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Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) was asked on the MeidasTouch podcast what on earth House Speaker Mike Johnson is trying to accomplish by threatening to shut down the federal government just before the election. It’s a good question. As Politico reported Wednesday, the GOP appears to be in total disarray as MAGA Mike tries to do Donald Trump’s bidding by trying to play shutdown shenanigans with a spending package tied to voter suppression.

Well, of course this happened. We've seen stochastic terror stirred up by loser Trump and his MAGAts again and again. Now a small town is deal with the fallout. Via Washington Post: The mayor of Springfield, Ohio, said a bomb threat Thursday that led to the evacuation of City Hall and numerous buildings “used hateful language towards immigrants and Haitians in our community.” “Springfield is a community that needs help,” Mayor Rob Rue said in an interview with The Washington Post.

Donald's supporters are having trouble explaining why their hero was soundly defeated by Vice President Kamala Harris in the debate on Tuesday. Christian nationalist Lance Wallnau isn't a fan of us women folk. Wallnau declared that Trump's debate loss was due to "witchcraft" and that Harris was "trying to emasculate" his hero. Harris baited Trump well, and he fell for it at every turn during the 90-minute debate.

On CNN's News Night, Anna Navarro asked Scott Jennings straight out if the Trump-promoted conspiracy during the ABC Presidential Debate about migrants stealing and eating cats and dogs was racist. It's a yes or no question, and not hard to answer. That is, unless you're in the MAGA cult and filling the role of Jeffrey Lord, the former noxious Trump supporter that either validated or wished away Trump's racism in 2016. Notice the long pause Jennings takes before finally participating.

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Perhaps Donald Trump's most repeated line from the debate, something that's inspired a million memes/videos, is "They are eating the pets!" Trump was talking about the insane conspiracy theory that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, OH were eating people's pets. It's a form of blood libel, really, meant to inspire fear, to hell with the consequences. Which so far have included a bomb threat aimed at Haitians in Springfield and the Haitian community almost on lockdown, not even able to send their kids to school. It began as a lie spread on a local Facebook group, was amplified by RT, which of course naturally meant it went right to the GOP to share, and Ohioan who-doesn't-know-how-to-order-donuts, JD Vance, tweeted it out.