FOLLOW THE MONEY: RNC raises record-setting $27.3 million in September, amid impeachment push.

Impeachment is motivating conservatives, annoying moderates, and even has some lefties concerned. So clearly it’s been a big success, assuming Nancy Pelosi is a GOP mole.

SHE REMINDS ME OF KIM JONG UN IN SEVERAL WAYS: Kamala Campaign Mocked For Tweeting Bizarrely Terrible Photoshop.

SASSE MAKES SENATE DEMS VOTE ON BETO’S RADICAL JIHAD AGAINST CHURCH TAX-EXEMPTION: Don’t be surprised if all six Senate Democrats running for their party’s 2020 presidential nomination are nowhere to be seen on the Senate floor Monday, thanks to Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.). And Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who on Thursday invoked a Senate rule to fast-track something the Dems would rather avoid.

Sasse introduced a resolution that declares “any effort by the government to condition the receipt of the protections of the Constitution of the United States and the laws of the United States, including an exemption from taxation, on the public policy positions of an organization, is an affront to the spirit and letter of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.”

The Nebraska Republican was reacting to former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s promise to withdraw the federal tax exemptions of all churches, synagogues and mosques that oppose same-sex marriage. Today, the jihad targets religious tax exemptions; sooner or later, they’ll want to tell us how to vote. If they let us vote.

SHOT:

THE OBLIGATORY CHASER:

OUT ON A LIMB: America Wasn’t Founded on White Supremacy.

BULLIES: China Secretly Ordered NBA Commissioner To Fire Rockets’ GM Over Hong Kong Tweet.

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver revealed on Thursday that the Chinese government insisted the league fire Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey over a now-deleted October 4 tweet supporting the protesters in Hong Kong, according to Time.

“We made clear that we were being asked to fire him, by the Chinese government, by the parties we dealt with, government and business,” Silver said in his first US interview about the league’s ongoing free speech scandal. “We said there’s no chance that’s happening. There’s no chance we’ll even discipline him.”

Speaking at the TIME 100 Health Summit, Silver noted that “The losses have already been substantial,” adding “Our games are not back on the air in China as we speak, and we’ll see what happens next.”

Maybe decoupling from China is what happens next, or at least ought to.

IF TRUMP DOES BETTER AT THE POLLS THAN IN THE POLLS, THIS FROM OHIO IS WHY:

Many of my family, friends, former teachers, coaches, classmates and church congregates — and all their friends — in this county of 30,000 people are Trump supporters, and I didn’t want to put them out there, by name, for the trolls to feast on.

I love my hometown and its people too much.

These folks already get made fun of enough for being from Appalachia. They’re good, respectful people who are focused on taking care of their families. They want to be left alone. They don’t care about stupid Twitter wars, and I don’t want to be responsible for thrusting them into the vicious rhetorical crossfire between leftist activists and Trump sycophants.

I quickly came to the realization that this was going to be a challenge soon after arriving for my 2½-day stay in early September. I found that a lot of folks didn’t want to talk about Trump. They didn’t want to put themselves out there for fear of being verbally bludgeoned on Facebook and Twitter or in the grocery store or even at church.

And those who did want to talk, well, they seemed to speak for those who wanted to remain silent: They’re tired of certain cable news networks and the leftist political class stereotyping them as a bunch of toothless, racist, backwoods rubes.

“I don’t want to talk about it because you can’t have an opinion unless it’s their opinion,” an African American Trump supporter said about the left. “Either you believe the way they believe, or you’re a racist or a homophobe. The reason I’m working is because of what Trump’s done. I just want to put my hard hat on and go to work every day.”

The man, who added he’s a registered Democrat, talked to Enquirer photographer Albert Cesare and me for nearly an hour on his front porch on a hot evening. He said a lady at his church had given him grief for supporting “racist” Trump, but the man said he’s seen no hard evidence that’s true.

The man then abruptly said he wanted no part of the story, stepped inside his house and closed the front door, leaving us sitting on the porch dumbfounded.

I didn’t blame him one bit.

So yeah, sure, he’s going to tell a stranger on the phone how he plans to vote.

DEMS HAVE CHAMPAGNE SPENDING TASTE, WATERED DOWN BEER BUDGETS: Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Brian Riedl looked at the numbers for the many new spending programs like Medicare for All and free college and found a gross imbalance: $40 trillion to spend, but less than $4 trillion in new taxes on the wealthy. No, I didn’t just do a forehead slap.

FAKE NEWS: Liberal Media Falsely Claims White House Admitted to Quid Pro Quo with Ukraine.

THEY’RE NOT VERY BRIGHT, BUT THEY’RE PRONE TO HYSTERIA: Impeachment Becomes A Psychodrama Of the Press.

WHY IS NBC SUCH A CESSPIT OF SEXUAL ABUSE? Megyn Kelly demands NBC release Matt Lauer accusers from their NDAs.

IT’S NOT JUST YOUR ACQUAINTANCES ON FACEBOOK:  How the Universe Stopped Making Sense.

EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW:  This makeup artist is blowing minds with her stunning lip art.

SOME PEOPLE DO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. RARELY POLITICIANS:  Virginia Walden Ford.

IT’S IMPORTANT NOW AND THEN TO CHECK OUR STANDING. IT’S VERY EASY TO GO OUT OF TRUE WITHOUT NOTICING. AS SO MANY PEOPLE ARE DEMONSTRATING DAILY:  Tilting.

AND IT’S A DANGEROUS GAME BESIDES:  Why Gun Confiscation Really Wouldn’t Work In The U.S..

AND ALL THE OTHER AMENDMENTS TOO:  Continued Court-Packing Rhetoric A Threat To Second Amendment.

NONE DARE CALL IT:  “Not True Communism/Socialism”.

MAYBE INSTEAD OF WORRYING ABOUT WHAT CRIMES “THE JOKER” MIGHT INSPIRE THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN MORE CONCERNED OVER JLO’S “HUSTLERS”?  Female duo spikes gambler’s drink, robs him of Rolex and cash: video.

ONLY IF THE LEFT GETS THEIR WAY. THEY’VE ALWAYS BEEN ENAMORED WITH THE IDEA OF PEASANTS HAVING TO EAT BUGS, WHILE THEY FEAST ON YAGU BEEF:  Most pizzas will be made from crushed BUGS ‘in 20 years’, expert claims.

SOME PEOPLE WOULD SELL OUT THEIR OWN MOTHERS FOR LUCRE:  Chinese Chequers and Other Spectator Games.

WHAT IS OVER THERE CAN COME OVER HERE:  Cuomo orders utility to pump imaginary natural gas.

FOR THE TIMES THEY ARE ACHANGING:  Furious Farmers Defy Army Roadblocks in Dutch Anti-Green Protest.