Five women formerly affiliated with anti-sex trafficking group “Operation Underground Railroad” on Monday filed a civil complaint in Utah accusing OUR founder and Sound of Freedom inspiration Tim Ballard of coercing them into sex acts while they were posing as his wives during his missions to third world countries, KSL reports on the former MAGA flavor of the month’s ongoing downfall.

“When these women found themselves questioning the legitimacy of tactics involving sexual contact, they often doubted their own instincts, relying on Ballard’s breadth of knowledge about rescue mission to convince themselves that such tactics were normal,” says the complaint in which the plaintiffs are only identified by their initials until a protective order can be put in place. “Ballard would also tell the women that engaging in sex play with him would improve their marriage, even as he also told them not to tell their husbands about what they were doing… at least two marriages have broken up as a result of Tim Ballard’s actions with these women,” the complaint alleges.

This is some sick shit. No wonder Ballard is planning to run for Mitt Romney’s senate seat next year.

On a list of “rapid response” talking points posted publicly on Monday by the Republican National Committee following anti-vax freak Robert F Kennedy Jr’s launch of an independent campaign are some pretty standard stuff like how he “enthusiastically endorsed Hillary Clinton’s 2000 Senate, 2007 presidential, and 2016 presidential campaigns,” “called the NRA a ‘terror group,'” and “has repeatedly called for a ‘ban’ on ‘fossil fuel extraction,’ including fracking” and so on and so forth.

However it’s the last one, where they point out that Bobby Jr “called the 2000 presidential election stolen ‘under a cloud of dirty tricks’ and said Republicans ‘fix[ed]’ the 2004 presidential election,” that speak to a party up to its eyeballs in their own bullshit. We need not point out the extremely obvious here about a party acting like the aftermath of the 2020 election never happened, but we think this myopic batfuckery goes even deeper. While it’s true that Democrats in Congress raised formal objections to vote certifications after the 2000, 2004, and 2016 elections, none of the efforts were even remotely on the scale of or delayed the proceedings as much as the Republicans did on January 6, 2021, with many of them continuing to do so even after the Capitol was violently sacked by thousands of angry Trump fans. That Dems they had done so at all in those years became the go-to defense for the Republican objectors telling Americans that two wrongs make a right.

Small-faced MAGA activist Charlie Kirk’s right wing “youth” organization’s books sure look awfully scammy per a review by the Associated Press finding at least $15.2 million spent on self-dealing to vendors owned and operated by Kirk and pals since 2016. Among these shady payouts were a total of $6.6 million to creepy Arizona state Senator and fake Trump elector Jake Hoffman for who the hell knows but at least $2.4 million went to his 2020 election social media propaganda operation.

Another $999,000 payment was made to a Nevada LLC called “Clocktower” for a “research project on educational outputs” in 2020, only for “Clocktower” to dissolve in 2022. The lone officer listed on its registration documents did not return the AP’s request for comment. Three LLCs controlled Turning Point’s “senior advancement director” Stacy Sheridan have been paid a total of $2.7 million since 2018. She didn’t respond to the AP either. Turning Point COO Tyler Bowyer also chairs the board of Superfeed Technologies, a company seeking to develop a mobile app to run TPUSA’s canvassing operations in Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin next year. The “non-profit” is looking to raise $108 million for the effort, a sum considerably more than they would realistically need.

“$108 million? I can’t even fathom it,” said former John McCain aide Jon Seaton, now a GOP consultant specializing in get-out-the vote efforts. “There’s not even enough doors” to knock on.

Crybaby conservative Ken Paxton, the Republican Texas Attorney General saved from conviction in an impeachment despite an array of evidence pointing to his corruption, now intends to do what every conservative does when exposed as a corrupt political player:  he’s suing.

According to the Texas Tribune, Paxton plans to file criminal complaints against some of the Republican impeachment managers from the state house claiming they intentionally doxxed his personal information with the release of documents in the proceedings.

“The impeachment managers clearly have a desire to threaten me with harm when they released this information last week,” Paxton said in a statement. “I’m imploring their local prosecutors in each individual district to investigate the criminal offenses that have been committed.”

Dreamboat Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom has had a very active veto pen in Sacramento, rejecting some legislation that had considerable public support.  A rundown of the bills Newsom rejected:

• Free condoms in high schools:  Newsom rejected the idea of requiring high schools to have condoms available for free, saying the legislation amounted to an unfunded mandate on school districts.
• Insulin price cap:  In vetoing a $35/month price cap for insulin, Newsom cited a unique reason.  As part of a public-private partnership with pharmaceutical company Civica, CalRx has developed essentially a generic insulin that will be sold at less than the previously demanded price. 
  Read More ▶ “Newsom’s veto pen has been busy”

After not making the debate stage for two consecutive events, one-time Republican Texas Congressman Will Hurd announced on Twitter that he was ending his presidential run.  Hurd also through the power of his political machine behind the presidential bid of former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley.

“Our nation deserves a leader who can unite us and navigate the complex challenges we face, particularly when it comes to our national security. I believe Ambassador Nikki Haley is the best person in this race to do that,” Hurd posted.  “Ambassador Haley has shown a willingness to articulate a different vision for the country than Donald Trump and has an unmatched grasp on the complexities of our foreign policy. I wholeheartedly endorse Ambassador Haley and look forward to supporting her for the remainder of this race.”

Trump advisor and collar hoarder Steve Bannon’s appeal of his contempt of Congress conviction has been put on hold until November 9th due to the death of the son of one of the prosecution’s attorneys.  Opening arguments had been scheduled to start October 12th.

“Due to the unexpected death of the son of appellee’s counsel, the United States respectfully requests this Court to reschedule this argument for a time on or after November 6, 2023,” the motion notes.  “Counsel for appellant, David Schoen, Esq., [Bannon’s lawyer] has kindly consented to this motion.”

Robert Hur, the Special Counsel appointed to investigate President Joe Biden’s possession of a handful of classified government documents, interviewed the president over the last two days at the White House regarding how the documents stayed in his possession after he left the vice presidency in 2017, the New York Times reports.  The interview happened on Sunday and Monday, the White House acknowledged.

At his Delaware homes and at the one-time site of his inter-office foundation, Biden had about 1/1,000 the number of government documents found at the Palm Beach supper club managed by an indicted felon who lives on site, and unlike the sometime-wedding deejay, Biden and his staff cooperated with the investigation, including turning the documents over as soon as they were found.

Staffers at Walgreen’s pharmacies around the country will stage walk-outs through Wednesday this week to put a spotlight on working conditions they call unsafe and a danger to patient safety, the Washington Post reports.  The rolling walk-out will impact hundreds of stores around the country.

Pharmacists, technicians and support staff say the company has put more demands on them as they look to streamline profitability, requiring pharmacy staff to juggle a multitude of tasks while trying to maintain patient care and customer service levels.  “When you’re a pharmacist, a missed letter or a number that’s wrong in a prescription could kill somebody,” one of the work action organizer said.

After promising last week to travel to Washington, DC to straighten out the mess in the House and float down from the heavens to bestow his gloriousness of the Republican-created shitshow, indicted felon Donald Trump has now called off his trip to the Capitol, Fox announced like the good propaganda outlet it is.

Trump originally announced the trip last Thursday after Kevin McCarthy was ousted as Speaker by a monster of his own creation, Matt Gaetz.  At the time, Trump’s name was being thrown into the ring as a possible short-term substitute, so a trip to DC before the real candidates for the job held their now-not-televised forum might have seemed to Trump to be a processional to his swearing-in.  But Trump likely learned in the meantime that the Speaker’s job comes with actual work attached to it, making it less attractive to Trump than a 37-year-old.

“Make no mistake – a Democrat in Independent’s clothing is still a Democrat. RFK Jr cannot hide from his record of endorsing Hillary, supporting the Green New Deal, fighting against the Keystone Pipeline, and praising AOC’s tax hikes – he is your typical elitist liberal and voters won’t be fooled.”

“American families deserve commonsense leadership that will return America’s energy independence, stop Bidenflation, secure our border, and get our country back on track, which is why our Republican nominee will be the next President of the United States,” says RNC Chairwoman Ronna Not-Romney McDaniel in a statement responding to RFK Jr’s independent campaign launch.

Weird how Ronna didn’t complain about Bobby Jr being a “typical elitist liberal” when dumbass Jim Jordan asked him to testify at that lame “Weaponization committee” hearing on “censorship.”

“As we continue to account for the horrors of the appalling terrorist assault against Israel this weekend and the hundreds of innocent civilians who were murdered, we are seeing the immense scale and reach of this tragedy. Sadly, we now know that at least 11 American citizens were among those killed-many of whom made a second home in Israel. It’s heart wrenching. These families have been torn apart by inexcusable hatred and violence. We also know that American citizens still remain unaccounted for, and we are working with Israeli officials to obtain more information as to their whereabouts. My heart goes out to every family impacted by the horrible events of the past few days. The pain these families have endured, the enormity of their loss, and the agony of those still awaiting information is unfathomable,” says President Biden in a statement.

Israeli dictator Benjamin Netanyahu’s office on Monday cried “fake news” over an Associated Press report quoting an anonymous source in Egyptian intelligence that they had warned “an explosion of the situation is coming, and very soon, and it would be big” prior to Saturday’s horrific terrorist attacks on civilians launched by Hamas from the Gaza Strip, the New York Post reports.

The Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow Laurie Garrett goes even further, saying it’s possible Netanyahu was even personally warned by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi ahead of the attacks which have claimed at least 900 Israeli lives and hundreds more on the Palestinian side.

If true then what was already a massive failure by Netanyahu’s regime now borders on a straight up false flag attack on his own people. How the fuck do you not at the very least look into it and/or post military assets to the region to be at the ready for an attack? The IDF could have mowed those animals down with drone-mounted weapons like they were playing an Xbox game. All those billions the American taxpayers spent on protecting Israel and this fucking tyrant may very well have deliberately allowed this bloodbath to happen to further consolidate his political power.

Florida’s Republican governor is now complying with some of the state’s “sunshine laws” requiring transparency thanks to a settlement with an independent watchdog group requires the state to release three years’ worth of the state’s data regarding the spread and impact of coronavirus, including information the state Department of Health falsely claimed at one point it didn’t have, the Palm Beach Post reports.

The Florida Department of Health, under the direction of transplanted Nigerian doctor Joseph Ladapo who was recruited from California, has long been suspected of manipulating the pandemic virus like they were Trump property values.  One-time state worker Rebekah Jones alleged the governor’s office ordered staffers to manipulate the data being released to try to undercount the number of infections and deaths in the state to pump up Republican Governor’s Ron DeSantis conservative profile.

The data, released as a result of a lawsuit from Florida Center for Government Accountability sought information on the number of case and the days where the cases were reported along with number of pediatric cases, hospitalizations and fatalities.  The group also received information on vaccinations, data that will be interesting given DeSantis’s 2021 public flip-flop on their effectiveness.  With one of the top ten highest Covid fatality rates in the nation, FCGA alleges DeSantis’s distribution of misinformation about the pandemic cost thousands of Floridians their lives.

Maybe Trump telling his cult that it was “incredible” how many people were killed in Israel over the weekend should be one of those moments that the mainstream media picks up and covers instead of reporting on Joe Biden being old or how much voters aren’t into “Bidenomics” or whatever. They might want to inform their audience that this sick fuck is actually excited to use the deaths of hundreds of Israelis and Palestinians in the attack and in the IDF’s retaliatory strikes for political gain.

Anti-vaccine and anti-semitic freak Robert F Kennedy Jr made it official on Monday and launched his third-party presidential campaign at a rally in Philadelphia, Semafor’s Dave Wiegel reports.

The conservative-led Ohio Supreme Court rejected a proposed Bellefontaine city ballot measure that would ban drag shows in public places, saying Ohio’s Secretary of State and others changed key languages in the proposal after gathering thousands of signatures for the referendum, the Columbus Dispatch reports.

The court ruled that changes made to the measure made by Republican Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose and other supporters of the measure changed the fundamental operation of the proposal, which originally stated it would create a new law, but when revised amounted to a change to existing law on allowing public performance and demonstrations.

Five citizens sponsored the measure, which sprung from the appearance of a drag performer dressed as an elf in a 2022 Christmas parade in the city.  The performer simply marched in the parade, a peaceful public appearance that cannot be tolerated by right-wing culture warriors.

“The same people that raided Israel are pouring into our once beautiful USA, through our TOTALLY OPEN SOUTHERN BORDER, at Record Numbers. Are they planning an attack within our Country? Crooked Joe Biden and his BOSS, Barack Hussein Obama, did this to us!” writes fat ex-President Trump in a post on his lame Twitter clone, downright itching for Hamas to somehow strike from Mexico.

The signs are subtle but persistent:  Nearly a week after being ousted as the Republican leader in the House, deposed Speaker Kevin McCarthy is holding onto symbols of his old office, perhaps believing that the GOP conference will reinstall him as the Party descends into chaos.

Per Jake Sherman of Punchbowl News, McCarthy isn’t ruling out re-assuming the post, reiterating his claim that 95% of the caucus supports him and his reappointment to the position is “a decision for the conference.” Additionally, McCarthy has yet to surrender the “SpeakerMcCarthy” nee-Twitter account.