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-Heading into the weekend, with most polls still looking decent both nationally and in the all-important swing states (if you don’t glance at The New York How Do We Make it Harder on Democrats Times), a slew of economic news bodes well for Democratic Nominee Kamala Harris. The good news started yesterday when a tentative wage agreement with striking dockworkers led to that strike being suspended through mid-January so other issues (particularly automation) could continue to be negotiated, thereby removing a potential nasty “October surprise” that could have worked against Harris.
-A second bit of good news came later after that when a Federal judge moved a MAGAGOP-led court case to end President Biden’s attempt to forgive 30 million student loans (because reasons) led to the plan being put back on track. Sadly, that news was reversed when a different MAGAGOP-appointed Judge in Missouri (where the case was moved) wound up re-imposing the ban, but the news that Biden’s plan was on track only for MAGAGOP to end it likely gave Harris some good residual news to an important voting bloc likely to go heavily Democratic.
-Then this morning, it was announced 254,000 jobs were filled in September, which combined with an upward revised number in August and proof the Federal bank’s prime rate lending cut looks to have made it easier to hire (while holding down inflation numbers) led to the U.S. unemployment rate moving down to 4.1% - all of which directly contradicts the THIS COUNTRY IS DOOMED TO BE A LIVING HELL WHERE EVERY INCH OF TOILET PAPER WILL COST YOU A YEAR’S WAGES argument being made (we think, it’s hard to tell with all the slurring and sleepy delivery) of Republican Presidential nominee Old Weird Convicted Felon Ex-President Trump (R-apist) against Harris, which would feed into better polling just as early voting – now a Democratic Party strong suit – begins nationally.
-Oh, but there was even more decent news for the Harris campaign! At an appearance in Ripon, WI – the place where the modern Republican Party was born – Harris accepted the nomination of longtime GOP scion Liz Cheney (R-Still a Cheney) as the steady stream of Republicans-who-are-not-MAGA continue to bring support to Harris. In a more comfortable endorsement, Harris also got Bruce Springsteen’s endorsement, which wasn’t surprising but is still cool to a few of us of certain ages. And this morning it was announced that the Democratic Party’s closer, former President Barack Obama, will start a four-week round of rallies to get out the vote this Monday in Pittsburgh.
-Heck, even the Vice Presidential debate has wound up bringing even more momentum to the Democrats. Sure, MAGAGOP Veep nominee JD Vance saw a major shift in his likeability numbers from historically low (21%) to not as low but still underwater (-4% nationally) – but amazingly, Democratic nominee Tim Walz was even better. Already the candidate with the highest favorables, Walz’ Minnesota Nice appearance (capped by a damning if still not mean drilling of Vance over Vance refusing to admit Trump lost the 2020 election) took his high numbers and made them stratospheric – nearly 60% of Americans liking Walz’ coachy energy, and leading the Harris campaign to book appearances this week on 60 MINUTES and Jimmy Kimmel, along with an appearance in not-yet-a-swing-state of Ohio (does the Harris campaign knopw something?!) for fundraising and a promise to make him even more prominent in the home stretch.
-Of course, Harris may also have been helped by the release of Special Prosecutor Jack Smith’s new 160-page indictment released by Judge Tanya Chutkan with more detail about Trump’s role in the January 6 insurrection. That the release happened to re-enforce the big viral moment of the Veep debate of Vance choosing Trump over the truth of 2020 is a happy matter of happenstance, even as Trump not shockingly went on his failing Truth Social platform to rant and rave about election interference and working with Harris and Democrats are the election deniers yadda yadda yadda yawn yawn yawn – with Trump defying his advisors and continuing to whine-rant about his victimhood before a ¼-filled high school gymnasium in WI earlier this week.
-In an attempt to try to regain some bit of perceived mojo, Trump is preparing another appearance in Butler, PA, the site of an assassination attempt on Trump in July which he had hoped to parlay into a huge emotional wave of support but instead has degenerated into controversy about just how injured he was in the attack and has led to nothing more than images on T-shirts and, this morning, a figurine of Trump thrusting his wee tiny fistie in the air yelling “FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT” over … (checks notes) … a former Trump voter killing a fireman while attempting to shot the man he voted for … ??? In an apparent attempt to capture his own celebrity buzz, billionaire weirdo Elon Musk will also be appearing with Trump (maybe Musk is paying for extra security?) at the appearance.
-But fear not for the MAGAGOP! As Democrats have a not-so-secret weapon in Barack Obama, so does MAGA, as one of the biggest MAGAGOP stars has decided now is the moment to come back to the fray to help Dear Leader get close enough in certain states to try to obfuscate and bend laws to get Trump back in power – er, uh, I mean, help Trump win some states. On said social media, MAGA Party Leader Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Z-Q-R, GA) returned to continue to keep MAGA slurs about the White House not responding quickly enough or at all to the damage done by Hurricane Helene (over 200 now confirmed dead nationally).
-Apparently wanting to help remind people that Trump has politicized disaster relief, called for hurricanes to be killed by detonating nuclear weapons in their eyes, and moving the paths of hurricanes with the use of magic Sharpies, Greene “noted” how many MAGAGOP counties were hit by Helene before concluding and intoning on Twix, “Yes they can control the weather. It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done.” So, Greene essentially has implicated Democrats decided to make Helene a catastrophic storm in order to devastate red states, including two states Harris is at worst very close in (GA and NC). No word on which Jewish space lasers were used for this deed – BUT WHO TOLD HER!?!?!?!?!
-And speaking of Truth Social, THIS JUST IN: Truth Social CEO Devin Nunes (R-MOO!) along with other executives, have left the struggling organization amid accusations of mismanagement and suspicious trading of the deeply-money-losing stocks in the company. Nunes, who resigned a safe Congressional seat to take the gig with Trump, again shows that when it comes to loyalty and Trump, you will always … ALWAYS … be on the wrong end of Trump’s bus.
-ALWAYS!
-The politics are wacky, so with all the campaigning and appearances and freak-outs and cheering going on, this Substack will keep track of what happens over the weekend for this Sunday’s update – and that is an opportunity to wrap up with one odd couple of a television crossover in the works! With social media posts and messages being posted, it was confirmed this week that two seemingly mismatched shows will have what could be a hoot: Quinta Brunson’s adored and Emmy-winning ABBOTT ELEMENTARY will indeed cross paths with the Charlie Day-Danny DeVito-Rob McElhenny-Kaitlin Olson adored-for-very-different-reasons IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA!
-And admit it, if they could also weave in McElhenny’s co-produced-with-Ryan Reynolds real-life-TV WELCOME TO WREXHAM, we just may find immortality…
-On this date in 1927, Mount Rushmore began to be created. On this date in 1957, Sputnik was launched into space. On this date in 1988, televangelist Jim Bakker was indicted on federal tax charges. On this date in 1993, Boris Yeltsin leads a takeover of the Russian White House, which signals the final days of the Soviet Union. And on this date in 2023, Kevin McCarthy was voted out of the Speakership of the U.S. House of Representatives – the end result of an internal power struggle within the MAGAGOP and the personal anger of still-being-investigated Rep. Matt Gaetz (Hey GiRl, FL, man).
-Debuts on this date: the first printed Bible (1535), the Gregorian calendar (1582), the Ottoman War (1853), the Orient Express (1883), the U.S. Golf Open (1895), LEAVE IT TO BEAVER (1957), THE LAST EMPEROR (1987), BEVERLY HILLS 90210 (1990).
-Happy Birthday to Richard Cromwell, Rutherford B. Hayes, Damon Runyan, Buster Keaton, Jan Murray, Charlton Heston, Alvin Toffler, Bill Wade, Sam Huff, Jackie Collins, Anne Rice, Robert Wilson, Roy Blount Jr., Tony LaRussa, Armand Assante, Christoph Waltz, Bill Fagerbakke, Russell Simmons, Jon Secada, A.C. Green, Stuttering John Melendez, Live Schreiber, Alicia Silverstone, Rachael Leigh Cook, Sarah Fisher, Rep. Ilhan Omar, Derrick Rose, and Dakota Johnson.
-Rest in Peace/Rest in Power to Rembrandt, Catherine Booth, Frederic-Auguste, Bartholdi, Al Smith, Janis Joplin, Glenn Gould, Graham Chapman, Secretariat, Paul Revere (of “& the Raiders”), Diahann Carrol, Dave Dryden, and Loretta Lynn.
-Feed the Worms: Trump and WWF enabler Linda McMahon entered Earth on this date. Jean-Claude Duvalier bought it on this date.
-Actress and left-wing privileged political whacko Susan Sarandon was born on this date. You decide if she gets a Happy Birthday or if she Feeds the Worms.