EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Harris Campaign Ejects Muslim Leader from Detroit Rally.

CHANGE: Punk Rock Feminist Has Revelation While Stripping.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Home Sales on Track for Worst Year Since 1995.

Sales of existing homes in the U.S. are on track for the worst year since 1995—for the second year in a row.

Persistently high home prices and elevated mortgage rates are keeping potential home buyers on the sidelines. Sales of previously owned homes in the first nine months of the year were lower than the same period last year, the National Association of Realtors said Wednesday.

Existing-home sales in September fell 1% from the prior month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.84 million, NAR said, the lowest monthly rate since October 2010. Economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal had estimated a monthly decrease of 0.5%.

September sales fell 3.5% from a year earlier.

After a sluggish 2023, economists and real-estate executives widely expected activity to pick up in 2024.

More unexpected bad news.

CAN WE GET EVE PLUMB TO GO “HITLER! HITLER! HITLER!” FOR AN AD?

Democrats Explain Trump Was Going To Be Hitler During His First Term, But He Forgot https://t.co/qI3TQ53yZN pic.twitter.com/lCXjKRaDV2

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) October 23, 2024

MATT TAIBBI: Trump Camp: British Censorship Group to Be “Investigated From All Angles.”

THEY’RE HATING THE MCDONALD’S THING: Ron Hart: Democrats Seek to Establish No-Fry Zone.

Trump highlighted Kamala’s unsubstantiated claim that she worked at McDonald’s by going to work at the fry station at one in Pennsylvania. In his patented way of breaking through and around the mainstream media hatred of him with an act of swashbuckling showmanship, Trump scored a political win with this stunt. . . .

Trump likes McDonald’s and identifies with the working class. It seems odd for an entitled New York billionaire, but he does. The Internet is suggesting that Kamala must do something to try to match Trump’s successful McDonald’s campaign event. It burnished Trump’s brand; to match him, you wonder if Kamala will do Five Guys.

The left dismisses the very clear lie that she worked at McDonald’s. It is such a simple question, one easy to verify, and it is journalistic malpractice that the media have not pressed her on it. . . .

Trump seemed to fit right in working at that McDonald’s in Pennsylvania. He would have been Employee of the Month, until human resources wrote him up for talking about Arnold Palmer in the shower.

When he left McDonald’s, he promised, if elected, to fix the ice cream machine and make Taco Bell pay for it.

You can tell he scored by the sour reactions, from Democrats and from the media — but I repeat myself.

IT’S NOT PRETTY, AND THE CONSEQUENCES WON’T BE:

Perhaps the biggest attraction of the Left was the cool factor it conferred. You became sophisticated, elite. You were admitted to all in the in-jokes. You left the McDonald's crowd and all those terrible places where people actually said prayers before they ate.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) October 23, 2024

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

SPACE: Crew-8 Astronauts Prepare for Dramatic Splashdown After 7 Months in Orbit.

AMERICA’S PAPER OF RECORD:

Dick Cheney Excitedly Joins Democrat Party After Hearing They Get To Shoot People At Gun Ranges https://t.co/v2LJQ4uaZh pic.twitter.com/GK2aFkd3ph

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) October 23, 2024

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Scientists Revived a Pig’s Brain Nearly a Whole Hour After It Died. “This achievement represents a huge step forward in working out how to restore brain function after a patient has suffered a sudden cardiac arrest. It suggests that doctors may be able to widen the brief window for successful resuscitation of patients following cardiac arrest.”

FRED HOYLE SMILES: Did Life Begin in Space? The Surprising Discovery of a Crucial Sugar Acid.

THIS MAKES ME SAD: Duloxetine antidepressant recalled over presence of toxic chemical.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Bank Study Claims 52 Percent of Households Postponed New Vehicle Purchases.

WELL, THE FBI: The FBI’s Revised Crime Stats Were Made On The Sneak.

HMM: Scurvy may be re-emerging amid cost of living crisis and rise of weight loss surgery.

SO THEY HAVE A SIMILAR GENE TO SORORITY GIRLS: Oriental hornets do not get sick or die when consuming very large amounts of alcohol, study shows.

WELL, GOOD: Study: Fatal opioid-meth overdoses fall by 37% in United States.

IT’S FOR YOUR HEALTH: Harvard Doctor Confirms that Human ‘Brains Need Meat.’

LAWLESS: A look at the ‘shadow network’ that censors dissent and tried to destroy Trump.

NOT-SO-MOSTLY-PEACEFUL: Cornell releases video footage debunking pro-Palestinian protesters’ claims of non-violence.

CONSEQUENCES: 11 arrested in pro-BDS occupation, barricade of University of Minnesota administrative building.

OF COURSE THEY ARE: Judicial Watch: Media ‘prepping the battlefield’ for election fraud.

DON’T GET COCKY:

NEW: Mark Halperin predicts we will "almost certainly" know who will be the next president before Election Day.

Vote early. Bring friends and family with you. Sprint through the finish line.

Halperin says America will likely know who the next president is before Election Day… pic.twitter.com/7gAeifdQWn

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 22, 2024

GOING AFTER CRUCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE: Ukraine, in an Unlikely Attack on an Iconic Cultural Mainstay, Is Sending Drones Into Russia To Blow Up Its Vodka Distilleries. “In a blow to Russia, Ukraine used the cover of night yesterday to blast four large vodka distilleries. Video clips posted online purported to show alcohol tanks burning fiercely in Tula and Tambov, two Russian regions about 300 miles from eastern Ukraine. In the largest attack to date on Russia’s alcohol industry, drones flew from Ukraine and set off the pre-dawn blazes. In President Putin’s wartime economy, alcohol distilleries produce vodka for drinking and ethanol for the military machine.”