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    <title>Friday Night Funnies: Des Bishop - Italians Vs Irish</title>
    <link>https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/friday-night-funnies-des-bishop-italians</link>
    <description>&lt;div class="node-media"&gt;&lt;img src="https://crooksandliars.com/files/embeds/2026/10/72097.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Des Bishop lived in Fresh Meadows, Queens, before moving to Ireland. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I'd never heard of him before, but I stumbled upon this and laughed, since I'm Italian and have many Irish friends in Queens. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Open thread.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/friday-night-funnies-des-bishop-italians" target="_blank"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
     <category domain="https://crooksandliars.com/taxonomy/term/103518">Des Bishop</category>
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 <category domain="https://crooksandliars.com/taxonomy/term/31384">Late Night Open Thread</category>
 <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>John Amato</dc:creator>
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    <title>''We'': Texas Republican Begs Crowd Not To Abandon Paxton Event</title>
    <link>https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/ted-cruz-said-if-iran-war-extends-midterms</link>
    <description>&lt;div class="node-media"&gt;&lt;img src="https://crooksandliars.com/files/primary_image/26/10/vlcsnap-2026-10-30-09h04m16s181.png" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Back in March, one month after Trump employed a much larger U.S.-Israeli military operation against Iran on February 28, 2026, Sen. Ted Cruz gave a prediction that is coming true. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Trump first attacked Iran in June of 2025, but continued the conflict in 2026. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"I don't believe that what is happening in Iran will be front and center on November," Sen. Cruz said. "If it extends that long, we've done something wildly wrong."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Did Cruz believe the words that came out of Demented Donald's mouth when he bragged over and over again that the Iran war was just about over, and that they've been decimated? Trump personally briefed Cruz before the February attacks took place. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Cancun Cruz is eating his words now. &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;blockquote class="bluesky-embed" data-bluesky-uri="at://did:plc:h7qtoo7nxqxarrsijohjhbw4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mz42g4s3ly2u" data-bluesky-cid="bafyreidxez2sgtymmk4hifj5tivkiltba7nvr7wq5ohk6z3ibqpmclpbwq"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ted Cruz: We could lose every single statewide race in Texas&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;mdash; &lt;a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:h7qtoo7nxqxarrsijohjhbw4?ref_src=embed"&gt;FactPost (@factpostnews.bsky.social)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:h7qtoo7nxqxarrsijohjhbw4/post/3mz42g4s3ly2u?ref_src=embed"&gt;2026-10-30T15:03:09.901601934Z&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/ted-cruz-said-if-iran-war-extends-midterms" target="_blank"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
     <category domain="https://crooksandliars.com/taxonomy/term/98709">2026 Midterm elections</category>
 <category domain="https://crooksandliars.com/taxonomy/term/41626">Sen. Ted Cruz</category>
 <category domain="https://crooksandliars.com/taxonomy/term/102413">Texas Senate Election 2026</category>
 <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 22:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>John Amato</dc:creator>
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    <title>''We'': Texas Republican Begs Crowd Not To Abandon Paxton Event</title>
    <link>https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/please-dont-leave-texas-republican-begs</link>
    <description>&lt;div class="node-media"&gt;&lt;img src="https://crooksandliars.com/files/mediaposters/2026/10/60053.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;A Texas Republican had an embarrassing request for attendees at a Ken Paxton event: "Please don't leave!"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In a moment of remarkable desperation, the speaker pleaded with the audience to stick around, saying he didn't want the media reporting that people didn't like Paxton. Apparently, the biggest concern wasn't an empty room or an unpopular politician. It was making sure nobody noticed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Do me a favor, please don't leave." Ray Callas said. "And the reason why that is is because I don't want the media to turn it in saying that people don't like Ken Paxton."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Well, it's not our fault that we have jobs we've got to do in the morning," he added. "I'm sorry. "But let's stay here, show our support for our attorney general, our next U.S. senator." &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Callas is himself a candidate for the Texas House of Representatives, which makes his request even sadder. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Then the desperation escalated when Paxton's bus finally approached, and Callas tried to get the crowd excited. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"I want you to stand up, I want you to scream your head off," he said. "Get ready for Ken Paxton." &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most of those at the sparsely attended event remained seated. That's when Callas said, "Stand up!" &lt;/p&gt;
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     <category domain="https://crooksandliars.com/taxonomy/term/61808">Ken Paxton</category>
 <category domain="https://crooksandliars.com/taxonomy/term/103523">Paxton rally</category>
 <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 21:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>Conover Kennard</dc:creator>
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    <title>Adam Mockler Turns The Tables On Fox Red-Baiting Socialism Segment</title>
    <link>https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/adam-mockler-turns-tables-fox-red-baiting</link>
    <description>&lt;div class="node-media"&gt;&lt;img src="https://crooksandliars.com/files/primary_image/26/10/fox-moynihan-gallagher-mockler-102726.png" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Host Trace Gallagher and his guest were unprepared for MeidasTouch podcaster Adam Mockler, who brought the receipts on which party has someone actively buying stakes in private companies. Mockler made an appearance on this Tuesday's &lt;em&gt;Fox News @ Night&lt;/em&gt;, and let's say that things didn't go too well for Gallagher and his other guest, the &lt;em&gt;New York Post's&lt;/em&gt; Lydia Moynihan, and their lame attempt at more red-baiting over socialism, which we watch the network do constantly.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here's the exchange which Gallagher repeatedly tried to cut off after Mockler brought their hypocrisy on Trump into the conversation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote class="transcript"&gt;&lt;p&gt;
GALLAGHER: The first topic is socialism versus capitalism: free markets versus economic equality. &lt;strong&gt;Adam, tell us why socialism is so great.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MOCKLER: I'm actually not a socialist. I'm a firm liberal capitalist, but I don't think the two things you listed are mutually exclusive. America is the richest and best country in the world.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Economic equality, or the ability for people to have health care and a good education, should not be mutually exclusive with entrepreneurialism, small businesses, and the ability to have free markets.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;These two things aren't mutually exclusive, and I reject this idea that Democrats are socialists now. Out of the 259 sitting Democrats in Congress, two of them are DSA. There are about three or four incoming, but the party by and large supports free markets.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;GALLAGHER: Lydia.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/adam-mockler-turns-tables-fox-red-baiting" target="_blank"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
     <category domain="https://crooksandliars.com/taxonomy/term/96391">Adam Mockler</category>
 <category domain="https://crooksandliars.com/taxonomy/term/11836">Donald Trump</category>
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 <category domain="https://crooksandliars.com/taxonomy/term/99162">Zohran Mamdani</category>
 <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 20:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>El-Sayed Offers To Walk Through Metal Detector If Trump Takes Lie Detector Test</title>
    <link>https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/el-sayed-offers-walk-through-metal</link>
    <description>&lt;div class="node-media"&gt;&lt;img src="https://crooksandliars.com/files/mediaposters/2026/10/60056.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan responded to Donald J. Trump by offering to walk through a metal detector daily if Trump agrees to take a single lie detector test. Just a hunch: Only one of them will pass, and it won't be Trump. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; El-Sayed just walked into that rally and handed Trump a challenge he wouldn't touch with a 10-foot pole.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; "And then, here's the thing, I don't know if you saw this," El-Sayed said. "Just recently he said, he said that I should have to go through a metal detector."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"That's alright, man. He took that Wolverine thing seriously; he knows I got claws," he continued. "But here's the deal, Donald, listen, I'll go through a metal detector if you'll sit for a lie detector."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Simple, I got nothing to hide; you've got so much to hide," he said. "My first question, Epstein. Second question, did you win the 2020 election?"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"So that's the deal," he added. "I'll go through a metal detector every day; you sit through a lie detector one time. That's the deal."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;How will Trump respond to that? Call him un-American, a terrorist, a plant from a rival country? Nah, Donald will cry into his MyPillow in a fetal position in the corner. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;The way he fights back against the slander&lt;br /&gt;
Makes me damn proud to be a Michigander! &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Our next Senator-&lt;br /&gt;
Dr. Abdul el-Sayed! ?????&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/el-sayed-offers-walk-through-metal" target="_blank"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
     <category domain="https://crooksandliars.com/taxonomy/term/11836">Donald Trump</category>
 <category domain="https://crooksandliars.com/taxonomy/term/85571">Dr. Abdul El-Sayed</category>
 <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 20:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Flávio Bolsonaro Flees Brazil For Miami, Faces Criminal Charges Back Home</title>
    <link>https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/fl-vio-bolsonaro-flees-brazil-miami-faces</link>
    <description>&lt;div class="node-media"&gt;&lt;img src="https://crooksandliars.com/files/primary_image/26/10/screenshot_2026-10-29_at_4.09.21_pm.png" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;After losing the Brazilian election, Trump-backed candidate Flávio Bolsonaro fled Brazil for Miami, Florida. He left secretly after officials ordered him to hand over his passport in a money-laundering case. &lt;a href="https://amp.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article317815070.html"&gt;The Miami Herald &lt;/a&gt;reported the Brazilian Senator faces criminal investigations. Bolsonaro and his family landed in Miami Wednesday, days after the election.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Flávio, the oldest son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, lost Sunday’s presidential election to incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who won about 52% of the vote to Bolsonaro’s 48%. His father, former President Jair Bolsonaro, was sentenced to 27 years in prison for attempting a coup after losing the 2022 election to Lula da Silva.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A source told &lt;a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/world/americas/flavio-bolsonaro-us-miami-brazil-trump.html"&gt;The New York Times&lt;/a&gt; that the U.S. State Department issued visas to Bolsonaro and his family. The report said Bolsonaro arrived at a private airport near Miami with his family on Wednesday. The group quickly got into a vehicle after leaving the airport, hidden under umbrellas.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;So it appears immigrants from South America are bad and need to be put into concentration camps…unless they are friends of the Trump administration? Did I get that right?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Americans Not Named Trump Are Angry&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/fl-vio-bolsonaro-flees-brazil-miami-faces" target="_blank"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
     <category domain="https://crooksandliars.com/taxonomy/term/81482">Bolsonaro</category>
 <category domain="https://crooksandliars.com/tags/brazil">brazil</category>
 <category domain="https://crooksandliars.com/taxonomy/term/103019">donald trump corrupt</category>
 <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 18:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>RedStateRachel</dc:creator>
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    <title>Trump Shows His Lily White Supremacist Ass</title>
    <link>https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/trump-shows-how-not-make-friends-and</link>
    <description>&lt;div class="node-media"&gt;&lt;img src="https://crooksandliars.com/files/primary_image/26/10/screenshot_2026-10-29_145800.png" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Trump was in South Carolina, stumping for the other Old Lady Graham, when he started talking about Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the senatorial candidate in Michigan:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote class="transcript"&gt;&lt;p&gt;
If you're Black, or if you're Jewish, and if you vote for Abdul, you're crazy. You're crazy. You're crazy anyway.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Well, that's not going to help very much with his reputation for being a racist.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If Trump thinks that someone in South Carolina can vote for a Michigan candidate, it's not the voter who is crazy.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The best part is that both El-Sayed and Barack Obama are living rent-free in Trump's head to the point that the rallies he is going to stop being about helping the candidate and start being about his own personal obsessions with them. Is it any wonder why candidates don't want him coming to their states anymore? They're having enough problems without his "help."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;TRUMP: If you're Black, or if you're Jewish, and you vote for Abdul, you're crazy. You're crazy anyway. &lt;a href="https://t.co/crsDl2ns3c" title="https://t.co/crsDl2ns3c"&gt;https://t.co/crsDl2ns3c&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;mdash; Acyn (@Acyn) &lt;a href="https://x.com/Acyn/status/2115859463332835438?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;October 29, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;script async src="https://platform.x.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/trump-shows-how-not-make-friends-and" target="_blank"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
     <category domain="https://crooksandliars.com/taxonomy/term/85571">Dr. Abdul El-Sayed</category>
 <category domain="https://crooksandliars.com/taxonomy/term/310">racism</category>
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 <category domain="https://crooksandliars.com/taxonomy/term/100722">Election 2026</category>
 <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 18:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>Chris capper Liebenthal</dc:creator>
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    <title>'Say Pedophiles!': Ramaswamy Got BIG MAD After Selfie Taker Brutally Trolled Him</title>
    <link>https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/say-pedophiles-ramaswamy-got-big-mad-after</link>
    <description>&lt;div class="node-media"&gt;&lt;img src="https://crooksandliars.com/files/primary_image/26/10/vivek_0.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;With midterms officially closing in on the Republican Party's head, Donald Trump made a pit stop at the Shoemaker Center in Chillicothe, Ohio, where he attempted to rally for scandal-plagued MAGA gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and Mr. Greatest-Ass-Of-All-Time, Senator Jon Husted, in a last-ditch, desperate attempt to hopefully circumvent the ass-whooping they're all about to receive next week. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the midst of the rally festivities, Ramaswamy was attempting to hobnob with supporters outside when he was approached by a man who asked for a selfie with him -- only for the man to troll Vivek straight to his face as he held up the camera, smiled, and said, "Say, ‘Pedophiles!'" &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The man has been identified on TikTok as &lt;a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@la_sparrow/video/7702076220598390046"&gt;@la_sparrow&lt;/a&gt;, and he posted a clip of the hilarious exchange to his own account Thursday morning, with text reading, "Vote Amy Acton." &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A quick scroll through his account shows that this is far from the first time @la_sparrow has confronted Ramaswamy. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Amy Acton's communications staffer, Ethan Lynne, picked up the clip and posted it on X with the caption, "Looks like Vivek Ramaswamy had quite a warm welcome at his rally last night," complete with a sarcastic thumbs-up emoji. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Looks like @VivekGRamaswamy had quite a warm welcome at his rally last night &#128077; &lt;a href="https://t.co/rR4IZPsder" title="https://t.co/rR4IZPsder"&gt;https://t.co/rR4IZPsder&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/say-pedophiles-ramaswamy-got-big-mad-after" target="_blank"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
     <category domain="https://crooksandliars.com/taxonomy/term/1322">Video</category>
 <category domain="https://crooksandliars.com/taxonomy/term/93409">Vivek Ramaswamy</category>
 <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 16:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>Andrea Thompson</dc:creator>
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    <title>Trump's</title>
    <link>https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/trumps-election-fraud-lunacy-i-would-have</link>
    <description>&lt;div class="node-media"&gt;&lt;img src="https://crooksandliars.com/files/primary_image/26/10/vlcsnap-2026-10-29-08h50m29s027.png" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Donald Trump's election fraud delusions continue to expand into the state of California, where he said if elections were honest, he would've won the state by a lot. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Stop laughing, I didn't say it; he did.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote class="transcript"&gt;&lt;p&gt;TRUMP: We found 20,000, but there are hundreds of thousands of bad ballots, bad votes in California.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Millions, in my opinion, millions. It's a corrupt state and very, very corrupt elections.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If California were honest, if they had honest vote count, I would have won it by a lot.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Trump did not find 20K, hundreds of thousands, or millions of bad ballots or votes in California. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Trump's henchman running the DOJ, Todd &lt;a href="https://abcnews.com/Politics/judge-rejects-trump-administration-request-order-segregate-20000/story?id=137660006"&gt;Blanche is accusing California&lt;/a&gt; of "failing to review a list of alleged noncitizens that the Trump administration claimed were sent mail-in ballots for next month's midterm election." &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A judge rejected this election interference ploy by Demented Donald and wrote, "This request violates longstanding constitutional principles mandating that states have control over their elections. If Plaintiff's last-minute request for relief were granted, either party could create chaos for their own political purposes to disrupt the election process. Over 20,000 registered Californians would potentially lose the right that generations of Americans have fought to preserve."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/trumps-election-fraud-lunacy-i-would-have" target="_blank"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
     <category domain="https://crooksandliars.com/taxonomy/term/103517">California elections</category>
 <category domain="https://crooksandliars.com/taxonomy/term/96800">Donald Trump lunacy</category>
 <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 15:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>John Amato</dc:creator>
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    <title>Trump'sJD Vance Said He's 'Jealous' That Trump Doesn't Admire His Ass Like He Does Husted's</title>
    <link>https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/jd-vance-said-hes-jealous-trump-doesnt-1</link>
    <description>&lt;div class="node-media"&gt;&lt;img src="https://crooksandliars.com/files/primary_image/26/10/vance_ass_0.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;In this line of work, some things happen that you couldn't make up if you wanted to. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is one of them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;President Trump has spent weeks now on a &lt;a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/assman-chief-trumps-thirst-mens-bodies"&gt;full-fledged kick&lt;/a&gt; over Ohio Republican &lt;a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/trump-likes-jon-husteds-ass"&gt;Jon Husted's ass&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/trump-just-took-his-thirst-husteds-ass"&gt;repeatedly commenting&lt;/a&gt; on the senator's physical appearance and referring to his backside as a "pile of muscle" after learning that Husted was apparently a rather talented football player in his college days. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Earlier this week, the president invoked Husted's body yet again when he turned his attention to his favorite bullying victim, Texas AG and Senate candidate Ken Paxton, who, for whatever reason, &lt;a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2026/09/ken-paxtons-reaction-trump-openly-mocking"&gt;Trump &lt;strong&gt;really&lt;/strong&gt; loves to pick on&lt;/a&gt;. During that rally, Donald threatened to give Paxton the same thirsty treatment he gives Husted and his rock-hard ass, before adding, "I'm not sure your body is gonna qualify." &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Seriously, the whole thing is getting super weird. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Weird enough, in fact, that Fox News' Jesse Watters seemingly couldn't resist asking the VP about it when JD Vance appeared on &lt;em&gt;Jesse Watters Primetime&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/jd-vance-said-hes-jealous-trump-doesnt-1" target="_blank"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 15:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Trump Superfan Indicted On Alleged Possession Of Child Sexual Abuse Material</title>
    <link>https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/trump-superfan-indicted-alleged-possession</link>
    <description>&lt;div class="node-media"&gt;&lt;img src="https://crooksandliars.com/files/primary_image/26/10/frontrowjoe.png" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;One of Donald Trump's "Front Row Joes," a superfan, was arrested Wednesday and indicted on 10 felony counts of allegedly possessing dozens of files containing child sexual abuse material.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.news5cleveland.com/homepage-showcase/brook-park-restaurant-owner-front-row-joe-arrested-on-child-sexual-abuse-material-charges"&gt;News 5 in Cleveland&lt;/a&gt; reports, "Brook Park restaurant owner  Adam Radogna, 37 was arrested for possessing a multitude of child sexual abuse material.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote class="transcript"&gt;&lt;p&gt;
The charges include:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Two counts of illegal use of a minor or impaired person in nudity-oriented material or performance, both second-degree felonies.
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Seven counts of pandering sexually oriented matter involving a minor or impaired person, all second-degree felonies.
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;One count of possessing criminal tools, a fifth-degree felony.
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong data-sfc-cp="" data-sfc-root="c"&gt;"Front Row Joes"&lt;/strong&gt; are a group of super fans who travel across the country to attend Trump's political rallies and have been known to camp out days in advance to secure front-row seats. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Is he an Epstein Files super fan as well? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/trump-superfan-indicted-alleged-possession" target="_blank"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 13:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Hegseth Purges Another Top Military Planner At The Pentagon</title>
    <link>https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/hegseth-purges-another-top-military</link>
    <description>&lt;div class="node-media"&gt;&lt;img src="https://crooksandliars.com/files/primary_image/26/10/msnbc_10-29-2026_16.36.48.png" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yet another top general has been purged by Whiskey Pete.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth-fires-pentagons-top-military-planner/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&amp;amp;linkId=1028808594"&gt;Hegseth fires Pentagon's top military planner over what official says were leaks to media&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired the Pentagon's top military planner, several sources confirmed to CBS News late Wednesday.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A Pentagon official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive personnel matters, said Army Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia was accused of misconduct for allegedly leaking classified information related to the Iran war &lt;a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/ukraine-crisis/" target="_blank" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=""&gt;and the Russia-Ukraine war&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sylvia failed three polygraph tests about sharing classified information with the press, the official said, adding that the case has been referred to the Department of Justice.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Two other Pentagon sources confirmed to CBS News that the firing was related to the polygraph tests, but said those accusations are not true.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hegseth has made rooting out leakers at the Pentagon a priority, with &lt;a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/top-military-officials-polygraphs-leaks-pentagon-weapons-hegseth-trump/" target="_blank" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=""&gt;sources telling CBS News last month&lt;/a&gt; that high-ranking military officials were subject to polygraph tests.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/hegseth-purges-another-top-military" target="_blank"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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    <title>One Of The Cornell 7 Is Trying To Have Letitia James Removed From Rape Investigation</title>
    <link>https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/one-cornell-7-trying-have-letitia-james</link>
    <description>&lt;div class="node-media"&gt;&lt;img src="https://crooksandliars.com/files/primary_image/26/10/ljames.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;It seems that at least a couple of the members of the infamous so-called &lt;a href="https://www.liars-ledger.com/p/from-cornell-to-trump-stop-asking"&gt;Cornell 7&lt;/a&gt; are less than eager to go toe-to-toe with the eminent Letitia James. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As we're all well aware by now, a Cornell University student known only as "Jane Doe" has filed a lawsuit, accusing seven former members of the Chi Phi fraternity house of drugging and gang-raping her. The incident was reported to campus police, and the seven men received offensively light punishments, including writing essays. At the time, Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten declined to bring criminal charges against the men, citing a lack of evidence of a prosecutable crime. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;New York Governor Kathy Hochul &lt;a href="https://abc7ny.com/post/cornell-gang-rape-case-hochul-letitia-james-give-update-ag-appointed-special-prosecutor/19900163/"&gt;ultimately appointed&lt;/a&gt; NY Attorney General Letitia James to investigate the Cornell case via an executive order, saying she has "lost faith" in the Tompkins County DA. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Three days before her appointment as special prosecutor in this highly publicized case, AG James had taken to her official X account and posted, "What this young woman has been forced to endure is horrific and unacceptable. I’m holding her in my heart and in my prayers. To her, and to all survivors: you’re not alone. We stand with you." &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/one-cornell-7-trying-have-letitia-james" target="_blank"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Dems Are Very, Very Prepared For Trump Election Sabotage</title>
    <link>https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/dems-are-very-very-prepared-trump-election</link>
    <description>&lt;div class="node-media"&gt;&lt;img src="https://crooksandliars.com/files/primary_image/26/10/vote_sign_for_102926.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;If, like me, you have been worried about the zillion possibilities for Trump's election hanky-panky, which has &lt;a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/trump-doj-trying-pre-steal-alaska-senate"&gt;already&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/doj-faced-humiliating-appeals-court-trump"&gt;begun&lt;/a&gt;, here’s some news to help you sleep better and, more importantly, vote with confidence: The pro-democracy movement is confident they are ready for the moment.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As someone involved in this effort with my local Indivisible group, I can confirm that pro-democracy groups have been laser-focused on this for months or longer. You don’t have to take my word for it. Marc Elias’ &lt;a href="https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/election-chiefs-are-huddling-to-plan-responses-to-trumps-interference/"&gt;Democracy Docket&lt;/a&gt; published an article in February titled, “Exclusive: State election chiefs are huddling to plan responses to Trump’s expected interference in midterms.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“Democratic state election chiefs have for months been meeting privately for planning exercises, including tabletop simulations, gaming out their response to expected election interference by President Donald Trump and his administration,” the article states.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It’s not just officials in blue states. Blue dots in red states are &lt;a href="https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/blue-dots-in-red-states-brace-for-election-interference-with-little-help/"&gt;doing the same&lt;/a&gt;, despite knowing that their governor or attorney general will not be an ally.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/dems-are-very-very-prepared-trump-election" target="_blank"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>NewsHound Ellen</dc:creator>
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    <title>Roger Marshall Lathers On The Spray Tan, Hilarity Ensues</title>
    <link>https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/roger-marshall-lathers-spray-tan-hilarity</link>
    <description>&lt;div class="node-media"&gt;&lt;img src="https://crooksandliars.com/files/mediaposters/2026/10/60049.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Senator Roger Marshall has debuted his Trump look-alike appearance, with more spray tan on his face than any human being should be allowed to slather on.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It's just sad that he won't be able to show it off at the rally he was supposed to have tonight. Trump canceled that rally and will just be doing some tele-rallies, where presumably he won't have to put up with hecklers and &lt;a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/oopsie-fox-news-gets-punked-trump"&gt;people gawking at the cult&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It did not go unnoticed and there were some hilarious responses.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div class="embedfield embedfield-embed-html "&gt;
&lt;blockquote class="bluesky-embed" data-bluesky-uri="at://did:plc:zbnwtqecwcyxoufqp7ddcztj/app.bsky.feed.post/3myx4elxqvs2k" data-bluesky-cid="bafyreie64a262yg6udxv5vjq2kzqff4bmtyalfo73ymjhb6swsqr24sqgu"&gt;&lt;p lang="en"&gt;Carrots are going to sue for identity theft.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;mdash; &lt;a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zbnwtqecwcyxoufqp7ddcztj?ref_src=embed"&gt;Hoarse Whisperer (@therealhoarse.bsky.social)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zbnwtqecwcyxoufqp7ddcztj/post/3myx4elxqvs2k?ref_src=embed"&gt;2026-10-28T15:54:47.516Z&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;script async src="https://embed.bsky.app/static/embed.js" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A Halloween idea:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/roger-marshall-lathers-spray-tan-hilarity" target="_blank"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Mike’s Blog Round-Up</title>
    <link>https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/mike-s-blog-round-6</link>
    <description>&lt;div class="node-media"&gt;&lt;img src="https://crooksandliars.com/files/primary_image/26/10/hot_butter.png" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Above, Hot Butter performs, &lt;em&gt;Popcorn&lt;/em&gt;. Today is &lt;a href="https://driftglass.blogspot.com/2026/10/a-different-kind-of-birthday-fundraiser.html"&gt;Driftglass' birthday!&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://rmadisonj.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-sky-is-falling-sky-is-falling.html"&gt;Adventus&lt;/a&gt; debunks the prevailing conspiracy theory of how Republicans plan to not seat Democrats in the House.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://michael-in-norfolk.blogspot.com/2026/10/ways-of-limiting-trumps-midterm-trickery.html"&gt;Michael in Norfolk&lt;/a&gt; suggests ways of limiting midterm trickery.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://popular.info/p/trumps-plan-to-undermine-the-results"&gt;Popular Information&lt;/a&gt; lists all the moves Hair Füror has made to undermine the midterms.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.justsecurity.org/162186/leaders-do-lower-risk-election-violence/"&gt;Just Security&lt;/a&gt; tells us what leaders can do to lower the risk of election violence.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bonus Track:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="https://streetartutopia.com/2026/10/29/they-saw-something-else-10-photos/"&gt;Street Art Utopia&lt;/a&gt; notes that artists see things the rest of us miss.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Round-up by Tengrain who blogs at &lt;a href="http://mockpaperscissors.com"&gt;Mock, Paper, Scissors&lt;/a&gt;. You can follow &lt;a href="@https://@Tengrain@mastodon.social"&gt;Tengrain on the Fediverse&lt;/a&gt;, or on &lt;a href="https://@tengrain.bsky.social"&gt;BlueSky&lt;/a&gt;. Send tips, requests, and suggestions to &lt;a href="mailto:mbru@crooksandliars.com"&gt;mbru@crooksandliars.com&lt;/a&gt; (with &lt;b&gt;For MBRU&lt;/b&gt; in the subject line).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/mike-s-blog-round-6" target="_blank"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Is Democracy Winning? A Major Political Shift You Gotta See</title>
    <link>https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/democracy-winning-major-political-shift</link>
    <description>&lt;div class="node-media"&gt;&lt;img src="https://crooksandliars.com/files/embeds/2026/10/72108.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.blueamp.co/p/amped-up-fox-news-house-forecast-dan-perry-netanyahu?r=j0lyx"&gt;Fox now projects Democrats will win at least 223 House seats, with as many as 240 on a good night, and Cliff Schecter and David Shuster spend the top of the show explaining why history says the number can go higher.&lt;/a&gt; Waves don’t split, Cliff argues; when one breaks, it breaks everywhere, and the real surprises are races nobody has on the map. Six days out, the hosts lay out the House and Senate math and Republican wounds--all self-inflicted.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Then the show goes global. Brazil just turned back Flávio Bolsonaro, and veteran AP editor Dan Perry joins from Tel Aviv with a blunt read on Israel’s vote and the one move that can end Bibi. &lt;a href="https://www.blueamp.co/p/amped-up-fox-news-house-forecast-dan-perry-netanyahu?r=j0lyx"&gt;Perry's clear: the liberal and Arab bloc won 67 seats, the best showing for Israeli moderates he can recall since '73, so “don’t let anyone tell you Netanyahu won.”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.blueamp.co/p/amped-up-fox-news-house-forecast-dan-perry-netanyahu?r=j0lyx"&gt;David and Cliff also unveil the lineup for Blue Amp Media's 12-hour Election Day Live&lt;/a&gt;, 7am-7pm et. And quite a lineup it is--from Mark Hamill and Chris Meloni to Jim Acosta, Joyce Vance, Joe Trippi, Joe Walsh, and Julie Roginsky. Mario Van Peebles to Malcolm Nance and Miles Taylor. Shannon Watts to Steve Schmidt and Katie Phang...And many more!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/democracy-winning-major-political-shift" target="_blank"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>RIP: Patrick Stewart </title>
    <link>https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/rip-patrick-stewart</link>
    <description>&lt;div class="node-media"&gt;&lt;img src="https://crooksandliars.com/files/embeds/2026/10/72106.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Best known for his roles as Jean-Luc Picard and Charles Xavier, Sir Patrick Stewart passed away today at the age of 86, due to Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body dementia.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;His booming voice and shaved head played into his legend as he became one of the most recognizable actors of his generation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/patrick-stewart-dead-star-trek-x-men-1236742932/"&gt;Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry&lt;/a&gt; did not want Stewart to read for the part in his new production &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: The Next Generation&lt;/em&gt; because he "didn’t think a bald Brit could be the face of the new series."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Back in the late 90's, I took my parents to see his one man show of &lt;a href="https://playbill.com/article/patrick-stewart-celebrates-christmas-in-la-dec-3-22-com-68937"&gt;A Christmas Carol &lt;/a&gt; for Christmas and he was wonderful.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Open thread.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/rip-patrick-stewart" target="_blank"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 03:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Oil Giants Post Record Profits As Trump Brags ‘We’re Making A Freaking Fortune’</title>
    <link>https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/oil-giants-post-record-profits-trump-brags</link>
    <description>&lt;div class="node-media"&gt;&lt;img src="https://crooksandliars.com/files/primary_image/26/10/screenshot_2026-10-29_at_3.32.57_pm.png" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href="https://www.commondreams.org/tag/oil"&gt;oil&lt;/a&gt; giant &lt;a href="https://www.commondreams.org/tag/shell"&gt;Shell&lt;/a&gt; posted its third-quarter profits Thursday, the “freaking fortune” President &lt;a href="https://www.commondreams.org/tag/donald-trump"&gt;Donald Trump&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/high-gas-prices-donald-trump-oil-companies-midterm-election-2026-10" target="_blank"&gt;mentioned&lt;/a&gt; last weekend at a campaign rally in Georgia became clear.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The president had noted that oil prices are “temporarily high,” eight months after he joined Israel in launching an illegal, unprovoked war against Iran, setting off a conflict in which Iran swiftly closed the Strait of Hormuz in retaliation and sent energy prices soaring in the US and around the world.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“The &lt;a href="https://www.commondreams.org/tag/united-states"&gt;United States&lt;/a&gt; oil and gas business is making hundreds of billions of dollars,” Trump said at the rally ahead of the &lt;a href="https://www.commondreams.org/tag/midterm-elections"&gt;midterm elections&lt;/a&gt;, in which the cost of living &lt;a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/poll-likely-voters-favor-democrats-as-trump-disapproval-drives-early-turnout" target="_blank"&gt;tops&lt;/a&gt; the list of priorities for voters. “I don’t give a damn, I’m going to say it—we’re making a freaking fortune.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The “we” he was talking about didn’t appear to include the vast majority of Americans, who are paying an average of $4.23 per gallon for gas—up from $2.87 before the Iran War started.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/oil-giants-post-record-profits-trump-brags" target="_blank"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 23:49:46 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Johnson: Christian Voters Who Skip Election 'Derelict In Their Duty'</title>
    <link>https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/johnson-christian-voters-who-skip-election</link>
    <description>&lt;div class="node-media"&gt;&lt;img src="https://crooksandliars.com/files/primary_image/26/10/screenshot_2026-10-29_at_3.09.48_pm.png" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Soon to be ex-House Speaker Mike Johnson had a plea for all the white Christian nationalists out there who are considering taking a pass on voting this cycle for a variety of reasons, ranging from revulsion at the corruption to disgust at the Iran war, to just being angry about the cost of living right now.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;During an interview with hateful Tony Perkins, Johnson was asked what message he had for Republicans considering sitting out the election, &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"You're derelict in your duty if you sit out this election," Johnson replied. "You just are."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As if that pronouncement wasn't bad enough, he amplified it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"God calls us to be engaged, to be salt and light in our culture, to advance and stand for his principles, and they are under assault right now," Johnson continued. "If the foundations be destroyed, what will the righteous do? That's Psalm 11:3. That is not a rhetorical question for us. It's something that we get to answer because we have the blessing of living in this free country."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But why is it a dereliction to demur from voting for someone who is enabling all the bad things happening right now or engaged in their own forms of corruption? Here's what Mikey says: "Every two years, you get to go and vote for your members in the House of Representatives and this is the basic responsibility we have. Romans 13 and all the reminders in Scripture; &lt;strong&gt;the civil authorities are ordained of God, but we have to be engaged in that process to make sure that the righteous are ruling&lt;/strong&gt;."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/johnson-christian-voters-who-skip-election" target="_blank"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 23:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>GOP Senator's Shocking New Test For Who Can Serve In The Senate</title>
    <link>https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/republican-senator-only-jesus-loving</link>
    <description>&lt;div class="node-media"&gt;&lt;img src="https://crooksandliars.com/files/mediaposters/2026/10/60046.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;During a rally for Republican Sen. John Husted on Wednesday, Ohio Sen. Bernie Moreno told rally-goers that if you don't believe Jesus died for your salvation, you shouldn't be anywhere near Washington, DC.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Moreno's words were directed at the heated contest between Mike Rogers and Abdul El-Sayed, who is Muslim. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Attacking El-Sayed by calling him a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and calling him a terrorist is not enough for these theocratic lunatics. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now, it's on to Jesus. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;At the end of his diatribe, he confused the Declaration of Independence with the document that governs the country, which it does not. He also mangled its meaning.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"And it was the second line of the Declaration of Independence, where it says governments are constituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, which is an understanding that says to our elected officials, oh, my friend, you may be an elected official, I get my rights and my freedoms from Lord Almighty, not from you," Moreno said.&lt;/p&gt;
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MORENO: And now I'm going to tell you that on Monday, I went up and campaigned with Mike Rogers because he's in a race with somebody that just is an affront to me as an American.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By the way, an affront to me as a naturalized citizen to this country.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This character, Abdul Al-Sayed, can be nowhere near Washington, D.C. Do you think he understands that concept that our rights come from God Almighty?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That Jesus came here for our salvation?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/republican-senator-only-jesus-loving" target="_blank"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 21:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>JD Vance Seems Confused By A Voting System Used Across America</title>
    <link>https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/jd-vance-seems-confused-voting-system-used</link>
    <description>&lt;div class="node-media"&gt;&lt;img src="https://crooksandliars.com/files/mediaposters/2026/10/60045.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;JD Vance feigned not to understand a perfectly understandable voting system. Ranked-choice voting simply lets voters rank candidates in order of preference. If nobody wins a majority of first-choice votes, the last-place candidate is eliminated, and those ballots are redistributed according to voters' next choices. The process continues until someone wins.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Vance told reporters ahead of the Texas rally that ranked-choice voting is "confusing." But it's not confusing. It's just different from the winner-take-all system he's used to.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"It seems to me that you have an election; the person who wins the most votes should win," he said. "That seems to be not what happens with rank choice voting. So I'm not a big fan of it."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"The fact that it's so confusing to a person who pays pretty close attention to politics, I think suggests we should do our elections in like the normal way, which is if you vote for a person and they get more votes than the other person, they should win," he added.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oh, like Hillary Clinton when she received more votes than Donald Trump? Like that, JD? Because I'd be all for abolishing the Electoral College. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And that line about doing elections "the normal way"? Oh, please. Ranked-choice voting IS a normal way to conduct elections. It's used in various U.S. jurisdictions, including Alaska and Maine, and in many other democracies worldwide.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/jd-vance-seems-confused-voting-system-used" target="_blank"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 19:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>Conover Kennard</dc:creator>
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    <title>'Pumpkin Spice Pedo!': Trump Savagely Heckled Over Epstein At Ohio Rally</title>
    <link>https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/butterscotch-shitler-trump-savagely</link>
    <description>&lt;div class="node-media"&gt;&lt;img src="https://crooksandliars.com/files/primary_image/26/10/2026-10-29_10-02-04.png" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;A comedian who specializes in heckling MAGA figures gave Donald J. Trump an unexpected earful during his Ohio rally on Wednesday, interrupting the president with a song about Jeffrey Epstein before unleashing a couple of memorable insults.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Robby Potylo, better known online as Robby Roadsteamer, posted unedited footage of the encounter on social media. Shortly after Trump took the stage at Ohio University's Shoemaker Center, Potylo launched into his song “The Epstein Plane,” repeatedly singing that Trump had been on Epstein's plane. The crowd responded with boos.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Afterward came the insults.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“Butterscotch sh*tler!” Potylo shouted, followed by “Pumpkin spice pedo!” He gave Trump the middle finger before law enforcement officers escorted him out of the venue.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As police escorted him through the crowd, Potylo called out, “No political violence. We're all buddies.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Singing The Epstein Plane to Trump at his rally tonite! The raw footage. With  the cops pulling me out! (Uncut) &lt;a href="https://t.co/NxsvXNZiEp" title="https://t.co/NxsvXNZiEp"&gt;https://t.co/NxsvXNZiEp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;mdash; Robby Roadsteamer (@RobbyRoadsteame) &lt;a href="https://x.com/RobbyRoadsteame/status/2115606388286058764?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;October 29, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/butterscotch-shitler-trump-savagely" target="_blank"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <category domain="https://crooksandliars.com/taxonomy/term/103515">Ohio rally</category>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 18:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Oopsie! Fox News Gets Punked By Trump Rallygoer</title>
    <link>https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/oopsie-fox-news-gets-punked-trump</link>
    <description>&lt;div class="node-media"&gt;&lt;img src="https://crooksandliars.com/files/mediaposters/2026/10/60048.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Kudos to “Tom” for doing whatever he did to get on camera with the Fox News correspondent covering Donald Trump’s South Carolina rally Thursday.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“We’ve got Tom right here, kind enough to answer a few questions,” Fox’s Lucas Tomlinson said. It suggested that Tom had been pre-screened to some degree.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“Tom, why are you here this morning?” Tomlinson asked. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;He got the answer of a lifetime.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“Well, in the late '70s, I was a little too young to get involved and go to South America for the Jonestown massacre. But this is as close as I'll ever get, so that's why I'm here,”&lt;/strong&gt; Tom replied.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“Wait, the Jonestown massacre?” Tomlinson said, in disbelief.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“That's right. See, it's &lt;strong&gt;nothing like seeing a cult right up front, man&lt;/strong&gt;."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“Alright, maybe this is not a Trump supporter,” Tomlinson said, in what may be the understatement of the year.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tom’s assessment was proved correct in an earlier clip with this woman. Tomlinson had a lot more he wanted to discuss with her. &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;blockquote class="bluesky-embed" data-bluesky-uri="at://did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3myzagtp4cb26" data-bluesky-cid="bafyreihqbbpvshuozbbl62eruhj2ej3wormlxxgyl3p523duh4a4olcuke"&gt;&lt;p lang="en"&gt;&amp;#34;I know God is using Donald Trump right now&amp;#34;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/oopsie-fox-news-gets-punked-trump" target="_blank"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
     <category domain="https://crooksandliars.com/taxonomy/term/102601">2026 election</category>
 <category domain="https://crooksandliars.com/tags/south-carolina">South Carolina</category>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 18:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Top Dems Demand Answers As Trump's Reliance On Grok Chatbot Hits TERRIFYING Extreme</title>
    <link>https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/top-dems-demand-answers-trumps-reliance</link>
    <description>&lt;div class="node-media"&gt;&lt;img src="https://crooksandliars.com/files/primary_image/26/10/musk_and_trump.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;The two top members of the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees have now demanded that President Donald Trump preserve all of his prompts and conversations with any artificial intelligence chatbots, including and especially Elon Musk's Grok, after coming to learn that the sitting president of this country appears to be relying on AI chatbots to shape White House policy, and even weigh in on decisions to invade foreign nations. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/29/trump-democrats-grok-oversight-01140089"&gt;POLITICO&lt;/a&gt; has obtained and reported on a &lt;a href="https://www.politico.com/f/?id=000001a1-846e-dcbe-abeb-ec7ffda20000"&gt;letter&lt;/a&gt; sent to Donald Trump by Democratic House Reps. Jamie Raskin and Robert Garcia -- who are expected to wield the Judiciary and Oversight gavels if Democrats secure their expected victories next week -- in which they demand that the president henceforth preserve "any prompts" he has submitted to artificial intelligence chatbots, including Grok, ChatGPT, and Claude, while "carrying out your constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties." The letter also demands that the AI chatbot responses be preserved. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/top-dems-demand-answers-trumps-reliance" target="_blank"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 16:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
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