This Weekend in Politics

Another insane weekend with two weeks to go.

… Donald Trump held a rally in legendary golfer Arnold Palmer’s hometown last night, and thought that would be a good time to recount a story about people checking out Palmer’s penis size in the shower. Classy as always.

… Legendary Sports Illustrated writer Rick Reilly, who wrote the book ‘Commander in Cheat’ documenting how Trump has habitually cheated at golf for years, backed up claims by others that Arnold Palmer despised Trump. Palmer: “If a guy is going to cheat you on the golf course he’s going to cheat you in business.”

… Arnold told Reilly that he personally saw Trump cheat on a golf course, “like a 6 year-old playing monopoly.”

… Fox never once covered or mentioned Trump’s comments about Palmer’s penis.

… A visibly uncomfortable Mike Johnson begged Jack Tapper in his interview today to stop talking about Arnold Palmer’s penis. As if he wasn’t doing his own research on it last night.

… Trump also told rally goers that he wanted to let them go early so they could get going to the Steelers game that night, which was the following night.

… Despicable Trump also claimed that he charitably flew Nelson Mandela to and around the US during his tour of this country after he was finally freed from long prison sentence in South Africa. It was another complete lie about his past. Trump Airlines had already gone bankrupt by 1990 and his creditors leased it to a group for $130K that came up with the money to bring Mandela here. Trump had nothing to do with it.

… And Trump said this on a podcast with a largely Black male audience. So he is now using mugshot tee shirts, gold sneakers, C-list rappers, and a fake story about helping Nelson Mandela to appeal to these voters with racism and lies.…

… Today is Kamala Harris’s 60th birthday. Technically two months too old, but as the President of Gen X Nation I formally declare that we are claiming her as our own. She considers herself Gen X and so do we.

… Former Republican Governor of Ohio Bob Taft announced his endorsement of Sherrod Brown over Republican Bernie Moreno.

… The long-running feud between Laura Loomer and Marge Greene has cranked up again, with Loomer accusing Marge of making false accusations about Dominion as part of “calculated disinformation tactics aimed at forcing President Trump into endorsing false election fraud narratives” to make him look bad. Loomer said that Greene “has no evidence whatsoever.”

… JD Vance led his rally crowd in a “Christ is King!” chant as the Christian Nationalist ticket for president continues to tell Jewish voters that “they should have their heads examined” if they don’t vote for them.

… Trump says Mark Milley, who he appointed as Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and James Mattis, who he appointed Secretary of Defense, are “stupid people” and “lightweights.” Both Trump appointees (“all the best people”) said he was a fascist and the most dangerous person in America who cares nothing about the Constitution.

… Former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne, who was part of the infamous meeting at the WH with Trump and WH Counsel with Michael Flynn and Sidney Powell, sided with Greene in the dispute and suggests that Loomer is not someone Trump should trust. Byrne also helped finance the Arizona Fraudit where the Cyber Ninjas were looking for bamboo in ballot paper to prove they came from China.

… After raising his bounty to $100 per signature on his voter bribing workaround “petition” scheme, Elon Musk is now giving away $1 million a day to a lottery winner chosen off the name of people who sign up. He and his lawyers obviously think they have figured out a way around vote-bribing criminal statutes, and maybe they have. But what does it say about Trump that oligarchs have to buy votes for him?

… Musk’s message of the day today was that mankind will never colonize Mars unless Trump wins. I thought the whole campaign was about bacon costing too much and marauding migrants. Who knew it was really about Mars.

… PA Gov Josh Shapiro said that what Musk is doing with his lottery money is “deeply concerning” and “I think it’s something that law enforcement can take a look at.”

… Pro Publica published a report detailing how right-wing dark money operatives led by Brian Timpone are targeting ads at Catholic voters through deceptive ads that make it look like they are coming from the Catholic church itself.

… Musk is doing the same thing, financing hucksters and fraudsters targeting Jewish and Muslim voters in PA by impersonating the Harris campaign with deception. When you are backing an unpopular fraudster, you have to resort to fraud to win.

… Trump showed up at a McDonalds in PA this afternoon in yet another dumb stunt. This is his attempt to continue to claim that Harris never worked at a McDonalds. This particular franchise is in a largely Democratic area, so maybe Democrats can let the owner who allowed his restaurant to be used by Trump know that they won’t frequent his business. Your future or current cardiologist will thank you.

… Snipers had to be stationed on the buildings of surrounding businesses for hours so Trump can do his McDonalds stunt.

… At the exact moment that Trump was busy promoting large McDonalds fries to America, RFK Jr. posted that the Trump Administration will Make America Healthy Again.

… Then it turns out the whole McDonalds stunt was staged and fake. The franchise owner closed it during the afternoon so Trump could have his stunt. The restaurant wasn’t even open to the public at the time. The “customers” were Trump supporters who actually rehearsed ahead of time how they were going to pull up to the window of the drive-thru.

… AZ Sect of State Adrian Fontes told Meidas Touch that he believes that Harris will win his state despite polls showing she is trailing slightly there because of high Dem and new lean-Dem voter turnout from the abortion ballot initiative.

… Fontes also said there has been a major shift in the Mormon vote in that state after the recent endorsements of Harris by two of the most prominent Mormon Republicans in that state - Mesa Mayor John Giles and former Senator Jeff Flake.

… A group of staffers who worked for Trump’s Truth Social filed an internal whistleblower complaint against CEO Devin Nunes, which stated that he hired