on Germany in 1914. He also oversaw skyrocketing inflation stemming from grain shortages exacerbated by the conflict. Both are failures that you would associate more with the Gateway Pundit’s hyperbolic screeching about Biden’s policies than with Trump’s. Which is to say that this is not the comparison Hoft would want to be making were he actually aware of the history or even just read the first few paragraphs of Wikipedia’s article on the 1917 Russian revolution.

🚨BREAKING🚨
 
Joe Biden received $40,000 in laundered China money from James Biden & Sara Biden.@GOPoversight has the bank records. @POTUS benefited from his family’s shady China business deals.

Joe Biden exposed himself to blackmail & put America’s interests behind his own. https://t.co/TuQ5q5fKYt

— Rep. James Comer (@RepJamesComer) November 1, 2023

There’s an Aesopian fable about this, right? Something about circumspection and parsimony when describing the significance of a particular event, especially given past developments following a similar pattern. Specifically here, it’s the same pattern as the last time Comer used a lot of red siren emojis to alert the public about a 2017 check from James Biden to his brother Joe Biden – that it was marked as a personal loan repayment, per the Washington Examiner.

Pencil pushers at the Congressional Budget Office have crunched the numbers and found that far right Speaker of the House Mike Johnson’s plan to “offset” a $14 billion aid bill to Israel with cuts to IRS funding would actually increase the federal budget deficit by $12.5 billion over the next decade due to decreased revenue, Punchbowl’s Jake Sherman reports on a “no shit” projection.

While this was pretty obvious, it’s not what the MAGA assholes needed politically while trying to create a poison pill for the Democrats wanting to support Israel (and Ukraine) cleanly.

A review of FEC records by Politico reveals that a large majority of donors to Robert F Kennedy Jr’s campaign did not contribute to any presidential candidates during the last two cycles but out of those who did in 2020, significantly more gave to disgraced former President Trump than did Joe Biden in 2020: Nearly $2 million from 2,100 donors to Donald vs $1.4 million from 1,700 donors.

While it’s not an apocalyptic warning sign for Trump given the net difference – indeed Matt Gaetz may be on to something when he tells Politico “Oftentimes people can donate to someone that they’re not even voting for just to see their argument platforms. We’ve seen those calls among the sort of junior varsity slate of Republicans seeking the nomination, so I’m not as concerned” – it does absolutely underscore how badly the MAGA propaganda machine self-owned by spending the better part of a year hyping Bobby Jr. “When Kennedy goes out there and runs against that establishment, he has to appreciate it probably ends up splitting votes off from President Trump,” said JD Vance, as if RFK Jr himself hasn’t almost literally already said exactly the same, no “probably” about it.

NRSC Chairman Steve Daines on Tuesday in a meeting told his buddies that a recent internal poll found Dem Arizona Congressman Ruben Gallego leading likely GOP nominee for the 2024 US Senate election Kari Lake by 41 to 37 percent, with the seat’s current occupant, useless “independent” Senator Kyrsten Sinema in third at 17 percent in a potential three way, NBC News reports.

Daines said that it was clear Sinema was in fact pulling more support from Lake than Gallego, further confirming a theory of the race that emerged his campaign’s initial polling last year. Sinema has not yet officially declared whether or not she’ll be running again, though she has at least half-assed attempted to pitch donors on what a path to a second term would look like for her.

American and IDF intel sources tell Semafor that the Hamas terrorists who slaughtered and kidnapped Israeli civilians on October 7th were high on a synthetic amphetamine called Captagon, a drug designed specifically to suppress feelings of hesitation or remorse and allow them to maximize the brutality of their assault. Capatgon – which is mass-produced in Syria and Hezbollah-controlled areas of Lebanon and trafficked to other regions nearby – has previously been used by ISIS terrorists to fuel their savagery during their operations. It’s also reminiscent of the Nazi Wehrmacht’s use of a similar drug called Pervitin during their invasion of France in 1940.

Whether or not his unseen girlfriend can get out of one of her Canadian modeling gigs is unknown, but South Carolina Senator Tim Scott will be on the stage for the third GOP Presidential debate with former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley and dude Vivek Ramaswamy, CBS News reports.  Scott had achieved the 4% polling levels needed, and his campaign just announced he exceeded the number of donors needed.  The third debate will be held in Miami next week.

This is one of those situations where whoever wins the fight, you’re not entirely satisfied or entirely disappointed. In a Republican Senate lunch Tuesday, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell very pointedly directed the caucus to not sign on to a new bill by Virginia Missouri Senator Josh Hawley aimed at curbing corporate influence in elections, CNN reports, including hinting that McConnell’s PAC would cut off funding for Senators who jumped ship.

Hawley’s bill, called Ending Corporate Influence on Elections Act, aims at ending the unlimited spending corporations and other groups can do to influence elections and support candidates.  “I think that’s wrong,” Hawley told CNN. “I think it’s wrong as an original matter. I think it’s warping our politics, and I see no reason for conservatives to defend it. It’s wrong as a matter of the original meaning of the Constitution. It is bad for our elections. It’s bad for our voters. And I just think on principle, we ought to be concerned.”

McConnell called out by name a list of Senators his PAC, one of the wealthiest in the Senate, helped support in their races, including Mike Braun of Indiana, Kevin Cramer of North Dakota, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Joni Ernst of Iowa, Roger Marshall of Kansas, Susan Collins of Maine, Steve Daines of Montana, Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Katie Britt of Alabama, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Eric Schmitt of Missouri, Ted Budd of North Carolina, JD Vance of Ohio and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin.  Oh, and Josh Hawley of Missouri.

“And Judge Chutkan is this close to throwing Trump in jail for talking,” willfully ignorant Fox bro host Jesse Watters declares.  “Yeah, you can go to jail now for talking, if you’re running against Joe Biden.”  Well, no, Jess.  You can go to jail for talking when you’re making overt and veiled threats against the witnesses and court officers participating in your trial.  And you don’t have to be running against Joe Biden for that to happen.  In fact, you’re more like to go to jail for those actions if you’re not running against biden.

A new sickle cell anemia treatment that would be the first to use the CRISPR gene-splicing tool could be the first such medication on the market as it gains another step of approval from the FDA, NBC News reports.  Called exa-cel, the treatment eliminates the need for donor cells and instead “edits” the DNA of the patient directly, eliminating the damaged section of the cells’ DNA to essential eliminate the cells’ malfunction.

And FDA advisor board undertook an all-day review of the data related to exa-cel testing.  Instead of reviewing the safety and efficacy, the panel is at the stage of looking at secondary effects from “off-target” gene editing.  “There seems to be a lot of uncertainty, a lot of unknowns, about what these off-target changes might mean,” said committee member Lisa Lee, an epidemiologist and the director of scholarly integrity and research compliance at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.  “Are those unknowns more harmful than not allowing this to go forward?”

The platform formerly known as Twitter has lost more than $25 billion in market value since petulant oligarch Elon Musk bought the company just one year ago after he opened the platform up to hate-mongering extremists and other conservatives who have been previously ejected from the site, Fortune reports.

Musk paid $44 billion for the platform back in October 2022.  Today, the company said in a disclosure of information for a price of $54.20 per share before taking it private.  Since then, he’s lost 15% of users and advertising revenue dropped by 60% after he started to allow various people who had previously been barred by the platform–like Donald Trump, Andrew Tate, Marjorie Taylor-Greene and other far-right, violence promoting extremists.

Trick or Treat from Thanos Gensler: Destroyer of Crypto. For those initiated with Avengers: Infinity War, Thanos, a malevolent megalomaniac, scours the universe for the infinity stones which enable him to snap his fingers to eradicate half of the universe’s population.… pic.twitter.com/aYJ78WcJ6V

— James Koutoulas 🛡️ (@jameskoutoulas) October 27, 2023

“Trick or Treat from Thanos Gensler: Destroyer of Crypto. For those initiated with Avengers: Infinity War, Thanos, a malevolent megalomaniac, scours the universe for the infinity stones which enable him to snap his fingers to eradicate half of the universe’s population. Similarly, SEC Chairman @GaryGensler, has trampled on the constitution to destroy about half the market capitalization of crypto in the name of investor protection. While Gensler’s destruction has caused years of pain to valid crypto projects and hodlers, I am confident that Koutoulas v SEC’s goal of stopping the Commission’s shameful overreach will help restore order to the crypto verse and Gensler’s destruction will ultimately be repaired just as Thanos’s was,” wrote “Let’s Go Brandon coin” douchebag James Koutoulas in the full text of the above tweet last week.

Note the crudely-drawn Star of David-shaped SEC “logo” on Koutoulas’s shirt. And yes, Gensler is Jewish. It’s not clear what Gensler did to the LGB coin crypto that Koutoulas didn’t do on his own, considering that the MAGA-themed fake digital money’s price has dropped 97.27 percent, down to $0.0000000033 a piece, since it debuted in November 2021. Which is probably why Koutoulas had to draw it himself and couldn’t afford a custom-printed iron-on for his costume.

Trump’s fanbase is, in our very roughest estimate, about 80 percent stupid and 20 percent evil, with a robust amount of overlap between the two. You have your dumb hicks who don’t know any better at the wide bottom of the pyramid and your amoral nihilistic pieces of shit in at the top.

Brooklyn, New York man Edward Rodriguez is at the bottom. Way at the bottom. In fact he’s might be literally the dumbest Capitol rioter we’ve ever seen, dumber than famous QAnon t-shirt guy Doug Jensen – who thought he was at the White House when he entered the Capitol on the 6th (Jensen was also the dipshit who got caught watching Mike Lindell’s stupid “Election Symposium” when a pretrial services officer stopped by his house to see if he was abiding by his bail conditions).

According to the sentencing memo by Rodriguez’s lawyer Nora Hirozawa, “During the 24 hours leading up to January 6th, alone, Mr Rodriguez received more than two dozen personalized emails and text messages from President Trump and affiliated groups, imploring him, Edward, to help fight for a ‘fair’ and ‘honest’ election. Mr Rodriguez became convinced that he, personally, had an obligation to go,” which definitely sounds culty but not world champion dumbass quite yet.

It’s not until a footnote in which Hirozawa describes a call she got from Rodriguez after he’d been arrested and awaiting trial that takes the trophy, writing “Most people recognize such emails as mass email invitations, or even spam. Mr Rodriguez, however, did not. Approximately a year after his arrest, Mr Rodriguez contacted defense counsel to ask, ‘Ms Nora, I know you and my parents said to avoid getting involved in anything political, but I just received a personal email invitation to do karaoke with Julia Salazar next week, can I go?’ The event invitation was a similar mass email. Julia Salazar is a New York State Senator for Mr Rodriguez’s neighborhood in [Brooklyn], who identifies as a democratic socialist and was endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).”

“Motion of the American Civil Liberties Union and the American Civil Liberties Union of the District of Columbia for Leave to File Brief Amici Curae in Aid of the Court’s Re-Evaluation of its Gag Order as to DONALD J TRUMP: This document is unavailable as the Court denied its filing. ‘Although courts have in rare instances exercised their discretion to permit third-party submissions in criminal cases, neither the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure nor the Local Criminal Rules contemplate the filing of amicus curiae briefs. At this time, the court does not find it necessary to depart from the ordinary procedural course by permitting this filing,'” wrote DC Circuit Court Judge Tanya Chutkan telling the ACLU libs thanks but no thanks on their amicus curae brief protesting the gag order imposed on disgraced former President Trump for trying to intimidate witnesses and prosecutors.

A New Zealand court on Tuesday found tour company Whakaari Management, owners of the Whakaari Volcano, guilty of violating a safety law for allowing tourists to get too close to the fiery crater when it erupted and killed 22 people during a December 2019 excursion, RNZ reports.

Judge Evangelos Thomas ruled that the company had “failed to install facilities that would sufficiently mitigate the risk, failed to ensure that workers and tourists were supplied with appropriate personal protective equipment, and failed to ensure there was an adequate means of evacuation” before a tour group were engulfed in a sudden phreatic eruption, noting that it should’ve been clear enough after a similar eruption in 2016. Which is fair enough, seeing as the 25 survivors, many of them severely burned, and the families of the dead should absolutely receive damages.

Still, you kind of have to ask why the hell the government didn’t step in and shut them down altogether before this. It’s a goddamned active volcano. Put this up against the OceanGate Titan submersible implosion: That Stockton Rush asshole knowingly bullshitted the passengers into believing the vessel was safe, sturdy, and the risks were minimal. They tragically believed him. It’s hard to see how “Hey! Come check out an active volcano up close!” as a value proposition doesn’t already definitionally carry a non-zero probability that you won’t make it off that island. We’re not trying to blame the victims here, but it’s difficult to see how you can assign nearly the same level of moral culpability to the company as you can for Stockton Rush. The government was aware that the tour operators were taking people to that island and didn’t shut it down.