As a public service, here are nine hurricane disaster rumors concocted between October 3rd and today (10/09), currently being spread online by people who find the need to pull alternative facts out of their A-Double-Scribbles. The list can be found here at the FEMA Rumor Response website along with explanations.

Some people have apparently found it completely necessary to scare the living bejeesus out of “MAGA Snowflakes.” No, I didn’t coin that term, but I wish I had.

▪︎ FEMA will only provide $750 to disaster survivors to support their recovery.

▪︎ FEMA is blockading people in Florida and preventing evacuations.

▪︎ FEMA only provides loans to disaster survivors.

▪︎ Applying multiple times for disaster assistance will speed up the process of being approved.

▪︎FEMA is no longer accepting applications for housing assistance.

▪︎ FEMA does not have enough money to provide disaster assistance for Helene.

▪︎ FEMA is asking for cash donations and turning away volunteers.

▪︎ Funding for FEMA disaster response was diverted to support international efforts or border related issues.

▪︎ FEMA is confiscating donations for survivors.

I know. These rumors are absolutely unbelievable and one wonders how anyone can swallow these lies made out of whole cloth. But then they tell me the whole presidential election is a tossup and is anybody’s to win. So if you need an explanation, there’s that.

Vice President Kamala Harris has admitted on 60 Minutes that she owns a Glock pistol, and The Daily Caller has called on her to … well … lay that pistol down.

Not that The Daily Caller is anti-gun. Far from it. The Daily Caller is a right-wing conspiracy spreader founded by former Fox News pundit and neofascist Tucker Carlson.

But oh, the hypocrisy! The humanity! A Democratic presidential candidate owns a pistol that is currently illegal to buy or sell in California!

It’s a hypocrisy the likes of which the entire world has never seen before. It’s bigly!

Harris’s Glock, as are all Glocks, is equipped to accept a 15-bullet magazine when, according to a California state gun safety law passed in 2000, the magazines cannot hold more than 10 rounds. Glocks are also not equipped with a loaded chamber indicator and magazine disconnect as required by California’s law.

Harris, they say, could be arrested! They could throw her in jail for a year! TFG may have 34 felony convictions, but he wouldn’t be the only presidential jailbird! Not by a long shot!

Or not.

Turns out the very same law exempts present and former law enforcement officers from its provisions, which Kamala Harris, as a former AG, is one of.

But she could be arrested if she wasn’t!

Near as I can tell, The Daily Caller wouldn’t object to every American’s God-given right to own a TOW anti-tank missile launcher or an M249 Squad Automatic Weapon (a SAW machine gun). But somehow, Harris’s ownership of a Glock pistol is an issue worth column inches.

I gotta say, when the neofascists want to show off their hypocrisy, they do go all out, don’t they?

Von Shitzenpantz is an empty shell. There is not an atom of guilt, of empathy, or of common decency in his psyche.

How else do you explain the cognitive dissonance that is fully on display in this photo-op of his taken earlier today at a Jewish memorial service that marks one year since the heinous terror attack on Israeli civilians?

I don’t care where you are in the endless wars in the Middle East. That picture tells you all that you need to know about Bronzer Boy’s state of mind.

What there is of it, that is.

I’ll say right up front that I am not a fan of billionaires who donate outrageous amounts of money to presidential campaigns. It’s a blight on our republican democracy for such stupendous amounts of money to be made available to politicians of any stripe.

That being said, I do take some comfort in knowing that, at least in this case, some Silicon Valley tech lucre will not flow into TFG’s coffers.

On Friday, tech billionaire venture capitalist Ben Horowitz, along with his wife, withdrew their support for Don the Con – and shifted their endorsement to the Harris/Walz side.

It’s a win that The Don will not be advantaged by at least one billionaire’s lucre, and to make the win sweeter, Horowitz’s partner, Marc Andreason, has also pulled his support from The Orange One.

Said Horowitz, in part, in a xeet on “X:”

“As I mentioned before, Felicia and I have known Vice President Harris for over 10 years, and she has been a great friend to both of us during that time. She’s also been a friend to the firm in our early days, helping with several events at my house when we built the original Cultural Leadership Fund network. As a result of our friendship, Felicia and I will be making a significant donation to entities who support the Harris Walz campaign.”

Get that? It’s personal, not business. Horowitz went on to say that Harris’s position on Crypto and AI is unknown, and they are “hopeful” that Harris will have a more moderate view than Biden on that stuff.

Doesn’t matter. Just make sure that if they donate in bitcoin to get that changed to dollars. ASAP.

And, yeah, Felicia is Horowitz’s wife, obviously, but her farewell to TFG is especially appropriate.

One thing you have to say about The Former Guy is that he’s old, but not too old to learn from his past mistakes. Mistakes like throwing his personal lawyer under the bus while he was just doing the bidding of his client.

When Michael Cohen’s antics while acting at the behest of Don the Con to get elected President finally caught up with him in 2018, The Don was nowhere to be found. In fact, he was too busy throwing his lawyer under a bus to notice that his former toady lawyer was extremely put off by his indifference.

“I never directed Michael Cohen to break the law,” [TFG] said in a tweet. “He was a lawyer and he is supposed to know the law. It is called “advice of counsel,” and a lawyer has great liability if a mistake is made. That is why they get paid.”

Indeed. That is why they get paid.

Unfortunately for Bronzer Boy, he discovered too late that there is getting paid, and then there is getting paid. And TFG got paid back in spades for abandoning his lawyer to a stay in Otisville Federal Prison.

After serving his sentence, Cohen sang like a canary to anyone who would listen to him, and there were lots of listeners. That ultimately got TFG tried and convicted of 34 felonies as well as having embarrassing open court testimony about his encounter with a pornographic actor while his wife was home nursing his newborn baby boy.

This will help us all understand why TFG is paying $103,840 out of his “Save America PAC” to Tully Bailey LLC, the law firm defending his other former personal lawyer, Boris Epshteyn.

Epshteyn, also known as CC6 in Jack Smith’s new filing, has pleaded not guilty to nine felony charges in Arizona for the “fake Electors scheme.” But this time TFG is standing steadfastly with his personal lawyer with his PAC’s checkbook in hand. Because this time bus-throwing-under is not an option.

Epshteyn, like Cohen, knows where the bodies are buried.

As with everyone else who recalls election antics from one year to the next, I’ve been waiting for the October Surprise (or surprises, who knows?) that should be rearing its head right about now.

It didn’t take long, it seems. About one minute into October, the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) called a strike at all of the ports that they have workers. All major ports on the East and the Gulf Coast are affected.

It is not news that an October port strike would be to the detriment of a sitting administration and a boon to the political party challenging them. The fact that the Biden Administration is the most pro-union government in decades – and arguably, ever, makes the move to strike just now more than a little suspicious.

Cap that with this newly circulated photo of the ILA president, Harold Daggett, 78, shaking hands with the first former president with 13 felony convictions (or any felony convictions, for that matter).
The photo was taken a while ago but has suddenly resurfaced all over the internet – and now here.

That, along with tales of two former trials in which the union president was connected to the Mafia.

That, along with tales of Daggett owning a luxurious 7100 square foot mansion, a 76-foot yacht and drives a Bentley.

And his salaries. Don’t forget his salaries.

So what is the deal here? Why slip a knife in the back of a pro-union party? The union supported Joe Biden in 2020 with their endorsement, and the ILA PAC has contributed $115,000 to Democrats out of a total of $120,000 to all parties just this year.

Right now, there are more questions than answers, but I’ll bet there’s a great story out there begging to be told.

Addendum: As you can read in the comments the strike was just called off until January 15th.  It reminds me of Rule 76 of the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition: “Every once in a while, declare peace. It confuses the hell out of your enemies.”