Friday News: Trump Company Violated US Embargo Against Cuba; Stephen Colbert Mocks “aging clown without makeup” Gary Johnson

by Lowell

Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, September 30. Also check out Stephen Colbert mocking “aging clown without makeup” Gary Johnson. “I think that park bench is where Gary Johnson lives.” “It doesn’t get much better when you CAN understand him.” LOL

• Trump Foundation lacks certification needed to raise funds (“The foundation — sustained for years by donors outside the Trump family — never obtained the registration that New York requires to solicit money from the public, state officials said. Charities as large as Trump’s must also submit to an annual audit that asks, among other things, whether the charity spent funds for the personal benefit of its officers.” Again, why is Trump not being prosecuted for his many apparent violations of the law over the years???)
• World leaders bid a final farewell to former Israeli leader Shimon Peres
• HOW DONALD TRUMP’S COMPANY VIOLATED THE UNITED STATES EMBARGO AGAINST CUBA (“Through Trump Hotels, the GOP nominee secretly conducted business in Cuba, ignoring American laws. Later, he falsely told Cuban-American voters he would never spend money on the island so long as Fidel Castro remained in power.”)
• Trump ignores advice and launches Bill Clinton attack (“Refusing to end an insult-driven campaign, the Republican tries to tar Hillary Clinton with her husband’s infidelity.” Trump, who himself has had MANY affairs and is a notorious womanizer, misogynist, etc??? You can’t make this crap up!)
• Donald Trump’s Favorite Anti-Immigrant Sheriff May Finally Lose an Election
• Donald Trump’s sycophant problem (“Presidents need to hear bad news. Donald Trump can’t handle it.”)
• Donald Trump’s experts are basing his trade policy on a remarkably silly mistake
• Stein trolls Johnson on world leaders gaffe, also fails to name world leaders (Duhhhhhhhhhhh….)
• ‘Missing’ White Voters Could Elect Trump. But First They Need To Register. (“There’s just one catch: If we’re on the cusp of a blue-collar Great Awakening, it’s not yet showing up in the registration data.”)
• Election Update: Even A Small Post-Debate Bounce Could Make A Big Difference For Clinton
• These jokes aren’t funny anymore: Can we all agree now that the third-party candidates are useless? (“We want vital third parties and serious alternatives — instead we get Gary Johnson, Evan McMullin and Jill Stein” Actually, not sure I’d lump McMullin in there with the two loonies, Gary Johnson and Jill Stein.)
• Idiocracy now: Donald Trump and the Dunning-Kruger effect — when stupid people don’t know they are stupid (“Trump is not merely ignorant, he is also supremely confident and feels superior — the most dangerous kind of idiot”)
• Trump’s campaign manager accidentally admits Trump broke the law on live TV (“Conway complains it’s not fair to go back to 1998.”)
• Exxon faces a first-of-its-kind lawsuit over climate deception (“The Conservation Law Foundation wants to take Exxon to court over water pollution in Massachusetts.”)
• Chart of the year: ‘Incredible’ price drops jumpstart clean energy revolution (Trump TOTALLY doesn’t understand this, by the way; the imbecile still thinks fossil fuels are the answer! LOL)
• Paul Krugman: How the Clinton-Trump Race Got Close (“Part of the answer is that a lot more Americans than we’d like to imagine are white nationalists at heart… [But also] like Al Gore in 2000, she ran into a buzz saw of adversarial reporting from the mainstream media, which treated relatively minor missteps as major scandals, and invented additional scandals out of thin air. Meanwhile, her opponent’s genuine scandals and various grotesqueries were downplayed or whitewashed
• Fat-Shamer in Chief (“With little more than a month to go until the election, the fact that Donald Trump now finds himself in a very public fight with a beauty queen tells you everything you need to know about the sick soul of this man.”)
• Women Won’t Elect A Fat-Shamer-In-Chief (“‘That is embarrassing,’ one voter said. ‘I have a daughter. I have a son who’d never speak like that.'”)
• Biden slams Trump on Fallon over taxes: ‘American people don’t like being played for suckers’
• Stephen Colbert’s mocks ‘aging clown without makeup’ Gary Johnson and his nutty policies
• CNN’s Jake Tapper slams Trump’s advisors: ‘He is surrounded by the Philanderer’s club’
• Day after overriding veto, Congress expresses concern over new September 11 law (Incompetent Mitch McConnell trying to blame President Obama really takes the cake!)
• Trump campaign chair who quit over racist remarks appears onstage behind Pence at Ohio rally
• Trump starts looking to second debate, claims first one was ‘rigged’ (Losers and whiners always claim things were “rigged” against them when they f*** up.)
• Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine is hunkered down in Raleigh for 3 days of debate prep
• USA TODAY’s Editorial Board: Trump is ‘unfit for the presidency’
• McAuliffe says he’s restored voting rights to 60,000
• Jesse Richman: Will Virginia prove Trump’s undoing? (“The Social Science Research Center at Old Dominion University is releasing regional Life in Hampton Roads survey data this week that casts light on attitudes in Hampton Roads. Trump’s numbers in the seven cities surveyed suggest that this campaign may well underperform Romney’s losing bid in 2012. Romney won 40.8 percent of the two-party vote in Hampton Roads. These new survey results suggest Trump will win only 36.6 percent of the two-party vote here.”)
• Virginia’s lethal injection costs set to skyrocket as secret drug vendor charges $16.5K per execution
• Virginian-Pilot editorial: State must keep its promises on higher ed.
• Richmond candidates focus on schools, transportation and river at Mayorathon 2016
• Jamycheal Mitchell’s final hours – unchecked by guards – were detailed in footage released by the jail
• Candidate for Suffolk City Council calls use of actors in endorsement ads “a mistake”
• Periodic showers today, but conditions gradually improve over the weekend