IT’S POLITICAL: Vice President Kamala Harris made a surprise appearance in the cold open of Saturday Night Live then jetted off to Detroit for campaign appearances yesterday while Donald Trump made stops stops in Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina.

  Harris went face to face Saturday night against her impersonator Maya Rudolph going right along with the joke. 

 “I don’t really laugh like that do I?” 

 “Ehhhh  … a little bit.”

  Harris has been focusing in recent days on the Latino vote, which was drifting toward Trump until the Puerto Rico garbage joke at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally. Latinos make up 5 percent of the vote for instance in critical Pennsylvania.     

  More than 77 million votes have already been cast.

  Donald Trump heads into tomorrow’s election still claiming he won the last one and maybe even planning to declare victory no matter what the results are tomorrow. He’s wrapping up his campaign of lies and astounding statements.

 Trump said yesterday at a Pennsylvania that he “shouldn’t have left” the White House at the end of his term and that “I don’t mind” if reporters are shot at. Standing behind bullet proof glass he said, “To get to me, somebody would have to shoot through fake news, and I don’t mind that much, ’cause, I don’t mind. I don’t mind.”

  Trump was forced to grant Trump “equal time” yesterday on NBC following the Harris appearance on SNL. “We’re two days away from the most important election in the history of our country,” Trump said. “We’ve gotta save our country, and it needs saving, it’s in very bad shape.”  

  The NY Times published a last-minute article documenting Trump’s life of lies and fabrications although the truth about Trump has never stalled him before. “For generations, Mr. Trump has propelled himself to success in business and politics through an endless string of fabrications,” writes peter baker. “He has lied about his net worth, about the height of his buildings, about the ratings of his reality television show, about the origins of America’s first Black president, about the legitimacy of the 2020 election, about migrants eating pet cats and dogs, even about whether he has visited Gaza.”

  And even lying about his lies, Trump claims Harris is the dishonest one. He has been so shocking he has lost the ability to shock.

THE WATER BOY: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaxxer who espouses bogus medical theories, said he will encourage Donald Trump to press for the removal of fluoride from public water supplies.

  Trump has said that should he be elected he will put Kennedy in charge of public health agencies and Kennedy’s first target appears to be one of the best public health initiatives in the past century. 

  Fluoride in the water helps prevent tooth decay but it’s been the subject of conspiracy theories going back to the McCarthy Era. Trump has said in public appearances that he would let Kennedy “go wild” on issues of health and the environment.

UGLY HUMANITY: Actor Wendell Pierce, a star of “The Wire” and “Suits” posted on Twitter/X last week that he walked out of the fifth game of the World Series in New York because of rowdy New York fan behavior. “Unfortunately I just left the Yankees game because I was talking to a Dodgers fan and people were throwing things at me,” he said. “Unruly, obnoxious people can ruin everything. The worst experience ever. The game and experience is of no significance now. The spirit of sports ends with the ugliness of humanity.”

THE OBIT PAGE: Musician and musical producer Quincy Jones who was an enormous influence on American music for half a century, has died at age 91. Jones started out as a trumpeter before becoming a musical arranger for big bands and the great connector between musical styles. Jones produced Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” the best-selling album of all time. He composed the soundtracks to the movies “The Pawnbroker” (1964), “In Cold Blood” (1967) and “The Color Purple” (1985) among others. Jones was married and divorced three times, the third to actress Peggy Lipton from the television series “The Mod Squad.” They were the parents of actress Rashida Jones. — Actor Alan Rachins who specialized in difficult characters and starred in the television series “L.A. Law” and “Dharma & Greg,” died in Los Angeles at age 82. The cause was given as heart failure. In LA law he played an obnoxious lawyer viewers loved to hate.

THE SPIN RACK: More than 30,000 Boeing union workers vote again today on whether to end a seven-week strike. The deal is not significantly different from what the members rejected just over a week ago. — Citing the loss of business during the Covid pandemic, the restaurant chain TGI Friday’s has filed for bankruptcy. Other big-name chains that have filed bankruptcy this year include Red Lobster, Big Lots, Tupperware, Express, and Joann. — Philadelphia Eagles running back Saquon Barkley avoided one tackler with a spin then did a backwards hurdle to leap over another yesterday against the Jacksonville Jaguars astounding the crowd and television audience.

BELOW THE FOLD: Two days before Halloween a so-called election watcher shooting video followed a man carrying a box of ballots into the Northampton County Courthouse in Pennsylvania. The “watcher” can be heard describing “an obscene amount of ballots” and that it looked “very suspect.” 

  The man carrying the box of ballots was a postal worker delivering ballots. 

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