It has been an interesting and tiresome week in the news. Time to recap.

Donald Trump made loving phone calls to Vladimir Putin after he left office. Marjorie Taylor Greene, one of Trump's favorite sycophants in the House of Representatives, believes people have nothing to do with climate change, but also believes the Democrats are secretly steering hurricanes. The Georgia congresswoman is also the same woman who doesn’t believe in science, so I guess she thinks the Democrats possess mad wizard skills.

Vice President Kamala Harris likes Miller High Life beer. Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson like to joke about killing Harris. Musk also showed up in small town Pennsylvania to imitate a cheerleader at a Trump rally.

But the real annoying part of this week’s pushback from the Trump camp was Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson sitting down on a television set and joking about the foolishness of killing Harris because another “puppet” would simply take her place.

Members of the GOP who voted to limit FEMA funding now claim FEMA hasn’t done enough in areas ravaged by weather. Meanwhile, other Republicans from the ravaged areas have debunked their colleagues’ misinformation.

Trump wouldn’t sit down for an interview with "60 Minutes." Harris did. Now Trump wants the CBS show investigated for edited promotions of the interview.

Meanwhile, Florida is suffering from a second deadly hurricane while FEMA tries to fend off accusations that the agency doesn’t care about survivors and Gov. Ron DeSantis refuses to answer Vice President Kamala Harris’ phone calls.

The expanding war in the Middle East still isn’t expanding, according to our government – even as Gaza is basically leveled and parts of Beirut are starting to look like Gaza.

The flat earth has a new moon for the next six weeks.

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JD Vance continues to cry about being fact-checked while doubling down on his lies while right-wing media political polls show Donald Trump “running away” with the election. Left-wing polls show Harris winning and for some reason, there are still “undecided” voters out there who could make a difference in the election, that’s only a few weeks away.

Never mind that though, Trump has made it clear he won’t accept any election results other than those that put him back in the White House while Harris' critics say she laughs too much.

Did I miss anything?

Talk to most people these days, whether they are inside or outside of politics, and you will hear people bemoan their plight, saying how exhausted they are. The drain on our country from political divisiveness is frustrating even if you’re not directly involved in it. “I’m worn out,” Mary Trump said Tuesday at the beginning of her “Nerd Avengers” show. I understand the sentiment.

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