NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Nearly all looters nabbed in Pinellas County, FL, after recent hurricanes were in US illegally.

According to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office at a press conference Thursday, 41 of the 45 alleged looters out of more than 100 people rounded up on a variety of other charges, including armed robbery, burglary, loitering, grant theft, vandalism and trespassing charges following the two deadly storms are in the U.S. illegally, Fox News said in a report.

Another 58 people have been scamming hurricane victims out of about $250 million for repairs that never got done, and were likely never intended to be done.

Sheriff Bob Gualtieri’s office added that another 196 people were caught under suspicious circumstances, questioned by deputies but then released for lack of probable cause. Of those people, 163 were found to be in the U.S. illegally.

I had been assured by all the best people that illegal aliens were less likely to break the law than citizens — after discounting illegal entry, of course.

BREAKING: Supreme Court Allows Virginia To Remove Noncitizens From Voter Rolls.

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: Medical schools politicizing health care, putting lives ‘on the line’: watchdog.

WAPO: Republicans “Sieze” on Biden’s “Garbage” remarks. We have an S-word sighting!

The White House initially provided a transcript of Biden’s remarks that purported to show him saying “supporters’” — a plural possessive. A few hours later, the White House distributed a new transcript that used “supporter’s” — a singular possessive word that apparently refers to the comedian alone.

The change came after White House staff talked to the president, who conveyed that he meant to say the comedian’s language “was garbage,” according to a person familiar with the situation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal dynamics.

In the meantime, Trump’s campaign seized on the moment, saying in an email: “Kamala Harris’ governing partner just insulted tens of millions of Americans. Will Kamala apologize and disavow Joe Biden’s remarks?”

Evergreen:

Related:

As Dave Weigel tweets, “Hear me out: Biden on Rogan.”

BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: Bush Daughter Campaigns for Kamala Harris.

CONSEQUENCES: Brown University suspends Students for Justice in Palestine group after reports of harassment and ‘banging on a vehicle.’

SAY, ISN’T THAT THE REGIME BIDEN-HARRIS HAS DONE EVERYTHING IN ITS POWER TO PROTECT? Iran Is Still Trying To Assassinate Mike Pompeo, State Department Discloses to Congress in Non-Public Memo. “The findings come on the eve of a contested presidential election in which Iran’s plots to assassinate former president Donald Trump have taken center stage in recent weeks. Trump was briefed late last month about real and specific threats from Iran to assassinate him in an effort to destabilize and sow chaos in the United States, according to his campaign.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: NY Times Proves That It Really Is ‘Pravda on the Hudson.’ “The Democrats have spent the last ten days or so shrieking about Donald Trump’s trip to a McDonald’s and one line uttered by a comedian at a rally that went on for hours. This is one of the most important elections in the history of the Republic and their closing argument is a temper tantrum.”

ALL THE BEST PEOPLE TOLD ME THIS SORT OF THING NEVER HAPPENS: Missing Mail-In Ballots Spark Voter Anger in Crucial Pennsylvania County.

GARBAGE:

“Pretty good October Surprise right?” pic.twitter.com/ZEAbNJEMzs

— Mostly Peaceful Memes (@MostlyPeacefull) October 30, 2024

DON SURBER: End income tax, starve the beast: It is your money, not the government’s. “The tax code is used to punish earners, reward the workless through tax credits and pay back political donors through an endless stream of tax loopholes. It is your money, not the government’s. If Americans keeping $2 trillion of the money they earn causes problems for the government, that is the government’s problem and not ours. We elect these geniuses to Congress. Let them figure out what to cut because they were the ones who pumped the air into the balloon we call the federal government.”

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG:

The Colorado Secretary of State’s Office inadvertently posted a spreadsheet to its website with a hidden tab that included voting system passwords.

How do we know? Someone right-clicked "unhide."https://t.co/MKU59fnM2l #copolitics

— Marshall Zelinger (@Marshall9News) October 29, 2024

Full details here, including this: “Matt Crane, a former Republican Arapahoe County Clerk and current executive director of the Colorado Clerks Association, said the fact that the passwords were online, albeit hidden, is concerning, but that the group is satisfied with the actions the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office is taking.”

Why? Secretary of State Jena Griswold might be the worst Dem hack in a state government stuffed full of them.

CNN MONDAY: It’s OK to call all Trump supporters Nazis, but don’t you dare make a terrorist joke about a Qatar-funded mouthpiece.

CNN yesterday? No, Joe didn’t call all Trump supporters “Garbage!” How dare you think that he did!

The MSM are already in an all out panic trying to spin this.

Scott Jennings terrorizes the entire CNN panel with reality. All of them erupt into a frenzy when Scott says that the Dems have “disdain for half the country”.

They can’t walk this one back. The panic is real! pic.twitter.com/eIr30zHSSI

— Clandestine (@WarClandestine) October 30, 2024

SHOCKER: ‘Zero change’ among Pennsylvania Hispanics over Puerto Rico ‘joke.’

SEE BETTER: Gaoye 5-Pack Reading Glasses Blue Light Blocking. #CommissionEarned

I DUNNO, I THINK THE PRESIDENT CALLING HALF THE COUNTRY “GARBAGE” IS MUCH MORE NEWSWORTHY THAN AN TUMMLER DOING HIS SHTICK:

Biden: Trump supporters are garbage.

CNN's Jim Acosta: Calling someone garbage is disgusting and hateful.

CNN's Kasie Hunt: Calling someone garbage is so incredibly crude.

CNN's Dana Bash: Calling someone garbage is too X-rated to share on TV.

MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski: Calling… pic.twitter.com/GefhywPQkz

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 30, 2024

LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY:

Breaking: I can exclusively report that a handwritten note declaring “ALL DROP BOXES WILL BURN. FREE GAZA" was discovered in a Clark County, WA ballot drop box shortly after hundreds of ballots were burned in WA & OR through the use of incendiary devices. https://t.co/5upwn3G5ot

— Andy Ngo 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) October 30, 2024

TAKE NOTHING FOR GRANTED: Think the Polls Are Undercounting Trump’s Support? Here’s Why You Shouldn’t.

LOVING THIS: Journalists Still Freaking Out and Quitting Their Jobs Because They Can’t Endorse Kamala.

OH, THAT STATE-RUN MEDIA:

Just think of the Politico as Democratic Party operatives with bylines, and it almost makes sense. (Why would they do this level of paraphrasing when Biden is on video? Well, it’s now less than a week to go before the election, and everybody’s going all in to somehow get Harris over the finish line.)

But Politico doing this when everyone can see the video of Biden’s actual quote? Well:

YOU CAN TELL BECAUSE HE’S ON CNN: Jake Tapper Is Lying About CNN’s Key Role In The Russia Collusion Hoax.

On Jan. 12, 2017, I appeared on a CNN panel to discuss current events. It was memorable, and not just because we were taping from the roof of a building near the U.S. Capitol as part of the outlet’s special coverage of Trump’s first inauguration. Just as we were about to go on, we were significantly delayed by President Barack Obama surprising Vice President Joe Biden with a Presidential Medal of Freedom.

As I recall, there were maybe five or six of us on set, including former Obama political appointee Jim Sciutto and host Jake Tapper, two of the four authors of the most important story of the entire Russia collusion hoax. “Intel chiefs presented Trump with claims of Russian efforts to compromise him” had been published just two days prior, followed up by BuzzFeed publishing the actual document claiming widespread collusion between Trump and Russia. That document — which nine months later was revealed to have been secretly bought and paid for by Hillary Clinton and the Democrat National Committee — included salacious lies about Trump supposedly paying prostitutes to urinate on a bed that the Obamas had slept in during a visit to a fancy Moscow hotel. The hysteria was such that many people wondered if Donald Trump would make it to the inauguration.

It may sound crazy now, but Washington, D.C. at that time was full of people who either believed or pretended to believe that Donald Trump really had colluded with Russia to steal the election.

Read the whole thing because Mollie Hemingway brought the receipts.

THAT WAS THE QUADRENNIAL THAT WAS:

How it started: US election: Joe Biden vows to ‘unify’ country in victory speech.

—The BBC, November 8th, 2020.

How it’s ending: Biden calls Trump supporters ‘garbage’ during Harris campaign call as VP calls for unity at Ellipse rally.

—Joseph Wulfsohn, Fox News, today.

Exit question:

BECAUSE IT’S JUST MORE BIDENOMICS. IS THAT SO DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND? Perplexed and Bewildered Democrats Wonder Why Harris’s Economic Message Isn’t Resonating With Voters.

I RECKON HE WASN’T READY FOR HIS 72 VIRGINS:  Hezbollah commander confronted by IDF troops and surrenders in his underwear, video shows.

THE ONLY ENEMIES ARE DOMESTIC POLITICAL ENEMIES: Uh, Oh, Again: Homeland Security Role in Bizarre Election Day “Tabletop Exercise” Denied: Organizers of a Election Day cyber exercise suddenly repudiate their own announcement of Homeland Security involvement. What gives? Plus, a peek at new DHS FOIA material.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA, has been the subject of multiple Racket stories in recent years. A year ago, we followed up a House Weaponization of Government Committee report with Twitter Files documents detailing the Homeland Security agency’s help forming the Election Integrity Partnership at Stanford, which mass-flagged social media content in the last presidential election.

Now, a week before another presidential vote, the agency again stepped in it, in a seeming effort to quell conspiracy theories that are almost certain to achieve the opposite.

CISA went unintentionally viral in recent weeks when its participation in a “large scale” cybersecurity exercise on Election Day in Atlanta was announced by the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA). When Kentucky Senator Rand Paul sent DHS chief Alejandro Mayorkas a WTF letter, CISA said the event was canceled. Now, despite both DHS and CISA being listed as “pivotal organizations” at the event, with the Election Day exercise scheduled to be led by a CISA official named Klint Walker, the organizers, i.e. the people who wrote the brochure below, are reportedly telling reporters DHS/CISA had “no involvement” with the event.

CISA, meanwhile, has just sent a letter to Paul’s office. “While conference organizers invited Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) officials to attend this year,” Director Jen Easterly writes, “no CISA employees will be attending either the conference or preconference exercise.”

Surprised staff in Paul’s office are responding to media queries by sending out copies of original documents showing scheduled DHS/CISA participation. You can expect new denials to hit large news organizations as soon as tonight, with the result that a tale once destined to be a footnote to Election Day may now blow up into something larger and weirder.

Trump supporters need to be ready to defend democracy, I guess.