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Donald Trump obsesses over the penis size of a deceased golf legend, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy's latest fashion statement breaks the internet, and more!

Donald Trump Obsesses Over a Golfing Champion's Penis Size

It's getting more obvious that Donald Trump is undergoing a major cognitive decline. How else can you explain this speech he made last weekend in Arnold Palmer's hometown of Labtrobe, Pennsylvania where he spoke glowingly about the alleged big size of the late golfing legend's penis?

Arnold Palmer's daughter, Peg, responded by saying that her father, a political conservative who was friendly with Dwight Eisenhower, would have been insulted by Trump's locker room talk. She said that before her father's death in September, 2016 he was so incensed by Trump's lack of civility that he would make noises of disgust whenever he appeared on television. She added that while he appreciated Trump's support for the game of golf and Arnold Palmer had participated in charity fundraisers and other events at Trump golf courses, all that changed once Trump ran for president. She said that her father wanted no part of Trump's politics due to Trump's lack of civility and his frequent demeaning of others.

Trump's niece, Mary Trump, posted this sage advice on Twitter/X: “Don't let Donald's bizarre comments about Arnold Palmer distract you from the fact that he wants to deploy the military against Americans who don't support him.”

You Can Now Buy a $100 T-Shirt Based on Donald Trump's One-Day Stint Working at McDonald's

A few days ago I wrote about Donald Trump's brief stint working at a McDonald's in Pennsylvania. Now he has decided to make money off of it by selling t-shirts based on his very short job, which can be yours for only $100. This video has the details

You can get your own $100 Donald Trump t-shirt right here.

A Former Trump Administration Aide Warns That Donald Trump Will Rule as a Dictator If He Returns to the White House

Former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly warns that Donald Trump meets the definition of a fascist who previously demonstrated no regards for constitutional limits during his term in office.

In addition there's an article in the latest issue of The Atlantic where Donald Trump openly said that he wanted to have the kind of generals that Adolf Hitler had. It basically confirms Trump's decades-long fascination with Hitler going as far back as his late first wife Ivana Trump's claim that Trump had kept a book of Hitler’s speeches by his bedside all the way to this dinner in the 1990s with Trump and his second wife Marla Maples where Trump shocked his dinner guests when he spoke about how Hitler did some great things and had some great ideas.

The Least Shocking News About Donald Trump

Donald Trump has long had a reputation for not paying his bills. He once even stiffed a trio of child performers who did a song and dance routine at one of his rallies in 2016. In cities across the US where he has held a series of rallies over the years, he has frequently left these cities holding the bag. That tendency has become so bad that some cities are now demanding to be paid upfront before his campaign is even allowed to hold a rally. So much for his claim that he's a successful multi-billionaire.

Elon Musk Vote Buying Scheme Backfires in a Hilarious Way

A few days ago I mentioned that Elon Musk, through his America PAC, is trying to get people living in swing states to sign his petition to keep the constitutional rights to free speech and to bear arms by offering to award $1 million per day to a lucky registered voter who lives in any of the swing states. There are questions as to whether it's even legal (with one election law expert saying no).

For added measure Musk has hired people to go door to door in these swing states representing America PAC and urging people to vote for Trump while entering to win the $1 million per day prize. That effort has hilariously backfired with one resident.

Buying Votes Didn't Work in Moldova

For those who are disheartened by Elon Musk's efforts to give away $1 million a day to a random registered voter in one of the swing states in an obvious effort to buy votes for Trump should know that a similar effort has recently backfired in Moldova this week. Russia has allegedly spent $15 million in an effort to bribe Moldovan voters to vote against a proposed referendum to have Moldova join the European Union. It was all for naught since the Moldovans have voted in favor of approving a change in its constitution to allow Moldova to join the EU.

It's not surprising that Musk is using similar tactics to buy votes since he has come out as a Trump supporter and he also seems to be enamored with Vladimir Putin as well. Let's hope that effort blows up in Musk’s face on November 5 just as badly as Russia's effort did in Moldova.

An Update on the “Tim Walz is a Pedophile” Story

There's now a consensus that the story I previously mentioned about this rumor that Tim Walz is a pedophile is not only a total fake but it has origins outside of the United States. Of course it came from Russia just like so many other bullshit stories that have been flooding social media at a rapid pace over the past few years.

That story is one of a whole bunch of fake stories about the Democrats with origins in Russia. This week The Washington Post ran an article about John Mark Dougan, a former deputy Palm Beach County sheriff who fled to Moscow and became one of the Kremlin’s most prolific propagandists. He is now working directly with Russian military intelligence to pump out deepfakes and circulate misinformation that targets Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign. Dougan is also subsidized by far-right imperialist philosopher Alexander Dugin, who is frequently nicknamed “Putin's brain.”

Be Cautious When Viewing Right-Wing Anti-Ukraine Propaganda

The AP recently did this expose on Ben Swann, a far-right influencer who recently did a 12-part video series called Zelenskyy Unmasked, which is supposed to be an expose of the dark side of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. It turned out that Swann is a TV producer who has worked for the Kremlin-run RT and has appeared as a guest on a few of RT's shows. Even though Zelenskyy Unmasked is officially not being released through the Kremlin media outlets, it's very likely that Swann has been influenced enough by his past work with RT to provide the Kremlin view of Zelenskyy.

A look of who appeared in the Zelenskyy Unmasked series is a who's who of people who have not only appeared on previous RT shows but I've previously mentioned some of them in this Substack including Tara Reade, Scott Ritter, and the late Russell “Texas” Bentley.

President Zelenskyy's Latest Fashion Statement

As Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was giving an address to his nation regarding the American $20 billion support provision to Ukraine, he wore a black t-shirt that said “Make Russia Small Again.”

The front of the shirt also includes an image of a map of Russia as it was back in 1462, when it was known as the Principality of Moscovia. (The map can't be seen in the Zelenskyy video because he was sitting at his desk at the time he gave his speech.) The back of the t-shirt shows the Principality of Moscovia that's superimposed over the map of the modern day Russian Federation along with the phrase “Make Russia Small Again.” Here is a photo of both the front and back of the t-shirt.

That t-shirt has created a huge sensation online. As for what Make Russia Small Again is about, it's partially a riff on the name of Donald Trump's Make America Great Again movement. But it's also a reference to Russian history about how Russia was once a tiny country under its previous name of Principality of Moscovia back in the 1400s until it grew through conquering other territories. This video provides a brief explanation of Russia's history of expansionism over the centuries.

Of course Russia is less than thrilled with President Zelenskyy's choice of style as the Minister of Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova responded with “Small as what? The USSR? The Russian Empire? Oh, I got it! As the Kievan Rus. For that we need Kiev. You said it yourself, bloody jerk.”

Some online retailers are getting in on this as sites like Dribble and Viralstyle are now selling them and they all cost far less than that $100 t-shirt showing Donald Trump working at McDonald's.

A Patch of the Russian Map That Also Includes Alaska

Earlier this year I wrote about how Russia wants the US to return Alaska, the onetime Russian territory that the Russian Empire sold in the US back in 1867 for financial reasons. Today Alaska is a US state and it's simply not realistic for the US to just hand over Alaska to Russia because Vladimir Putin wants it back as part of his effort to rebuild the old Russian Empire. But it hasn't stopped the Russians from engaging in wishful thinking when it comes to Alaska. Recently someone tweeted a photo of a Russian military patch. It consists of an outline of a map of the Russian Federation and it actually includes Alaska.

The only way that Russia can even come close to making that dream of getting Alaska back from the US come true would be if the Kremlin succeeds in its efforts to get Donald Trump elected as president and Trump decides to give Alaska back to Russia as a thank you president. (Which is yet another reason to vote for Kamala Harris.)

Most Embarrassing Tweet of the Week

At times it must be hard to be in the shoes of the Gen-Z Lord Haw-Haw Jackson Hinkle. You work nonstop promoting talking points that are spewed by the Kremlin, Hamas, Hezbollah, and other unsavory clients while getting paid to do so only to have bad things continue to happen to the side that you're promoting. Recently he had to deal with the deaths of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.

How can Jackson Hinkle express his despair at these losses who represent a side that Hinkle is paid to spew on Twitter/X on a daily basis? Hinkle's solution is to make this tweet featuring a graphic that's so bad that it's funny. Drew Pavlou retweeted Hinkle's graphic (which was probably AI generated) featuring Nasrallah and Sinwar in the afterlife standing in a field of grasses and flowers with both of them wearing long white robes and shaking hands. As Drew Pavlou noted, “I know that Jackson makes money from these posts but you would think at some point he would have to be too embarrassed to post that shit.”

And Finally

Donald Trump has long famously eschewed exercise because he believes that the human body is like a battery. When all of the power is used up, the body dies. So he goes to great lengths to preserve as much of his finite power as possible, such as frequently using a golf cart when he plays golf instead of walking from one hole to another.

Recently Donald Trump had shared on Truth Social an AI generated image of himself as a very buff football player with the Pittsburgh Steelers, which Trump misspelled as Stealers. In response The Late Show With Stephen Colbert has come up with other AI generated images of Trump as a football player playing on a bunch of NFL teams whose names are misspelled.

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