Full hearts and white knuckles

It’s Tuesday. There are TWO FREAKING WEEKS UNTIL ELECTION DAY! Trump endorses more domestic terrorism, another horrible cost of overturning Roe and how Team Harris sees the state of the race.

Be advised: This newsletter uses profanity. It’s still way better than the shit other news organizations are doing.

Note: Sexy Patriots! We’re not gonna ask how you’re doing because we already know. And we are too. Two weeks out from either a bright future or a return to the ugly past. Full hearts and white knuckles. Joy and fear. Hope and Hitler. It’s a lot. And that’s why today we’re gonna get the hell out of the way for a minute and share this word on despair from Vice President Kamala Harris…

Phew. We needed to hear that. And that’s what a good leader does. She reads the moment and steps up to reassure us when we’re feeling doubt or uncertainty. And then she inspires us to get up and kick doubt and uncertainty right in the fucking ass. We’ve said it a million times but we are so damn grateful that this is our nominee and not the dumbshit who talks about dead golfer peckers.

So put that despair on hold, Sexy Patriots. Take deep breaths and steel your spines. We’ve got a country to save. Y’all have a blessed day.

Note two: Bret Baeir is STILL making excuses for his bullshit “interview” last week. It’s funny. VP just moved right on. He’s the only still thinking about it. More: Variety

Note three: The New York Times’ Bret Stephens is a shit columnist and seems to be an even worse human being. And even that chode is voting for VP Harris. It’s just that obvious!!! More: The Hill

Note four: The right has been spreading some truly horrible shit about Coach Walz and it looks like it started with an ex Florida cop who lives in Moscow and runs a troll farm. One of the reasons this election is so damn stressful is the fact that we are up against actual fucking evil. More: Yahoo

Note five: VP Harris says she isn’t using special gummies to help. That’s ok. Sam is using enough for the both of them.

Note six: The reporter who had the sexting affair with the brainworm dude got canned from New York Magazine. This has been a really gross year in some ways. More: HuffPost

Note seven: It was great to see FLOTUS talking about the next chapter for her and President Biden. They’ve sure served this country well, and we’re grateful. We don’t even have anything to cuss about in this note. More: HuffPost

Note eight: If it wasn’t for Trump’s orange fascist ass blocking out the sun, all we would be talking about is how Florida went fascist. It’s like Hungary with more air-brushed t-shirts and beer coozies. What DeSantis has done to try and defeat the campaign for abortion rights is just simply beyond the pale in about 50 different goddamn ways. Let’s hope karma is coming on Nov. 5. More: ABC

Note nine: This isn’t a link to any particular story, but we really don’t spend enough time being alarmed by the idea that Trump wants to put RFK Jr. and his dead brainworm in charge of our health.

Note 10: Trump seems to have forgotten his “Black nazi” friend. We wish we could. Or at least un-read some of those fucked up messages.

Note 11: Gerald Ford’s daughter endorsed VP Harris. Then she fell down some stairs. We’re kidding! It’s a reference to Chevy Chase’s old Ford impressions on SNL. We’re grateful for her support and we shouldn’t be class clowns about it. More: The Hill

Note 12: This is cool. ACLU attorney Chase Strangio will become the first trans person to argue in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in December. More: NBC

Note 13: Hmmmm. Apparently some former federal prosecutors and “GOP appointees” have asked DOJ to look into Elon Leon Musk’s efforts to bribe voters. Sure seems like Merrick Garland, if he’s a real person, shouldn’t have needed the prod.

Note 14: WOW! Eminem is going to appear with President Obama in Detroit tonight. Swing state voters are so lucky! Ya know, aside from all those ads and Trump visits. More: TMZ

Note 15: We really appreciate Charlamagne Tha God laughing in Lara Trump’s face when she said that Trump isn’t racist.

Note 16: Eric Hovde did so bad at his debate against Sen. Tammy Baldwin that he backed out of a high school forum. Ouch. More: WisPolitics

Note 17: Speaking of Wisconsin, EARLY VOTING STARTED TODAY IN THE BADGER STATE SO GET OUT THERE!!!

Note 18: We’re celebrating a birthday at TBS HQ today as Adam turns a spry 74 years old. Ok so he’s not really that old, but the Trump years did age him terribly.

Note 19: For today’s Happy Ending, we take you to South Carolina women’s basketball coach and all-around champion Dawn Staley, who knows a thing or two about winning…

Note 20: And on that championship note, let’s go do some news! We sure hope y’all are hanging in there ok. We know this shit ain’t easy on the mind, body and soul. But neither is fascism so let’s keep it going. Love y’all!

Stop lying!

Trump went back to North Carolina yesterday to pretend to give a shit about Hurricane Helene, and he mostly whined about how he could be on a beach somewhere and didn’t need to be there. But he was also asked about his lies that have endangered FEMA responders and he doubled down, saying they had done a bad job and deserved to be called out. So yeah, we already know he loves the violence and wants more of it. So how the fuck are reporters and pundits still asking VP Harris for more policy detail?

More: AP News

Pro-life

The pro-life idiots got more babies killed. The JAMA Pediatrics reported this week that infant deaths rose by the hundreds after Roe fell. “The vast majority of those infants had congenital anomalies, or birth defects.” This is a non-stop American tragedy and a mostly white dude press corps just doesn’t get it or doesn’t care. And if we don’t stop Trump and Vance, we know it’s going to get worse because they don’t give a shit either.

More: CNN

How things stand

So you never know just how much to believe from campaign insiders at this stage in the game. They’re playing a lot of political ju-jitsu and trying to fake out their opponents. But we thought this interview with Harris senior strategist David Plouffe seemed honest. We’ll warn you that it is kind of a scary breakdown. According to Plouffe, all seven of the battlegrounds are within 1 point, and Trump might get over 46 percent of the vote for the first time and could get as high as 48 in swing states (HOW?!!!). But despite the ominous take, the campaign believes they have a solid plan to win the undecided voters they need down the homestretch. This is one of those articles that will both scare the hell out of you and make you feel better. There is no magic potion here, y’all. We just have to do the work. So let’s go.

More: CNN

Today’s clips

Vice President Kamala Harris will visit Texas on Friday for an attention-grabbing campaign event highlighting reproductive freedom in the final weeks of the 2024 presidential campaign. More: HuffPost

Arnon Mishkin, who runs the Fox News Decision Desk, said he thinks the winner of the 2024 presidential election won’t be known for at least several days after the final ballots are cast on Nov. 5. More: HuffPost

A Republican county supervisor in Arizona pleaded guilty Monday after she tried to delay certification of the 2022 midterm election results, state Attorney General Kris Mayes announced. More: NBC