Polling averages are massively polluted by pro-MAGA junk polls designed to magnify Trump’s support. MSG NY was unique, a first & last chance to attend a Don rally. For an OBJECTIVE measure, check crowd size! Trump’s Oct. 28 Atlanta rally & his Oct. 29 Allentown rally had PATHETIC TURNOUT! Scroll down for photos in tweets on this feed. Looks bad for Don!

It's the same thing here with Trump. The narrative about him for a decade is that he's a racist. People in the middle, who don't pay attention to politics, don't necessarily know whether to believe that about Trump, but they keep hearing it over and over again. And now Trump has directly confirmed that narrative by having a featured speaker hurling racist insults at Trump's highest profile rally of the election.

The most damaging political scandals are not necessarily the ones that are the ugliest in their own right. They're usually the ones that serve to confirm what the other side has been saying about that candidate all along. Dan Quayle was sunk for misspelling potato, a non story, but it played directly into the longstanding narrative that Quayle was a dummy.

Immediately after the Puerto Rico insult, Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny endorsed Kamala Harris. Then Jennifer Lopez and Ricky Martin piled on. This was playing out even as the political media was rightly serving up one headline after another about how racist Trump's rally was. Several hours later, after the damage was already snowballing, Trump's campaign released a statement disavowing the Puerto Rico insult. But when Trump himself took the stage, he did no such thing.

For a controversy like this to matter, it has to reach beyond the people who were already planning to vote a certain way. It has to reach people who weren't necessarily going to vote, but have now been given a reason to. It has to reach people who were tentative about whether or not to bother voting for their preferred candidate, and needed motivation. And that's seemingly what's now happening.

Throw in the subsequent racist remarks about Latino people in general, racist remarks about Black people, and attacks on Jews, and the rally was already Trump's worst day of 2024 before he even took the stage. By the time Trump gave his speech it didn't matter what he said; he'd already lost the day in horrendous fashion.

But then came the moment where a featured speaker at the rally referred to Puerto Rico as a "floating island of garbage." It was the insult heard round the world, and it instantly took on a life of its own. Throw in the subsequent racist remarks about Latino people in general, racist remarks about Black people, and attacks on Jews, and the rally was already Trump's worst day of 2024 before he even took the stage.

Trump's babysitters don't know what to do with his senility, and so instead of sending him to a swing state where he could cost himself votes, they basically threw him a party in his hometown so he could feel good about himself on his way to losing. And he's so senile, he went right along with it.

Donald Trump held a rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, which had precisely zero chance of helping him in any way, and had a good chance of costing him votes. For all of the contrarian hot takes about how this rally was part of some kind of secret plan by Trump and his campaign to magically whatever, the obvious reality is that this was merely stupidity.

We may have just gotten our October Surprise!

For weeks I've been asked whether I think there will be an October Surprise and what I think it'll be. My response has been that if it's truly a surprise, it'll be something that none of us saw coming, and therefore none of us could have predicted it, so there was no point in randomly guessing. But now it appears we have indeed gotten ourselves an October Surprise.

Last night Donald Trump went on the Joe Rogan show and did one of the most low energy, confused, ineffective interviews I’ve ever seen a presidential candidate do. It was so bad that at one point even Rogan was laughing out loud at him. Then Trump used this one hour podcast appearance as an excuse to show up three hours late for his own rally, by which time a huge chunk of his own people had already given up and gone home.

If Palestinians want to live-- and a movement called We Want to Live has been active in Gaza in recent years--they must acknowledge military defeat, liquidate Hamas tyranny, free all hostages

exposing his impoverished, starving & defenseless people to the inevitable bloodbath of Netanyahu's savage retaliation. His program was looting, greed, hatred, war, and death without end. He knew he had no active allies, but attacked anyway. He was widely hated in Gaza for his incompetence and bloody failure at the expense of Gazans.

Gladio vivere, gladio perire-Israel has killed the terrorist/fascist Hamas dictator and warlord Yaya Sinwar, who saw dead Palestinians as his public relations currency (he killed many himself as part of the extremist takfiri Gestapo). He served the Muslim Brotherhood, not his own country. To advance Iranian diplomacy, he staged the cruel, stupid, futile, and suicidal October 7 massacre (including the killing of some 50 US citizens),

Xi at expanded BRICS meeting in Moscow to hear Russians rage against the US dollar, the Swift interbank system, and the CHIPS/CHAPS clearinghouses; With a show of CRINKS solidarity, Kremlin boss launches yet another round of nuclear blackmail in defense of Iran's atomic bomb program

All the more so since a much weakened Putin is now relying on North Korean mercenary troops masquerading in Russian uniforms as well as unreliable ammunition from Pyongyang to maintain operations against Ukraine; Kremlin dictator hopes for a marche' des dupes as lower-level officials from Brazil (Lula a no-show), India, South Africa, Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, and Emirates join

NATO allies, and there is a growing consensus that Ukraine must be given a free hand to interdict all Russian military targets and vital military-industrial logistics like railroads, oil, and gasoline, wherever located. This may in fact occur soon after the November 5 vote.

As Zelensky circulates the Ukraine Victory Plan among the NATO states, Netherlands defense minister Brekelmans announces that his government has no objection to Ukraine’s using donated F-16s against Russian military airfields within their range. Biden has been in Europe this week for an intensive series of consultations with the

MAGA billionaires proliferate gaslighting polls, push polls, payola polls, Red Tsunami polls, and other active measures to skew the polling averages and procure specious credibility for their post-election bid to rescue loser Don from defeat; anti-tax, anti-union plutocrats use big bets to skew the odds in his favor and preserve the illusion of any viability;

Parts of the degraded corporate media sense Orange Dotard’s looming defeat and moderate their sanewashing of the aspiring dictator; Trump raves on, trying to convince Latino voters that the January 6 riot of armed fascist militias and gangs was an exercise of love; attempted obfuscation by Fox News of Trump’s plan to use National Guard and active-duty military against protesters is a costly failure;